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The New U.S.S.R. or
What President Obama's Executive Action Program is All About


December 5, 2014 --

Under our federal system, the president controls only one third of the national government. This governing reality has put President Obama at a disadvantage in his dealings with Iran, whose top leader is Supreme Ruler Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. LPR has a hunch that Iran's Supreme Ruler (S.R.) believes it beneath his official status to negotiate with an official who controls only part of his country's government, not all of it.

LPR would not be surprised to learn that President Obama's proposal to transform the United States was intended to prove to Iran's Supreme Ruler that, as president, he was just as powerful of S.R. Ayatollah Khamenei. Accordingly, in this context, President Obama got Congress to approve Obamacare. Unfortunately, S.R. Khamenei, reportedly, was not impressed, especially after the Obamacare website malfunctioned grievously when it went into operation. Also, notwithstanding Obamacare, President Obama remained merely a president, controlling just one-third of the federal government.

The Republican successes in the mid term elections provided President Obama with the opening he needed to elevate himself, by means of the executive action process, to Supreme Rulership of the U.S.A.

Having done away with the more than 200-year old separation of powers, checks and balances tradition, of the U.S. Constitution, by means of the transformative "given up waiting" formula, President Obama has signaled Iran's Supreme Ruler that the United States, at long last, also has a Supreme Ruler.

All that is left for the President Obama to do is to make a New Year's Eve prime-time announcement that the Office of President has been replaced by the United States Supreme Ruler (U.S.S.R.)

Why, not only S.R. Khamenei -- even Russia's (mere) President Vladimir Putin may be impressed.