Obama didn't ask Congress about ousting Wagoner

The Hill ^ | 03/30/09 01:53 PM [ET] | Ian Swanson

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

President Obama didn’t want any advice from Congress on the decision to ask GM CEO Rick Wagoner to resign, according to Carl Levin (D), Michigan’s senior senator.

“He didn’t ask us about it, he informed us,” Levin told reporters in a conference call Monday afternoon. “The president said he’d already decided.”

Levin said he and three other lawmakers were informed of the decision in a phone call Obama made from the Oval Office. Obama told the members of Congress that Wagoner needed to resign so that the administration could show the public it was making an effort at a fresh start with helping the auto industry, according to Levin.

[houeto]

I kid you not.

Nor should you.

[BlueNgold]

So he exerted power he doesn’t have without consulting the body designed, in part, to protect us from despotic tyranny...

[bigbob]

“Ask”???

Who’s in charge here? Who “won”?

[encm(ss)]

The all knowing King Obama doesn’t need to ask anyone. He is the smartest person ever. Just check out his resume. While you’re at it, check out his birth certificate and university degrees, too.

[Roos_Girl]

I prefer Chairman Hussein.

[CJ Wolf]

[hugorand]

UAW workers who were not pleased with Obama’s ousting of Wagoner. I was stunned. Two of the interviewed used the word socialist.

How do you know Obama is a socialist? When UAW workers are calling Obama a socialist.

[cripplecreek]

I’m no fan of CEOs walking away with that kind of money but it can’t be changed retroactively.

[Puppage]

the “bail-out agreement”

Or, as it should have been called The Reward Failure Act

[EDINVA]

IF he was so hell bent on exerting power, I wish he’d correspondingly axed the head of the UAW .. symbolic, ya know.. to let us all know that the govt is REALLY doing something about this mess.

[armymarinemom]

Why the heck would he? Our government shouldn't have a thing to do with firing business executives.

[precisionshootist]

“When do we say Enough?”

HOW do we say Enough?

The Rude awakening will happen at the next election. When “all the votes” are counted, guess who will win?
Acorn + Media Conspiracy + Corrupt Politicians = Elections that don’t matter (sham elections)

[what's up]

Rifts opening up between Levin and Oshama?

Wow. Amazing.

[boxerblues]

bump for later

[henkster]

This is not an administration. It is a regime.

[cripplecreek]

“He didn’t ask us about it, he informed us,”

Well Gee Karl, you wanted a dictator and you got a dictator.

[Chet 99]

He has no legal authority.. but I am sure 0bama alluded to bad things happening if he did not comply. Obama may have sic’d his rent-a-mobs on Waggoner’s home a la the AIG execs.

[Big_Monkey]

'IF he was so hell bent on exerting power, I wish he’d correspondingly axed the head of the UAW"

I believe I read a couple of weeks ago that Gettelfinger had announced his retirement at the end of his current term. FWIW.

[2nd amendment mama]

This makes perfect sense to me, and I don’t even have an Ivy League degree.

So, you approve of Obama's firing of the CEO of a private company? I think you are in the wrong place - you might be more comfortable over at "Communists Are US".

[4Speed]

Does this mean Obama is THE Oversight Committee ??