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Podesta: Obama’s “Warmed Up” to Executive Action; Will Use It for “Climate Change”…
Cybercast News Service ^ | January 28, 2014 - 9:27 AM | Susan Jones

Posted on 01/28/2014 7:46:48 AM PST by Olog-hai

President Obama has “warmed up” to using executive authority, and when he believes “he has the authority” to “make progress” without action by Congress, he will do it, White House adviser John Podesta told NPR Tuesday morning. […]

“There’s a lot that he has the authority to do that’s vested in him under the laws of the United States and his constitutional powers, and I think that he’s looking forward to a year of action, and I think he’s looking forward to tonight (when he gives the State of the Union speech) as a breakthrough year where he can lay out some of these practical, concrete ideas that will get people on board a stable economic footing and see their wages going up for the first time in a long time,” said Podesta. …

(Excerpt) Read more at cnsnews.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events; US: District of Columbia
KEYWORDS: aduplicate; climatechangefraud; climatechangehoax; globalwarminghoax; obama; obamaclimatechange; podesta
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To: Dilbert San Diego

The EPA is not accountable to Congress and never has been. Furthermore, it was created by an executive order issued by Nixon and not by legislation.


21 posted on 01/28/2014 8:04:29 AM PST by Olog-hai
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To: LostInBayport

It means the government will take over individual/private retirement accounts to “ensure they are safe and secure.”


22 posted on 01/28/2014 8:05:44 AM PST by ThunderSleeps (Stop obarma now! Stop the hussein - insane agenda!)
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To: LostInBayport

It means the creation of a new retirement savings plan for low-wage workers which will allow them to build up savings in Treasuries to later convert into a traditional IRA.


23 posted on 01/28/2014 8:06:54 AM PST by Chad_the_Impaler
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To: Chad_the_Impaler

The ObamaBux Socialist Saving Plan!


24 posted on 01/28/2014 8:09:03 AM PST by nascarnation (I'm hiring Jack Palladino to investigate Baraq's golf scores.)
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To: madison10
IMO, that means that to help those who have NOT prepared for retirement, they will take $$$ from those who HAVE prepared for retirement and force “sharing.”

They did it in Argentina a few years ago. They seized private retirement accounts "for the good of all".

25 posted on 01/28/2014 8:10:22 AM PST by Cementjungle
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To: nascarnation

Yeah but it also comes down to money and getting the word out to people, convincing them how incredibly dangerous this all is - getting them to realize the absolute hell it is to live under a totalitarian state. Plus getting a candidate that could debate his ass off, just bury these Marxist scmbags like grass, yes a lot of things have to fall into place for that to happen. Plus we would have to deal with the Democrat/Democrat lite party doing everything they possibly could to sabotage it. It going to be one long haul, I just hope we get somewhere before it’s too late. It may be too late already. I don’t care what anyone says: There is no way in hell this terror supporting Marxist sleaze bag won the last election legitimately. I lived in New York city at the time which is like the capital of liberalism on the east coast, I didn’t know ONE lib who said they were voting for him again. They KNEW he was a massive F up.


26 posted on 01/28/2014 8:11:05 AM PST by GrandJediMasterYoda (Hitlery: Incarnation of evil.)
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To: ThunderSleeps

That’s what I was thinking too.


27 posted on 01/28/2014 8:11:06 AM PST 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: Olog-hai

Looking for another way (like Solyndra) to recycle taxpayer money back into the Democrat Party coffers. Chicago Style politics.


28 posted on 01/28/2014 8:12:34 AM PST by Don Corleone ("Oil the gun..eat the cannoli. Take it to the Mattress.")
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To: Olog-hai

Tell that to most Americans who are dealing with extreme cold!


29 posted on 01/28/2014 8:14:47 AM PST by Biggirl (“Go, do not be afraid, and serve”-Pope Francis)
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To: ThunderSleeps
I'm convinced a take over of retirement plans is page 2 of Obamacare.
30 posted on 01/28/2014 8:16:32 AM PST by Eric in the Ozarks ("Say Not the Struggle Naught Availeth.")
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To: Olog-hai
Special Announcement Tonight !

I have siezed control and will not give it back

Thank You ... Oh yeah ...

and alahuakbar

31 posted on 01/28/2014 8:18:02 AM PST by knarf (I say things that are true .. I have no proof .. but they're true.)
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To: Olog-hai

32 posted on 01/28/2014 8:19:06 AM PST by LyinLibs (If victims of islam were more "islamophobic," maybe they'd still be alive.)
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To: Olog-hai

The emperor has spoken. So let it be written.


33 posted on 01/28/2014 8:22:41 AM PST by Blood of Tyrants (Haven't you lost enough freedoms? Support an end to the WOD now.)
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To: Paladin2

Congress did this to themselves when they created dozens of alphabet agencies and gave them all the power to create “rules” with the weight of law.


34 posted on 01/28/2014 8:23:49 AM PST by Blood of Tyrants (Haven't you lost enough freedoms? Support an end to the WOD now.)
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To: Blood of Tyrants
Yep.

2000 pages of "law" ----> 20,000 pages of "as the secretary shall determine".

35 posted on 01/28/2014 8:27:15 AM PST by Paladin2
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To: LostInBayport

Retirement Security = requiring your retirement funds to be invested in low-paying Federal bonds. . .


36 posted on 01/28/2014 8:28:33 AM PST by Salgak (http://catalogoftehburningstoopid.blogspot.com 100% all-natural snark !)
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To: Olog-hai

Ve don’t need no steenkin legislative representatives of ze people! Ve vill just take action!


37 posted on 01/28/2014 8:36:11 AM PST by CSM (Keeper of the Dave Ramsey Ping list. FReepmail me if you want your beeber stuned.)
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To: TurboZamboni

A signing statement is nothing more than the executive documenting his interpretation of that legislation. It has no effect on the actual legislation.

BO isn’t even acting with legislation. It is a world of differenece.


38 posted on 01/28/2014 8:39:20 AM PST by CSM (Keeper of the Dave Ramsey Ping list. FReepmail me if you want your beeber stuned.)
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To: LostInBayport
"including retirement security"....What does THAT mean?

Nationalizing 401k plans, of course.

39 posted on 01/28/2014 8:41:24 AM PST by Lazamataz (Early 2009 to 7/21/2013 - RIP my little girl Cathy. You were the best cat ever. You will be missed.)
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To: Dilbert San Diego
But the EPA is ultimately answerable to Congress, right?

Great question.

I was very interested in the early 2000s in drafting an actual proposal to get rid of the EPA, and the short answer to your question is, "it's complicated".

The EPA was created by executive order (Nixon). The Executive Branch is charged with enforcing a whole slew of vague and unconstitutional environmental laws enacted by Congress between 1955 and 1971. The EPA was created (believe it or not)to SIMPLIFY the dozens of agencies and departments that were needed to enforce all these laws prior to 1972.

So, the EPA is not created or authorized by Congress. Its powers are assigned by the President, under his authority to take care that the laws be faithfully executed.

The problem is the nature of the Clean Air Act, the Water Quality Act, the Wild and Scenic Rivers Act, the Clean Waters Restoration Act, the Endangered Species Protection Act, and many, many others.

None of these "laws" are laws the way you learned about in civics class. You could read them all day and never understand what you may and may not do, what basis is necessary to charge you with a crime, and what the statutory consequences of breaking the law are.

All of that is left to the President and his officers.

So, the EPA is really kind of a mirage. If Obama or Congress revoked Nixon's executive order creating the EPA tomorrow, all those laws would still be on the books, any President would still be charged with enforcing them, and somewhere in the Executive Branch there would have to be officers to do the enforcing.

As with so many other examples, the erroneous jurisprudence of the 1930s that allowed Congress to delegate "all Legislative powers herein granted" to unelected and unremovable officials has led to tyranny.

And it's going to get worse before it gets better.

40 posted on 01/28/2014 8:42:42 AM PST by Jim Noble (When strong, avoid them. Attack their weaknesses. Emerge to their surprise.)
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