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Obama needs to do more, not less, on his own
The Washington Post ^
| February 24, 2014
| E.J. Dionne Jr.
Posted on 02/24/2014 4:17:00 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
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I dream of people like this columnist wearing a blindfold with a cigarette dangling from his lips.
To: 2ndDivisionVet
The writer is so dumb as to confuse quality with quantity.
To: 2ndDivisionVet
"...our chief executive is modeling himself on the late Hugo Chavez and wants to seize dictatorial control.
This, of course, is nonsense."
I'll have some of the Hopium he's smokin'.
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posted on
02/24/2014 4:24:54 PM PST
by
Paladin2
To: 2ndDivisionVet
Yeah, that's right, lets have Obama do more. Bring on the Barackalypse. Let's get it started and get it over with.
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posted on
02/24/2014 4:25:41 PM PST
by
Art in Idaho
(Conservatism is the only Hope for Western Civilization.)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
EJ Dionne is a special kind of smarmy, stupid, ignorant liberal. I won’t read his commentary any more.
To: All
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posted on
02/24/2014 4:27:16 PM PST
by
musicman
(Until I see the REAL Long Form Vault BC, he's just "PRES__ENT" Obama = Without "ID")
To: 2ndDivisionVet
The author is correct. He should do more. I think it’s time Obastard started picking his own clubs and shagging his own damned balls.
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posted on
02/24/2014 4:27:33 PM PST
by
Cyber Liberty
(H.L. Mencken: "The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule.")
To: Art in Idaho
Let's get it started and get it over with. I'm in.
The sooner we get it over with, the sooner we can rebuild - those of us who are still around...
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posted on
02/24/2014 4:27:55 PM PST
by
grobdriver
(Where is Wilson Blair when you need him?)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
Apparently it’s the number not the content that matters.
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posted on
02/24/2014 4:28:50 PM PST
by
Doomonyou
(Let them eat Lead.)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
I'm sure the WaPo would never say this about a Repub Prez. And comparing EO's of various Presidents is an apples and oranges thing.
EO's are supposed to be clarifying statements of existing law. The zero king is trying legislate from the Oval Office, but then that is something the Left wants. If we ever get another conservative Prez, watch the "news" media go nuts on him/her on any EO they issue.
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posted on
02/24/2014 4:30:23 PM PST
by
jeffc
(The U.S. media are our enemy)
To: Senator_Blutarski
Dionne fails to explain why libs accused Bush of “shredding the Constitution” and acting unilaterally even though he issued fewer executive orders than both Clinton and Carter. If Dionne has an accurate point about Obama, then he must concede that the critique of Bush was also a falsehood.
To: 2ndDivisionVet
Typical
WaPo bulltweet ..... Our Dear Leader is rational and sane and sugar and spice, and everybody
else is being an s.o.b. ....
I'll bet Kitty Graham would be squirming in her chair, to read this sequacious, toadying drivel. These guys' yingyangs are in Barky's pocket, and they have to know it.
To: 2ndDivisionVet
They don’t call it the WAPO for nothing. It is the “Onion” for the mentally incompetent.
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posted on
02/24/2014 4:39:56 PM PST
by
AlexW
To: 2ndDivisionVet
Take the matter of executive orders. According to the American Presidency Project at the University of California at Santa Barbara, Obama issued 147 executive orders in his first term. This compares with 173 in George W. Bushs first term, 200 in Bill Clintons, 213 in Ronald Reagans and 320 in Jimmy Carters single term in office. It's not the number, it's the subject of his executive orders.
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posted on
02/24/2014 4:40:59 PM PST
by
Mastador1
(I'll take a bad dog over a good politician any day!)
To: jeffc
If we ever get another conservative Prez, watch the "news" media go nuts on him/her on any EO they issue. That conservative president would be well-served to scoop up this Red Chorus like FDR did the Nisei, and pack them all off to Ulithi or Bikini or someplace ..... and then kinda forget they're there when he resumes atmospheric nuclear testing.
Oops.
To: 2ndDivisionVet
Dionne is a cretin. Here is just a sampling of things said about Bush:
Democrat.com - "Bush was a dictator for 7 years."
buzzflash.com - Accused Bush of wanting to be a dictator based upon a quip/joke that Bush told about how dictators have it easy because they have no opposition.
irregulartimes.com - Referred to the Bush administration as embodying "totalitarian depravity."
Ralph Nader - Called Bush a "dictator."
I could list other examples for hours, yet I doubt the jolly E.J. Dionne ever objected to any of those characterizations.
To: 2ndDivisionVet
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posted on
02/24/2014 4:54:49 PM PST
by
MeshugeMikey
(Where are The Weapons Of Mass Global Climate Change Destruction?)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
It’s really something - making a whole career actually being paid to write mindless nonsense with absolutely no basis in fact.
To: 2ndDivisionVet
To hear them talk, you would think our chief executive is modeling himself on the late Hugo Chavez and wants to seize dictatorial control. And HOW is this not the truth?
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posted on
02/24/2014 5:07:17 PM PST
by
Blood of Tyrants
(Haven't you lost enough freedoms? Support an end to the WOD now.)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
one of the questions is NOT “how many” excecutive orders
Obama has issued versus some other president, but
in Obama’s case
how many such orders were not mere executive direction
in accordance with the laws that direection was given,
but how often the executive direction itself contravened
the authority given the executive in the legislation under which Obama was acting AGAINST, not in mere “interpretation” thereof
when the post refers to the GOP House not providing legislation, what the post really means that it had not provided legislation in agreement with what Obama said
would not be vetoed by him
as if, the House is somehow required to only pass legislation the executive wants
in sum, its a partisan screed from the post
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posted on
02/24/2014 5:32:48 PM PST
by
Wuli
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