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Joe Biden is not a leader, and Democrats know it, but he is their human autopen that will sign off on their radical policy fantasia.In case you were wondering what President Joe Biden has reportedly been up to lately, besides letting the Taliban take over Afghanistan, here are a few headlines:“Biden ‘checking‘ if he can overrule states and order universal masks in schools”“Biden to press private businesses to require COVID vaccinations for employees”“Biden extends eviction ban”“Biden calls for half of new cars to be electric or plug-in hybrids by 2030”“Biden notches big win as Senate passes $1 trillion infrastructure bill”A...

President Barack Obama's staff used an autopen (a machine that mimics one's signature) to sign the "fiscal cliff" legislation that Congress passed on New Year's Day. There was no ceremony or photo-op for the autopen bill signing.

A veterans group is vowing to get a handwriting expert to determine if the letters sent to parents of Navy SEALs killed in Afghanistan were signed by President Obama himself or an electronic autopen that can replicate his signature.

Last year American warriors were killed when a CH-47 Chinook helicopter was shot down by the Taliban during combat operations in Afghanistan. The Helicopter was carrying U.S. Navy SEALs to assist an U.S. Army Ranger unit that was under heavy fire from insurgents in the mountainous region of the Wardak province. Their mission was to help capture a senior Taliban leader, but it went terribly wrong. Thirty (30) U.S. troops died that day making it the single largest loss of American troops in the Afghanistan war. The team consisted of U.S. Army Rangers and 17 warriors from Navy Seal Team...

Rep. Tom Graves (R-Ga.) is questioning President Obama's use of an autopen in signing an extension of the Patriot Act. In a letter Friday, Graves asks Obama to confirm that he saw the law prior to its autopen signing. "Mr. President, I write to request your confirmation that S. 990, as passed by Congress, was presented to you prior to the autopen signing, as well as a detailed, written explanation of your Constitutional authority to assign a surrogate the responsibility of signing bills passed into law," Graves wrote. Obama signed the bill into law late Thursday night. The autopen was...

It turns out all those bill signings that reporters, lawmakers and even presidents have suffered through over the years are entirely unnecessary. In fact, according to the White House, the president doesn’t have to sign or even lay eyes on a piece of legislation for it to become law. That’s what happened late Thursday night in Washington when White House aides used a machine called an autopen to “sign” President Obama’s name to the Patriot Act extension Congress passed that day. Obama was in France at the G8 summit and directed his staff to apply his signature to the bill....

Rep. Graves questions Obama's autopen signing of Patriot Act By Daniel Strauss - 05/27/11 11:17 AM ET Rep. Tom Graves (R-Ga.) is questioning President Obama's use of an autopen in signing an extension of the Patriot Act. In a letter Friday, Graves asks Obama to confirm that he saw the law prior to its autopen signing. "Mr. President, I write to request your confirmation that S. 990, as passed by Congress, was presented to you prior to the autopen signing, as well as a detailed, written explanation of your Constitutional authority to assign a surrogate the responsibility of signing bills...

With the Patriot Act set to expire last night, President Obama signed legislation extending it -- from France -- as first reported by ABC News. How did he do that? Using an autopen, of course. Is that allowed? Article 1, section 7 of the United States Constitution states: “Every Bill which shall have passed the House of Representatives and the Senate, shall, before it becomes a Law, be presented to the President of the United States; If he approve he shall sign it, but if not he shall return it...” It needs to be “presented” to him, and if he...

Prior to 0bama's act yesterday, no US president has used an autopen to sign legislation into law (there is no evidence of this prior to yesterday - likely because noone but a president with no proof he is Constitutionally qualified would be so cavalier about signing a bill into law). You would think a real journalist would investigate and highlight this fact as incredibly problematic (especially a journalist who formerly hated the Patriot Act when it was Bush's legislation). All TSA-type actions (that are lawful only by virtue of the Patriot Act) performed in the period between the old law's...

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Congress on Thursday passed a four-year extension of post-Sept. 11 powers to search records and conduct roving wiretaps in pursuit of terrorists. Votes taken in rapid succession in the Senate and House came after lawmakers rejected attempts to temper the law enforcement powers to ensure that individual liberties are not abused. Following the 250-153 evening vote in the House, the legislation to renew three terrorism-fighting authorities headed for the president's signature with only hours to go before the provisions expire at midnight. With Obama currently in France, the White House said the president would use an autopen...

Catherine Herridge is reporting that this bill was debated by both Senate and House today for only 5 hours, then voted into law. Obama is out of the country so it will be signed into law by the Auto-Pen... It contains widening of wire taps, something called a Lone Wolf Provision and clears the way for federal LE to obtain forms and police records to determine who and how many own guns. Hope all the Law-And-Order-At-Any-Cost Conservatives are happy tonight! An unconstitutional piece of legislation, barely debated, then voted into law and not even signed by the president, but a...

Happy giving tree festival to all, and to all a good night! Ann Coulter (archive) December 23, 2004 Since the attack of 9-11, we've won two wars, liberated millions of people from monstrous regimes, presided over one election in Afghanistan and are about to see elections in Iraq and among the Palestinian people. Focusing like a laser beam on the big picture, liberals are upset that, during this period, the secretary of defense used an autopen. An autopen is a mechanical arm that actually holds a pen and is programmed to sign letters with a particular person's precise signature. Imagine...

Q: (Carlos Baroni) Many liberals are rich, come from the East Coast, are white, studied at the Ivy university. You are rich (I hope), come from Connecticut, are white and studied at Cornell. Why do you hate the liberals? A: (Ann Coulter) Because I know so many of them. Liberals are clueless, amoral sexual degenerates, communists and pacifists – no offense to you or your readers intended, of course. Q: You said the USA's worst enemy are the liberals. A: So what's the question? The enemy within is often far more damaging than the enemy outside. Does the name "Mussolini"...

Since the attack of 9-11, we've won two wars, liberated millions of people from monstrous regimes, presided over one election in Afghanistan and are about to see elections in Iraq and among the Palestinian people. Focusing like a laser beam on the big picture, liberals are upset that, during this period, the secretary of defense used an autopen. An autopen is a mechanical arm that actually holds a pen and is programmed to sign letters with a particular person's precise signature. Imagine a President Al Gore, with slightly more personality, signing all official government letters – that's an autopen. (You...

Lawmakers Chide Rumsfeld for Auto-Signed Sympathy Letters WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld did not personally sign his name on letters of condolence to families of troops killed in Iraq but instead had it done by a machine, an action lawmakers said on Sunday showed insensitivity and was inappropriate for leadership during war. Rumsfeld acknowledged that he had not signed the letters to family members of more than 1,000 U.S. troops killed in action and in a statement said he would now sign them in his own hand. "This issue of the secretary of Defense not personally signing the...

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