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Obama's Power Grab Not Without Precedent
Townhall.com ^ | January 29, 2014 | Scott Erickson

Posted on 01/29/2014 9:09:49 AM PST by Kaslin

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1 posted on 01/29/2014 9:09:49 AM PST by Kaslin
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remember, when Obama came to USA he found exactly one USA president he liked, FDR. FDR was (in-)famous for his almost-daily power grabs....


2 posted on 01/29/2014 9:11:06 AM PST by faithhopecharity (C)
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Oh No, not the Lib’s, NAACP’s, O’s Saint FDR.


3 posted on 01/29/2014 9:16:35 AM PST by SandRat (Duty - Honor - Country! What else needs said?)
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Here is another President that Obama is LIKE. And Obama helped put this one in power. (Since removed by citizen outrage)

Evidence on Mohamed Mursi’s direct link to terror acts in Egypt

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3117047/posts

If you can read this and not conclude the direct link between Obama, Muslim Brotherhood Terrorists and Morsi (Mursi in Egypt), then you would have to be totally blind. And the common disdain for any an all constitutional restraint.

God Help the US.


4 posted on 01/29/2014 9:17:34 AM PST by Texas Fossil
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To: Kaslin

So, Bammy is really like Lincoln?


5 posted on 01/29/2014 9:17:49 AM PST by Paladin2
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The key difference being that Congress was willing to stand up to FDR in defense of the Constitution. Not so with Obozo.


6 posted on 01/29/2014 9:21:49 AM PST by Buckeye McFrog
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To: Kaslin
Understandably, the public at times becomes frustrated by warring factions in Washington but it will always opt on the side of maintaining institutional integrity over the whims of a frustrated executive.

Unless that "public" is black. Sorry, but let's call it like it is. Race matters. It matters to Obama and it matters to all of his little robots. Just listen to what they say. They are proud of it and ANYTHING he does. No matter how heinous or extra-Constitutional. As if those morons could even begin to understand what is in the Constitution. They'd have to care first.

7 posted on 01/29/2014 9:27:49 AM PST by Bloody Sam Roberts ("The further a society drifts from truth the more it will hate those who speak it." - George Orwell)
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Obama has no idea how to end this 5 year economic depression, assuming he actually wants to.

We will know he is serious when he starts talking about creating PROFITS in the business sector. PROFIT is a dirty word to communists and progressives. Only PROFIT will expand the economy and lift us back to full employment

PROFITS. Nothing else will do it. Not stimuli, not unemployment charity, not food stamps. Only PROFIT gets businesses hiring again.

8 posted on 01/29/2014 9:29:34 AM PST by Rapscallion (Had enough? Let me know.)
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Supreme Court has unanimously rejected the Justice Department’s efforts to expand federal power nine times since January 2012.

The progressives who support him will live on their knees for ever when he gains full power with their help.


9 posted on 01/29/2014 9:32:09 AM PST by Vaduz
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The author is entirely correct about the president’s failure to build support in Congress. The president must either convince enough legislators to support his goals or compromise with the opposition to build a voting majority. It appears President Obama is incapable of doing either.

In regards to President Obama using executive orders, I don’t know all of the laws in question, but most laws are written with exceptions. Obamacare, for example, gives the executive branch very broad discretion to decide what’s covered. The president is walking a fine line to be sure, but I think some of these executive orders are within his authority under the law.

A person would have to study the particular law in question to see if it gives the president wiggle room. I blame Congress for writing overly broad laws. Consider the EPA. Congress probably never thought CO2 would be defined as a pollutant, but that’s all it took to give the chief executive the power to do all sorts of mischief, like regulating coal plants out of existence.


10 posted on 01/29/2014 9:38:57 AM PST by CitizenUSA (Sodomy and abortion: the only constitutional rights cherished by Democrats.)
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I should add that my post doesn’t concern the constitutionality of any of the proposed executive orders. That’s an entirely different matter, and all three branches of government are guilty of ignoring the constitution.


11 posted on 01/29/2014 9:41:29 AM PST by CitizenUSA (Sodomy and abortion: the only constitutional rights cherished by Democrats.)
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To: Rapscallion

What he wants to do is destroy this great nation. Destroying the economy is just one part of it


12 posted on 01/29/2014 9:48:20 AM PST by Kaslin (He needed the ignorant to reelect him, and he got them. Now we all have to pay the consequenses)
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To: Paladin2

No, he isn’t.


13 posted on 01/29/2014 9:51:26 AM PST by rockrr (Everything is different now...)
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What he said was: I am going to become Dictator no matter what you say. I have a pen. I will sign an executive order that says I am now dictator and that is for life. And there is nothing you can do about it. I have more guns and more armed troops than you do.


14 posted on 01/29/2014 9:53:44 AM PST by RetiredArmy (All that call upon His name shall be saved! HE is the ONLY way to heaven. Only HIM!!)
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He sure did, more or less.

He should remember though what is done to dictators during the times of history and it's not nice

15 posted on 01/29/2014 9:57:35 AM PST by Kaslin (He needed the ignorant to reelect him, and he got them. Now we all have to pay the consequenses)
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To: Bloody Sam Roberts

Dinesh D’Souza was absolutely right: Obama, trying to find himself after a dysfunctional childhood, has decided that he is the post-colonial avenger.

Any American black (and Obama is NOT an American black man) can be coopted into this because of the African connection and because they were for the most part brought here unwillingly; the fact that even the most wretched black person here lives better and has more opportunity than virtually anybody in Africa somehow disappears in Obama’s upper-class “post-colonial” leftist rage. But blacks in general are too undereducated and too indoctrinated by the leftists to understand this.


16 posted on 01/29/2014 10:59:37 AM PST by livius
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“I have more guns and more armed troops than you do.”

Uh, not necessarily: http://westernrifleshooters.wordpress.com/2014/01/28/sotu-encore-presentation-brackens-what-i-saw-at-the-coup/


17 posted on 01/29/2014 11:33:04 AM PST by Ancesthntr ("The right to buy weapons is the right to be free." A. E. van Vogt)
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So, Bammy is really like Lincoln?

No he's not. That constitutes slander/libel of the greatest Republican.

18 posted on 01/29/2014 11:47:57 AM PST by Zionist Conspirator (The Left: speaking power to truth since Shevirat HaKelim.)
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To: Bloody Sam Roberts
Unless that "public" is black. Sorry, but let's call it like it is. Race matters. It matters to Obama and it matters to all of his little robots. Just listen to what they say. They are proud of it and ANYTHING he does. No matter how heinous or extra-Constitutional. As if those morons could even begin to understand what is in the Constitution. They'd have to care first.

And their sick churches and phony-baloney preachers cheer his every move to promote homosexuality and atheism.

19 posted on 01/29/2014 11:50:13 AM PST by Zionist Conspirator (The Left: speaking power to truth since Shevirat HaKelim.)
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To: Paladin2

Reminds me of an Austrian fellow. I think you know the one.


20 posted on 01/29/2014 2:32:09 PM PST by Slings and Arrows (You can't have Ingsoc without an Emmanuel Goldstein.)
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