The plan is to turn them loose BEFORE the election!
Team Clinton will be the 2012 Democrat nominee.
Executive orders can be overridden by Congress, IIRC
Well, he DOES want to close Gitmo...
I worry more about clemency for illegal aliens.
Only the Democrats have the power to remove him.
If it became certain that his actions would forever doom the
democrat party they would vote to impeach in the senate...or
exercise the options available when a president becomes insane.
And yes there are situations where they would do this. A group of only a few prominent dems could force this to happen.
What if he bombs Pearl Harbor like the Germans did in 1945?
The plan is to turn them loose BEFORE the election!
It would take a massive effort just to process just one city...
You might want to actually research what you post so you don't come across so Ill informed
I worry he will appoint himself to the Supreme Court.
Then he pardons all the prisoners. Not much we can do about it.
1. He can only pardon federal prisoners, not state.
2. He may be arrogant and have delusions of godhood, but he’s not an idiot. Not even Dennis Kucinich would think that pardoning ALL federal prisoners would be a good idea.
Sounds like an excellent reason to go hunting. Who could possibly object to putting down feral animals who attack humans with no justificstion?
Well, if Obama loses I bet Michelle cleans out the White House fridges and takes all the food back to Chicago with her. OH, I shouldn’t have said that. I am just being catty!!!
There are some answers here. To start with, the power to pardon only applies to federal prisoners, fortunately. And many such prisoners have entire federal bureaucracies that will “go to the mattresses” to keep them in prison.
As far as recess appointments go, the Republicans distrust Obama so much that they intend to keep the House of Representatives in (pro forma) session, which also forces the Senate to remain in session, specifically so that Obama will not be able to make any recess appointments for the rest of his term in office.
Executive Orders can be problematic, but they can be challenged by individual congressmen in court, and overturned. While the president may ignore orders by the Supreme Court (since Marbury v. Madison (1810)), this only applies to his personal actions. If he orders a subordinate to violate an order of the court, the Supremes may find that subordinate in contempt of court, which cannot by itself be pardoned by the president, since it is not a conviction. Even if he is sent to jail for six months to a year.
Perhaps the most troubling is the “Presidential Signing Statement”, a clearly unconstitutional act that is resulting in a slowly building constitutional crisis. After signing a bill passed by congress, the president adds a statement as to how he “interprets” the law (court function), and what parts he intends to enforce, and what parts he intends to ignore (legislative function). This needs to be ended permanently by an agreement between a conservative POTUS, the congress, and the SCOTUS.
More to the point, assuming a strong congressional Republican takeover in 2012, a LOT of federal agencies that have been running hog wild, like the EPA, the FCC, the USDA, the FDA, NASA and GISS, etc., must be brought to heel in a big sort of way. This amounts to firing many hundreds of thousands from the estimated 2.8 million non-military federal employees.
He will be thrown in jail for BRIBERY, violating the RICO act.