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Obama Said to Use 1953 Law to Permanently Block New Drilling Leases in Arctic, Atlantic
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| December 19, 2016
| Jennifer A. Dlouhy
Posted on 12/19/2016 5:42:01 PM PST by artichokegrower
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To: Crucial
Trump just needs to mention (not publicly) that there will be some investigations on Obama.
To: artichokegrower
Just let the drilling happen. Trump can enforce the ban as Obama has enforced immigration law.
To: Robert DeLong
Congress can repeal any law if it has the will to do so.
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posted on
12/19/2016 6:45:38 PM PST
by
Farmer Dean
(168 grains of instant conflict resolution)
To: buckalfa
Grrrr - I hope you are wrong. Obama is obviously not going quietly into the night. He’s breaking all the china and everything he can get his grubby hands on to hurt our country.
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posted on
12/19/2016 6:46:02 PM PST
by
demkicker
(My passion for freedom is stronger than that of Democrats whose obsession is to enslave me.)
To: JediJones
article says the law does not allow for the rescinding of protection of the land, only for the granting of it. OTOH, since one Congress cannot bind a future one, all that needs to happen is for the next Congress to repeal the prior law. Effectively, Congress would rescind this order, and Trump would carry the recinding, based on the new law, out.
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posted on
12/19/2016 6:46:03 PM PST
by
C210N
To: GregoTX
“Trashing the room just before checkout time”
I’d say it’s more like Section 8 tenants just before the eviction.
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posted on
12/19/2016 6:47:20 PM PST
by
The Antiyuppie
("When small men cast long shadows, then it is very late in the day")
To: E. Pluribus Unum
I think a shadow government would be the very definition of sedition.
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posted on
12/19/2016 6:47:33 PM PST
by
Farmer Dean
(168 grains of instant conflict resolution)
To: Farmer Dean
The key is:
if it has the will For some reason I have lost faith that this will happen, even now that they have all the stars lined up that they complained they lacked to do anything previously to stop Obama. 8>p
To: artichokegrower
Obama Said to Use 1953 Law to Permanently Block New Drilling Leases in Arctic, Atlantic I assume that the current Congress IS aware that that they have the power to begin impeachment proceedings against this unhinged Kenyan??
Something to keep him otherwise occupied and prevent any more irrational lashing out attempting to prevent the new president from exercising his legitimate Constitutional powers without irrational interference from anyone.
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posted on
12/19/2016 6:56:15 PM PST
by
publius911
(IMPEACH HIM NOW evil, stupid, insane ignorant or just clueless, doesn't matter!)
To: Robert DeLong
It’s our job to help them find the will to act.Two years and the recalcitrant will be shown the door.
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posted on
12/19/2016 6:57:42 PM PST
by
Farmer Dean
(168 grains of instant conflict resolution)
To: artichokegrower
Meaningless. We are awash in oil and gas. If we are ever in trouble and need it, that law won’t mean a thing when it becomes a matter of national security.
This is good news, not bad. Those resources are just money in the bank.
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posted on
12/19/2016 6:58:47 PM PST
by
SaxxonWoods
(Ride To The Sound Of The Guns)
To: artichokegrower
"Obama will invoke a provision in a 1953 law that gives him wide latitude to withdraw U.S. waters from future oil and gas leasing..." Yes, and Trump won't have the authority to undo anything that Obama has set his pen and phone to......
I tell ya...it's getting downright comical lately.
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posted on
12/19/2016 7:00:40 PM PST
by
Windflier
(Pitchforks and torches ripen on the vine. Left too long, they become black rifles.)
To: Jim Robinson
...as well as an enemy islamist homo.
53
posted on
12/19/2016 7:02:49 PM PST
by
onedoug
To: Behind the Blue Wall
Yeah it seems like hes just trying to create as much paperwork for Trump as possible but I dont see the purpose. Juvenile or mentally disturbed lashing out.
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posted on
12/19/2016 7:06:11 PM PST
by
publius911
(IMPEACH HIM NOW evil, stupid, insane ignorant or just clueless, doesn't matter!)
To: vette6387
Let’s see if he can trash Trump Tower.
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posted on
12/19/2016 7:07:18 PM PST
by
onedoug
To: JediJones
So...amend the law. Done all the time.
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posted on
12/19/2016 7:10:34 PM PST
by
Mr Rogers
(We're a nation of infants, ruled by their emotion)
To: artichokegrower
Alaska wasn't a state in 1953. The law precedes Alaska's purchase; the Arctic waters in question in 1953 were Russian territory, right?
Are these waters covered by the law, since Alaska joined the union years later?
-PJ
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posted on
12/19/2016 7:14:15 PM PST
by
Political Junkie Too
(If you are the Posterity of We the People, then you are a Natural Born Citizen.)
To: DouglasKC
If it is done by a law, the law can be undone.
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posted on
12/19/2016 7:15:21 PM PST
by
depressed in 06
(I'm going to have to come up with a new tag line.)
To: Political Junkie Too
The US purchased Alaska from Russia in 1867—Seward’s Folly.
It became a state in 1959, as did Hawaii.
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posted on
12/19/2016 7:17:33 PM PST
by
exit82
(Making America Great Again begins with........me.)
To: DouglasKC
Sometimes not.
For example, if Obama orders all US forces out of Guantanamo, the Cubans can simply walk in, and rent it to the Sovs, PRC, Iran or the Norks. No one is going to war to get Guantanamo back.
Likewise with pardons. They are absolute and irrevocable, although they can be refused (because accepting one is tantamount to an admission of guilt.) Pardons are so absolute that even if it can be proved they were obtained through bribes, the pardon still stands.
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posted on
12/19/2016 7:18:28 PM PST
by
Strac6
("We sleep safe in our beds only because rough men stand ready to visit violence on the enemy.")
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