Maybe the most telling line of Biden’s prime time speech on Thursday was when he said to trust the government. “Put trust and faith in our government to fulfill its most important function, which is to protect the American people.” I am not sure if it was really supposed to be remarkable, but I noticed it.

Isn’t he the government that we are supposed to trust? Or is this an admission that he isn’t really running the show. I know that there are going to be a lot of people that say that he is just the head of one branch, he doesn’t run everything. This is true, but why don’t we look at the Barack Obama administration to see how much the executive can do without worrying about the other two branches.

As in the case of DACA, Obama decided to ignore laws that were on the books and create a new class of immigrant. He said for years that he didn’t have the power to change immigration laws by himself. He told his critics that he needed congress to act. Until he decided he didn’t. In an effort to silence his critics, he took the idea of prosecutorial discretion to celestial heights. Just as a police officer can decide to give out a warning for a speeding ticket, Obama decided he could do the same at his level. As the chief of the executive branch, the guy responsible for enforcing all laws, he decided to give the equivalent of a warning.

And how about trying to enforce laws that you wish were there, but aren’t. The same administration was caught doing something that they called Operation Choke Point.

This program, known as Operation Choke Point, operated unrestrained for years. Officials at both the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) threatened banks with regulatory pressure if they did not bend to their will. Gun and ammunition dealers, payday lenders and other businesses operating legally suddenly found banks terminating their accounts with little explanation aside from “regulatory pressure.”

The Justice department went after banks who did business with segments of the private market that they didn’t like. Gun dealers and pay day lenders had their accounts closed. This behavior is not consistent at all with how our government was founded and supposed to be run. There were no laws that authorized this action. They just took it upon themselves to hammer down on completely legal businesses.

So I think that sentence in his speech was more of a slip of the truth. He isn’t really the government. He is just a shell that was able to get installed in the highest office. And he gets to take the blame for the real government’s actions. This is exactly what Obama wanted, someone with an earpiece who would take the body blows for him.