Posted on 01/13/2012 6:14:08 AM PST by DJ MacWoW
WASHINGTON (AP) - President Barack Obama will ask Congress on Friday for greater power to shrink the federal government, and his first idea is merging six sprawling trade and commerce agencies whose overlapping programs can be baffling to businesses, a senior administration official told The Associated Press.
Obama will call on Congress to give him a type of reorganizational power last held by a president when Ronald Reagan was in office. The Obama version would be a so-called consolidation authority allowing him to propose mergers that promise to save money and help consumers. The deal would entitle him to an up-or-down vote from Congress in 90 days.
It would be up to lawmakers, therefore, to first grant Obama this fast-track authority and then decide whether to approve any of his specific ideas.
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This will end up being more of McConnell and Boehner playing defense in response to obama’s actions. Barry just keeps leading them by nose from one crisis to the next. The GOP in Congress will continue backpedaling toward Nov. 2012. What disgusting cowards in the GOP “leadership”.
It’s a dictatorship in the making. Will our “representatives” agree to this simply because the name Ronald Reagan has been invoked?
I actually expect them to.
Completely appropriate! Good one!
” - - - President Barack Obama will ask Congress on Friday for greater power - - - “
Why is this news? Is this not more of the hoepey-dopey “change” that ol’ “You Lie” Obama has always done? Let us examine THE OBAMANATION Record:
Step # 1: REGULATE (Multiple stabs in the back to wound and weaken the enemy).
Step # 2: CONTROL (Subdue the enemy, and hold him to the ground until all movement has stopped, except for fearful breathing, of course).
Step # 3. DESTROY (EAT YOUR ENEMY ALIVE WHILE HE SCREAMS IN TERROR).
Thanks to Dottering Dodd, Sub-Prime Barney and Dangerous Durbin, REGULATE is now the law of the land. Step # 1 is complete.
Bolshevik Chairman Obama is now advancing to increase his lying power to control. Since he has gone public with his plan to “consolidate,” he probably has already done so.
The Bipartisan Cave-In Twins, (Son-of-a-Mitch McConnell and This-time-I-really-really-REALLY-won’t-Cave-in-again Boehner), are just a minor distraction for Princess Nancy, Reid-in-the-wind, and the MSM cheering squad who own the mighty THE COURT OF PUBLIC OPINION.
BTW, who has more power to destroy, THE COURT OF PUBLIC OPINION, or THE NINE SUPREMES?
BTW, BTW, judging from “You Lie’s” track record as the most incompetent, inexperienced occupant of the White House, I’d say Bolshevik Chairman Obama trumps, (no pun intended), them both!
BTW, BTW, BTW, sorry I forgot to mention the Obama regression into Step # 3. So here is a future enactment of the DESTROY event:
“Ladies and Gentlemen, - - -, quiet please - - -. Thank you. WELCOME to the now completed OBAMANATION!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Thank you for the Narcissist thundering applause that I seem to need more than that other dictators, except perhaps a certain family in our sister country of North Korea.
May I have your attention pleeeeeeeease - - - - ? For the Debtocrats, please begin to move to my left, (( that is not really possible)), toward the feasting table on the first Tuesday in November.
Thank Youuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu! No applause, please, as I still have to play this silly Campaign game in my marchin’ shoes!
Thank you anyway. No - - - . Please stop. Your are to kind. Please stop applauding. Folks, I gotta tell yuh, if you don’t stop, I’m going to start blushing!
Thank you all for voting so early and so often for me in the various former States near your Government financed housing structures. Thank you, thank you. Thank you, so much.
Everybody else please get in the “Feast Food to be Served Line” to my very far right.
You know who you are by the Star sewn on your clothing, which was cut from the now retired American Flags by Acorn Volunteers. The OWS from across the many Obamavilles here in the new USSA, have, since the Republican Convention in Tampa, been tearing down these hideous reminders of wrong track America and have brought the flags to us here in The District of Corruption. Big hand everybody! Thank you!!!
Stop! The head of the line MUST be reserved for the failed Republican Nominee for my Office of Complete Dictatorship. Thank you.
No - - - McConnell and Boenher!!!!! No sneaking into the back of the line! After all, I couldn’t have won this election without your magnificent Bipartisan Cave-Ins!
That’s it, stand right behind the JPM’s Jamie Dimon. Picture time - - - say cheese!”
Wonder how many Van Jones types would lead departments?.
There’s a thought. “Merging” agencies would mean new heads appointed but the Marxist.
I was only asking for a good faith start, not a solution. Of course for a solution, he would have to take Congress with him.
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