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Friday night news dump: Obama bypasses Congress, funds Palestinian Authority
Hot Air ^ | April 28, 2012 | Ed Morrissey

Posted on 04/28/2012 6:33:56 PM PDT by opentalk

Isn’t it funny what you can find out on Friday evening about what our executive branch does?

For instance, Agence France-Presse reported last night that Barack Obama bypassed Congress to send $192 million to the Palestinian Authority, claiming that national security required the US to put money into Mahmoud Abbas’ pocket:

President Barack Obama has signed a waiver to remove curbs on funding to the Palestinian Authority, declaring the aid to be “important to the security interests of the United States.” A $192 million aid package was frozen by the US Congress after the Palestinians moved to gain statehood at the United Nations last September.

But in a memo sent to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, published by the White House, the president said it was appropriate to release funds to the authority, which administers the West Bank and Gaza Strip.

In signing the waiver, Obama instructed Clinton to inform Congress of the move, on the grounds that “waiving such prohibition is important to the national security interests of the United States.”

Congress deliberately froze those funds, and not just because of the statehood demand through UNESCO. Hamas, a terrorist organization, reconciled with Fatah and has rejoined the PA, which means we’re putting almost $200 million into the hands of a terrorist organization.

The language of the Palestinian Accountability Act could not be clearer: “[N]o funds available to any United States Government department or agency … may be obligated or expended with respect to providing funds to the Palestinian Authority.” Obama literally waived that statutory language off yesterday afternoon.

(Excerpt) Read more at hotair.com ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; Israel; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: abbas; americasoccupation; bhomiddleeast; enemywithin; foreignpolicy; hamas; hillary; israel; lootingus; mahmoudabbas; marxistbrotherhood; marxistcoup; muslimbrotherhood; muslimworld; obama; obamunism; palestine; palestinians; statedepartment; usdebt; waronterror; whereiscongress
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1 posted on 04/28/2012 6:34:06 PM PDT by opentalk
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To: opentalk

He’s a Muzzie. Everything else is for show.


2 posted on 04/28/2012 6:36:18 PM PDT by Pearls Before Swine
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To: opentalk

Liberal American Jews will eat this up. They believe in “social justice” for pseudo-theocratic moslems but hate the living guts of American Fundamentalist Protestants.


3 posted on 04/28/2012 6:38:23 PM PDT by Zionist Conspirator (Ki-hagoy vehamamlakhah 'asher lo'-ya`avdukh yove'du; vehagoyim charov yecheravu!)
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To: opentalk

What Obama’s Muslim brotherhood wants, it gets.


4 posted on 04/28/2012 6:38:49 PM PDT by pallis
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To: opentalk
Will Boehner call him out over this?

bwahahahahahahah, yeah, right.

5 posted on 04/28/2012 6:39:19 PM PDT by NonValueAdded (SpaceX Dragon launch to ISS, Cape Canaveral AFS, May 7, 9:38 AM EDT)
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To: opentalk

some of that money is sent back to the commie election fund. Now can we see the khalidi tape.


6 posted on 04/28/2012 6:39:52 PM PDT by biggredd1
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To: opentalk
Take that Boehner you worthless, useless, spineless pansy!
7 posted on 04/28/2012 6:41:59 PM PDT by Manic_Episode (Politics is fake. I think it's owned by Vince Mcmahon)
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To: opentalk
Man, this guy thinks he is EMPOROR! He creates Czars of this, Agencys of that, ignores Congress, and all while taking more vacations for himself (and his family by themselves) than ANY public official should be able to take.

I sincerely hope that one day he ends up in prison for fraud and loses his "Pres_ _ential" (I'll give him an ID when he give the American public one) pension and Secret Service protection.

8 posted on 04/28/2012 6:43:02 PM PDT by Just another Joe (Warning: FReeping can be addictive and helpful to your mental health)
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To: opentalk

. . . and our spineless Republicans in Congress will do . . . nothing.


9 posted on 04/28/2012 6:44:02 PM PDT by Sudetenland (Anybody but Obama!!!!)
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To: opentalk

What hypocrites demon rats are. The Boland amendment barred funds to Nicaraguan rebels and when Reagan tried to LEGALLy circumvent it, the liberals went ballistic. Specially prosecutor assigned... Hussein ILLEGALLY funds pali-thugs and the press yawns!


10 posted on 04/28/2012 6:44:19 PM PDT by Tzfat
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To: Pearls Before Swine
From CFR>

...On the morning of Obama’s first day in office of January 21, 2009, one of the first, if not the first phone call he made as American leader was to Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas.

Less than five months later, on June 4, 2009, Obama kicked off his American apology tour in a speech at Cairo University in Egypt, co-hosted by Al-Azhar University. Obama “honored” a promise made during his presidential campaign to give a major address to Muslims from a Muslim capital during his first few months as president.

To date, Obama has not yet stepped foot in Israel, our only democratic ally in the Middle East.

11 posted on 04/28/2012 6:47:01 PM PDT by opentalk
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To: opentalk

Which Congress will move for impeachment? The Executive Branch has known for a long time that there aren’t any consequences. We’ve had an Imperial Presidency for nearly a century.


12 posted on 04/28/2012 6:57:05 PM PDT by 1010RD (First, Do No Harm)
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To: pallis
There is a pattern, From earlier this month

Obama gives $1.5 billion to Muslim Brotherhood (thread April 9)

This week, the Obama administration quietly released $1.5 billion in foreign aid to the new Egyptian government, now dominated by a Brotherhood-led coalition in parliament — soon to be joined by an Ikhwan (i.e., Brotherhood) luminary as president.

It is not easy to find the announcement. With the legacy media having joined the Obama reelection campaign, we must turn for such news to outlets like the Kuwait News Agency. There, we learn that, having dug our nation into a $16 trillion debt hole, President Obama has nevertheless decided to borrow more money from unfriendly powers like China so he can give it to an outfit that views the United States as an enemy to be destroyed.

13 posted on 04/28/2012 6:58:43 PM PDT by opentalk
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To: opentalk
trea·son   [tree-zuhn]
noun
1.the offense of acting to overthrow one's government or to harm or kill its sovereign.
2.a violation of allegiance to one's sovereign or to one's state.
3.the betrayal of a trust or confidence; breach of faith; treachery.


US CONSTITUTION
Article 3 - The Judicial Branch
Section 3 - Treason

Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying War against them, or in adhering to their Enemies, giving them Aid and Comfort. No Person shall be convicted of Treason unless on the Testimony of two Witnesses to the same overt Act, or on Confession in open Court.

The Congress shall have power to declare the Punishment of Treason, but no Attainder of Treason shall work Corruption of Blood, or Forfeiture except during the Life of the Person attainted.

_________________________

Meanwhile....no one will stand up and testify and our Congress sits there with their thumbs up their "collective" asses....LITERALLY.
14 posted on 04/28/2012 7:01:26 PM PDT by Lucky9teen (Peace is that brief glorious moment in history when everybody stands around reloading.~Thomas Jeffer)
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To: NonValueAdded

No balls Boner? No way.


15 posted on 04/28/2012 7:02:05 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (I can neither confirm or deny that; even if I could, I couldn't - it's classified.)
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Get used to the Dictator assisting his alliance of collectivists and terrorists when he gets his “Flexibility” that he bragged about to his friend Vladimir.


16 posted on 04/28/2012 7:03:41 PM PDT by Enough is ENOUGH (None dare call Obama & his cadre "communists" as demonstratred by their ideologies and policies...)
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To: opentalk; Fred Nerks

Zeig Heil! Obama Il Duce!

No surprise that a liberal fascist would give a 192 million dollar arms purchase capability to Hamas, a theocratic fascist organization. Hell, if they were IN America, they would be incorporated as a non profit corporation sureptitiously operating a Obama PAC receiving millions in kick back.Or are they? Thugs all.

Where is the oversite for the use of our tax dollars? I wonder if such executive spending is a reason not to pay income tax?/Sarc.

We are no longer a nation of laws but a nation subject to the whimsey of a “king” on any given morning.I can hardly wait for a few adverse decisions from SCOTUS....the Constitution is dead.

Good Read:

http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html


17 posted on 04/28/2012 7:29:53 PM PDT by Candor7 (Obama fascist info....http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html)
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To: opentalk
Perhaps this 2011 article about Mister Obama's BFF (and Palestinian chum) Bill Ayers might provide some important background to the story.

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18 posted on 04/28/2012 7:36:43 PM PDT by Seaplaner (Never give in. Never give in. Never...except to convictions of honour and good sense. W. Churchill)
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To: opentalk

I can’t believe it. My mouth just dropped open.
I’m so tired of these Friday night give-aways, I can’t take it.


19 posted on 04/28/2012 7:53:32 PM PDT by Borax Queen
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To: opentalk
the boy has GOT to go...
20 posted on 04/28/2012 7:55:10 PM PDT by Chode (American Hedonist - *DTOM* -ww- NO Pity for the LAZY)
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