Posted on 05/17/2011 2:21:54 PM PDT by mdittmar
Imagine, for one second, if GW Bush did that. The Democrats and media would have gone CRAZY.
I am so disgusted by all of this.
To further twist the knife, Biden has been said to be "agreeable" to a proposal to steal 5% of federal workers salaries, to put into the Federal pension fund, so that Obama and Geither can raid it some more.
Now, tell me again - what if GW Bush did that?!
The word is that he might be able to keep borrowing indefinitely because there is no “OR ELSE” in the section of the law that would apply to borrowing beyond the debt limit.
Too bad people have time to post in the usual 1000 page dancing with the stars thread and not important issues such as this.
How about You SHALL stop spending and borrowing.
The War Powers Act only comes into play when there is a "national emergency created by attack upon the United States, its territories or possessions, or its armed forces." There has never been any contention that this requirement was met in the U.S. attack on Libya. The justification was that the attack was for "humanitarian" reasons. Therefore Obama never had authority to get the U.S. involved in the war in Libya, not for 30 days, not for one minute.
The War Powers Act has been simply ignored, both by Obama and the liberals as well as the weak, effete, Republican elite who are our congressional "leaders".
“Federal employee unions” ... crickets...
membership (federal employees) ... crickets...
Do they know that their fat paychecks are coming from a house of cards ?
Media (snoring)...
If our newly elected Congress cedes it power here it is over.
Tim better watch behind him, or the door might hit him from behind someday when he’s on his way out. But seriously, how hard do some of these people work? They often don’t sound all that scripted, like they used to. It’s as if...
Well, it’s rediculously bad orchestration, and it’s so bad that even a conservative independent like myself feels they should do mock stage performances in the White House because they seriously just cannot act.
They already did. The War Powers Act specifically prohibited Obama from attacking Libya without congressional approval. Obama did it anyway and Congress did nothing. The Imperial Presidency is already a reality and "leaders", like Crybaby Boehner, kneel at his feet.
http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/GeithnerRema
Secretary Geithner spoke about the state of the U.S. economy and Obama administration efforts to address the national debt. In his remarks he called for bipartisan cooperation of the debt. He also spoke about the financial .. SNIP
Harvard Club on C-Span, yesterday Tim Geithner spoke for an hour about his smoke and mirror solutions.
Geithner responded to an audience member.
Must see Geithner answers question from audience member, Eric Alterman (who wrote a book), at 52:18 (of 1:03.18)
Other threads today discussing Geithner’s appearance:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2721322/posts?q=1&;page=1#1
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2721210/posts
That is not a bright man. He has never worked in finance — a government toady. An ahole, imo, and his nose grows more every time I see him. Nice hair, though.
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