Newt Gingrich and Barack Obama agree about one thing. Both believe that the U.S. president is an absolute ruler. Gingrich thinks that the president can overrule the Supreme Court--which means that he can scrap the U.S. Constitution. Obama is even bolder: he has announced that the president can order a military strike any place in the world at any time.
One might think that Americans might object. But after Gingrich's announcement that he would void Supreme Court decisions that he didn't agree with, he rose to the top among the candidates for the Republican presidential nomination. And when Obama "rescued" an American and a Dane from captivity in Somalia--and killed nine Somalians--nobody objected.
Of course not. Gingrich didn't threaten to turn the Congress out to pasture. And Congress certainly wouldn't object to what Obama did: after all, Congress had almost succeeded in passing a bill that would have made it legal for the U.S. military to take anybody anywhere hostage--even U.S. citizens in the United States--and hold them indefinitely, without being charged with a crime. We could all have had careers in the U.S. concentration camp at Guantanamo Bay had Senator Rand Paul not intervened.
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