Posted on 01/03/2013 10:14:34 AM PST by jazusamo
Backing down on a threatened veto, President Obama has signed into law a $633.3 billion defense bill with an attached a statement in which he serves notice to Congress that he’ll interpret the law as he sees fit on issues ranging from the transfer of terrorism detainees to objections of military chaplains against the new policy on gay service members.
Mr. Obama said in a “signing statement” late Wednesday that he agrees with the “vast majority” of provisions in the 680-page law. But he added, “I do not agree with them all.” He earlier had issued a veto threat to Congress if some of the objectionable provisions in the bill survived.
In spite of many veto threats in his first term, Mr. Obama has vetoed only two bills, both relatively inconsequential measures. When he ran for the presidency in 2008, Mr. Obama criticized President George W. Bush over the Republican’s use of signing statements, arguing that Mr. Bush too often was ignoring the will of Congress.
The president said in his new message that he objects to Section 1027 of the law, which renews the prohibition against transferring terror detainees from the Guantanamo Bay detention center in Cuba to the United States for any purpose.
“I continue to oppose this provision, which substitutes the Congress’s blanket political determination for careful and fact-based determinations, made by counterterrorism and law enforcement professionals, of when and where to prosecute Guantanamo detainees,” Mr. Obama wrote...
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This is when you will find out Obama is a Globalist and not a leftist.
Why don’t they just put “Or whatever” at the end of every stinking bill they pass? Because that’s all that’s going to matter anyway - however Obama wants to “interpret” it.
We have one day to get one Representative and one Senator to stand up against this guy who has acquired every electoral vote through a fraudulent, perjurious Official Certification of Nomination filed with each state SOS. If nobody will stand up to this lawlessness, Congress needs to just pass every bill consisting of just one word: Whatever.
For the serious stuff, he always gives himself an out.
He sure does and I believe he only scratched the surface in his first term compared to what’s coming up.
A victory for the GOP even though you will hardly hear about it.
It seems to be a growing trend that conservative hate their leaders more than our communist President.
A dangerous trend and one which the MSM nurtures at every opportunity.
That garb suits him perfectly. :-)
If they really cared about what we think.
Actually it is to be expected when our GOP “leaders” help the communist President pass his communist agenda.
I’m afraid were a Banana Republic now.....The House of Reps and Senate are just their for Decoration. We no longer have Checks and Balances only Barry’s rules.....
RINO’s are not Conservative Leaders.
The Republicans forced the assclown to approve the bill. Damn that Boehner. (off sarcasm)
There ought to be a way to make certain the executive branch does what the law says. for instance, tying the funds of a particular pet project to the enforcement of another particular provision.
Personally I will despise the abortion-loving, gay loving ideologue liar in the White House the most... but of course you are free to despise GOP leaders more if you choose and give the MSM greaseballs more satisfaction while doing so.
Well, in this case our leaders blocked our president from transferring terrorists here.
Without their action Feinstein's bill would have succeeded in getting terrorists to the States.
One point for our side (though they of course will receive credit from hardly anyone).
How do you think our leaders will react when Obama bypasses the will of congress with an EO to pass Section 1027, as he has done on several contentious issues already?
But for now, the GOP did the right thing in blocking him.
Whatever.
The GOP only rarely did the right thing when Reagan was in office, and they haven't done anything to protect the Constitution since.
The Department of Education was permanently established when Reagan had to give up the fight, he did however abolish the Double Nickles speed limit.
I will likely not live to see another President, whether I live past 2016 or not.
Obama shows very little concern over his political capital. This is whats scary.
He and his personal cabal are leading, his party, the media and an only reluctant GOP (in that order) seem to be following.
When GOP leaders collaborate with a President that is attempting to harm the Nation...yes, I despise them equally for their treachery
This is why he backed off on talk about social security...the polls were against him. He watches those things constantly.
Obama is very weak right now, though you won't detect that in seeing him on the trash TV shows. He is frantically trying to keep his caucus together and terrified that the Dems are going to split. The reason that the media keeps harping on the splits in the GOP is because they know they will have to fact their own soon and are trying to put it off at least until after the inauguration.
Although I don't know why he would worry about his popularity when anything that adversely affects it is shut down by the bottom feeder leftwing media. He has what amounts to carte blanche.
Of course he did. He's trying as hard as he can to keep the momentum going after the election. The fact that he's pushing these hard-left issues already tells me he's desperate to keep his base on board (they were already starting to veer last week when chaining SS to the CPI index was under discussion and that shook Obama...he quickly yanked the idea).
These are not the actions of someone secure in his power. He will not get the usual 100 days honeymoon this time around.
There's no need to say that. That's what he always does.
Just curious...does anybody know if the UCMJ wording against sodomy has been removed from the books by Congress yet?
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