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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Shlaffly / Eagle Forum
http://www.eagleforum.org/psr/2000/nov00/psrnov00.shtml
Clinton’s EO 13061, the American Heritage Rivers Initiative issued September 11, 1997, purported to give the President the power to take over 10 rivers a year. This EO on Rivers takes governing authority away from states and localities, and threatens private property rights guaranteed by the Fourth and Fifth Amendments.
Clinton’s Grand Escalante Grab of 1.7 million acres of Utah land for a national park in 1996 included a trillion dollars worth of clean-burning, low-sulfur hard coal.
I also found this blurb in google:
[Note that Lippo was a front company for Chinese intelligence which also benefitted from the multi-billion dollar Escalante hard coal scandal].
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1512537/posts?page=50
http://www.freerepublic.com/forum/a37d95a0809ce.htm
According to William Safire, Lippo’s ties to Jack Stephens enabled them to receive sensitive trade secrets http://www.freerepublic.com/forum/a66185.htm from out of the Clinton Administration through Lippo employee, John Huang*, who also worked in the U.S. Department of Commerce as a Clinton employee. The kicker was that Huang would go across the street from his Commerce office to use a Stephens Inc. business office as a “drop” http://www.freerepublic.com/forum/a1004986.htm to receive and send documents and make off the record phone calls. “At informative Thompson committee hearings last week, we learned that Huang, Lippo’s man at Clinton Commerce, received a call on the average of twice a week from a secretary at the Stephens drop who was instructed not to leave her boss’s name. Huang would then cross the street to pick up and send express packages and use the Stephens phone. We know that Huang spoke to former Lippo associates at least 237 times in his 14 months at his sensitive trade post. ‘That number troubles me’ said Senator Joseph Lieberman.
[Posted by, um, me back in 2005]
Posted by “um, you,” *but of course*!
Yes, see, I remembered he used EO to grab the land in Utah and it was rich in natural resources, but I didn’t remember how rich!!!!
ONE TRILLION DOLLARS worth of clean-burning, low-sulfur hard coal!
!!!!!!!!!
That evil enviromental b#stard. They care NOTHING about energy independence. It’s all a ruse. Just like Rush said.
Is that right?
We need to hit it a couple of times to bump it.
This is the only one that links for me out of the four your posted: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1512537/posts?page=50
the fall is going to be classic
My fear is a false flag and martial law. The other is his appeasement stance is inviting an attack. . .
Er, Lippo. Not the only one either. Thank God.
The Utah Coal Lockup: A trillion dollar Lippo payoff?
http://www.laissez-fairerepublic.com/indocoal.htm
Lippo was a front company for Chinese intel. Might still be.
Clinton to join Lippo Group?
http://www.wnd.com/index.php/index.php/index.php?pageId=7179
Article: Clinton-Lippo Boss Meeting Sought by Huang in Early ‘93 ...
http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-802538.html
You mean you don’t have a plan?
“So, what can we expect from all his rage?
There is a plan, right?”
toshay!!!!!!!!!!
Ah, excellent! You maintain *files*
So filthy, rotten .. despicable~~!!!!
Chief of staff Thomas F. “Mack” McLarty and senior White House adviser Rahm Emmanuel.
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There’s Rahm AGAIN!!!!!
My fears .. exactly.
Praying ...
Three words, Separation Of Powers...
With his personality, I’ll bet he has pondered the same thing.
The ‘clean burning’ part even ticked off Robert Redford.
Filthy thug-o-crats. We don’t forget so easily, do we?
Yeah. The BO administration is completely infested with Clintonista.
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