Posted on 04/11/2010 5:19:36 PM PDT by STARWISE
Despite being an open critic during his campaign of former presidents Bill Clinton and George W. Bush’s frequent use of executive orders and signing statements, Obama will now go back on yet another campaign promise and take over the role of decider-in-chief by laying down his own authoritarian decrees.
Frustrated by the failure to get health care reform and cap and trade bills through Congress, the Obama administration will whip up a fresh batch of executive orders and presidential signing statements to effectively shape its owns laws and progress its own agenda.
“With much of his legislation 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,” reported The New York Times.
The Obama presidency has barely hit the one-year mark and has already issued nearly 50 of his own executive orders on a wide variety of issues. He may even be well on his way to surpassing Bush, who ended his two terms as president with a stock of 289 executive orders.
“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, in The New York Times article.
Just this week, ABC News reported the president will issue an executive order to create the bipartisan National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform to look into national debt solutions. Even though the Senate defeated a move in Congress to establish this very kind of committee, the president is taking it upon himself to create one anyway.
Another example of the presidents’ willingness to toss his executive weight around was seen in his attempts to pressure the Senate to confirm 27 presidential nominations, which were stalled by Republicans. The president promised to use his power of recess appointment to bring in his nominations while the Senate is away, thus undermining a responsibility vested in Congress.
The Obama administration’s more decisive approach toward governing is undoubtedly made to counteract the growing force of opposition toward the policies of the president, Congress and government in general by the American people.
Executive orders only serves those who seek to further establish a strong executive, something that should be quite incompatible with a constitutional republic like ours.
Executive orders are a danger to our constitutional system of government and their use has traditionally resulted in undermining our liberties by those who abuse them.
Executive orders do have a logical use that if kept inside the limit of simply directing those individuals within the executive branch to do their job more effectively and constitutionally. It’s when these orders venture outside the realm of the executive branch that it becomes a problem.
This “forget Congress” mentality has plagued many administrations for countless decades. While executive orders can result in good policies like Abraham Lincolns’ Emancipation Proclamation, it can also result in blemish’s on America’s history, like Franklin Roosevelt’s Order of Internment of Japanese Americans during World War II.
Contrary to modern political thought, the presidency was intended to have a very limited and restricted role in the legislation process. If Congress gives the president a bill he doesn’t agree with or deems unconstitutional, he would only need to veto it, but Congress can still override him.
The Founding Fathers didn’t draft the Constitution with a central leader with extensive power in mind. Their experience of living under the rule of a despotic king fueled their attempts to prevent a tyrannical centralized government from taking hold here.
Article I, Section I of the Constitution read quite clear when it states: “All legislative powers herein granted shall be vested in a Congress of the United States.”
Only the legislative branch, not the executive branch, can craft laws; end of story.
The nature of the presidency and its expanding power has been evolving more and more with each passing administration. It’s just unfortunate Obama will continue to follow in the steps of his power-grabbing predecessors.
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2010 Executive Orders Disposition Tables - Barack Obama - 2010
Executive Order 13528 Establishment of the Council of Governors
* Signed: January 11, 2010
* Federal Register page and date: 75 FR 2053, January 14, 2010
Executive Order 13529 Ordering the Selected Reserve and Certain Individual Ready Reserve Members of the Armed Forces to Active Duty
* Signed: January 16, 2010 * Federal Register page and date: 75 FR 3331, January 21, 2010
Executive Order 13530 President's Advisory Council on Financial Capability
* Signed: January 29, 2010 * Federal Register page and date: 75 FR 5481, February 3, 2010
Executive Order 13531 National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform
* Signed: February 18, 2010 * Federal Register page and date: 75 FR 7927, February 23, 2010
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Executive Order 13532 Promoting Excellence, Innovation,and Sustainability at Historically Black Colleges and Universities
* Signed: February 26, 2010 * Federal Register page and date: 75 FR 9749, March 3, 2010 * Revokes: EO 13256, February 12, 2002
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Executive Order 13533 Providing an Order of Succession Within the Department of Defense
* Signed: March 1, 2010 * Federal Register page and date: 75 FR 10163, March 5, 2010 * Revokes: EO 13394, December 22, 2005
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Executive Order 13534 National Export Initiative
* Signed: March 11, 2010 * Federal Register page and date: 75 FR 12433, March 16, 2010 * See: EO 12870, September 30, 1993
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Executive Order 13535 Ensuring Enforcement and Implementation of Abortion Restrictions in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act
* Signed: March 24, 2010 * Federal Register page and date: 75 FR 15599, March 29, 2010
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2009 Executive Orders Disposition Tables - Barack Obama - 2009
Executive Order 13489 Presidential Records
* Signed: January 21, 2009 * Federal Register page and date: 74 FR 4669, January 26, 2009 * Revokes: EO 13233, November 1, 2001
Executive Order 13490 Ethics Commitments by Executive Branch Personnel
* Signed: January 21, 2009 * Federal Register page and date: 74 FR 4673, January 26, 2009
Executive Order 13491 Ensuring Lawful Interrogation
* Signed: January 22, 2009 * Federal Register page and date: 74 FR 4893, January 27, 2009 * Revokes: EO 13440, July 20, 2007
Executive Order 13492 Review and Disposition of Individuals Detained at the Guantanamo Bay Naval Base and Close of Detention Facilities
* Signed: January 22, 2009 * Federal Register page and date: 74 FR 4897, January 27, 2009
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Executive Order 13493 Review of Detention Policy Options
* Signed: January 22, 2009 * Federal Register page and date: 74 FR 4901, January 27, 2009
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Executive Order 13494 Economy in Government Contracts
* Signed: January 30, 2009 * Federal Register page and date: 74 FR 6101, February 4, 2009 * Amended by: EO 13517, October 30, 2009
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Executive Order 13495 Nondisplacement of Qualified Workers Under Service Contracts
* Signed: January 30, 2009 * Federal Register page and date: 74 FR 6103, February 4, 2009 * Revokes: EO 13204, February 17, 2001
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Executive Order 13496 Notification of Employee Rights Under Federal Labor Laws
* Signed: January 30, 2009 * Federal Register page and date: 74 FR 6107, February 4, 2009 * Revokes: EO 13201, February 17, 2001
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Executive Order 13497 Revocation of Certain Executive Orders Concerning Regulatory Planning and Review
* Signed: January 30, 2009 * Federal Register page and date: 74 FR 6113, February 4, 2009 * Revokes: EO 13258, February 26, 2002; EO 13422, January 18, 2007 * See: EO 12866, September 30, 1993
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Executive Order 13498 Amendments to Executive Order 13199 and Establishment of the President's Advisory Council for Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships
* Signed: February 5, 2009 * Federal Register page and date: 74 FR 6533, February 9, 2009 * Amends: EO 13199, July 29, 2001
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Executive Order 13499 Further Amendments to Executive Order 12835, Establishment of the National Economic Council
* Signed: February 5, 2009 * Federal Register page and date: 74 FR 6979, February 11, 2009 * Amends: EO 12835, January 25, 1993
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Executive Order 13500 Further Amendments to Executive Order 12859, Establishment of the Domestic Policy Council
* Signed: February 5, 2009 * Federal Register page and date: 74 FR 6981, February 11, 2009 * Amends: EO 12859, August 16, 1993
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Executive Order 13501 Establishing the President's Economic Recovery Advisory Board
* Signed: February 6, 2009 * Federal Register page and date: 74 FR 6893, February 11, 2009
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Executive Order 13502 Use of Project Labor Agreements for Federal Construction Projects
* Signed: February 6, 2009 * Federal Register page and date: 74 FR 6985, February 11, 2009 * Revokes: EO 13202, February 17, 2001; EO 13208, April 6, 2001
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Executive Order 13503 Establishment of the White House Office of Urban Affairs
* Signed: February 19, 2009 * Federal Register page and date: 74 FR 8139, February 24, 2009
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Executive Order 13504 Amending Executive Order 13390
* Signed: February 19, 2009 * Federal Register page and date: 74 FR 8431, February 24, 2009 * Amends: EO 13390, November 1, 2005
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Executive Order 13505 Removing Barriers to Responsible Scientific Research Involving Human Stem Cells
* Signed: March 9, 2009 * Federal Register page and date: 74 FR 10667, March 11, 2009 * Revokes: EO 13435, June 20, 2007
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Executive Order 13506 Establishing a White House Council on Women and Girls
* Signed: March 11, 2009 * Federal Register page and date: 74 FR 11271, March 16, 2009
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Executive Order 13507 Establishment of the White House Office of Health Reform
* Signed: April 8, 2009 * Federal Register page and date: 74 FR 17071, April 13, 2009
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Executive Order 13508 Chesapeake Bay Protection and Restoration
* Signed: May 12, 2009 * Federal Register page and date: 74 FR 23099, May 15, 2009
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Executive Order 13509 Establishing a White House Council on Automotive Communities and Workers
* Signed: June 23, 2009 * Federal Register page and date: 74 FR 30903, June 26, 2009
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Executive Order 13510 Waiver Under the Trade Act of 1974 With Respect to the Republic of Belarus
* Signed: July 1, 2009 * Federal Register page and date: 74 FR 32047, July 6, 2009
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Executive Order 13511 Continuance of Certain Federal Advisory Committees
* Signed: September 29, 2009 * Federal Register page and date: 74 FR 50909, October 1, 2009 * Continues: EO 11145, March 7, 1964; EO 11183, October 3, 1964; EO 11287, June 28, 1966; EO 12131, May 4, 1979; EO 12196, February 26, 1980; EO 12216, June 18, 1980; EO 12367, February 15, 1982; EO 12382, September 13, 1982; EO 12905, March 25, 1994; EO 12994, March 21, 1996; EO 13226, September 30, 2001; EO 13231, October 16, 2001; EO 13256, February 12, 2002; EO 13265, June 6, 2002; EO 13270, July 3, 2002; * Supersedes in part: EO 13446, September 28, 2007
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Executive Order 13512 Amending Executive Order 13390
* Signed: September 29, 2009 * Federal Register page and date: 74 FR 50911, October 2, 2009 * Amends: EO 13390, November 1, 2005
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Executive Order 13513 Federal Leadership on Reducing Text Messaging While Driving
* Signed: October 1, 2009 * Federal Register page and date: 74 FR 51225, October 6, 2009
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Executive Order 13514 Federal Leadership in Environmental, Energy, and Economic Performance
* Signed: October 5, 2009 * Federal Register page and date: 74 FR 52117, October 8, 2009 * See: EO 13423, January 24, 2007
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Executive Order 13515 Increasing Participation of Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders in Federal Programs
* Signed: October 14, 2009 * Federal Register page and date: 74 FR 53635, October 19, 2009 * Supersedes: EO 13125, June 7, 1999; EO 13339, May 13, 2004
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Executive Order 13516 Amending Executive Order 13462
* Signed: October 28, 2009 * Federal Register page and date: 74 FR 56521, November 2, 2009 * Federal Register correction page and date: 74 FR 57241, November 5, 2009, Executive Order 13516 - Correction * Amends: EO 13462, February 29, 2008 * See: EO 12333, December 4, 1981; EO 12958, April 17, 1995; EO 12968, August 2, 1995
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Executive Order 13517 Amendments to Executive Orders 13183 and 13494
* Signed: October 30, 2009 * Federal Register page and date: 74 FR 57239, November 5, 2009 * Amends: EO 13183, December 23, 2000; EO 13494, January 30, 2009
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Executive Order 13518 Employment of Veterans in the Federal Government
* Signed: November 9, 2009 * Federal Register page and date: 74 FR 58533, November 13, 2009
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Executive Order 13519 Establishment of the Financial Fraud Enforcement Task Force
* Signed: November 17, 2009 * Federal Register page and date: 74 FR 60123, November 19, 2009 * Terminates: EO 13271, July 9, 2002
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Executive Order 13520 Reducing Improper Payments
* Signed: November 20, 2009 * Federal Register page and date: 74 FR 62201, November 25, 2009
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Executive Order 13521 Establishing the Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues
* Signed: November 24, 2009 * Federal Register page and date: 74 FR 62671, November 30, 2009 * Supersedes: EO 13237, November 28, 2001
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Executive Order 13522 Creating Labor-Management Forums to Improve Delivery of Government Services
* Signed: December 9, 2009 * Federal Register page and date: 74 FR 66203, December 14, 2009
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Executive Order 13523 Half-Day Closing of Executive Departments and Agencies on Thursday, December 24, 2009
* Signed: December 11, 2009 * Federal Register page and date: 74 FR 66563, December 16, 2009 * Federal Register correction page and date: 74 FR 67049, December 18, 2009, Executive Order 13523 - Correction
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Executive Order 13524 Amending Executive Order 12425 Designating Interpol as a Public International Organization Entitled To Enjoy Certain Privileges, Exemptions, and Immunities
* Signed: December 16, 2009 * Federal Register page and date: 74 FR 67803, December 21, 2009 * Amends: EO 12425, June 16, 1983
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Executive Order 13525 Adjustments of Certain Rates of Pay
* Signed: December 23, 2009 * Federal Register page and date: 74 FR 69231, December 30, 2009 * Supersedes: EO 13483, December 18, 2008
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Executive Order 13526 Classified National Security Information
* Signed: December 29, 2009 * Federal Register page and date: 75 FR 707, January 5, 2010 * Federal Register correction page and date: 75 FR 1013, January 8, 2010, Executive Order 13526 - Correction * Revokes: EO 12958, April 17, 1995; EO 13292, March 25, 2003 * See: EO 12333, December 4, 1981; Memorandum of December 29, 2009 (75 FR 733); Order of December 29, 2009 (75 FR 735)
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Executive Order 13527 Establishing Federal Capability for the Timely Provision of Medical Countermeasures Following a Biological Attack
* Signed: December 30, 2009 * Federal Register page and date: 75 FR 737, January 6, 2010
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Just as a reminder former President George W. Bush had a total of 289 Executive Orders throughout his 8 years in office.
Former President George W. Bush started with EO-13199 and ended with EO-13488
The Listing of Executive orders in the Congressional Library runs in a numeric order starting with the first Executive orders passed until the most current. When President Barack Obama took office his EO list started from #EO-13489
~~Ping!
He’s a dirty Marxist SOB and all of his EOs will have to be closely scrutinized and likely eliminated or reversed by the next president.
So the great uniter can’t get his agenda through a Congress controlled by people as liberal as him?
That’s interesting....
Look up Truman’s Steel Seizure case 9Didn’t stand with the Supreme Court)
EO that stand with Supreme Court are the ones w/ Congressional Blessings
Our founders intentional set up a weak presidency so when we have idiots get elected, the damage they can do is minimized (Not that they can’t do damage when Congress is with them, like the healthcare debacle)
“Just this week, ABC News reported the president will issue an executive order to create the bipartisan National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform to look into national debt solutions. Even though the Senate defeated a move in Congress to establish this very kind of committee, the president is taking it upon himself to create one anyway. “
I guess we elected 535 people for nothing then.
I know what’s going to happen.
You will all run to the polls in November, there will be a landslide, and then you will all go back to sleep.
When the work only begins after the election.
We MUST elect those who are willing to ruffle feathers, cause a stink, or otherwise piss people off, and UNDO what is being foisted upon us now.
If you just let the “R’s” take back the reins from the communist, and stop there, then you are deserving of what is happening to you right now.
If you vote for RINO’s and fail to force them to follow-through, you are a bunch of un-American fools, and deserve to be led around by your stupid slave noses.
It doesn’t matter if “R’s” are in power—what is your government doing? What is the reality of your relationship with the government?
If CommieCare, and everything else these enemies of freedom accomplish now isn’t turned around, then they’ve won.
They’ll have a system in place that WILL ROT THE US ALL BY ITSELF; a time bomb has been planted under this country, and it will usher in more, and more, and more socialism/collectivism/communism.
ObamaCare was not, and is not about health care, folks.
We MUST UNDO what has been done here.
The ace in the hole is his birth place, if it is true he is not from America all that came before him is null and void!
Thanks for the ping to all your great info and research!
Obama Signs Executive Order Establishing Council of Governors
The White House | Office of Press Secretary | 1/11/10
FR Posted by Melissa 24
The President signed an Executive Order Jan 11 establishing a Council of Governors to strengthen further the partnership between the Federal Government and State Governments to protect our Nation against all types of hazards.
When appointed, the Council will be reviewing such matters as involving the National Guard of the various States; homeland defense; civil support; synchronization and integration of State and Federal military activities in the United States; and other matters of mutual interest pertaining to National Guard, homeland defense, and civil support activities.
The bipartisan Council will be composed of ten State Governors who will be selected by the President to serve two year terms. In selecting the Governors to the Council, the White House will solicit input from Governors and Governors’ associations.
Once chosen, the Council will have no more than five members from the same party and represent the Nation as a whole.
Federal members of the Council include:
the Secretary of Defense,
the Secretary of Homeland Security,
the Assistant to the President for Homeland Security and Counterterrorism,
the Assistant to the President for Intergovernmental Affairs and Public Engagement,
the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Homeland Defense and Americas’ Security Affairs,
the U.S. Northern Command Commander,
the Commandant of the Coast Guard, and,
the Chief of the National Guard Bureau.
The Secretary of Defense will designate an Executive Director for the Council. (Excerpt) Read more at whitehouse.gov
National Guard.
What that conjures ....
FUBO
We need some presidential Deodorant.
College kids recruited to join Obama's 'army'
WorldNetDaily | August 25, 2009 | Chelsea Schilling
FR posted by RobinMasters
President Obama's army of citizen volunteers is now actively recruiting college students in states across the country to "build support for President Obama's agenda" – and earn college credit while advocating for "change." Obama for America, Obama's 2008 political campaign, merged with the Democratic National Committee in January and is now known as Organizing for America, or OFA.
The movement some call "Obama 2.0" is now recruiting students and offering to provide credits toward degree plans in exchange for their advocacy skills.
A message from OFA national volunteer coordinators announcing the recruitment campaign and internship opportunities has been posted on several websites and on Facebook.
"Students and young people were critical in building the movement that helped elect President Obama last year. By becoming a National Organizing Intern, you'll be part of the grassroots effort to make the change we fought for a reality in 2009 and beyond," it states.
"As an Organizing Intern, you'll work side by side with OFA staff and community leaders to help build support for President Obama's agenda. You'll learn core organizing principles that are crucial for any campaign and play an important role in building our organization in your state." (Excerpt) Read more at wnd.com ...
The Hell he will! Everyone read the Kenyan Parliaments notes today on the Kenyan Born President of the United States?
Do you have a link?
WTF!!!
http://www.parliament.go.ke/parliament/downloads/tenth_forth_sess/Hansard/RDRAFT25.03P.pdf
page 31
Is any of that Constitutional? One has to wonder if he’s crazy enough to do something(?) with all of this concentrated power. And, if anyone would or could stop him.
He cannot be considered C I C but he CAN and SHOULD be considered D I C (Dictator in Chief)!
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