{"id":27763,"date":"2016-03-08T20:24:34","date_gmt":"2016-03-09T01:24:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=27763"},"modified":"2016-03-08T20:24:34","modified_gmt":"2016-03-09T01:24:34","slug":"who-is-actually-running-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=27763","title":{"rendered":"Who Is Actually Running America?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Jay Sekulow\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jay_Sekulow\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">Jay Sekulow<\/a> has published a book entitled, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Undemocratic: Rogue, Reckless and Renegade: How the Government is Stealing <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Democracy\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Democracy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">Democracy<\/a> One Agency at a Time<\/span>. The book deals with the fact that unelected federal agencies have formed the <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Fourth branch of government\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Fourth_branch_of_government\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">fourth branch<\/a> of our government. These agencies are passing laws that are not going through <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"United States Congress\" href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?ll=38.8897222222,-77.0088888889&amp;spn=0.01,0.01&amp;q=38.8897222222,-77.0088888889 (United%20States%20Congress)&amp;t=h\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"geolocation\">Congress<\/a> and are not subject to voter approval.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Christian Broadcasting Network\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cbn.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"homepage\">CBN News<\/a> posted an article about Jay Sekulow&#8217;s new book. The article reports:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>Sekulow says that the federal bureaucracy has become the fourth and largest branch of the government, and it&#8217;s the only branch not in the <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"United States Constitution\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/United_States_Constitution\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">U.S. Constitution<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>Our federal bureaucracy violates the rights of Americans without accountability. It harasses adoptive parents, denies veterans quality healthcare, discriminates against conservatives and Christians for partisan purposes, and damages our economy with job-killing rules, according to Sekulow.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>Americans are bullied by the very institutions established to protect their right to <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Life%2C_liberty_and_the_pursuit_of_happiness\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>Sekulow claims our nation&#8217;s bureaucrats are on an undemocratic power trip. But he and the <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"American Center for Law &amp; Justice\" href=\"http:\/\/www.aclj.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"homepage\">ACLJ<\/a> have a plan to fight back.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Electing a new <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"President of the United States\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/President_of_the_United_States\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">President<\/a> is not going to stop this unless the new President decides to begin to limit the size and power of the bureaucracy. We are not currently operating as the <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"List of national founders\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/List_of_national_founders\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">Founding Fathers<\/a> intended. Congress was supposed to make the laws and be held accountable for those laws by the voters. It is time to get back to that model. Voters need to again be able to hold their representatives accountable for the laws we all have to live under. It is time for a change.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jay Sekulow has published a book entitled, Undemocratic: Rogue, Reckless and Renegade: How the Government is Stealing Democracy One Agency at a Time. The book deals with the fact that unelected federal agencies have formed the fourth branch of our &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=27763\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/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":[9794,285,1501],"class_list":["post-27763","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-federal-bureaucracy","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-constitution"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27763","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=27763"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27763\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27764,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27763\/revisions\/27764"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}