Today, the White House criticized House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-VA) for saying that Obama's American Jobs Act is "dead on arrival" in the House of Representatives.
If I recall correctly, those were the same words Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) used to describe the House Republican plan to raise the debt ceiling during the debate in late July.
The only difference is that Harry Reid was not personally criticized by the President of the United States.
I wonder why.
We will be living in a very dangerous time when the President is able to dictate which bills are and are not voted on in Congress. This is a clear violation of the separation of powers our Founders included in the Constitution.
The President is not granted the power to influence, in any way, the legislative calendar or any other congressional matters.
The President does not (hopefully) tell the Supreme Court which cases it can and cannot hear. So why should it tell Congress which bills it should and should not vote on?
For someone who used to lecture on the Constitution, Barack Obama knows very little about it.
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