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Obama uses executive order in sweeping takeover of nation's climate change policies (!!!)
Fox News ^ | 11/1/2013 | Perry Chiaramonte

Posted on 11/01/2013 6:01:28 PM PDT by LiveFreeOrDie2001

Snip: Through the stroke of a pen, President Obama on Friday used his executive powers to elevate and take control of climate change policies in an attempt to streamline sustainability initiatives – and potentially skirt legislative oversight and push a federal agenda on states. The executive order establishes a task force of state and local officials to advise the administration on how to respond to severe storms, wildfires, droughts and other potential impacts of climate change. The task force includes governors of seven states — all Democrats — and the Republican governor of Guam, a U.S. territory. Fourteen mayors and two other local leaders also will serve on the task force. All but three of those appointed are Democrats. The task force will look at federal money spent on roads, bridges, flood control and other projects. It ultimately will recommend how structures can be made more resilient to the effects of climate change, such as rising sea levels and warming temperatures. “We're going to need to get prepared. And that’s why this plan will also protect critical sectors of our economy and prepare the United States for the impacts of climate change that we cannot avoid,” Obama said last June, when he first launched a Climate Action Plan.

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TOPICS: Breaking News; Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: agenda21; algore; climatechange; globalwarming; globalwarminghoax; goplaygolfpansy; impeach; obama; porculus; porkulus
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To: LiveFreeOrDie2001

Well, since we can’t get an impeachment, can we at least get some Congressional control of the situation? Maybe not likely with the group in office now.


81 posted on 11/01/2013 11:28:57 PM PDT by Deagle (m)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Impeached? He could massacre a ...

I would certainly agree he would never be impeached in the scenario you outline, but... what if he really Really REALLY did something outrageous?

82 posted on 11/02/2013 12:32:26 AM PDT by C210N (When people fear government there is tyranny; when government fears people there is liberty)
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To: Baynative

The man isn’t smart.

If he had agreed to put off the penalties for Obamacare the Govt. would not have shut down and the miserable performance of his website would not have been so bloody.


83 posted on 11/02/2013 2:48:00 AM PDT by Venturer (Keep Obama and you aint seen nothing yet.)
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To: LiveFreeOrDie2001

The House could refuse to fund it, I think.


84 posted on 11/02/2013 2:56:27 AM PDT by PoloSec ( Believe the Gospel: how that Christ died for our sins, was buried and rose again)
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To: ClearCase_guy; Venturer

What nobody seems to realize is that he has just proclaimed himself to have the power to do things like seize lands from private parties, expel private businesses from their activities and, essentially, control all the physical aspects of our lives.

He has been testing the waters with his earlier executive orders, and he has found that he can get away with anything. Congress has always done too little too late, and the Democrats are simply afraid of him and will do whatever he says, so any hope that Senate Democrats might join the minority GOP in objecting is in vain.

For everybody who cheerfully assured themselves and us that Obamacare was such a disaster that he would be handicapped for the next three years...think again. Every failure, scandal or crisis that he creates only seems to embolden him. But this is about the worst one yet.

I bet he was inspired to do this when he saw how well his shutdown of the national parks and public lands went. He has a Secretary of the Interior who will do anything he says and enact any tyrannical order he gives, and a legislature that is too powerless or terrified to do anything about it.


85 posted on 11/02/2013 3:45:24 AM PDT by livius
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To: LiveFreeOrDie2001

Through the stroke of a pen, President Obama on Friday used his executive powers to elevate and take control of climate change policies in an attempt to streamline sustainability initiatives – and potentially skirt legislative oversight and push a federal agenda on states.


If you like your “life, liberty, and property”, you will be able to keep your “life, liberty, and property”. Period.

If you like your sovereignty, you will be able to keep your sovereignty. Period.

No one will take them away. No matter what.

(unless the EPA has something to say about that)


86 posted on 11/02/2013 4:03:58 AM PDT by OwenKellogg (Fundamental transformation sucks.)
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To: LiveFreeOrDie2001

Satire right?


87 posted on 11/02/2013 4:07:28 AM PDT by nikos1121
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To: Venturer
Here we are broke and Obama is going to spend a small fortune on this pie in the sky

"Pie in the sky"? The article says it will be more efficient. Obama's even creating a task force, which is almost as good as a blue-ribbon commission.

Will anyone in congress speak out besides Cruz, Lee and the rest of the Tea Party congressmen?

88 posted on 11/02/2013 4:11:14 AM PDT by St_Thomas_Aquinas ( Isaiah 22:22, Matthew 16:19, Revelation 3:7)
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To: St_Thomas_Aquinas

The Dick-tator has spoken.

The Democrats will go along and the Republicans, will cower in their Capital Hill offices and wait for Nancy Pelosi to tell them what to do.

Every day we get a Nancy Pelosi quote. Haven’t heard from Boehner since the last time he sold us out. As for Mitch he is too bust bad mouthing his republican opponent to say anything bad about Obama.

DAMN I wish I had a party to go to these RINO Republicans sicken me.


89 posted on 11/02/2013 4:15:53 AM PDT by Venturer (Keep Obama and you aint seen nothing yet.)
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To: nikos1121

Not satire, but too many Americans believe he is like a God.

With all the scandals and now this, I don’t see how he’s in until Jan 2017...

...THAT is a long way away. Ugh.


90 posted on 11/02/2013 4:23:07 AM PDT by LiveFreeOrDie2001 (Elections have consequences - NOW LOOK what we have to deal with...)
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To: nutmeg
It has nothing to do with the climate and everything to do with Marxism. Pray America wakes up.

If Obama can't incite citizens to riot (so he can step on them) OR bankrupt the country - before his term is up - the game's OVER and we can save the country. Everyone needs to take a deep breath and know we're in the final stretch... He's pushing Marxism and he's losing. We're going to vote the commies out of office....

91 posted on 11/02/2013 4:27:07 AM PDT by GOPJ (Show me just ONE example of an Islamic country where non Muslims are treated with equality.TimLee)
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To: livius; All

First thing I thought of...massive private land grabs. Find out who preppers and patriots are and just take their land! I have property with a small creek running across it surrounded by conservation trusts. Wasn’t that way 8 years ago when I bought the place. Really ramped up in the last 4 years.

This is very alarming to me!


92 posted on 11/02/2013 4:39:52 AM PDT by seeker41 (take your country back by whatever means necessary)
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To: LiveFreeOrDie2001

This is to control all water, air, fuel, etc etc etc....when the heck with the GOP wake up? (Answer, never...)


93 posted on 11/02/2013 4:49:58 AM PDT by Shady (It is called LIBERTY...Freedom linked to Responsibility. Any questions?)
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To: FlingWingFlyer

“...Obama is prepared to really take power and begin to rule on day one. “

Valerie Jarrett


94 posted on 11/02/2013 4:56:46 AM PDT by Vaquero (Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.)
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To: LiveFreeOrDie2001

This is concerning.

Why do megalomaniacs think they can control everything, even though they know little or nothing about the things they want to control?


95 posted on 11/02/2013 5:11:24 AM PDT by exDemMom (Current visual of the hole the US continues to dig itself into: http://www.usdebtclock.org/)
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To: Graewoulf; 2ndDivisionVet

Monkeys will fly out of your ass, in formation, singing “Look For The Union Label”, before Odinga or any of his myrmidons are ever brought to justice.


96 posted on 11/02/2013 5:33:18 AM PDT by Old Sarge (And Good Evening, Agent Smith, wherever you are...)
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To: vpintheak

one word, NO


97 posted on 11/02/2013 6:06:55 AM PDT by GailA (THOSE WHO DON'T KEEP PROMISES TO THE MILITARY, WON'T KEEP THEM TO U!)
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To: Flycatcher

The idea that we send representatives to DC to legislate on our behalf is through. High time we realize that the bureaucrats (politburo) run this country regardless of the vote.
The legislature does not have enough resources to oversee/manage the vast departments. The expansion of the IRS was the telltale sign that self governance is over.


98 posted on 11/02/2013 6:08:51 AM PDT by griswold3 (Post-Christian America is living on borrowed moral heritage)
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To: LiveFreeOrDie2001

The Muslin Dictator in DC strikes again.


99 posted on 11/02/2013 6:14:00 AM PDT by RetiredArmy (I am proud to be a Christian and follower of my Lord Jesus Christ. Time is short for U to know Him!)
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To: JoeProBono

Very good! Make that bronco a camel and it’ll be complete. ;-)


100 posted on 11/02/2013 6:16:26 AM PDT by Nita Nupress ( Use your mind, not your emotions. Refuse to be manipulated by Marxists.)
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