Posted on 12/30/2012 12:10:44 AM PST by Kaslin
One of the stickier wickets in the Constitution is Congress voting itself raises, or "emoluments".
Obama is saying to all of them, "Hey, don't worry about the stupid Constitution ..... I will give you a raise. I am all the Constitution you'll ever need! Be my friend and be set for life!"
It's a bribe, amigo. He's bribing congressmen to go around the Constitution.
I don't care. It's pernicious,and it's folly, and if other Presidents -- I should say, actual Presidents -- thought they could raise Congress's pay by Executive Order, then I've got a news flash for you: It's unconstitutional as hell!
Presidents raise Congress's pay? HELL NO!!
Well, if there’s no Constitutional consequence to not passing a budget in any year, much less 3-plus, I don’t think Senators should be paid if they refuse to do their jobs. Or... Harry Reid, being the Obstructor in Chief in the Senate, should be obligated to pay the Senators’ salaries.
What else will get their attention?
3 USC § 104 - Salary of the Vice President
http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/5/5303
&
5 USC § 5303 - Annual adjustments to pay schedules
http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/5/5303
Good, bad or indifferent that’s the way it is.....
Didn’t you know that liberals lie?
It comes easy to them
Correction to previous post.... should be,
3 USC § 104 - Salary of the Vice President
http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/3/104
and
2 USC § 358 - Recommendations of President with respect to pay
http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/2/358
"Plata o Plombo" is the way the Colombian subvertors put it. "Take our silver, or eat our lead."
Its an offer you can't refuse....
DC
Obama is exploiting that perniciousness now, to remind congressmen that they are eating out of his hand themselves -- how dare they deny succor to his supplicants, or as Barky likes to call it on the campaign trail, "GITTIN' the People some HE'P!!!"
Mark of a dictator. Caesar did it, Hitler did it. "Here - -here is something for you. Eat out of my hand. Be my client. Admit your limitations. Submit."
Do you know any of the details? Does this EO give them more or less than they would have gotten under the Continuing Appropriations Legislation passed in Sep 2012? I haven’t dug through all the details on this.
Constitutional is one thing and USC is another. So until it is taken into the judicial system for clarification it’s going to go on much as it has in the past through previous Presidents.
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