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Obama: ‘By Hook Or Crook,’ I’ll Expand Government
Daily Caller ^ | March 22, 2015 | By Neil Munro

Posted on 03/22/2015 9:37:03 PM PDT by Jim Robinson

President Barack Obama says he’s going to push the limits on presidential power as far as he can go during the last two years of his tenure.

“Where [elected Republicans in Congress] are not willing to work with us, we will do it administratively or we will convene the private sector,” he said in a friendly interview with The Huffington Post.

“By hook or by crook,” he added.

Obama said his big-government push would “make sure that when I leave this office, that the country is more prosperous, more people have opportunity, kids have a better education, we’re more competitive, climate change is being taken more seriously than it was, and we are actually trying to do something about it.”

In practice, Obama’s agenda includes more progressive control over peoples’ salaries, education practices and the energy companies. Each expansion means that state and local governments plus large and small companies will cooperate with regulators to push progressives’ goals, instead of trying to please Americans voters, taxpayers and free-market consumers.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: biggovernment; dictator; expansion; fubo; highcrimes; notsatire; obama; powergrab; unconstitutional
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1 posted on 03/22/2015 9:37:04 PM PDT by Jim Robinson
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To: Jim Robinson

Why is he not in prison? Seriously.


2 posted on 03/22/2015 9:38:36 PM PDT by ThunderSleeps (Stop obarma now! Stop the hussein - insane agenda!)
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To: ThunderSleeps

Why else? The GOP is too scared/cowardly to do anything and has given him de facto permission to do whatever he wants.


3 posted on 03/22/2015 9:40:43 PM PDT by Politicalkiddo (Proud Millennial for Cruz!)
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To: Jim Robinson

So far, mostly by crook


4 posted on 03/22/2015 9:43:09 PM PDT by McBuff
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To: Jim Robinson

Put me down for “by crook”.


5 posted on 03/22/2015 9:44:24 PM PDT by Paladin2
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To: Jim Robinson
Obama said his big-government push would “make sure that when I leave this office, that the country is more prosperous ... blah-blah-blah

Nope.


6 posted on 03/22/2015 9:45:13 PM PDT by Slyfox (I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just: that his justice cannot sleep for ever)
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To: Politicalkiddo

Apparently the only immoral thing anyone can do now is commit an act of racism. Fear of that has conservatives running.

Hillary, the FIRST time she’s been pushed, played the Sexism Card. The first on second set up question her staff wrote for a reporter to ask was, “Would you be treated differently if you were a man?”

So we’d go from 8 years of race cards to 4 or 8 years of gender cards.


7 posted on 03/22/2015 9:45:14 PM PDT by TigerClaws
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To: ThunderSleeps

Can you imagine how the media and liberals would be acting if President Bush made these statements?


8 posted on 03/22/2015 9:45:43 PM PDT by martinidon
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To: Jim Robinson

Uncle Joe Stalin’s playbook, page by page, line by line.

If he does leave the white house in ‘17, he will have left a path of destruction reminiscent of the Joplin tornado.


9 posted on 03/22/2015 9:46:07 PM PDT by lurk
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If a ‘Republican’ somehow manages to get into office, it’ll probably take them literally four years to undo this madness regarding the Executive Orders.

This is just a nightmare. Don’t know how else to describe it. I can’t even begin to say what I feel, because I would be put in a cage.

God help us all....


10 posted on 03/22/2015 9:46:08 PM PDT by KoRn (Department of Homeland Security, Certified - "Right Wing Extremist")
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To: Slyfox

LoL! Great photo.


11 posted on 03/22/2015 9:48:29 PM PDT by KittyKares (.)
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To: Jim Robinson

... And he ain’t got no hook....


12 posted on 03/22/2015 9:48:32 PM PDT by Yaelle
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To: Jim Robinson
"We will do it administratively or we will convene the private sector,” he said. “By hook or by crook.”


13 posted on 03/22/2015 9:49:07 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.a)
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To: Jim Robinson

[or by crook,”]

Don’t crooks usually belong in jail?


14 posted on 03/22/2015 9:49:23 PM PDT by freedom6178
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To: Jim Robinson

Likely, he has no intention to leave if the 2016 election results don’t please him. In the interim, he will seize all the power he can and move himself into a position to reject any election result as he has rejected the 2014 repudiation of his leadership. “Not enough people voted for this to be a valid result.”


15 posted on 03/22/2015 9:53:34 PM PDT by JimSEA
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The feckless fool on the hill is pure evil. Why cannot Bonehead and McDumbo stop this? Remember “Bonehead's proclamation about the era of Obama is over? Nothing has changed. Bonehead must go, as for McDumbo from Kentucky, that will take a little longer.
16 posted on 03/22/2015 9:55:06 PM PDT by Fungi (Evolution: no science, no truth, no nothing. Full of faith, faith in the "god" of chance.)
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“Where [elected Republicans in Congress] are not willing to work with us, we will do it administratively..."

I can't stand this. The President is just the head of one of the three co-equal branches of government. Yet Obama talks as if he is King, and Congress is just a bunch of easily-ignored ignorant peasants.

Defund, Boehner, defund!

17 posted on 03/22/2015 10:07:48 PM PDT by Leaning Right (Why am I holding this lantern? I am looking for the next Reagan.)
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To: ThunderSleeps

In the old days, this commie @sshole would have been tarred and feathered for his treasonous shredding of our Constitution. Another good reason why the voting age should be raised to 30 to keep our airhead youth from helping commies like obama from destroying our country.


18 posted on 03/22/2015 10:20:57 PM PDT by Stayfree (Flush Hillary or we are doomed!)
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To: Jim Robinson

He’s not about to leave office voluntarily.


19 posted on 03/22/2015 10:22:04 PM PDT by JimSEA
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To: TigerClaws

Good way to look at it. If the Rats have it their way
we’ll go from being racists to being s exists in one
election.


20 posted on 03/22/2015 10:45:30 PM PDT by Sivad (NorCal red turf ;-))
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