{"id":23901,"date":"2014-09-21T07:26:59","date_gmt":"2014-09-21T11:26:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=23901"},"modified":"2014-09-21T07:53:34","modified_gmt":"2014-09-21T11:53:34","slug":"the-unspoken-legacy-of-president-obama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=23901","title":{"rendered":"The Unspoken Legacy Of President Obama"},"content":{"rendered":"

On Monday, The Daily Signal<\/a> posted an article about President Obama’s legacy. It’s something that the press has not really highlighted.<\/p>\n

The article reports:<\/p>\n

In President Barack Obama<\/a>\u2019s second term, the Senate has confirmed more than twice the number of judicial nominees than were confirmed in President George W. Bush\u2019s<\/a> second term. This is due mostly to the fact that Senate Majority Leader<\/a> Harry Reid<\/a>, D-Nev., succeeded in eliminating the filibuster<\/a> for judicial nominees (excluding the Supreme Court<\/a>, at least for now) in November 2013..<\/strong><\/p>\n

The chart below illustrates how the elimination of the filibuster has impacted the nomination process:<\/p>\n

\"Infographic<\/p>\n

I am not a big supporter of the filibuster, but I am also not a big supporter of stacking the courts with judges with a political bias. That is what has been going on. Since many of the problems with ObamaCare<\/a> will be decided in the courts, the Obama appointments to the lower courts could easily move America<\/a> further to the left than Congress<\/a> would have been able to do. Our Constitution was designed to create a representative republic. The idea was that laws would be made in Congress. People could hold their Congressman<\/a> accountable and vote him out of office if they did not like the laws he supported. (Actually, that is not totally true. Initially, the House of Representatives<\/a> was elected by the people, and the Senators were appointed by the state legislatures. In 1913, Congress passed the 17th Amendment, which called for the direct election of Senators<\/a>. Up until that point, the state legislature could recall their Senator if he was not supporting bills that were in the interest of their state. The direct election of Senators changed the balance of power in the U.S. government<\/a> and seriously diminished the power of the states against the much larger federal government.) Unfortunately, we have now reached a point where our courts are making laws. As the courts lean left, we may find ourselves living in a country with a very different form of government than what the Founding Fathers<\/a> envisioned.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On Monday, The Daily Signal posted an article about President Obama’s legacy. It’s something that the press has not really highlighted. The article reports: In President Barack Obama\u2019s second term, the Senate has confirmed more than twice the number of … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[8132,97,735,8133,251,733,562,1493,711,274],"class_list":["post-23901","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-17th-amendment","tag-barack-obama","tag-congress","tag-direct-election-of-u-s-senators","tag-george-w-bush","tag-harry-reid","tag-obama","tag-party-leaders-of-the-united-states-senate","tag-senate","tag-supreme-court"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23901","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23901"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23901\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23908,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23901\/revisions\/23908"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}