Posted on 07/01/2014 9:36:05 AM PDT by jazusamo
President Obama on Tuesday asked his Cabinet to help him find more ways to use his executive powers.
“You’ve already seen the power of some of our executive actions making a real difference for ordinary families,” Obama said at a White House meting. “We’re going to have to be creative about how we can make real progress.”
The president is increasingly relying on executive orders and regulatory moves to move his agenda, despite opposition from House Republicans, who have threatened to sue him over his executive actions, and the Supreme Court, which ruled last week that Obama’s recess appointments were unconstitutional. The president has raised the minimum wage for federal contractors, and is using regulatory actions to impose tough new carbon emission limits on power plants.
Obama has seen his legislative agenda grind to a halt with Congress, and on Monday said he would take executive action to move forward on immigration reform, one of his top second-term priorities.
He cast his actions as a response to voters who elected him in 20112.
“The people who sent us here, they just don’t feel as if anybody is fighting for them or working them,” he said. “We’re not always going to be able to get things through Congress…but we sure as heck can make sure that the folks back home know that we are pushing their agenda and that we’re working hard on their behalf.”
The White House has looked to paint congressional Republicans as obstinate at every turn in recent days, in hopes of pinning national frustration with Washington on the GOP ahead of the midterm elections.
Republicans have sought to paint Obama as abusing his powers. On Monday, they heralded the Supreme Court’s decision against the ObamaCare contraception mandate as a win for religious liberty and a defeat for the president.
Separately, Obama said he would ask his Cabinet members to help improve customer service across government agencies, and said he would spend the coming months accentuating the positive about government services.
“I want to make sure that we emphasize not what we can’t do, but what we can do in the coming months,” Obama said.
Impeach. Jail. Watch the CNN specials. Repeat with Holder, Jarrett, Biden, Pelosi, Reid, etc.
“we sure as heck can make sure that the folks back home know that we are pushing their agenda and that we’re working hard on their behalf.”
wpuld that be the folks in KENYA????
Thought Obeyme was an all knowing “Constitutional Lawyer.” Why does he need to consult his cabinet?
The next 2.5 years look very dangerous to me.
why am I having flash backs to Henry VIII ?
Gawd, I wish we had clinton again. Democrats are scary but this guy is just over the top.
In BO's mind welfare lay-abouts and illegal immigrants are "ordinary" families.
Creative? Maybe he’ll wear a dress to his next criminal order signing.
I agree.
I still maintain that Mullah Obama will create or take advantage of some crisis in the next 2.5 years and, by executive order, say that the presidential elections are off as this is not the time to change leadership in time of crisis,
I couldn’t agree more, Clinton was not an anti-American like this criminal.
BINGO.
IMPEACH the bastard!!
Careful what you wish for...
Translation:
Help me think up new ways to circumvent the Constitution.
> Impeach. Jail. Watch the CNN specials. Repeat with Holder, Jarrett, Biden, Pelosi, Reid, etc.
x 10. Hey MSM you want a really juicy story to chew on and raise your ratings through the roof higher than at any other time in history? You’ll get three firsts...The impeachment of the first black president in U.S. history, the impeachment of the worst president in history bar none, and the impeachment of the first foreign invader Manchurian Candidate who fooled the dumber half of the U.S. population for 6 years. Hey it can’t get any juicier than that! Nixon is owed an apology big time...
He definitely seems to be willingly inviting a constitutional crisis. Obama and the left are all playing end game politics. Is he doing it to martyr himself for the leftist cause or to assume dictatorial control?
Perhaps we are entering Ø's ODinga like endgame? This is his fantasy world. I dismissed visions of things going this route in November 2008, but everything that has happened since is just a giant ramp-up to a Kenyan ODinga situation (only Ø will have learned from ODinga's mistakes, and go further here).
Obama wants to be dictator like Hugo Chavez, but is too incompetent by comparison to pull it off.
What he means by "The people who sent us here" are Unions, The MSM, Global Corporations, and Communists.
Creative? Suspend the constitution and declare martial law. You know he wants to.
The house republicans need to tell Obama elections have consequences and they have the majority. Get over it.
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