OBAMA: "Not Going To Be Waiting For Legislation... I Can Use That Pen To Sign Executive Orders"

RCP ^ | January 14th,2014 | None

[Third Person]

PRESIDENT OBAMA: So Congress is going to be busy, and I’m looking forward to working with Democrats and Republicans, House members and Senate members, to try to continue to advance the economic recovery and to provide additional ladders of opportunity for everybody. But one of the things that I’ll be emphasizing in this meeting is the fact that we are not just going to be waiting for a legislation in order to make sure that we’re providing Americans the kind of help that they need. I’ve got a pen and I’ve got a phone -- and I can use that pen to sign executive orders and take executive actions and administrative actions that move the ball forward in helping to make sure our kids are getting the best education possible and making sure that our businesses are getting the kind of support and help they need to grow and advance to make sure that people are getting the skills that they need to get those jobs that our businesses are creating.

And I’ve got a phone that allows me to convene Americans from every walk of life -- non-profits, businesses, the private sector, universities -- to try to bring more and more Americans together around what I think is a unifying theme: making sure that this is a country where if you work hard, you can make it.

[Third Person]

The tyrant is feeling refreshed after his holiday break. Video at link.

[12th_Monkey]

so says the king and despot ruler of America.

[Safrguns]

And we have a sheriff named Joe who has some handcuffs.

[fhayek]

Like his economic ideas for the last five years have worked out so well...

[GeronL]

EO’s are not laws, I hope people know this

[2ndDivisionVet]

“And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if every Security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say good-bye to his family? Or if, during periods of mass arrests, as for example in Leningrad, when they arrested a quarter of the entire city, people had not simply sat there in their lairs, paling with terror at every bang of the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but had understood they had nothing left to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes, hammers, pokers, or whatever else was at hand?... The Organs would very quickly have suffered a shortage of officers and transport and, notwithstanding all of Stalin's thirst, the cursed machine would have ground to a halt! If...if...We didn't love freedom enough. And even more – we had no awareness of the real situation.... We purely and simply deserved everything that happened afterward.”

― Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

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[txhurl]

Yo, Zero: you can scribble all you want, but Ted Cruz will erase all your idiotic EOs at 7am Jan 20, 2017. They’re all going *away*.

[caww]

“....Ted Cruz will erase all your idiotic EOs at 7am Jan 20, 2017. They’re all going *away*”....

I would very much like to believe that possibility!

[PubliusMM]

It’s seems that they are, in fact, laws, given the sharp pubbie rebuke of Zero and 0bamunists every time he uses them.

Oh...wait. Never mind.

[informavoracious]

Every word is a lie except that he is going to circumvent the Constitution by issuing illegal Executive Orders. In time, they will become Execution Orders.

[12th_Monkey]

He also is setting a precedent.

IF I were the next republican president, the first words out of my mouth would be “Not Going To Be Waiting For Legislation... I Can Use That Pen To Sign Executive Orders”

Giving Obama full credit for the quotation. then promptly executive order out every thing Obama’s done.

[Jim Scott]

The Emperor speaks! Screw the Emperor!

[Cicero]

"Stroke of the pen. Law of the Land. Kinda cool."

--Paul Begala, 1998.

[sten]

just arrest the pole stroking, coke snorting, foreign agent and toss him in jail

[bert]

If there is no law, there is no law

Threats operate in two directions

[Gen.Blather]

This is equivalent of Gore (I think it was him) dissing the Supremes just before his election decision was handed to them. It is extraordinary that he’d open his month with the Supremes about to rule on his “recess” appointments. You’d think he’d learn to STFU.

[DJ MacWoW]

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[pieceofthepuzzle]

It's good to be king,
in your self-righteous world,
It's nice to play President,
and give it a twirl.

When you screw up bad,
and have no clue,
You still have the media,
and they'll protect you.

You can sign with your pen,
and create new rules,
By believing in the Constitution,
we are the fools.

(No offense to Tom Petty).