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Obama: "Where I Can Act On My Own Without Congress, I'm Going To Do So"
Real Clear Politics ^ | 1/15/14 | Ian Schwartz

Posted on 01/15/2014 6:23:22 PM PST by Nachum

PRESIDENT OBAMA: North Carolina still has a higher than average unemployment rate so this is important to this state. Folks aren't looking for a handout, they're not looking for special treatment. There are a lot of people who are sending out resumes every single day, but the market, the job market is still tough in pockets around the country. And people need support, a little help so they can look after their families while they're looking for a new job.

So Congress should do the right thing and extend this vital lifeline for millions of Americans. Of course, that's just short term. Long-term, the challenge of making sure everybody who works hard can get ahead in today's economy is so important that we can't wait for Congress to solve it. Where I can act on my own without Congress, I' m going to do so.

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To: Nachum

Wrong. Congress should rein in the out of control president and the out of control, unelected, unaccountable rule-making bureauacracy that’s stifling our economy. Dump the EPA and watch our economy boom.


21 posted on 01/15/2014 7:03:23 PM PST by Jim Robinson (Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God!!)
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To: Nachum; All

Somebody please help fill in this blind spot. I know that the Congress can override presidential vetoes with 2/3 majority support of each House. So Congress can act on its own without executive branch support in such a case.

But I don’t see from the Constitution where a president can act on her own without the support of Congress, particularly if Congress can get its act together and impeach the president.


22 posted on 01/15/2014 7:03:34 PM PST by Amendment10
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To: Nachum

Then resign. You can do that without Congress.


23 posted on 01/15/2014 7:06:29 PM PST by SoFloFreeper
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To: odawg

Remember the gop is still “mulling” over 32 possible candidates, mulling


24 posted on 01/15/2014 7:09:33 PM PST by ronnie raygun
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To: Nachum

Impeach Barack Schickelgruber now!


25 posted on 01/15/2014 7:11:38 PM PST by sheik yerbouty ( Make America and the world a jihad free zone!)
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To: Nachum
When our representatives have so abused the government powers given them by outright ignoring the constitution, they have little solid ground to challenge a president that is doing the same.
26 posted on 01/15/2014 7:13:35 PM PST by listenhillary (Courts, law enforcement, roads and national defense should be the extent of government)
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To: listenhillary

America Ruled by Decree


27 posted on 01/15/2014 7:15:53 PM PST by GeronL (Extra Large Cheesy Over-Stuffed Hobbit)
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To: Nachum
The Constitution is such a nuisance.


28 posted on 01/15/2014 7:17:03 PM PST by garjog (Obama: making the world safe for Sharia.)
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To: JimSEA

I very much agree with you.

Even in our own towns we should protest wherever it applies.
IRS, NATL GUARD, STATE EMPLOYMENT AGENCY, Immigration
offices— whatever Obama messes with, we should be out in front of the corresponding agency. The list is long where we should be in our cities and counties and state capitols.


29 posted on 01/15/2014 7:20:34 PM PST by RitaOK ( VIVA CHRISTO REY / Public education is the farm team for more Marxists coming.)
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To: GeronL
Yes. And un-elected bureaucrats.

United States Senator Mike Lee

Behold my display of the 2013 Federal Register. It contains over 80,000 pages of new rules, regulations, and notices all written and passed by unelected bureaucrats. The small stack of papers on top of the display are the laws passed by elected members of Congress and signed into law by the president.


30 posted on 01/15/2014 7:24:04 PM PST by listenhillary (Courts, law enforcement, roads and national defense should be the extent of government)
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To: SkyDancer
just wait until a Conservative is president again

And wait...and wait...and wait...

31 posted on 01/15/2014 7:26:31 PM PST by informavoracious (Open your eyes, people!)
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To: informavoracious

Well since Huckleberry is trying to ban the word RINO - who knows. America is gone as we knew it.


32 posted on 01/15/2014 7:29:47 PM PST by SkyDancer ("How Can People Ask Forgiveness If They Won't Forgive Others?")
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To: Repeal The 17th

If everyone refused to pay their taxes until this bastard fraud is removed he’d be stopped cold.


33 posted on 01/15/2014 7:31:32 PM PST by Bullish (America should yank Obama like a rotten tooth before he poisons the entire body)
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To: garjog

I’ve got a pen, and I’ve got a phone and I’m a DICKtator.


34 posted on 01/15/2014 7:33:23 PM PST by MagnoliaB
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To: Bullish

How can you do that? They have the power of garnishment.


35 posted on 01/15/2014 7:34:40 PM PST by MagnoliaB
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To: SkyDancer

And the conservative that manages to get elected has ethics and doesn’t do the dirty crap that the Democrat party does to keep and stay in power.

Heads you win, tails I lose. Why do I keep losing the coin toss again? I don’t understand.


36 posted on 01/15/2014 7:44:08 PM PST by listenhillary (Courts, law enforcement, roads and national defense should be the extent of government)
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To: listenhillary
And the conservative that manages to get elected has ethics and doesn’t do the dirty crap that the Democrat party does to keep and stay in power.

Oh, he could tear the political landscape up, perfectly legal-like, by enforcing the law. See here.
(The process needn't be the governor of a state, but a President could use Art 4, Sec 4 and move, causing outcry from the political class, and then handling them appropriately.)

37 posted on 01/15/2014 8:54:27 PM PST by OneWingedShark (Q: Why am I here? A: To do Justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with my God.)
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To: Nachum

marxist, mooselimb,antiAmerican,homosexual punk, well that about sums up obammy.


38 posted on 01/16/2014 3:47:25 AM PST by Joe Boucher ((FUBO) obammy lied and lied and lied)
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To: JimSEA

Revolts aren’t won by votes.


39 posted on 01/16/2014 7:02:41 AM PST by unixfox (Abolish Slavery, Repeal the 16th Amendment)
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To: MagnoliaB; Bullish

Do you know how many small businesses file every quarter and send these bastards a check?

Small businesses could bring this POS government to it’s knees by refusing to send in their protection money.

There are more of us than them. They need to be reminded of that. BY WHATEVER MEANS NECESSARY!


40 posted on 01/16/2014 7:08:18 AM PST by unixfox (Abolish Slavery, Repeal the 16th Amendment)
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