Defiant Obama: I will use my power

The Politico ^ | November 14, 2014 | Josh Gerstein

[2ndDivisionVet]

YANGON, Myanmar — President Barack Obama on Friday defended his plans to use executive power to bypass Congress, signaling that he’s determined to move on issues like immigration and climate change, especially when lawmakers have failed to act.

“They have the ability to fix the system. What they don’t have is the ability to do is expect me to stand by with a broken system in perpetuity,” Obama said on immigration reform at a joint news conference here with Myanmar dissident leader Aung San Suu Kyi. “It’s way overdue. We’ve been talking about it for 10 years now and it’s been consistently stalled.”

Obama said he’s determined to grant relief to illegal immigrants in the coming weeks if Congress doesn’t produce a bill first.

“I gave the House over a year to at least give a vote on the Senate bill. They failed to do so,” the president said. “I indicated to Speaker Boehner several months ago that if Congress failed to act, I would use all lawful authority that I possess … That’s going to happen. And that’s going to happen before the end of the year.”

Obama also suggested that the deal he cut with China to reduce greenhouse gas emissions was proper because he has to take into account longer-term interests than do lawmakers who have resisted such actions....

[Political Junkie Too]

...when lawmakers have failed to act.

They haven't failed to act.

They are actively failing to support you.

If Obama says it's okay to refuse to enforce immigration laws, then it should be okay for Congress to refuse to pass bills, right?

Refusing to pass a bill is not failing to act.

-PJ

[Gen.Blather]

“L’État, c’est moi” (”I am the state”)

[jsanders2001]

> and give him a good spanking...: )
Only Reggie gets to do that.

Must...
Resist..
Urge...
To...
Comment...

; )

[CivilWarBrewing]

Barry reaches out to Mexicans, Central Americans, Muslims at GITMO, gays, lesbians, Ebola patients and DESERTERS (Bergdahl).. His message to Mainstream America????: F*** YOU!!!!

[Lazamataz]

Executive Orders are easy for Congress to nullify.

Obama's got nothing.

[Buckeye McFrog]

“...so I came here to Myanmar to see how you accomplished dictators really do it...”

[E. Pluribus Unum]

If the founders intended for the President to have the power to create any legislation he desired, why did they bother with creating a legislative branch?

[backwoods-engineer]

It’s not your power unless the Constitution grants it to you.

We're kind of past that point. The Constitution was a mere hologram of liberty, as Kenneth Royce put it. It did not in fact protect us from the depredations of government. It is time for something else. I don't know what will do the trick. Those smarter than me will have to say what, but I can see that voting and screaming "The Constitution!" all the time doesn't work.

[mad_as_he$$]

Lyrics for Hail to the King By Avenged Sevenfold
Watch your tongue or have it cut from your head
Save your life by keeping whispers unsaid
Children roam the streets now orphans of war
Bodies hanging in the streets to adore
Royal flames will carve the path in chaos
Bringing daylight to the night
Death is riding in the town with armor
Because thail take all your rights
Hail to the king, hail to the one
Kneel to the crown, stand in the sun
Hail to the king (hail, hail, hail, the king)
Blood is spilled while holding keys to the throne
Born again, but it’s too late to atone
No mercy from the edge of the blade
Thail’ll escape and learn the price to be paid
Let the water throw it’s shades of red now
Arrows black out all the light
Death is rotting in the town with armor
Thail’ve come to grant you your rights
Hail to the king, hail to the one
Kneel to the crown, stand in the sun
Hail to the king (hail, hail, hail, the king)
There’s a taste of fear (hail, hail, hail)
When the henchmen call (hail, hail, hail)
Iron fist to tame them (hail, hail, hail)
Iron fist to claim it all (hail, hail, hail)
Hail to the king, hail to the one
Kneel to the crown, stand in the sun
Hail to the king, hail to the one
Kneel to the crown, stand in the sun
Hail to the king (hail, hail, hail)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DelhLppPSxY

[GeronL]

Dictatorship has arrived.

[right way right]

Sounds like he has been hanging around the Chinese.
“my power” He’s nuts.

[Tula Git]

"I will use my power"

Close

I will Abuse my power

[fivecatsandadog]

“We’ve been talking about it for 10 years now”

In his mind, he’s ALWAYS been king.

[Lazamataz]

Aw crap.

Congress can also revoke a presidential executive order by passing a bill by a veto-proof (2/3 vote) majority. For example, in 2003 Congress unsuccessfully attempted to revoke President Bush’s Executive Order 13233 , which had rescinded Executive Order 12667 (Reagan). The bill, HR 5073 , did not pass.

We’ve got nothing.

[lowbridge]

Thats right. Go ahead. Give us another 2014 in 2016.

[GeronL]

yup

“My Power”

He claims to have power the Constitution does not give him, the Congress had better stop him or we have a defacto dictatorship.

[GeronL]

yes he is

But if Congress does not stop him, he will be the defacto ruler of America

[onedoug]

“Who do he think he am, anyhow? Andy “By God” Jackson?!

[Amendment10]

" — unless someone stops him."

I suspect that the soon-to-be RINO-controlled Congress wants it to remain a secret that Congress can repeal executive orders. Congress’s power to do so is evidenced by a clipping recently posted by 11th_VA which is shown below.

I’m not sure how “repealing” a constitutionally indefensible executive order works. Maybe Congress makes a bill to repeal the E.O., and then when the president vetoes it Congress overturns the veto with 2/3 vote of each House. Insights welcome.

Also, maybe RINO-controlled Congress can overturn E.O.s that promoted the constitutionally unprotected gay agenda and likewise constitutionally indefensible federal land grabs, coal mining restrictions, EPA regulations, water rights issues, etc..

[molson209]

Obama just found out he was never ever Relevant