Posted on 01/16/2014 3:06:35 PM PST by jazusamo
This week, once again, we heard President Obama defiantly pronounce that he has no intention of letting a little thing like constitutional checks and balances get in his way and interrupt his royal prerogative.
"We are not just going to be waiting for legislation in order to make sure that we're providing Americans the kind of help that they need," said Obama. "I've got a pen, and I've got a phone."
What other president has ever talked like this?
I thought Democrats had an aversion to "unilateral" executive action. Wasn't one of their pet peeves against President George W. Bush that he acted unilaterally in attacking Iraq? Never mind that this was a complete fabrication, in that Bush assembled the largest coalition of nations he could to join us in the effort.
Oh, this is different, you say, because Bush was allegedly acting unilaterally on the international stage? Well, apart from the fact that he wasn't, why should that bother liberals more than a president's acting unilaterally on domestic issues?
I'll tell you why: Liberals are more concerned about whether leftist foreign governments like us than they are about whether a president is acting within the scope of his constitutional authority.
In Bush's case, even if the false allegations that he was "going it alone" had been true, he secured a joint resolution of Congress before commencing "shock and awe."
Before contrasting Bush's actions on foreign policy with Obama's on domestic policy, let's recall how Obama operated in a comparable foreign policy situation. When he decided — unilaterally — to take military action in Libya, he did not even bother to consult Congress, much less get its approval, before initiating his intervention...
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Congress does nothing about it.
Republicans do nothing about it.
The word is: COMPLICITY.
Amen...If we had a competent Speaker it might be different.
Why not? Repubs huff and puff but do nothing. You can be sure if it was a Repub president doing these things, a Dem congress would be starting the impeachment process.
He’s too busy plotting Amnesty to be bothered.
“I’ve got a pen, and I’ve got a phone.”
This from a Harvard guy, “I’ve GOT”.
>> This from a Harvard guy
So he claims.
Did anyone really expect anything but fawning compliance from the republican “leadership”? They just want to get to play committee chairman for a few years and rake in the swag while the country continues down the road to hell. Putting party above country is not just a rat problem.
I got shoes—— you got shoes
All Gods chillens got shues
Let see him walk right out of DC !
I got shoes—— you got shoes
All Gods chillens got shues
Let see him walk right out of DC !
Or ride out in the back of a white Ford Bronco ?
FUNNY! Love the narrative running across the bottom
Recall that Bukharin described Stalin as “Genghis Khan with a telephone.” Uncle Joe’s disciple Barry O’Hussein appears cut from the same cloth.
President Hugo Chavez?
Amen to that!
That’s funny, I’d rather see Hussein tarred, feathered and run out on a rail. :-)
Exactly right. Everyone who complains about Obuttwipe and his dictatorship is dishonest unless they follow it up with, "... and the Republicans let/aid/abet him."
Greta just had rand Paul discussing what Gould be done. -— using the third branch ( 3 areas of suits named) to check him. It takes time— which 0 knows very well
No mention of impeachment
Time to close the purse. The republicans should have denied him the last debt ceiling increase. Now they are too weak to deny him the next, and the election looms.
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