Obama claims ownership of U.S. Government

Well well well, the Dog eater in Chief now claims that the government is his. I read the headline on Drudge and followed it to a story in the New York Slimes via MSNBC.

The story, titled Shift on executive power lets Obama bypass rivals, shows in great detail Obama’s contempt for the separation of powers.

One Saturday last fall, President Obama interrupted a White House strategy meeting to raise an issue not on the agenda. He declared, aides recalled, that the administration needed to more aggressively use executive power to govern in the face of Congressional obstructionism.

“We had been attempting to highlight the inability of Congress to do anything,” recalled William M. Daley, who was the White House chief of staff at the time. “The president expressed frustration, saying we have got to scour everything and push the envelope in finding things we can do on our own.”

In other words, screw the congress and the voters who put a Republican congress in place. I will force my statist agenda on this country no matter what!

For Mr. Obama, that meeting was a turning point. As a senator and presidential candidate, he had criticized George W. Bush for flouting the role of Congress. And during his first two years in the White House, when Democrats controlled Congress, Mr. Obama largely worked through the legislative process to achieve his domestic policy goals.

That worked because the voters were:

1. sick of the stupidity and out of control spending by Bush and the Republicans
2. Conned by a lying community organizer with no real world experience and a hatred for the United States.

Of course, Bush and the Republicans were, “bush league” when it came to ramping up government spending and over-regulation. In 2010, they showed their displeasure by dynamiting the democrats and a number of like minded RINO Republicans out of office at all levels of government. This didn’t sit to well with the ScoaMF.

The new Republican majority in Congress proceeded to block King Barack and instead sending things to the Senate to be voted on. Things like a federal budget. Just about all of the bills coming out of the senate have been blocked by that corrupt incompetent, Harry Reid. There is a reason for this. It was to give Obama cover so he could claim he was being blocked by a do nothing congress. It also gave the Dog Eater a chance to play dictator.

Increasingly in recent months, the administration has been seeking ways to act without Congress. Branding its unilateral efforts “We Can’t Wait,” a slogan that aides said Mr. Obama coined at that strategy meeting, the White House has rolled out dozens of new policies — on creating jobs for veterans, preventing drug shortages, raising fuel economy standards, curbing domestic violence and more.

Each time, Mr. Obama has emphasized the fact that he is bypassing lawmakers. When he announced a cut in refinancing fees for federally insured mortgages last month, for example, he said: “If Congress refuses to act, I’ve said that I’ll continue to do everything in my power to act without them.”

In other words, he’s telling people he doesn’t care what they want, he has cronies to reward. Obama and his crew of criminals really are so tone deaf that they don’t see just how angry people are. Obama, who was never a noted scholar of American History, (Real history, not the politically correct crap the Progressives like to claim is American History), has totally misread what’s happening in Flyover Country.

Mr. Obama has issued signing statements claiming a right to bypass a handful of constraints — rejecting as unconstitutional Congress’s attempt to prevent him from having White House “czars” on certain issues, for example. But for the most part, Mr. Obama’s increased unilateralism in domestic policy has relied on a different form of executive power than the sort that had led to heated debates during his predecessor’s administration: Mr. Bush’s frequent assertion of a right to override statutes on matters like surveillance and torture.

At the time Bush was dealing with waterboarding terrorists, he was dealing with the death of 3000 Americans and the destruction of the World Trade Center and damaging of the Pentagon. He was trying to prevent that from happening again. Oh, in case people forget? Democrats controlled the Senate back then. They were briefed by the Bush administration on everything that was going on.

“Obama’s not saying he has the right to defy a Congressional statute,” said Richard H. Pildes, a New York University law professor.

Oh yes he is you Obamunist sympathizer!

The Obama administration started down this path soon after Republicans took over the House of Representatives last year. In February 2011, Mr. Obama directed the Justice Department to stop defending the Defense of Marriage Act, which bars federal recognition of same-sex marriages, against constitutional challenges. Previously, the administration had urged lawmakers to repeal it, but had defended their right to enact it.

And what was the big difference? Oh, that’s right. We had an election that took the house and almost got the senate away from you, you scum sucking Hugo Chavez wannabe.

In the following months, the administration increased efforts to curb greenhouse gas emissions through environmental regulations, gave states waivers from federal mandates if they agreed to education overhauls, and refocused deportation policy in a way that in effect granted relief to some illegal immigrants brought to the country as children. Each step substituted for a faltered legislative proposal.

And every one of these has been opposed by the majority of the people of the United States. Could this be why they curb stomped the Democrats in November 2010?

“I refuse to take ‘no’ for an answer,” Mr. Obama declared, beneath a “We Can’t Wait” banner. “When Congress refuses to act and — as a result — hurts our economy and puts people at risk, I have an obligation as president to do what I can without them.”

That banner should have read “I Won’t Wait!” Obama and his cronies have pulled over 5 TRILLION dollars out of the economy in the last 3 ½ years. His regulatory thugs have destroyed hundreds of thousands of jobs, and the man who came up with “Fido Fondue” is personally responsible for destroying 100,000+ jobs in the construction of the KeystoneXL pipeline.

The unilateralist strategy carries political risks. Mr. Obama cannot blame the Republicans when he adopts policies that liberals oppose, like when he overruled the Environmental Protection Agency’s proposal to strengthen antismog rules or decided not to sign an order banning discrimination by federal contractors based on sexual orientation.

He adopted those policies in order to appear moderate, nothing more. If the ScoaMF manages to sleaze his way into a second term, those rules will be revisited, count on it.

The approach also exposes Mr. Obama to accusations that he is concentrating too much power in the White House. Earlier this year, Senator Charles E. Grassley, Republican of Iowa, delivered a series of floor speeches accusing Mr. Obama of acting “more and more like a king that the Constitution was designed to replace” and imploring colleagues of both parties to push back against his “power grabs.”

In my honest and unschooled opinion, Obama should have been impeached a year ago. But that’s just my opinion and counts for nothing. So what are the Democrats saying about Barry’s power grab?

But Democratic lawmakers have been largely quiet; many of them accuse Republicans of engaging in an unprecedented level of obstructionism and say that Mr. Obama has to do what he can to make the government work. The pattern adds to a bipartisan history in which lawmakers from presidents’ own parties have tended not to object to invocations of executive power.

Probably because only Democrats usurp this much power and the Republicans don’t want to give the Democrats an excuse to go after a Republican president. In other words, The Democrats are corrupt and the Republicans are cowards.

For their part, Republicans appear to have largely acquiesced. Mr. Grassley said in an interview that his colleagues were reluctant to block even more bills and nominations in response to Mr. Obama’s “chutzpah,” lest they play into his effort to portray them as making Congress dysfunctional.

Yup, cowards.

“Some of the most conservative people in our caucus would adamantly disagree with what Obama did on recess appointments, but they said it’s not a winner for us,” he said.

Maybe you should stop thinking like a scumbag politician more worried about how the Washington Party circuit might react and instead DO YOUR JOB GRASSLEY!

I would read the whole article. In my opinion, we really need to look at a number of amendments to the constitution to begin the process of revoking all these powers that Presidents, Congress and the Courts have taken upon themselves. They have forgotten that the Constitution was designed to LIMIT the powers of the Federal Government. Perhaps a constitutional slap upside the head with a Cluebat might get their attention.

Remember in November! We must get rid of all the vermin in Washington!

Thatisall

~The Angry Webmaster~

(1 votes, average: 1.00 out of 5)

Loading...