Miller Blasts Begich for ‘Promoting a Culture of Executive Lawlessness’

Photo Credit: SenateDemocratsJoe Miller today responded to news this week that junior Senator Mark Begich joined a large block of Democrat senators and representatives in urging President Obama to bypass Congress and implement a truncated version of the federal ENDA legislation via executive fiat.

“Apparently Mark Begich skipped out on high school civics,” Miller said. “For a United States Senator to essentially petition the nation’s chief executive to assume legislative powers is absolutely chilling. Mark either doesn’t understand the Constitution, or he is willfully violating its clear intent, and by doing so is promoting a culture of executive lawlessness.”

The letter Begich signed specifically urged Obama to fulfill his State of the Union promise to “make this a year of action” by signing an executive order to impose the failed ENDA legislation on federal contractors, though the President failed to mention it as one of his executive action priorities.

Perhaps just as disturbing is Senator Begich’s utter disregard for the democratic process, not just in Washington, but also in Alaska. Similar legislation has gotten no traction in the Alaska Legislature, and went down to overwhelming defeat when Proposition 5 was placed on the Anchorage Municipal ballot in 2012.

Miller concluded, “While I vehemently disagree with offering special rights based upon one’s sexual preference and thereby creating government-mandated discrimination against people of faith, the idea of government by fiat should be repugnant to all Americans, regardless of their political ideology.”

Joe Miller is a husband, father, combat veteran, businessman, and advocate for constitutional liberty, who believes in limited government, individual rights, private property, free markets, and the right to life.