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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obozo is like a child my way or the bird~~~~~~~~~~`
Yes, and that Rahm is the worst of the worst!!!
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.]
NOT DICTATOR; DICKTASTER
Good that you have back-up for your files.
I am happy to know you save information!!!
=]
— FRegards ....
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.
Bring it on!
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!)
Carter banned nuclear fuel reprocessing. It has never been reversed.
Easy there!
Tee hee!
Another push for Narcissism
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...
Liars— and Sleaze, Incorporated... ( my files on the clintons and friends )
Posted on Saturday, July 27, 2002 9:37:12 AM by backhoe
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/723210/posts
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!
Hasn’t Beck been saying that this the most dangerous guy in Washington for months now?
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