Posted on 04/18/2012 12:20:30 PM PDT by GlockThe Vote
President Barack Obama has an ambitious plan for Washington bureaucrats to take command of the oceans—and with it control over much of the nation’s energy, fisheries, even recreation in a move described by lawmakers as the ultimate power grab to zone the seas.
The massive undertaking also includes control over key inland waterways and rivers that reach hundreds of miles upstream, and began with little fanfare when Obama signed an executive order in 2010 to protect the aquatic environment.
“This one to me could be the sleeping power grab that Americans will wake up to one day and wonder what the heck hit them,” said Rep. Bill Flores (R –Texas).
“This is pure administrative fiat,” said Sen. David Vitter (R –La.). “It’s very troubling.”
“This is purely a unilateral administrative action with no real congressional input or oversight,” Vitter said. “I think it clearly threatens to have a big impact on a lot of industry, starting with energy, oil and gas, and fishing.”
But in his zeal to curb sea sprawl, lawmakers say the president’s executive order also gives Washington officialdom unprecedented reach to control land use as well.
(Excerpt) Read more at humanevents.com ...
These 40% are democrat human toilets.
I would not state it exactly as you did, but many on FR seem willing to have obama for a second term also.
Sad
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Do not listen to them!
I am hoping that is not what some here seem to want by staying home. Obama is literally the dagger at our throats right now! We won’t make it to 2016 if he is re-elected!
And then you say this?
Basically I am of the mode and Bush and Obama are carbon twins of each other at this point.
And what do you make of Romney?
“And just what is Congress doing to curb him besides mild rhetoric? They need to get off their fannies, ask Michelle Bachman how to grow some b——ackbone, and DO SOMETHING besides mutter and whine.” - vaudine
Are you listening Congress??
House Republicans are fighting back by tightening the purse strings they control and hope that by cutting off funding to implement the policy, and putting a stop to officials they believe are siphoning money away from other programs, they can block it from going forward.
They better be ready to do more than hope!
Obama The Queen of the Oceans.
Has a nice ring to it.
“It’s too late; it’ll just have to be stopped in the Senate,” Tom, the young male answering the phone in U.S. Rep. John Boehner’s (R-Ohio)Washington D.C. office, said about HR 3534 (CLEAR Act). This is the globalist bill designed to give away our land, oceans, adjacent land masses and Great Lakes to an international body, and makes us pay $900 million per year until 2040.
agree. Romney was NOT my choice, and he falls short of my ideal in a number of ways, but IMHO, his election would not be the catastrophe that another Obama term would bring. Obama was somewhat restrained his first four years. He will be completely unfettered during a second term, because he would no longer have to worry about reelection. Or as he put it to Putin’s puppet: “I will have more flexibility after my election”. More flexibility to sell us out to our enemies. More flexibility to shove his environmental regulations down our throats and kill more jobs. More flexibility to oppress us with Obamacare, with no way out. More opportunities to appoint far-left judges to the courts — and maybe even the Supreme Court. More flexibility to enact liberal policies. The best we can hope for, even if we get control of both the House and the Senate, is four years of gridlock.
No, thank you.
Well said, Purrcival. And courageous for saying it on FR.
I don’t see any arguments against what you said. I wonder why.
Americans will be livid at our leaders for this coverup. Could get real ugly, real fast.
The two party system is corrupt as hades. The illusion, We the People are in control is pure poppy-cock.
Election cycle after cycle, folks keep on fishing from the same ol pond and keep catchin the same ol big mouth bass.
When will people wake up and finally break this stranglehold these two parties have on our election process.
Whether democrat or republican, we keep moving toward socialism and an alarming loss of freedom and liberty.
Wake up y'all. A viable 3rd party candidate with impeccable credentials and millions of conservative voters could change the game and usher in a peaceful revolution.
Peaceful......or violent, which would you prefer. We don't step up to the plate soon, I'm afraid we will have no preference left.
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“The Obama administration continues to move forward with zoning the oceans through implementation of the president’s National Ocean Policy without requesting funding specifically for this broad initiative and without answering basic questions about how funds are currently being diverted from other missions to fund this initiative,”
I was thinking that the Democrat’s strategy of not passing a budget for the last three years was simple irresponsibility: but now it looks as if the goal is to shift almost complete control to the executive so that they can do whatever they damn well please. Anybody who votes for a Democrat is complicit in the destruction of this country.
comment from site
“The Obama administration continues to move forward with zoning the oceans through implementation of the president’s National Ocean Policy without requesting funding specifically for this broad initiative and without answering basic questions about how funds are currently being diverted from other missions to fund this initiative,”
I was thinking that the Democrat’s strategy of not passing a budget for the last three years was simple irresponsibility: but now it looks as if the goal is to shift almost complete control to the executive so that they can do whatever they damn well please. Anybody who votes for a Democrat is complicit in the destruction of this country.
comment from site
“The Obama administration continues to move forward with zoning the oceans through implementation of the president’s National Ocean Policy without requesting funding specifically for this broad initiative and without answering basic questions about how funds are currently being diverted from other missions to fund this initiative,”
I was thinking that the Democrat’s strategy of not passing a budget for the last three years was simple irresponsibility: but now it looks as if the goal is to shift almost complete control to the executive so that they can do whatever they damn well please. Anybody who votes for a Democrat is complicit in the destruction of this country.
bttt
Because they’re more worried about the “optics” and “backlash” and “focus group reports” than they are about “what the right thing to do is according to the Constitution”
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