In the meantime, cause of fire still unknown
Fine with me he doesn’t come to Texas. He’d only get in the way.
There are no good golf courses in the area.
It’s not about the people in West, it’s about Obama and his agenda. If he can’t use the tragedy to push his agenda, he won’t waste his time. It’s probably best for the community not to be used like the people in Newtown.
Watched the reports live via internet links from here.
As far as the larger “media that be” is concerned, a major tragedy in Texas wasn’t “important” enough last week. Could it be a political/regional bias? Naw, couldn’t be...
I don’t blame him. Those kind of folks don’t take kindly to an enemy of the U.S. setting foot on their land.
Just fine with us STAY AWAY...
I truly wish that the POTUS would cut that nonsense out.
Because the presidents have taken on so many authorities not authorized them by the constitution, for them to waste their time visiting disasters, throwing out baseballs, attending shopping center openings, etc., is almost criminal.
Mind you, their doing such things is not by themselves bad. But doing them when they have *work* to do is horrible.
The solution is to strip much of the unconstitutional authority from the office of the president. Here’s a basic list of where to start.
1) Ask congress to restore the presidential proclamation to being solely for honorarium mentions, not seizing for the federal government endless amounts of state lands. Oh, and yes, returning the vast majority of these takings to the states as *their* property.
2) Discontinue the extremely unconstitutional practices of presidential signing statements, executive orders that in effect create new laws, appointments not approved by the US senate as “Czars”, violations of the War Powers Act and the Posse Comitatus Act. Ask for congress to create a strict definition of what executive communications can be protected via executive privilege.
3) Ask congress to create permanent committees that can fire any federal employee for misconduct, even if they have a protected government service status. Request that these committees hold hearings for impeachment of cabinet officers when they are petitioned to do so by majority votes of the top committees. Finally that the committees are permanent committees for referrals of contempt of congress.
(Update) Obama to Attend Memorial in West, Texas Just announced by Jay Carney.