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Obama Is Making Plans to Use Executive Power for Action on Several Fronts
nytimes.com ^ | Feb. 12, 2010 | PETER BAKER

Posted on 02/12/2010 7:50:23 PM PST by Free ThinkerNY

WASHINGTON — With much of his legislative agenda stalled in Congress, President Obama and his team are preparing an array of actions using his executive power to advance energy, environmental, fiscal and other domestic policy priorities.

Mr. Obama has not given up hope of progress on Capitol Hill, aides said, and has scheduled a session with Republican leaders on health care later this month. But in the aftermath of a special election in Massachusetts that cost Democrats unilateral control of the Senate, the White House is getting ready to act on its own in the face of partisan gridlock heading into the midterm campaign.

“We are reviewing a list of presidential executive orders and directives to get the job done across a front of issues,” said Rahm Emanuel, the White House chief of staff.

Any president has vast authority to influence policy even without legislation, through executive orders, agency rule-making and administrative fiat. And Mr. Obama’s success this week in pressuring the Senate to confirm 27 nominations by threatening to use his recess appointment power demonstrated that executive authority can also be leveraged to force action by Congress.

Mr. Obama has already decided to create a bipartisan budget commission under his own authority after Congress refused to do so. His administration has signaled that it plans to use its discretion to soften enforcement of the ban on openly gay men and lesbians serving in the military, even as Congress considers repealing the law. And the Environmental Protection Agency is moving forward with possible regulations on heat-trapping gases blamed for climate change, while a bill to cap such emissions languishes in the Senate.

In an effort to demonstrate forward momentum, the White House is also drawing more attention to the sorts of actions taken regularly by cabinet departments without much fanfare.

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TOPICS: Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: agenda; bho44; bhoeo; executiveorders; healthcare; marxistoccupier; obama; obamacare; powergrab
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To: rockinqsranch

obozo is like a child my way or the bird~~~~~~~~~~`


101 posted on 02/12/2010 9:54:26 PM PST by FreeperFlirt
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To: Arthur Wildfire! March; STARWISE

Yes, and that Rahm is the worst of the worst!!!


102 posted on 02/12/2010 9:54:29 PM PST by onyx (BE A MONTHLY DONOR - I AM)
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To: onyx

I was furious about Escalante. It was locked in my brain, even though I’ve lost two hard drives since then.

[Now I have a flash drive for backup.]


103 posted on 02/12/2010 9:56:38 PM PST by Arthur Wildfire! March (2010 HOUSE RACES! Help everyone get the goods on their House Rats. See my profile.)
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To: Nebr FAL owner

NOT DICTATOR; DICKTASTER


104 posted on 02/12/2010 9:57:52 PM PST by KingNo155
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To: Arthur Wildfire! March

Good that you have back-up for your files.
I am happy to know you save information!!!


105 posted on 02/12/2010 9:58:19 PM PST by onyx (BE A MONTHLY DONOR - I AM)
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To: onyx

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— FRegards ....


106 posted on 02/12/2010 10:00:01 PM PST by Arthur Wildfire! March (2010 HOUSE RACES! Help everyone get the goods on their House Rats. See my profile.)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

He can’t get what he wants because almost no one else wants those things, so bigod he’s gonna do it anyway. Power abusing *sshole.


107 posted on 02/12/2010 10:00:53 PM PST by Let's Roll (Stop paying ACORN to destroy America! Cut off their government funding!)
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To: Army Air Corps
Il Duce and Il Douchebag.


108 posted on 02/12/2010 10:03:15 PM PST by Cobra64
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To: bleach
"Can those be over ridden by congress in the future? Say 2011 with the new conservative majority? I hope."

The legislative branch controls the purse strings. They can defund any and all executive bureaucracies.

109 posted on 02/12/2010 10:16:50 PM PST by laxcoach (Government is greedy. Taxpayers who want their own money are not greedy.)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Bring it on!


110 posted on 02/12/2010 10:32:48 PM PST by Eagles6 ( Typical White Guy: Christian, Constitutionalist, Heterosexual, Redneck.)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Go ahead, Obortion O, just try it and watch the revolt get larger than it already is!

LOL!

(If he were smart, he would sit back and let Congress take the blame......LOL!)


111 posted on 02/12/2010 10:38:57 PM PST by Salvation ("With God all things are possible." Matthew 19:26)
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To: o_zarkman44
One good thing about executive orders is that the next president can completely overturn the orders.

Carter banned nuclear fuel reprocessing. It has never been reversed.

112 posted on 02/12/2010 10:43:44 PM PST by Carry_Okie (The RINOcrat Party is in charge. There has never been a conservative American government.)
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To: Lion Den Dan

Easy there!


113 posted on 02/12/2010 10:50:57 PM PST by karnage (worn arguments and old attitudes)
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To: small voice in the wilderness

Tee hee!


114 posted on 02/12/2010 10:51:40 PM PST by karnage (worn arguments and old attitudes)
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To: Free ThinkerNY
One would think that when one realizes one is hurling full speed toward a brick wall that one would take one’s foot off the gas a bit...
115 posted on 02/12/2010 11:05:16 PM PST by April Lexington (Study the constitution so you know what they are taking away!)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Another push for Narcissism


116 posted on 02/12/2010 11:07:00 PM PST by MissDairyGoodnessVT (Free Nobel Peace Prize with oil change =^..^=)
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To: Art in Idaho
The White House is unraveling exponentially. The events of the last year, especially the last month, are wearing on Obama. . You can see it in his face, hear it in his voice. . The Narcissistic Rage is fomenting and imho our country is in danger from within. Who is Obama and What is he going to do as things spiral out of control? Daily more and more people understand his background, his history, his Marxist mentors, his communist mole background. The internet is viral with this information. The more it spreads the more he spirals downwards. Do you hear that Black Hole sucking sound yet? Event horizon closing fast. . .

I fear you are correct. Obama has the psychological capacity to go insane fighting the interests aligned against him. He believed the messiah bullsh*t but he lacks the political and executive skills necessary to change course and save "his" presidency. This boy is going to hit the wall and millions of American lives are at serious risk. I blame the local sh*ts who elected young brown skin to the White House. If or when the revolution comes, the bastards in my town who elected this clown and his Democrat cronies will pay dearly. Elections have consequences...

117 posted on 02/12/2010 11:11:56 PM PST by April Lexington (Study the constitution so you know what they are taking away!)
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To: April Lexington; STARWISE; backhoe

Liars— and Sleaze, Incorporated... ( my files on the clintons and friends )
Posted on Saturday, July 27, 2002 9:37:12 AM by backhoe

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118 posted on 02/12/2010 11:42:57 PM PST by MestaMachine (http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2426869/posts SUPPORT RINO FREE AMERICA)
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To: onyx

And we thought 09 was a ride....He’s going to go full throttle now..and a breathtaking speed I think. There won’t be time for congress to do much because he’ll put so many irons in the fire peoples heads will spin.

On the other hand this may be his way of strong-arming congress to comply with at least some of his agenda...cracking the whip so to speak. I hope the Gop just lets him take the rope and hang himself!


119 posted on 02/12/2010 11:46:18 PM PST by caww
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To: onyx

Hasn’t Beck been saying that this the most dangerous guy in Washington for months now?


120 posted on 02/12/2010 11:51:34 PM PST by BornToBeAmerican
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