It’s difficult to be a dictator when your party is the legislative minority in one chamber and your opponents’ main tactic is basically to block all your proposed legislation. However, Ron Paul still thinks that President Obama has exercised dictatorial powers.
The Texan congressman appeared on Fox Business yesterday and warned that President Obama’s use of executive orders “brings the modern presidency dangerously close to an elective dictatorship.”
“It is flaunting the Constitution and the whole principle of how we’re supposed to operate,” Paul argued. “The idea they can just do this and take over the legislative function and brag bout it–and Congress does nothing and the courts do nothing about it, it’s very, very bad.”
Paul then doubled-down on his point, adding “He’s dictatorial, is what he is.”
This isn’t the first time in recent weeks that President Obama has been compared to a dictator. Rep. Denny Rehberg (R-MT) was caught waving around a cartoon depicting the President as the recently-deceased Libyan strongman Muammar Qaddafi.
Rehberg was quick to offer an apology. Paul, however, is not expected to apologize for anything.
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