Posted on 01/29/2014 2:21:21 PM PST by jazusamo
(CNSNews.com) – In reference to President Barack Obama’s pledge, during his State of the Union speech, to advance his agenda on climate change and the minimum wage by executive order, Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-Texas) said “executive orders are legal” and that he is “acting on behalf of the American people.”
At the U.S. Capitol on Tuesday evening, CNSNews.com asked Rep. Lee, “What about the Republicans criticizing the use of executive orders when it comes to climate change and minimum wage – his use of executive orders?”
Rep. Jackson Lee said, “As I was saying, [the address] was appealing to the needs of the American people. And, frankly, if the American people are crying out for relief - they’re crying out for unemployment insurance, or climate change or the Affordable Care Act and the president is mandated to do what he can on behalf of the American people – executive orders are legal and they will be addressed by the legal system if they are overreaching.”
Jackson Lee also said that the president “knows the Constitution.”
“Frankly, the president knows his confines,” Jackson Lee said. “He knows the Constitution.”
“We know what is right on behalf of the people of the United States,” she said. “And he has a right to use executive order.”
“My friends in the Congress who are Republicans always say as Democrats, ‘Let’s work together,’” Jackson Lee said. “If we can work together and pass legislation, the president has already said he will sign it.”
Jackson Lee further said Congress should put people back to work.
“Let’s create job legislation that puts people back to work,” she said. “Technology. Energy. Putting people back to work rather than criticizing work on behalf of the American people. Let’s come together and do work on behalf of the American people.”
We are surely wasting A LOT of money on the Congress, Senate, Judicial Branch, then. He might as well just dismiss all those people and start redisributing that money to his minions.
Yep, the US Flag. :-)
And just today a Republican bill that passed the house and was sent to to senate was thrown in the toilet by, guess who? Right Obama;s point man in the Senate Harry Reid. Obama lies as usual and so do his kool aid kids.
Well, let’s be kind. After all, she is a freed slave (according to her).
So if she said O knows the Constitution..it must be true and it puts me at ease. /s
Based on such high levels of support, Obama should immediately issue an Executive Order Banning Climate Change. Just tell the Climate to Knock It Off. Ms. Jackass-Lee would be thrilled to bring this news to her constituents.
Ends justify the means, right Moron?
oh yeah...I guess that is what Hitler did...uhm....
Republicans don’t believe in capitalism as strongly as Dems believe in socialism.
Last night was just more proof.
It’s remarkable though not surprising how a campaigners statements and promises can so drastically change after a liar is elected.
The funny thing is these people are screwing thier own, we know who they are but thier color jaded peeps still believe in them, ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ...............
And, frankly, if the American people are crying out for relief - they’re crying out for unemployment insurance, or climate change or the Affordable Care Act and the president is mandated to do what he can on behalf of the American people.
Well there in lies the problem. They are not crying out for either climate phony change action or Obamacare except they are crying out to stop Obamacare.......
“My friends in the Congress who are Republicans always say as Democrats, ‘Let’s work together,’”
That’s because any republican who is a friend of hers
IS a democrat.
“Today, we have two Vietnams, side by side, North and South, exchanging and working. We may not agree with all that North Vietnam is doing, but they are living in peace. I would look for a better human rights record for North Vietnam, but they are living side by side.”
Sheila Jackson Lee
How does that woman take care of her bodily functions?
She has “people” to do that...
Absolutely right, she's a leftist lib and a nutty one at that.
Do you mean Shirley Jackson-Lee, that great legal scholar? Well, that settles it, then.
“Absolutely right, she’s a leftist lib and a nutty one at that.”
Genuinely stupid, too - a trifecta of oxygen waste.
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