Another Obama Power Grab-breathtaking presidential powers over key sectors of the economy

FrontPage Magazine ^ | March 19, 2012 | Joseph Klein

[cp124]

Make my day and try it. As long as I have firearms the pencil necked government weasel is not getting his way.

[Cherokee Conservative]

The power of Executive Orders is the biggest mistake this country ever made. With the right Congress, any President can become a dictator, and that’s what we’ve got now. I despise politicians.

[RightOnline]

Hey Congress......yeah, I know a lot of you guys and gals on the Hill read this.....when are you going to grow a collective set and explain to this idiot (our Dear Leader) what “separate and equal” branches of government means?

How long are you going to be marginalized by this usurper? How long will you sit on your backsides and ignore this overt takeover? How long will you remain silent while a dictator embeds his Socialism into the fabric of our government and society like a nasty tick on a dog?

Get on the stick, go**amn it. It’s what you’re paid to do.

[Aevery_Freeman]

This includes health care (or, as the executive order refers to it, “health resources”). The term “health resources,” by the way, means “drugs, biological products, medical devices, materials, facilities, health supplies, services and equipment required to diagnose, mitigate or prevent the impairment of, improve, treat, cure, or restore the physical or mental health conditions of the population.”

Thus, Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius will have even more power than Obamacare provides her to prioritize and allocate all the nation’s “health resources” as she sees fit, including under “non-emergency conditions,” as long as it can be justified as “appropriate” to “promote” the broadly defined “national defense.”

This may be the real purpose, to make sure ObamaCare is implemented despite being declared unconstitutional.

[Venturer]

I know it sounds bad, but it must be ok, I haven’t heard one republican Congressman or Senator make a complaint about it. /s/

[rarestia]

Looking forward to hearing if Rush covers this today.

[wolficatZ]

“I know it sounds bad, but it must be ok, I haven’t heard one republican Congressman or Senator make a complaint about it. /s/”

Or presidential candidate, for that matter...

[onedoug]

And the House republican majority sits and drools.

[Shane]

We have permitted a political class to develop, who view the people as sheep to be sheared. They do not care about our Country, our Constitution or the citizens. They are only concerned with maintaining their power and the privileges that they enjoy. Talk is cheap and deeds are dear. Term limits must be imposed on congress.

[Aevery_Freeman]

A+   Excellent use of sarcasm!

[jda]

We have permitted a political class to develop, who view the people as sheep to be sheared.

To emphasize your point, it has taken 16 calendar days (11 working days) to receive my IRS refund (as small as it is). In the past it has normally taken 3 calendar days (all electronic submissions). It is obvious that they think it's their money!!!

[Aevery_Freeman]

We have them - 2 years for the House, 6 for the Senate. Problem is we don't use them!

The last thing we should do is to turn the legislative branch into a bunch of placeholders for the real Holders (pun intended) of power.

[jddrive]

Michelle Obama

“Military leaders … tell us that when more than one in four young people are unqualified for military service because of their weight,” the first lady says in the prepared remarks, “childhood obesity isn’t just a public health threat, it’s not just an economic threat, it’s a national security threat as well.”

[Georgia Girl 2]

Why would Congress complain? They all voted for the Defense Act. They probably all know we are headed for a total economic collapse and are just getting ready to try to manage the chaos.

[Shane]

We most certainly DO NOT have them!Incumbency is a powerful tool..Its thinking like yours that allows the political class to perpetuate.

[Graewoulf]

The drumbeat of Bolshevik Dictator Baby-Doc Barak continues to grow louder - - - .

[RightOnline]

"Term limits must be imposed on congress."

...just because it needs sayin' again.

[Travis McGee]

This essay by Ann Barnhardt on this EO is a MUST read.

http://westernrifleshooters.wordpress.com/2012/03/18/barnhardt-why-the-march-16th-2012-white-house-executive-order-is-different/#comments

Barnhardt: Why The March 16th, 2012 White House Executive Order Is Different

[Travis McGee]

And they won’t, those jelly-spined RINO cowards.