Posted on 04/15/2011 7:32:08 PM PDT by Qbert
In a statement issued Friday night, President Obama took issue with some provisions in the budget bill – and in one case simply says he will not abide by it.
Last week the White House and congressional Democrats and Republicans were involved in intense negotiations over not only the size of the budget for the remainder of the FY2011 budget, and spending cuts within that budget, but also several GOP “riders,” or policy provisions attached to the bill.
One rider – Section 2262 -- de-funds certain White House adviser positions – or “czars.” The president in his signing statement declares that he will not abide by it.
“The President has well-established authority to supervise and oversee the executive branch, and to obtain advice in furtherance of this supervisory authority,” he wrote. “The President also has the prerogative to obtain advice that will assist him in carrying out his constitutional responsibilities, and do so not only from executive branch officials and employees outside the White House, but also from advisers within it. Legislative efforts that significantly impede the President's ability to exercise his supervisory and coordinating authorities or to obtain the views of the appropriate senior advisers violate the separation of powers by undermining the President's ability to exercise his constitutional responsibilities and take care that the laws be faithfully executed.”
Therefore, the president wrote, “the executive branch will construe section 2262 not to abrogate these Presidential prerogatives.”
In other words: we know what you wanted that provision to do, but we don’t think it’s constitutional, so we will interpret it differently than the way you meant it.
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Congrats Boehner for trusting OBama
Line item veto, eh?
The Presidential Oath of Office includes the words “faithfully execute the laws of the United States”. I guess he had his fingers crossed.
Wasn’t it just a few days ago that he was hailing his “newfound understanding” of Obama after meeting with him?
The “HR” department should delete the “czars”
and ensure they are no longer paid per the
House bill. Attempts to pay them should draw
immediate arrest and charges for fraudulent
disbursement of federal government funds.
Let the playboy write them a personal check.
What? Obama acting as if he can be SCOTUS as well as POTUS, when he’s not eligible to be either?
Who’da thunk it - now that he’s been doing it on a regular basis for the last 2+ years?
He has no kommissars if there are no funds to pay them.
Even if they felt there were grounds, the Repubs would never do anything about it, unfortunately. They didn’t even have the guts to defund NPR- they would never do something this confrontational.
And of course Obama knows this, so he’ll keep poking them in the eyes...
The Audacity of Hubris.
Narcissits are above the law, they make their own!
The President has every right to have advisors. The Congress has every right to prohibit the use of tax dollars to pay for them.
If Obama spends a dime of taxpayer dollars on an advisor that the congress has explicitly defunded, he is stealing.
Remember, he did flub his oath and had to retake it. A foreshadowing of his insincerity?
Every time he gives a speech lately, his eyes loll around and he has a hint of slurred speech. I swear he is either hitting the bottle or the pipe.
Thats our Skinny Hugo...I wouldn’t expect anything less.
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