Posted on 01/14/2016 5:55:12 AM PST by UMCRevMom@aol.com
White House chief of staff Denis McDonough pushed back against the notion his president is played out in the wake of his last State of the Union address, promising “audacious executive action†in Barack Obama’s final year in office. During a breakfast with reporters in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday, McDonough responded to the observation that the president’s final speech before Congress lacked the usual pledge to “go it alone†if lawmakers failed to act.
Coupled with the feeble executive actions on gun control announced earlier this month, had President Obama rethought the utility of acting unilaterally on issues important to the White House?
“We’ll do audacious executive action over the course of the rest of the year, I’m confident of that,†said McDonough, explaining that President Obama’s decision not to outline specific executive actions was more about a commitment to process than a lack of willpower.
“Process is your friend, but process also dictates what you can do,†McDonough said. “And we do want to make sure that the executive actions we undertake are not left hanging out there, subject to Congress undoing them.â€
In addition to gun control, the White House has expressed interest in further unilateral actions on immigration reform, and in working around Congress to close the prison in Guantanamo Bay.
But McDonough said the White House is considering executive action on any and all issues, and that the main question President Obama plans to ask himself is “Why not?†“And so that’s the spirit through which we’ll approach this last year,†McDonough said.
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The second dictator of America after FDR.
Ask the British if their actions toward the Colonies was irreversible....
Two days ago, January 12, 2016, a DATE WHICH WILL LIVE IN INFAMY, the President of the United States of America declared war on the American people, their Constitution, their hopes and dreams, and their very being.
History is holding its breath at this point.
There is no such thing as an “irreversible” executive order. In fact, nothing supports such an order except a vague “moral authority”, or lacking that, power that grows out of the end of a gun barrel, as Chairman Mao would put it.
No matter how some may thunder it, legislation by executive action is not legislation at all, but a threat, real and existential, to the concept of promoting limited government and individual freedom, as it is unrepresentative and the very definition of tyranny. One person, or a small oligarchy, cannot and does not concern himself or itself with even considering or eliciting the opinions of the vast proportion of the population under their influence.
Well, after all of his bluster over executive action on gun control then coming up with his lame announcement of NFA Trust rule making that has been in the works for years, and restating current law regarding who needs an FFL, I’m not exactly quaking in my boots.
Do regular people understand that Obama is attempting to take away their God-given and Constitutionally mandated right to choose their leaders, style of government and control their own lives?
A narcissistic, petulant version of FDR.
Irreversible Executive Actions my ass.
Obama ain’t a king and I’m not a serf.
New ‘law’ by EO is unconstitutional as well as being applicable to normal citizens. It is only the willingness that citizens accept the rules and regulations on the agencies under Executive control impose on them. Regardless, they still have no basis in actual law solely by themselves.
If I were the next President my first action would be twofold: Fire every Cabinet Secretary, political appointment and every US Attorney in the country (perp walked out of their offices and off the premises by US Marshalls at 12:01PM January 20, 2017. Secondly, invalidate EVERY executive order and executive memorandum this Muslim EVER signed.
There is nothing Congress can't 'undo'.......................
I think Obama should sign an executive order making it illegal and irreversible for any subsequent president to cancel, abridge or remove any of his other executive orders, and of course including this one.
That ought to fix Trump or Cruz if they get elected!!!
Obama has a phone and a pen. He should use that pen to make his very words and thoughts law forever!
When in the Course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them . . .
Particularly in the area of our God-given individual right to keep and bear arms, those who approve of tyranny should read more history. One of the precipitating events that made the unpleasantness of 1776 unavoidable was an effort to disarm the people, leading to the Battles of Lexington and Concord. I would prefer to live peaceably, even among America's enemies on the left, but I doubt that decent Americans would tolerate any attempt at widespread or systematic disarmament.
There are irreversible errors. I pray that Obama and his followers will not make that kind of mistake in these final terrible 53 weeks of his regime.
WHERE is our [equivalent of] al Sisi? Where, dammit?
There is no such thing as an irreversible government action. Ask George III, ask Joe Stalin, ask Benito Mussolini, ask anyone who has ever faced down 80 million armed citizens, angrier than hell.
This nitwit needs to understand that every job, even the job of president, is a temporary job and being fired is not the absolutely worst way to lose one. That’s something else he can discuss with Benito.
Anything that can be done by executive order can be undone by executive order, the courts or by Congress voting to forbid spending any money on it by federal employees.
Closing Gitmo could be irreversible, and I’m okay with that, even though it’s a mistake. We should be killing terrorists, not keeping them as expensive pets.
Immigration executive actions are completely reversible. Even an unlawful grant of “citizenship” can and should be revoked. Any form of so-called “legal status” for criminals who entered our country illegally can and should also be revoked.
Very little that the traitor in our White House wants to do is irreversible though. The crippling debt that he is imposing on our children is irreversible. The deaths to innocent people murdered by illegals and by terrorists are irreversible. Otherwise, we need to systematically repeal every remaining vestige of these eight terrible years, with most of the executive orders to do so taking effect on January 20, 2017, and all new federal laws and regulations from the past eight years eliminated in a blanket repeal within a week of that date.
An executive order and an executive action are two very different things.
An executive order is documented, signed and put in place.
An executive action is different and usually takes the form of a verbal directive given by the president. At worst, there is no documentation or paper trail so it makes any subsequent legal action to reverse it very difficult...if not irreversible. This is what Obama/Jarrett are counting on.
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