I’ve been identifying with Cassandra for some years now.

It started to get very strong shortly after this, back in 2009. But actually, I had felt it even before the 2008 election, when I tried to warn friends that Obama had a political background and philosophy that ought to be frightening them but somehow wasn’t.

I described that process in some detail in this post. Maybe I’ll recycle it.

See my response here.

Just so. The Founders never envisioned that the citizens would elect a man with no ethics. A man who would not follow the law. At one time the media was well enough balanced between left and right to get the word out to people. Now it’s not. They never envisioned a situation where the balance of powers among the arms of government would be so ignored. There is really only one thing that can bring Obama up short and that is a galvanized electorate. Until they cancel all elections, the people still control who is going to represent them. The Founders could not have envisioned an electorate that was so ignorant of the process of government and their important role in it. They could not have foreseen a world where people were more interested in pop culture and games than in how much the government was lifting from their wallets in taxes. It literally takes some buildings falling down to galvanize the voters, but people have such short attention spans, even that doesn’t have an effect that lasts.

They weapons of pushback available to the Congress and the courts are blunted by the fact that the administration does not recognize or follow the law. I don’t think the Founders ever envisioned two men as venal and partisan as Harry Reid and Eric Holder. It is Reid and Holder who allow the administration to ignore the law. It is also partisan democrat members of Congress who are allowing the President to usurp their powers. I am challenging my Congress Critters to stand up and quit being a doormat for the executive branch. Voters need to maker them feel ashamed for shirking their duties and allowing the executive to run all over them.

I think it is hyperbole to say “no one” is pushing back at Obama.

People who are angry at what he’s done might say that no one is pushing back effectively—and certainly not as effectively as we’d like—at him. But plenty of people are pushing back.

There are members of Congress such as Cruz. I’ve seen some House members, too (Allen West used to be one of them, for example, when he was in office). During the process of passing Obamacare, practically the entire Republican wing of Congress pushed back; they just didn’t have the numbers, and the Democrats outfoxed them in tactics. But I certainly remember the Republicans pushing back.

The conservative Supreme Court justices push back, but there are only four so they are only successful when joined by swing vote Kennedy (and sometimes even some of the others). Then there are plaintiffs such as Hobby Lobby and the others, as well as anyone else who sues against Obamacare, including many of the states a couple of years ago in an earlier case. Jan Brewer pushed back over the Arizona law, but she lost. Perry has pushed back on the border, calling out Texas security to do what the feds won’t. I could go on, but you get the idea.

I don’t like the Republican leadership in Congress, and I wish they’d do more. And none of these efforts that I mention have been successful in the way we’d like—they are grandstanding or they are small victories, while the general trend of Obama’s worsening tyranny and escalating welfare state marches on. But that doesn’t mean no one is pushing back. Obama is ruthless and the left is powerful, and for his entire administration they have controlled the Senate.

Let all their wickedness come before thee; and do unto them, as thou hast done unto me for all my transgressions: for my sighs are many, and my heart is faint.