Posted on 01/26/2014 8:05:40 PM PST by Steelfish
Frustrated Obama's Message: I'LL GO IT ALONE By Tom Curry, National Affairs Writer, NBC News When he stands before lawmakers Tuesday night for his State of the Union speech, President Barack Obama will have a message for the divided Congress that has largely stymied his agenda for the past three years: Fine, I’ll go it alone. “I’ve got a pen,” Obama has said in the weeks leading up to the speech, “and I can use that pen to sign executive orders and take executive actions and administrative actions that move the ball forward.”
Many of Obama’s big policy goals have ended up stranded in limbo between the Democratic-controlled Senate trying to advance his agenda and the Republican-led House bent on stopping him.
And, heading into a midterm election year, he faces lame-duck status unless his party can regain control of the House this November.
Frustrated with the Capitol Hill quagmire, the president is increasingly turning toward the power of the presidency to try to solidify his legacy. Obama has pledged to act, saying, “We are not just going to be waiting for legislation in order to make sure that we’re providing Americans the kind of help that they need.”
"The president sees this as a year of action, to work with Congress where he can and to bypass Congress where necessary," White House press secretary Jay Carney told ABC News Sunday.
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he is trying, has been trying for past 5 years
his marxist political appointees are working overtime to transform our military and gut our strategic defense capability
but it will take more than a pen and a phone
By the election he will have been impeached because Americans are about to become pissed off... what few sheckles are left in our pockets are going to be ripped away with our trousers.
The President informs the Congress they are now a Soviet Duma.
And to go along with your prediction, I predict the press will declare this speech a home run and that it will “resonate with the American People.”
maybe he should threaten to hold his breath until he turns blue. that would be just as effective, and equally mature.
Why shouldn't he? No one in DC is standing up to him.
You might have a point with your prediction. I'll see it and raise you my prediction in post 46.
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