Podesta calls on Obama to circumvent Congress

Daily Caller ^ | November 17, 2010 | Matthew Boyle

[Zakeet]

Former President Bill Clinton’s chief of staff John Podesta, now the head of the Center for American Progress, called on President Obama to push forward with his agenda using federal agencies and executive branch power Tuesday, even though Democrats were dealt a blow in the recent midterm elections. Podesta said the American people want the president to move forward with his agenda.

“I think most of the conversation since the election has been about how President Obama adjusts to the new situation on Capitol Hill,” Podesta said. “While that’s an important conversation, it simply ignores the president’s ability to use all levels of his power and authority to move the country forward.”

Citing his experience in Clinton’s White House after the GOP House takeover of 1994, Podesta said Obama’s administration “can and should take” the specific measures detailed in a report released by the Center for American Progress, utilizing all the tools at its disposal to circumvent Congress in a way to keep his agenda moving forward.

“One of the best ways for the Obama administration to achieve results of that nature, in the short term, is through substantial executive authority to make and implement policy,” Podesta said. “As noted in the Constitution and the laws of the United States give the president the ability and the responsibility to act as the chief executive using authorities granted to all presidents such as executive orders, rule-makings, agency management and public-private partnerships.”

[LibLieSlayer]

He understands... he also does not care... he wants as much marxism instituted as possible before January.

LLS

[FourPeas]

Podesta’s staff wouldn’t return TheDC’s request for comment on his change of heart regarding the president’s use of executive power.

Democrats: Consistently Inconsistent to Serve You Better

It's a cookbook.

[Hoodat]

Shouldn’t they at least set the Reichstag on fire first?

[Pearls Before Swine]

Flagrant, publicized abuse of executive power won’t help the Dems in the Presidential Election of 2012, John.

[LibLieSlayer]

Stalin said that the Russian people wanted all those rabble rousers killed off. podesta is no different from stalin... he just has no real power to follow through with what he would really like to do.

LLS

[thethirddegree]

They'll be lucky to get out with their skin.

Quite literally, they will be lucky to get out alive.