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Obama Is Making Plans to Use Executive Power for Action on Several Fronts
nytimes.com ^ | Feb. 12, 2010 | PETER BAKER

Posted on 02/12/2010 7:50:23 PM PST by Free ThinkerNY

WASHINGTON — With much of his legislative agenda stalled in Congress, President Obama and his team are preparing an array of actions using his executive power to advance energy, environmental, fiscal and other domestic policy priorities.

Mr. Obama has not given up hope of progress on Capitol Hill, aides said, and has scheduled a session with Republican leaders on health care later this month. But in the aftermath of a special election in Massachusetts that cost Democrats unilateral control of the Senate, the White House is getting ready to act on its own in the face of partisan gridlock heading into the midterm campaign.

“We are reviewing a list of presidential executive orders and directives to get the job done across a front of issues,” said Rahm Emanuel, the White House chief of staff.

Any president has vast authority to influence policy even without legislation, through executive orders, agency rule-making and administrative fiat. And Mr. Obama’s success this week in pressuring the Senate to confirm 27 nominations by threatening to use his recess appointment power demonstrated that executive authority can also be leveraged to force action by Congress.

Mr. Obama has already decided to create a bipartisan budget commission under his own authority after Congress refused to do so. His administration has signaled that it plans to use its discretion to soften enforcement of the ban on openly gay men and lesbians serving in the military, even as Congress considers repealing the law. And the Environmental Protection Agency is moving forward with possible regulations on heat-trapping gases blamed for climate change, while a bill to cap such emissions languishes in the Senate.

In an effort to demonstrate forward momentum, the White House is also drawing more attention to the sorts of actions taken regularly by cabinet departments without much fanfare.

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TOPICS: Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: agenda; bho44; bhoeo; executiveorders; healthcare; marxistoccupier; obama; obamacare; powergrab
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To: STARWISE

When is the straw that breaks the camel’s back gonna happen? The Kenyan NEVER should’ve been elected.


61 posted on 02/12/2010 8:37:03 PM PST by azishot (J.D. Hayworth...U.S. Senator FOR Arizona)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

The inner dictator is coming out of Obama time to rule by decree.


62 posted on 02/12/2010 8:40:15 PM PST by Red Steel
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Effing drunk with power. His fall is going to be epic, I just hope it doesn’t cost us too much.


63 posted on 02/12/2010 8:40:47 PM PST by ThunderSleeps (obama out now! I'll keep my money, my guns, and my freedom - you can keep the change.)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

“the White House is getting ready to act on its own in the face of partisan gridlock “

“With much of his legislative agenda stalled in Congress, President Obama and his team are preparing an array of actions using his executive power to advance”

Let’s see, they have commanding numerical majorities; and they now have to act unilaterally? Huh???
Maybe “we are the ones we have been waiting for”; means something a bit different.


64 posted on 02/12/2010 8:41:08 PM PST by HereInTheHeartland (The End of an Error - 01/20/2013)
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To: All
Executive Orders by Fiat = Tyranny = High Crimes and Misdemeanors = Impeachment

Let's get on with it.

65 posted on 02/12/2010 8:42:10 PM PST by Art in Idaho
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To: onyx
this can violate the US Constitution in a number of ways.

We must realize that BO could care less if he violates the Constitution. In fact he seems determined to find ways of getting around it.

66 posted on 02/12/2010 8:42:37 PM PST by hoosiermama (ONLY DEAD FISH GO WITH THE FLOW.......I am swimming with Sarahcudah! Sarah has read the tealeaves.)
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To: Jim Robinson; Sub-Driver; TornadoAlley3; Just A Nobody; SandRat

BUMP!!!


67 posted on 02/12/2010 8:43:05 PM PST by STARWISE (They (LIBS-STILL) think of this WOT as Bush's war, not America's war- Richard Miniter)
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To: ThunderSleeps

“His fall is going to be epic, I just hope it doesn’t cost us too much.”

I liked the Obama (as Nero) fiddled while Rome burned graphic that someone put together.


68 posted on 02/12/2010 8:43:14 PM PST by HereInTheHeartland (The End of an Error - 01/20/2013)
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To: jveritas

HE thinks he’s the KING. I’m expecting him to begin using the royal “we” any time now.


69 posted on 02/12/2010 8:46:30 PM PST by Ronin
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To: Candor7

obama is on jihad and is now searching for martyrdom. Beware this man...a believer in his heart. Someone gives the orders. He can do this and become a sacrifice to the cause, or he can refuse to do this and be dishonored and dead with no hope of heaven and virgins and stuff..


70 posted on 02/12/2010 8:52:51 PM PST by MestaMachine (http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2426869/posts SUPPORT RINO FREE AMERICA)
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To: OrangeHoof

Right now most any thing he does is offensive. Since the gains the Republicans will make will most likely come at the expense of Blue Dog Dems, the Bernie Sanders wing of the Democrat party will dig in their heels.


71 posted on 02/12/2010 8:53:39 PM PST by bleach (Sarah, Wake me in 2012)
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To: HereInTheHeartland
Are Executive Orders by Fiat the First Shot across the Bow? Don't even think about it. . .


72 posted on 02/12/2010 8:54:01 PM PST by Art in Idaho
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To: Art in Idaho

The arguments against impeaching Obama because it didn’t work with Clinton is like not prosecuting murder because O.J. got off.


73 posted on 02/12/2010 8:57:04 PM PST by SpaceBar
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To: SpaceBar

The Congress we have today is big majority dems, the House led by Pelosi would never it.


74 posted on 02/12/2010 9:00:51 PM PST by BARLF
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To: Free ThinkerNY

If election-nervous Congress doesn’t fund whatever he does, how effective will his orders be?


75 posted on 02/12/2010 9:04:46 PM PST by skr (May God confound the enemy)
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To: o_zarkman44
The White House is unraveling exponentially. The events of the last year, especially the last month, are wearing on Obama. . You can see it in his face, hear it in his voice. . The Narcissistic Rage is fomenting and imho our country is in danger from within. Who is Obama and What is he going to do as things spiral out of control? Daily more and more people understand his background, his history, his Marxist mentors, his communist mole background. The internet is viral with this information. The more it spreads the more he spirals downwards. Do you hear that Black Hole sucking sound yet? Event horizon closing fast. . .
76 posted on 02/12/2010 9:04:52 PM PST by Art in Idaho
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To: Free ThinkerNY

So, if he can’t persuade people to do what he wants, he’ll force it on us instead.

Got it......


77 posted on 02/12/2010 9:13:59 PM PST by metmom (Welfare was never meant to be a career choice.)
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To: Art in Idaho
So, what can we expect from all his rage?

There is a plan, right?

78 posted on 02/12/2010 9:17:03 PM PST by BARLF
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To: Ditto

Hi, old FRiend.

“Stroke of the pen, law of the land. Kinda’ cool’.” [Paul Begala during Clinton administration.]

Scientists Considered Pouring Soot Over the Arctic in the 1970s to [prevent manmade ice age]
http://info-wars.org/2009/12/19/scientists-considered-pouring-soot-over-the-arctic-in-the-1970s-to-help-melt-the-ice-%E2%80%93-in-order-to-prevent-another-ice-age


79 posted on 02/12/2010 9:20:01 PM PST by Arthur Wildfire! March (2010 HOUSE RACES! Help everyone get the goods on their House Rats. See my profile.)
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To: small voice in the wilderness
At least we KNEW where his head was...

Forgive me, but somehow that line immediately brought Monica to mind.

80 posted on 02/12/2010 9:23:34 PM PST by ProtectOurFreedom
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