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Shift on executive power lets Obama bypass rivals
New York Times ^ | 4/23/2012 | Charlie Savage

Posted on 04/23/2012 7:16:30 AM PDT by IbJensen

— One Saturday last fall, President Obama interrupted a White House strategy meeting to raise an issue not on the agenda. He declared, aides recalled, that the administration needed to more aggressively use executive power to govern in the face of Congressional obstructionism.

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But increasingly in recent months, the administration has been seeking ways to act without Congress. Branding its unilateral efforts “We Can’t Wait,” a slogan that aides said Mr. Obama coined at that strategy meeting, the White House has rolled out dozens of new policies — on creating jobs for veterans, preventing drug shortages, raising fuel economy standards, curbing domestic violence and more.

Each time, Mr. Obama has emphasized the fact that he is bypassing lawmakers.

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Aides say many more such moves are coming. Not just a short-term shift in governing style and a re-election strategy, Mr. Obama’s increasingly assertive use of executive action could foreshadow pitched battles over the separation of powers in his second term, should he win and Republicans consolidate their power in Congress.

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Mr. Obama has issued signing statements claiming a right to bypass a handful of constraints — rejecting as unconstitutional Congress’s attempt to prevent him from having White House “czars” on certain issues, for example. But for the most part, Mr. Obama’s increased unilateralism in domestic policy has relied on a different form of executive power than the sort that had led to heated debates during his predecessor’s administration: Mr. Bush’s frequent assertion of a right to override statutes on matters like surveillance and torture.

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Crooked, lying, phony illegal occupant of the White Hut!

If Mickey Mouse were to run against this bozo, I'd vote for Mickey!

1 posted on 04/23/2012 7:16:40 AM PDT by IbJensen
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To: IbJensen
PROPERTY OF GEARY GRAPHIC AND DESIGN
2 posted on 04/23/2012 7:18:00 AM PDT by baddog 219
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To: IbJensen

Yeah, some Austrian Corporal had the same problem in Germany after the first war.


3 posted on 04/23/2012 7:20:03 AM PDT by Former Proud Canadian (Obamanomics-We don't need your stinking tar sands oil, we'll just grow algae.)
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To: IbJensen

It appears to me that the Obama Administration has appropriated the name of another group: “World Can’t Wait”, which is a front for the Revolutionary Communist Party.


4 posted on 04/23/2012 7:21:59 AM PDT by Parmenio
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To: IbJensen

Tyranny plain and simple.

Dictator.

And the stupid Congress had better start asserting it’s authority. They’ve deferred far too long to government agencies, czars, executive orders, task forces, and stupor committees.


5 posted on 04/23/2012 7:24:25 AM PDT by headstamp 2 (Liberalism: Carrying adolescent values and behavior into adult life.)
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To: IbJensen

Just think how much worse it would be under Romney.

No Romney, no way.


6 posted on 04/23/2012 7:24:56 AM PDT by brownsfan (Aldous Huxley and Mike Judge were right.)
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To: IbJensen

Obama is a fascist. Thats what most people do not realize. Obama has hidden it well, but history provides the tests and Obama is clearly a fascist.He will not go quietly into the night he so justly deserves.

Good read:

http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html


7 posted on 04/23/2012 7:25:28 AM PDT by Candor7 (Obama fascist info....http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html)
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To: baddog 219

I never thought I would live to see a piece of excrement like this inhabiting the White House.


8 posted on 04/23/2012 7:25:47 AM PDT by PetroniusMaximus
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To: Parmenio

EVERYTHING the left does “is a front for the Communist Party”.


9 posted on 04/23/2012 7:26:15 AM PDT by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter knows whom he's working for)
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To: Candor7

Even if defeated by Mickey Mouse Obozo will join Carter and Clinton in making as much michief as the CFR and the UN wishes!


10 posted on 04/23/2012 7:27:41 AM PDT by IbJensen (We now have a government requiring citizens prove they are insured but not that they are citizens.)
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To: IbJensen

More than ever, we see that Obama id THE enemy to defeat on 11/6.


11 posted on 04/23/2012 7:30:29 AM PDT by citizen (Obama blames:arab spring,banks,big drug/oil,bush,ceos,christians,coal,earthquake/tsumani,fnc,wall st)
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To: brownsfan

My god you are an Obot arent you. Sickening.


12 posted on 04/23/2012 7:33:27 AM PDT by MARKUSPRIME
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To: brownsfan
Just think how much worse it would be under Romney.

Really, it would be worse under someone that DOESN'T hate America than it is under someone who DOES?

We'd be better off today if [Fabian Socialist] HILLARY CLINTON was elected in '08 than this Marxist.

13 posted on 04/23/2012 7:34:41 AM PDT by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter knows whom he's working for)
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Figures the New Joke Times would laudingly, praisingly support Obama seizing power and becoming a dictator.

When the New Joke Times finally dies, I will celebrate.

14 posted on 04/23/2012 7:35:41 AM PDT by Lazamataz (Shut up and drill.)
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To: IbJensen
OBAMA CANT WAIT, OBAMA CAN'T WAIT
15 posted on 04/23/2012 7:35:50 AM PDT by FrankR
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To: IbJensen

The slave owner(make no doubt about it—obama DOES OWN the black vote) who would be king simply can’t help himself. (since there is no one in the country that has the guts to stop him)


16 posted on 04/23/2012 7:37:21 AM PDT by freeangel ( (free speech is only good until someone else doesn't like it)
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To: brownsfan

“Just think how much worse it would be under Romney.”

Really?? You think it would be much worse with Romney as POTUS than Owebama? I am no fan of Romney’s, but you are out of your freaking mind!


18 posted on 04/23/2012 7:43:11 AM PDT by Batman11 (Obama's poll numbers are so low the Kenyans are claiming he was born in the USA!)
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To: MrB

“Really, it would be worse under someone that DOESN’T hate America than it is under someone who DOES?”

Yes, the only way to teach the GOPe a lesson is to let Obama do his worst because they shoved a liberal down our throat.


19 posted on 04/23/2012 7:45:19 AM PDT by brownsfan (Aldous Huxley and Mike Judge were right.)
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To: IbJensen

Obama will be much worse than Clinton or Carter.

Obama is already responsible for the unecessary deaths of thousands of people in Kenya and Libya, and not a soul in the media will call him on it.

And Obama will continue to cause death and destruction in the future if allowed. IMHO Obama is a thug who deserves nothing more than a trial at the International Criminal Court iof the Hague.


20 posted on 04/23/2012 7:47:18 AM PDT by Candor7 (Obama fascist info....http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html)
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