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After re-election, Obama asked aides how to govern without Congress
http://washingtonexaminer.com ^ | JULY 17, 2013 | BY CHARLIE SPIERING

Posted on 07/17/2013 6:09:52 PM PDT by Para-Ord.45

Politico’s Glenn Thrush reports that after President Obama won re-election, he tried to find out ways of pushing his second term agenda without the Republican-led Congress.

“Guys, I don’t want politics to be a limit of what you recommend to me,” Obama told senior aides David Plouffe, Lew, Dan Pfeiffer and Pete Rouse a couple of weeks after his reelection, according to a White House aide with direct knowledge of the meeting.

“Let’s come up with an agenda, then let’s figure it out from there as best we can,” he said, prodding them to adopt a more muscular approach to the use of executive power. “We can’t let the driving force of what we pass be Congress.”

This explains President Obama’s frequent mentions of governing without Congress.


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To: Irenic

I’m so sick and nauseous of being sick and nauseous.


21 posted on 07/17/2013 6:22:35 PM PDT by txhurl ('The DOG ate my homework. That homework, too. ALL my homework. OK?' - POSHITUS)
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To: Para-Ord.45

It really is like the old Roman Senate. Nice job. Good perks. Lots of prestige.

But the Emperor calls all the shots.


22 posted on 07/17/2013 6:22:43 PM PDT by ClearCase_guy (21st century. I'm not a fan.)
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To: Stillwaters

He really didn’t need to find a way, the way was already in place. The majority of both House and Senate republicans honestly don’t care what Obozo does to the country as long as they are part of the ruling class. And the voters keep re-electing them to what amounts to lifetime appointments.


23 posted on 07/17/2013 6:23:13 PM PDT by lonevoice (Today I broke my personal record for most consecutive days lived)
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To: RginTN
Yeah everything is the Republicans fault .they are telepathically controlling democrat Obama who is innocent. and they are using voddoo to control the media who are democrats but are also innocent and the evil republicans just control their minds./sarcasm
24 posted on 07/17/2013 6:23:34 PM PDT by Democrat_media (IRS rigged election for Obama and democrats by shutting down tea party)
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To: Jet Jaguar; NorwegianViking; ExTexasRedhead; HollyB; FromLori; EricTheRed_VocalMinority; ...

The list, Ping

Let me know if you would like to be on or off the ping list

http://www.nachumlist.com/


25 posted on 07/17/2013 6:25:09 PM PDT by Nachum (The Obama "List" at www.nachumlist.com)
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To: SE Mom

“Social engineering”


26 posted on 07/17/2013 6:26:22 PM PDT by maggief
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To: ilovesarah2012
And the republicans in congress are doing what to stop him?

Why, the same thing they've done about Benghazi, the NSA stockpiling of our private communications and the IRS auditing religious and conservative groups! Hold hearings, wag fingers, issue grave press releases, talk to Sean Hannity...and that's about it. They have issues that make Watergate look like a traffic ticket and are too petrified to use them because they are afraid of being called RACIST. That is what it boils down to; they don't want to bring down a black president.
27 posted on 07/17/2013 6:26:41 PM PDT by LostInBayport (When there are more people riding in the cart than there are pulling it, the cart stops moving...)
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To: Para-Ord.45
IIRC Mao Tse Tung asked his “advisers” similar questions during his benign rein over Communist China.
28 posted on 07/17/2013 6:27:01 PM PDT by Gay State Conservative (The Civil Servants Are No Longer Servants...Or Civil.)
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To: Para-Ord.45

The aides whom went along with this should be tried for treason in the final reckoning as well.


29 posted on 07/17/2013 6:29:41 PM PDT by dinodino
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To: Para-Ord.45

Scum of the Earth, these socialists.


30 posted on 07/17/2013 6:31:08 PM PDT by Trod Upon (Every penny given to film and TV media companies goes right into enemy coffers. Starve them out!)
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To: txhurl

I know exactly what you mean. I literally get nauseous. Twice just today, first when I saw the actual DOJ tip-e-mail address and now this.

Congress had better wake up!


31 posted on 07/17/2013 6:31:52 PM PDT by Irenic (The pencil sharpener and Elmer's glue is put away-- we've lost the red wheel barrow)
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To: ilovesarah2012

Stopping him ? Why they’re helping aid his criminal enterprise.


32 posted on 07/17/2013 6:32:04 PM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (Resist We Much)
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To: Para-Ord.45

Treason.. Call in the SEALs! (What’s left of them)


33 posted on 07/17/2013 6:32:32 PM PDT by CivilWarBrewing
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To: maggief

You think the ‘white house aide with knowledge of the meeting’ is still with us?


34 posted on 07/17/2013 6:33:54 PM PDT by txhurl ('The DOG ate my homework. That homework, too. ALL my homework. OK?' - POSHITUS)
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To: Democrat_media

What are the Repubs doing??? Nothing.

Obama just had his way with senate Repubs regarding the NLRB. Most GOP politicians are worthless.


35 posted on 07/17/2013 6:34:56 PM PDT by RginTN
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To: Para-Ord.45

Hey Constitutional scholar, in America you DON’T govern without Congress or the Senate! FYI, baraq, just in case college was a little...hazy.


36 posted on 07/17/2013 6:36:24 PM PDT by jughandle
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To: Para-Ord.45
And we do nothing but sit.

if we only , all of us, had the guts this man has:


37 posted on 07/17/2013 6:37:14 PM PDT by Democrat_media (IRS rigged election for Obama and democrats by shutting down tea party)
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To: Irenic

Congress has better the eff up!= Congress had better wake the eff up!


38 posted on 07/17/2013 6:38:18 PM PDT by Irenic (The pencil sharpener and Elmer's glue is put away-- we've lost the red wheel barrow)
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To: RginTN

what are you doing to stop Obama? Go ahead and stop him and the democrat machine

The enemy of the American people is the democrat party. The democrat party controls

1. the news media
2. hollwywood
3. the presidency
4. The senate
5. the gov bureaucracies
5. the unions
7. the universities
8. the schools
9. soros , Lewis,zuckerberg, msny other billionaires are democrats.
10. Obama the main tyrant is a democrat
11. silicon valley, Google etc. are democrats
12. Pelosi, REid, fienstein, Shumer, Durbin , Lois lerner r democrats
13 . the rest of the media
14. IRS , EPA, DHS, HHS, TSA, FBI, etc.
15. liberals control the supreme Court( they approved Obamacare)
17. NAACP, La Raza, lawyers , AARP, many other groups
18 . Democrats control all the political money .Soros, tides foundation,gov grants,Zuckerberg,Lewis (another billionaire. moveon.org,unions etc.

Democrat party controls all this and more but the media and many others say that everything is the Republicans fault even though r’s have only a few votes majority in the House and that’s it

Democrats want to makes slaves of all Americans, turn us into cattle with less rights than a cow or farm chicken for them to manipulate. Democrats want to turn the USA into a communist state where all of us are totally dependent on government for everything, we own nothing.

The media is the most powerful entity in the USA and the world. the media made a non-crime( the zimmerman case) into the top news that everyone was focused on. all in attempt as Rush says to take away our guns and independence from government. 2 of the top stories of the year, zimmerman and newtown. they are hell bent on taking away our gun rights


39 posted on 07/17/2013 6:38:38 PM PDT by Democrat_media (IRS rigged election for Obama and democrats by shutting down tea party)
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To: Democrat_media

If just one of us did that, we would be called crazy.


40 posted on 07/17/2013 6:39:36 PM PDT by Irenic (The pencil sharpener and Elmer's glue is put away-- we've lost the red wheel barrow)
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