Laws? We don't need no stinkin' laws.

The Obama Administration, as you no doubt know, has released a new set of regulations on Deportation. While current law says that illegal immigrants are to be deported, these new regs implement the failed Dream Act criteria, because, the Administration says, it is too busy to comply with the law. In other words, the Obama Administration is simply writing the regulations it would have put in place had the Dream Act passed, and they will implement them under Executive authority.

Again, this seems to be a pattern with this President and his lackeys.

Remember the fuss over the issuance of offshore drilling permits? The Obama Administration wanted to put a stop to offshore drilling, so they put a new review procedure in place, and permits simply did not get approved. Of course, permits were not denied, either. When the oil producers went to court, even the Court's orders could not expedite the process- the bureaucrats were going as fast as they could, they said.

Or what about the Administration's record of compliance with Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests? Remember, again, Obama's promise that his would be the most transparent administration ever- no closed door meetings or backroom deals. Well, Judicial Watch had to sue to get access to visitor logs to the White House. The public owns the place, but Obama isn't anxious that the public gets to know who came to visit. Since the Administration realized that the logs would become public, they have moved their meetings out of the White House. As far as FOIA requests go, those seem to be denied at a higher rate than just any other Administration, and Bush was far more transparent than this fellow.

There is also Obamacare. Under the premise supporting that law, the government can limit any activity, regulate any activity, or require any activity it desires in the name of "interstate commerce", a premise which is the subject of intense litigation across the nation.

The fundamental principle of the Obama Administration seems to be "Laws? We don't need no stinkin' laws." After all, if you can do whatever you want and you are not accountable to anyone, you don't need laws. Laws and even the Constitution are, in the view of this President, meaningless "living" documents that can be cited when convenient and otherwise ignored. Tyranny may well be the end result in America if our politicians and our citizens cannot put a stop to this behavior.