Posted on 02/10/2013 7:16:06 PM PST by Libloather
President Obama is considering a series of new executive actions aimed at working around a recalcitrant Congress, including policies that could allow struggling homeowners to refinance their mortgages, provide new protections for gays and lesbians, make buildings more energy-efficient and toughen regulations for coal-fired power plants, according to people outside the White House involved in discussions on the issues.
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The administration declined to provide details on timing of the possible actions; one White House official said the moves to boost housing, retrofit buildings, offer same-sex protections or issue new environmental rules were not imminent. Obama may touch on some of the actions in broad terms during his State of the Union address Tuesday, but he is unlikely to lay them out in detail.
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What is this Congress supposed Congress do? He just won an election had the media in his pocket and he’s pushing the envelope of executive privilege. The o ly thing Congress can do is take him to court where some of this will get o returned. This constant Congress bashing on FR is stale. Tha fault lies with the American voter. The DNC was a gay fest abortionpalooza. We get what we deserve.
Now that is a potential tagline!
It doesn’t even matter if the court overturns things. Like Levin said, we have several ILLEGITIMATE MEMBERS on the Labor Relations Board. They have been put there UNCONSTITUTIONALLY.
If we take the senate in 2014, we can impeach him, send Barack Noriega down the river, into a nice jail cell.
And, on our side, we're battling a forest of despondency.
He writes checks, recipients cash them.
He’s discovered it’s not his problem where the money comes from.
So long as the House doesn’t decide to bounce his checks, he’s golden.
And they won’t, because the repercussions wi be on them.
Can kicked.
Even if the GOP should win a majority the Senate in 2014, how, exactly, do you plan to get 67 votes for impeachment?
We would have to make it impossible for the DemonRats to unanimously vote in his favor. We’d have to make the case so damning, it was Nixonian. Remember, 2nd terms are often filled with scandal, and with someone as bad as Zero, he’s going to have trouble avoiding the pitfalls of the coming years. Now we just have to make sure the media can’t cover it up.
make buildings more energy-efficient” - now how does he do that? Regulations. What are the odds this one will affect all of us? When we go to sell our homes, will we get some energy efficient rating, have to meet some standard, get penalized, pay some tax???
Can he just stop trying to destroy what little freedom we have left?
Apparently The Won doesn't think so.
Recall that, even when confronted with what amounted to an open and shut case of felony perjury (in a federal court, no less), not one Democrat voted to convict Der Schlickmeister.
Even Robert Byrd admitted that the charges "rose to the level of 'high crimes and misdemeanors'".
Yet, no Democrat would rise to defend the Constitution.
Given another bare GOP majority in the Senate (say, 51), I cannot imagine 16 Democrat senators voting to convict Obama of what are bound to be more amorphous charges.
I'm not saying it won't happen. But I am saying the odds are so long that nobody should waste any time even dreaming about such an outcome. We're stuck with The One for another four years and we'd best be using our energies to combat that reality.
Obama is breathing?
“I have spoken. Let it be writ. Let it be done.” BHO II, the guy who had his lunch money taken regularly.
“...unless the toothless, worthless GOP cowards in the House roll over again.”
I’m wondering...the Dems are much better at playing dirty and gathering data. Do they have pictures of a majority of the House republicans with dead girls and/or live boys?
Welcome to Somalia. That is the new USA style, pirates and decrees.
President William Henry Harrison, Inaugural Address, March 4, 1841:
“The great danger to our institutions does...appear to me to be...the accumulation in one of the departments of that which was assigned to others.
Limited as are the powers which have been granted, still enough have been granted to constitute a despotism if concentrated in one of the departments....particularly...the Executive...
The tendency of power to increase itself, particularly when exercised by a single individual...would terminate in virtual monarchy...”
Harrison continued:
“Republics can commit no greater error than to...continue any feature in their...government which may...increase the love of power in the bosoms of those to whom necessity obliges them to commit the management of their affairs...
When this corrupting passion once takes possession of the human mind, like the love of gold it becomes insatiable. It is the never-dying worm in his bosom, grows with his growth and strengthens with the declining years of its victim...
It is the part of wisdom for a republic to limit the service of that officer...to whom she has intrusted the management of her foreign relations, the execution of her laws, and the command of her armies and navies to a period so short as to prevent his forgetting that he is the accountable agent, not the principle; the servant, not the master...”
Harrison warned:
“The great dread...seems to have been that the reserved powers of the States would be absorbed by...the Federal Government and a consolidated power established, leaving to the States the shadow only of that independent action for which they had so zealously contended...
There is still an undercurrent at work by which, if not seasonably checked, the worst apprehensions of our anti-federal patriots will be realized...
Not only will the State authorities be overshadowed by the great increase of power in the Executive department...but the character of that Government, if not its designation, be essentially and radically changed.
This state of things has been in part effected by...the never-failing tendency of political power to increase itself....”
Harrison warned if the President controlled the Treasury:
“It is not by the extent of its patronage alone that the Executive department has become dangerous, but by the use which it appears may be made of the appointing power to bring under its control the whole revenues of the country....
There was wanting no other addition to the powers of our Chief Magistrate to stamp monarchical character on our Government but the control of the public finances...
The first Roman Emperor, in his attempt to seize the sacred treasure, silenced the opposition of the officer to whose charge it had been committed by a significant allusion to his sword...
I know the importance...to the divorce...the Treasury from the banking institutions...
It was certainly a great error in the framers of the Constitution not to have made...the head of the Treasury Department entirely independent of the Executive....
A decent and manly examination of the acts of the Government should be not only tolerated, but encouraged...”
Harrison warned of “class warfare”:
“As long as the love of power is a dominant passion of the human bosom, and as long as the understanding of men can be warped and their affections changed by operations upon their passions and prejudices, so long will the liberties of a people depend on their constant attention to its preservation.
The danger to all well-established free governments arises from the unwillingness of the people to believe in...the influence of designing men...
This is the old trick of those who would usurp the government of their country. In the name of democracy they speak, warning the people against the influence of wealth and the danger of aristocracy.
History, ancient and modern, is full of such examples.
Caesar became the master of the Roman people and the senate under the pretense of supporting the democratic claims of the former against the aristocracy of the latter;
Cromwell, in the character of the protector of the liberties of the people, became the dictator of England,
and Bolivar possessed himself of unlimited power with the title of his country’s liberator...
The tendencies of all such governments in their decline is to monarchy, and the antagonist principle to liberty there is the spirit of faction - a spirit which assumes the character and in times of great excitement imposes itself upon the people as the genuine spirit of freedom,
and, like the false Christs whose coming was foretold by the Savior, seeks to, and were it possible would, impose upon the true and most faithful disciples of liberty.
It is in periods like this that it behooves the people to be most watchful of those to whom they have intrusted power...”
Harrison compared “spirit of liberty” with a “spirit of party” faction:
“There is at times much difficulty in distinguishing the false from the true spirit, a calm investigation will detect the counterfeit...
The true spirit of liberty...is mild and tolerant and scrupulous...
whilst the spirit of party, assuming to be that of liberty, is harsh, vindictive, and intolerant, and totally reckless as to the character of the allies which it brings to the aid of its cause...
The reign of an intolerant spirit of party amongst a free people seldom fails to result in a dangerous accession to the Executive power introduced and established amidst unusual professions of devotion to democracy.”
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The difference is" He's taller and black. The difference ends there.
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