Activists urge Obama to go rogue, sidestep Congress

The Washington Times ^ | December 5, 2013 | Stephan Dinan

[Din Maker]

President Obama’s repeated use of presidential powers is causing a tough problem — his own supporters now expect him to use it to achieve everything they want. From immigration to the minimum wage, congressional Democrats and liberal activists this week urged Mr. Obama to declare an end run around Capitol Hill, assert executive authority and make as much progress as he can on the expansive agenda he laid out for his second term

A day after Mr. Obama denounced income inequality, progressive lawmakers said he should take the lead by issuing an executive order requiring all federal contractors to pay workers more than the minimum wage. A dozen lawmakers and immigration activists held a news conference outside the Capitol on Thursday asking him to halt all deportations as a down payment on an eventual immigration bill. “To not use his executive authority is not just unstrategic; it is cruel,” said Tania Unzueta, a strategist with the National Day Laborer Organizing Network. On immigration, Mr. Obama raised expectations when, after years of denying he had such powers, he issued a policy last year saying he no longer would deport young illegal immigrants, the “Dreamers” who were brought to the U.S. as minors by their parents and are considered the most sympathetic cases. He said he was using prosecutorial discretion. More than two dozen House Democrats have written a letter to Mr. Obama saying he can expand that authority to encompass nearly all 11 million illegal immigrants.

[Renegade]

Looks like a good reason for armed revolution if he does!

[SW6906]

BRAVO!! Your post is spot-on excellence.

[apillar]

Activists urge Obama to go rogue, sidestep Congress go dictator, sidestep Constitution.

There, fixed it.

[Awgie]

There is no doubt that as Obama is steadily weakened by the ObamaCare Boondogle, he will go Rogue, acting Independently outside the Constitution, weilding power to effect Policy and Intimidate Opposition.

In other words he will go Blatantly Lawless.

Obama will welcome Impeachment Proceedings and and Legal Battles involving Constitutional Authority. They will be framed as personal attacks against him, while changing the subject from ObamaCare.

Because of his increasingly Lawless Actions, There will be Impeachment Proceedings, but Obama will remain in office to the end of his term, due to lack will by Congress.

Chaos and Crisis are his calling cards. There is nothing standing in his way and no one to restrain him. His next move will be acting unilaterally on a host of issues that reinforce his base, while promoting his Utopian Marxist Agenda.

Things are going to get much much worse very quickly. A Sweeping Tidal Wave of Government Regulation and edicts, combined with a Constitutional Crisis and Impeachment Proceedings.

[redfreedom]

Very well stated

[VideoPaul]

Exactly how would this be a change from the past five years?

[Din Maker]

Obama is LAW-LESS because the Republican leaders are BALL-LESS!!!
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Love it!

[Din Maker]

OUR ACTIVISTS URGE IMPEACHMENT AND REMOVAL FROM OFFICE.
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Come on LLS. With Harry Reid and the Democrat controlled Senate, you know that would never, never happen.

[Din Maker]

Obama’s finished ...............
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Well, we said the same thing in 2010 when he shoved ObamaCare down our throats. He, like Bill Clinton, will NEVER be finished politically. He has his liberal lemmings who would follow him over a cliff.

[Din Maker]

Tsk, tsk, tsk, poor Boobamba can’t understand why America is up in arms.
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“...up in arms”???? When did that happen? I see and hear a lot of people sitting around playing “Ain’t it awful” but, no one is doing anything about it.

[Din Maker]

We have used the soap box-we have used the ballet box- maybe it’s time for the ammo box.
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You go boy!

[Din Maker]

Thanks for the warning. (I mean that sincerely.)

[LibLieSlayer]

We should be seeing op ed pieces stating the obvious but they are all cowards.

[LibLieSlayer]

It doesn’t matter... doing the right thing would bring attention to obama’s treason and when Nixon’s trouble started, there was no chance of impeachment at all... until public opinion forced the threat to remove him from office.

[Ann Archy]

geesh..... if what you write is TRUE, we are TOTALLY lost......and almost ALL you said is true, at least partially EXCEPT Bernie Sanders!! He is a DEMOCRAT thru and thru.

One thing you FORGOT to state is that ALL of the DEMOCRATS are VILE and EVIL LIARS!!!!

[PATRIOT1876]

Won’t they whine and cry when a Republican President abuses his power.

We can just say “OUR TURN!”

[Lee'sGhost]

These people have no idea what they are asking for. They won’t like it in the end.

[Din Maker]

Won’t they whine and cry when a Republican President abuses his power.

We can just say “OUR TURN!”
________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________Sadly, I wonder if that day will ever come again with things the way they are now. We are a “European-style Socialist Nation”.

[PATRIOT1876]

*We are a “European-style Socialist Nation”.*

Soon we will all be required to eat a Mentos every day!

[C.O. Correspondence]

You are not the only one that feels that way. No leaders are volunteering and the situation isn’t getting any better. Welcome to Free Republic, you should find people of like mind here.