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Jackson Lee on SOTU: ‘Executive Orders are Legal,’ Obama Acting ‘On Behalf of the American People’
CNSNews ^ | January 29, 2014 | Penny Starr

Posted on 01/29/2014 2:21:21 PM PST by jazusamo

(CNSNews.com) – In reference to President Barack Obama’s pledge, during his State of the Union speech, to advance his agenda on climate change and the minimum wage by executive order, Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-Texas) said “executive orders are legal” and that he is “acting on behalf of the American people.”

At the U.S. Capitol on Tuesday evening, CNSNews.com asked Rep. Lee, “What about the Republicans criticizing the use of executive orders when it comes to climate change and minimum wage – his use of executive orders?”

Rep. Jackson Lee said, “As I was saying, [the address] was appealing to the needs of the American people. And, frankly, if the American people are crying out for relief - they’re crying out for unemployment insurance, or climate change or the Affordable Care Act and the president is mandated to do what he can on behalf of the American people – executive orders are legal and they will be addressed by the legal system if they are overreaching.”

Jackson Lee also said that the president “knows the Constitution.”

“Frankly, the president knows his confines,” Jackson Lee said. “He knows the Constitution.”

“We know what is right on behalf of the people of the United States,” she said. “And he has a right to use executive order.”

“My friends in the Congress who are Republicans always say as Democrats, ‘Let’s work together,’” Jackson Lee said. “If we can work together and pass legislation, the president has already said he will sign it.”

Jackson Lee further said Congress should put people back to work.

“Let’s create job legislation that puts people back to work,” she said. “Technology. Energy. Putting people back to work rather than criticizing work on behalf of the American people. Let’s come together and do work on behalf of the American people.”


TOPICS: Government; Political Humor/Cartoons
KEYWORDS: executiveorders; inequalitygodzilla; jacksonlee; obama; sheila; sjl; sotu; stateoftheunion
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To: jazusamo

We are surely wasting A LOT of money on the Congress, Senate, Judicial Branch, then. He might as well just dismiss all those people and start redisributing that money to his minions.


21 posted on 01/29/2014 2:44:24 PM PST by NEMDF
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To: F15Eagle

Yep, the US Flag. :-)


22 posted on 01/29/2014 2:45:07 PM PST by jazusamo ([Obama] A Truly Great Phony -- Thomas Sowell http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3058949/posts)
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To: jazusamo
“If we can work together and pass legislation, the president has already said he will sign it.”

And just today a Republican bill that passed the house and was sent to to senate was thrown in the toilet by, guess who? Right Obama;s point man in the Senate Harry Reid. Obama lies as usual and so do his kool aid kids.

24 posted on 01/29/2014 2:50:56 PM PST by Don Corleone ("Oil the gun..eat the cannoli. Take it to the Mattress.")
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To: F15Eagle

Well, let’s be kind. After all, she is a freed slave (according to her).

So if she said O knows the Constitution..it must be true and it puts me at ease. /s


25 posted on 01/29/2014 2:51:41 PM PST by berdie
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To: jazusamo

Based on such high levels of support, Obama should immediately issue an Executive Order Banning Climate Change. Just tell the Climate to Knock It Off. Ms. Jackass-Lee would be thrilled to bring this news to her constituents.


26 posted on 01/29/2014 2:54:02 PM PST by bigbob (The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly. Abraham Lincoln)
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To: jazusamo

Ends justify the means, right Moron?


27 posted on 01/29/2014 2:59:53 PM PST by Ray76 (How modern liberals think: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eaE98w1KZ-c)
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To: jazusamo

oh yeah...I guess that is what Hitler did...uhm....


28 posted on 01/29/2014 3:09:01 PM PST by BCW (Salva reipublicae)
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To: jazusamo
"You know, we’ve got a government designed by the founders so that there’d be checks and balances. You don’t want a President who’s too powerful or a Congress who’s too powerful or courts that are too powerful. Everybody’s got their own role. Congress’ job is to pass legislation. The President can veto it, or he can sign it." ~Hussein Obama, May 2008
29 posted on 01/29/2014 3:10:30 PM PST by South40 (Liberalism is a Disease)
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To: jazusamo

Republicans don’t believe in capitalism as strongly as Dems believe in socialism.

Last night was just more proof.


30 posted on 01/29/2014 3:19:53 PM PST by TurboZamboni (Marx smelled bad and lived with his parents .)
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To: South40

It’s remarkable though not surprising how a campaigners statements and promises can so drastically change after a liar is elected.


31 posted on 01/29/2014 3:20:36 PM PST by jazusamo ([Obama] A Truly Great Phony -- Thomas Sowell http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3058949/posts)
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To: jazusamo

The funny thing is these people are screwing thier own, we know who they are but thier color jaded peeps still believe in them, ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ...............


32 posted on 01/29/2014 3:28:08 PM PST by ronnie raygun
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To: jazusamo

And, frankly, if the American people are crying out for relief - they’re crying out for unemployment insurance, or climate change or the Affordable Care Act and the president is mandated to do what he can on behalf of the American people.

Well there in lies the problem. They are not crying out for either climate phony change action or Obamacare except they are crying out to stop Obamacare.......


33 posted on 01/29/2014 3:29:54 PM PST by SECURE AMERICA (Where can I go to sign up for the American Revolution 2014 and the Crusades 2014?)
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To: jazusamo

“My friends in the Congress who are Republicans always say as Democrats, ‘Let’s work together,’”

That’s because any republican who is a friend of hers
IS a democrat.


34 posted on 01/29/2014 3:33:27 PM PST by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: jazusamo

“Today, we have two Vietnams, side by side, North and South, exchanging and working. We may not agree with all that North Vietnam is doing, but they are living in peace. I would look for a better human rights record for North Vietnam, but they are living side by side.”

Sheila Jackson Lee


35 posted on 01/29/2014 3:36:04 PM PST by mom.mom
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To: Parmy

How does that woman take care of her bodily functions?

She has “people” to do that...


36 posted on 01/29/2014 3:36:11 PM PST by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: tet68
That’s because any republican who is a friend of hers IS a democrat.

Absolutely right, she's a leftist lib and a nutty one at that.

37 posted on 01/29/2014 3:36:51 PM PST by jazusamo ([Obama] A Truly Great Phony -- Thomas Sowell http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3058949/posts)
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To: jazusamo

Do you mean Shirley Jackson-Lee, that great legal scholar? Well, that settles it, then.


38 posted on 01/29/2014 3:39:26 PM PST by The Antiyuppie ("When small men cast long shadows, then it is very late in the day.")
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To: mom.mom
You just have to shake your head and think dummy when she comes off with stuff like that.
39 posted on 01/29/2014 3:39:47 PM PST by jazusamo ([Obama] A Truly Great Phony -- Thomas Sowell http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3058949/posts)
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To: jazusamo

“Absolutely right, she’s a leftist lib and a nutty one at that.”

Genuinely stupid, too - a trifecta of oxygen waste.


40 posted on 01/29/2014 3:40:33 PM PST by The Antiyuppie ("When small men cast long shadows, then it is very late in the day.")
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