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What really counts in this town is precedent. And the ace news is that your predecessor blew up about 230 years of it. We’ve attached an 87-page list (check your spam box) of President Obama ’s unilateral actions: altering the ObamaCare statute; refusing to enforce federal drug laws; granting waivers to education reforms; using Justice Department suits to impose new industry rules; drafting agency regulations to go around Congress. Don’t forget 2014, when he rewrote federal immigration law. Like, all of it. By himself.
Democrats and Obama supposedly cared about reigning in executive power and blasted Bush for expanding it, have now expanded it dramatically more than Bush did. Obama has set a precedent for the next president to take vast license and if that next president is as Republican and is abusive as Obama, Democrats will instantly flip back to having a conscience on the issue again.
Oh, who are we kidding, Obama supporters have already shown that they don't have a conscience on issues - just that Obama is always right like the good sheep that they are.
Yes , Obama denies he is a dictator , but we know when he denies it, it is the truth. Obama dictating to the people instead of adhering to what the Constitution says is his limits because of the balance of power we have under our government.
Obama is ignoring his limits and doing what he wants. This is being a dictator.
Yes , Obama denies he is a dictator , but we know when he denies it, it is the truth. Obama dictating to the people instead of adhering to what the Constitution says is his limits because of the balance of power we have under our government.
Obama is ignoring his limits and doing what he wants. This is being a dictator.
We all know that Obama is totally FOS most of the time. But he does love to get even and even he is getting.
He is a dictator, he dictates what is going to happen, and makes sure that it will. Obama wants the balance of power to be totally his and his alone. Obama had an agenda, say it all the time, and will make sure that his agenda is met at any cost, no matter if the cost is to American Citizens.
Another words excuse my French please, Obama doesn't give a fudg about Americans Period. What about our poor, our homeless, and our middle class left out in the freaken boonies. What about them!
We all know that Obama is totally FOS most of the time. But he does love to get even and even he is getting.
He is a dictator, he dictates what is going to happen, and makes sure that it will. Obama wants the balance of power to be totally his and his alone. Obama had an agenda, say it all the time, and will make sure that his agenda is met at any cost, no matter if the cost is to American Citizens.
Another words excuse my French please, Obama doesn't give a fudg about Americans Period. What about our poor, our homeless, and our middle class left out in the freaken boonies. What about them!
At his crowning....umm....inauguration I turned to my wife and said, "Obama hates America!" She cautioned me to wait and see. I told her it's evident and then kept quiet about it. Within a year she admitted to me that I had been right from the outset. All the Greet columns and other trappings of imperialism support the fact that he thinks he's the Emperor and has total disdain for this country, our Constitution and the rule of law/separation of powers.
What's really sad and as so evidenced here on C-D and elsewhere is that his adherents/sycophants are no different than the blind followers and supporters of Kim, Jong Un. Dictatorship indeed!
"What really counts in this town is precedent. And the ace news is that your predecessor blew up about 230 years of it. We’ve attached an 87-page list (check your spam box) of President Obama ’s unilateral actions: altering the ObamaCare statute; refusing to enforce federal drug laws; granting waivers to education reforms; using Justice Department suits to impose new industry rules; drafting agency regulations to go around Congress. Don’t forget 2014, when he rewrote federal immigration law. Like, all of it. By himself."
Democrats and Obama supposedly cared about reigning in executive power and blasted Bush for expanding it, have now expanded it dramatically more than Bush did. Obama has set a precedent for the next president to take vast license and if that next president is as Republican and is abusive as Obama, Democrats will instantly flip back to having a conscience on the issue again.
Oh, who are we kidding, Obama supporters have already shown that they don't have a conscience on issues - just that Obama is always right like the good sheep that they are.
Sadly, Ms. Strassel is just a pundit and does not understand the legal contours of the Executive Power of the President of the United States (or of the executive agencies under the President's administration).
In short, HHS is entitled (obligated, even) to interpret the statutes it is charged with administering, including the ACA. That is not altering the statute--it is administering the statute.
It is not clear what Ms. Strassel is referring to in discussing the Justice Department (a sign of poor analysis is ambiguity). If she is referring to Operation Choke Point, then she is demonstrating a lack of knowledge. Operation Choke Point simply enforces existing consumer protection laws.
No Child Left Behind waivers are authorized by the Elementary And Secondary Education Act (section 9401).
Again, it is unclear what Ms. Strassel refers to by saying "drafting agency regulations to go around Congress." Federal agencies are responsible for interpreting and enforcing (literally) thousands of federal laws. They draft regulations that interpret those laws and regulations that govern enforcement of those laws. That practice is well within constitutional standards. In fact, "conservative" Justice Scalia wrote many of the standards governing constitutional analysis of agency interpretation and regulation. Without something more specific (tens of thousands, if not hundreds of thousands, of regulations are written or refined every year), it is impossible to analyze what Ms. Strassel is referring to.
The Executive Order does not rewrite federal immigration law at all. It does what prior president's have done and prioritizes law enforcement in a systematic way.
Executive authority is broad, and has been for decades. Obama's administrative actions do not extend executive authority, but work well within the contours of Executive authority described in Supreme Court precedent.
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Originally Posted by Taratova
Yes , Obama denies he is a dictator , but we know when he denies it, it is the truth. Obama dictating to the people instead of adhering to what the Constitution says is his limits because of the balance of power we have under our government.
Obama is ignoring his limits and doing what he wants. This is being a dictator.
He is well within the limits, according to how they have been interpreted by the Supreme Court. In fact, none other than Justice Scalia wrote in Freytag v. Commissioner: "Thus, it was not enough simply to repose the power to execute the laws (or to appoint) in the President; it was also necessary to provide him with the means to resist legislative encroachment upon that power." Dissenting in Morrison v. Olsen, Scalia wrote: "since the statute vests some purely executive power in a person who is not the President of the United States it is void."
Well, GOP, maybe next time you won't run a multi-millionaire plutocrat for president. Maybe you won't run a guy who openly expresses his visceral disgust for half of Americans.
One simple point; When Obama finaly leaves, Hillary Clinton expects to benefit from the horde of people voting on the basis of what they have to gain rather than what they have to lose.
The problem is the Democats and their lack of any principles other than that the end jusifies the means, and that their platform must be directed to the lowest common denominator of thinking.
If you think things would change under Hillary, you have another think coming.
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Originally Posted by Globe199
Well, GOP, maybe next time you won't run a multi-millionaire plutocrat for president. Maybe you won't run a guy who openly expresses his visceral disgust for half of Americans.
Nah, of course you will. Carry on, boys!
I could raise a similar point about Democraats who preach class warfare about anyone who has more dollars, brain cells, or scruples than their pointing-and-grunting core constituency.
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Democrats and Obama supposedly cared about reigning in executive power and blasted Bush for expanding it, have now expanded it dramatically more than Bush did. Obama has set a precedent for the next president to take vast license and if that next president is as Republican and is abusive as Obama, Democrats will instantly flip back to having a conscience on the issue again.
Oh, who are we kidding, Obama supporters have already shown that they don't have a conscience on issues - just that Obama is always right like the good sheep that they are.
And "poof" goes the GOP agenda!!!
LMFAO at how easily Obama knocked the wheels of your little red wagon.
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