Posted on 07/27/2013 7:16:58 PM PDT by lowbridge
Citing “national security interests,” President Obama effectively sidestepped Congress by signing an executive order which enables him to send $500 million to fund Muslim terrorists in the West Bank.
The executive order, addressed to Secretary of State John Kerry, was quietly signed Friday afternoon, as the media’s full attention was focused upon a royal birth.
In the order, President Obama writes, “I hereby certify that it is important to the national security interests of the United States to waive the provisions of section 7040(a) of the Act as carried forward by the CR, in order to provide funds appropriated to carry out chapter 4 of part II of the Foreign Assistance Act, as amended, to the Palestinian Authority.”
The move comes on the heels of a 2012 executive order in which Obama waived a congressional ban on funding the Palestinian Authority and sent the Hamas terror led organization $147 million American taxpayer dollars.
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No me. Not anymore. John Boehner and the republican controlled House who have stood by and watched it all happen make me want to scream. THEY are now and have been the big elephant in the room.
I did a Google news search; Obama, 500 million, Hamas, CNN, CBS, ABC and FOX...and the drum roll please...NADA, ZILCH NOTHING! I cut it down to; Obama 500 million...the same. Drudge doesn’t even have it!
How odd...
My ballot had several other choices. Perhaps you were a victim of election fraud because EVERY ballot in America had more than two choices.
This EO is not showing up on the whitehouse website for EOs or the federal register. I dont know how long it takes but would think the federal register would have it right away
Waiver of Restriction on Providing Funds to the Palestinian Authority
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When will someone arrest this a-hole? And don’t tell me it can’t be done. There’s got to be some way...
Do Executive Orders Violate the Constitution ?
Posted on January 12, 2013
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The Myths
Presidents can issue executive orders that are legally binding on the general public.
These executive orders are backed by the full force of law just like laws passed through the formal legislative process.
A president can use executive orders to go around congress.
The president can use executive orders to modify laws passed by congress and can order executive departments to selectively enforce provisions of laws.
These executive orders are authorized by the Constitution.
The Truth
Yes the president can issue executive orders however these orders are only binding on members of the executive department of the federal government. They are not legally binding on anyone outside the executive department.
Only laws passed through the formal legislative process have full force of law. Executive orders do not meet this requirement.
Congress alone has the power to write and pass laws. If congress chooses not to pass laws that the president advocates for the president can in no way act unilaterally. The president is restrained by the Constitution.
The president must enforce laws that are passed by the formal legislative process as they are written. If the president does not like a bill passed by congress or feels it violates the Constitution then the president can veto it before it becomes law.
Issuing executives orders that are given the full force of law is a clear violation of several provisions of the Constitution.
The Facts
The framers of the Constitution greatly feared concentration of power into a strong tyrannical central government so they incorporated many features in the Constitution that they believed would prevent this from happening. The Constitution created a government with three distinct branches. Each branch is granted separate distinct powers that are clearly spelled out in the Constitution. This separation of powers is one of the cornerstones of the Constitution that they believed would prevent concentration of power.
Article 1 Section 1 of the Constitution states that Congress is the only branch that is granted legislative power. The definition of legislative power used by the framers of the Constitution is the most universally accepted one, the power to write and pass laws.
Article 1 Section 7 defines the formal legislative process. Laws are not valid unless they are passed through this process.
Article 2 Section 1 states that executive power is granted to the President. Executive power is most commonly defined as: the authority to enforce laws and to see that they are carried out.
Article 2 Section 2 lists the powers of the president. Nowhere in this section or the rest of the Constitution is the president granted the power to write laws.
Article 2 Section 3 lists the duties of the president. The second from the last clause states “the president must take care that laws are faithfully executed.” If the president modifies laws through executive orders or selectively enforces provisions of laws through executive orders the president is violating this clause
Article 6 Section 2, which is the supremacy clause, defines what the law of the land is. Executive orders are not listed in the supremacy clause therefore they are not the law of the land. Only laws that do not violate the Constitution are the law of the land. Because executive orders are issued by the executive department outside of the formal legislative process and their contents most often violate provisions of the Constitution they are not the law of the land.
http://constitutionmythbuster.com/2013/01/12/do-executive-orders-violate-the-constitution/
“He’s moving into the same league as Stalin and Hitler.”
I have said that for a few years. No one stopped Stalin and Hitler until millions were dead. Who is brave enough in this country to stop half white Hussein before his term is up, if his term is ever up?
After these hundreds of years, America is destroyed in 8 years by a Muslim communist.
“He’s moving into the same league as Stalin and Hitler.”
I have said that for a few years. No one stopped Stalin and Hitler until millions were dead. Who is brave enough in this country to stop half white Hussein before his term is up, if his term is ever up?
After these hundreds of years, America is destroyed in 8 years by a Muslim communist.
Would you please send me a paltry $250,000 if I practice taquiya and say I’m a terrorist?
This will really tick off a lot of people in my office. O can send 500Mil to terrorists but he can’t pay federal employees their wages????????????? Time to send another email to my congress critters!
One suspects that OUR Army, Navy, And Air Force are more deserving of the 500 mil, eh?
He’s probably signing over money for him and the Mooch as well.
I think the only thing that works is constant calling of congressmen to the point where they are overwhelmed. This seems to be a good reason to call starting tomorrow, unless they are all vacationing as usual.
He’s probably signing over money for him and the Mooch as well.
For sure. But as with all ruthless dictators, that’s the least of our worries.
This guy is an evil demon.
Only in this life will his rewards be great. He will roast in unbelieveable pain & agony & torment for eternity in Hell, which will be cast into the Lake of Fire. There will be no escape then, for this RAT bastard commie muzzzlim pig & traitor!
He doesn’t see it as OUR money...he sees it as his toy bank to dishh out as he pleases...and that to terrorists!
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