Posted on 01/24/2015 7:03:16 PM PST by TangoLimaSierra
He’s already boasted of wielding power through a pen and a phone. Now President Obama wants to add a rubber stamp to his desk set – and the rubber stamp would be named “U.S. Congress.”
Buried in his State of the Union address, Obama said he will ask Congress to give him “trade promotion authority.”
He didn’t say what trade promotion authority would do. But critics charge that it would cede the Republican majority’s control of the congressional agenda to Obama and strip Congress of its ability to vet and amend international agreements.
Sen. Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., acknowledges Obama is asking for is “an enormous grant of power, obviously, from a Republican Congress to a Democratic president.”
Yet McConnell and other GOP leaders in the House and Senate apparently are ready to surrender constitutional powers to the White House.
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Cruz needs to come out against this.
Getting close to time to storm the Bastille. Getting tired of eating cake.
November happened. Remember the dancing unicorns pooping skittles for everyone to eat. Problem was only a few people noticed the horn on those unicorns heads. Now quite more then just a few are feeling that horn as it travels into places it was not supposed to travel.
I wonder if this is how we will get the carbon trading shoved down our throats.
Another UNIPARTY free fall towards tryanny.
There has to be something. Their spines seem to have hinges versus discs. If they have balls they are the “do the wrong thing” version.
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