Obama does not care about consent of the governed

Joe Fitzgerald:

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All these years later, thanks to a passionate civics teacher named Belle Strickland, this writer can quote such fundamental principles as, “Governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed.”

Yet Barack Obama exhibits disdain for those he governs.

Accustomed to the hosannas of fawning admirers, he turns a deaf ear to anyone suggesting he might not have all the answers.

He simply declared his presidency demanded passage of this controversial legislation, and Congress assured him it would comply, by any means necessary.

Americans will always have contentious debate over volatile issues, but at the end of the day we have time-honored ways to reach a consensus, which is what this president and this Congress totally disrespected, igniting a furious backlash.

“Find out what people will submit to,” Frederick Douglass, the famed abolitionist, noted a century ago, “and you’ll have found out the exact amount of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them.”

So millions of Americans are now telling Washington they do not want to submit to Obamacare, and he’s pooh-poohing their recalcitrance as civil disobedience.

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It is a mistake that he and the Democrats will pay for this fall and possibly beyond. What Democrats are doing with their insulting behavior is also losing the trust of the people. It will be hard for them to earn back.