The Left Openly Advocating Imperial Presidency...

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[fgarvb1]

God bless the Secret Service!

 

[mercury14]

...Because they love a good dictator, and the warm embrace of totalitarianism:

And if Obama wasn't democratically elected and wasn't using completely Constitutional executive powers you'd have a point.

 

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[sigh]

If he keeps issuing executive orders at his current rate, Obama will end his eight years in office issuing roughly 90 fewer such orders as did Ronald Reagan.

Just a reality check.

http://www.archives.gov/federal-register/executive-orders/disposition.html

 

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[cjh]

“We have long since made clear that a state of war is not a blank check for the President when it comes to the rights of the Nation’s citizens.”

- Justice O'Connor


http://www.ontheissues.org/Court/Sandra_Day_O_Connor_Homeland_Security.htm

 

[RobDownSouth]

Reality check: A federal appeals court just ruled some of his executive actions an abuse of power.

Don't you ever get dressed?

David Sentelle should have recused himself from that decision, owing to his documented lack of impartiality towards the Consumer Product Protection agency.

But he's one of the very few people in America with less personal honor than you.

 

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[mercury14]

If he keeps issuing executive orders at his current rate, Obama will end his eight years in office issuing roughly 90 fewer such orders as did Ronald Reagan.

Just a reality check.

http://www.archives.gov/federal-register/executive-orders/disposition.html

Reality checks to Vette are like sunlight to a vampire, something that must be avoided no matter what.

 

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[cjh]

Duh...after Monday comes Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday...

just like your curse the darkness threads.

 

[mercury14]

Despite the Constitution, our Imperial President decides which laws to obey, meanwhile the left looks over it's shoulder and winks.


Obama Continues to Violate His Own ‘Stimulus’ Law by Not Releasing Quarterly Reports
10:41 AM, JAN 26, 2013 • BY JEFFREY H. ANDERSON

You don't care about reports. The CBO does these reports regularly which say that the stimulus created up to 3.3 million jobs and you immediately denied them. No matter what the White House's report says or how sound its calculations are you'll deny it too. You'll demand that there be a report and then turn around and pretend there's not one.

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

Despite the Constitution, our Imperial President decides which laws to obey, meanwhile the left looks over it's shoulder and winks.


Obama Continues to Violate His Own ‘Stimulus’ Law by Not Releasing Quarterly Reports
10:41 AM, JAN 26, 2013 • BY JEFFREY H. ANDERSON

Have you heard much about President Obama’s $787,000,000,000 economic “stimulus” (now estimated to cost $831,000,000,000) lately? In its last report, published in 2011, the president’s own Council of Economic Advisors released an estimate showing that, for every $317,000 in “stimulus” spending that had by then gone out the door, only one job had been created or saved. Even in Washington, that’s not considered good bang for the buck.

Moreover, that was the fifth consecutive “stimulus” report that showed this number getting progressively worse.

Alas, that was the last report we’ve seen. Never mind that Section 1513 of the “stimulus” legislation, which Obama spearheaded and signed into law, requires the executive branch to submit a new report every three months. It reads:

“In consultation with the Director of the Office of Management and Budget and the Secretary of the Treasury, the Chairperson of the Council of Economic Advisers shall submit quarterly reports to the Committees on Appropriations of the Senate and House of Representatives that detail the impact of programs funded through covered funds on employment, estimated economic growth, and other key economic indicators.”

(The head of the Council of Economic Advisors, currently Alan Krueger, is appointed by the president, confirmed by the Senate, and works in the Executive Office of the President. He is the president’s chief economic adviser.)

Indeed, the old reports that the administration released begin, “As part of the unprecedented accountability and transparency provisions included in the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 [the ‘stimulus’], the Council of Economic Advisers (CEA) was charged with providing to Congress quarterly reports on the effects of the Recovery Act on overall economic activity, and on employment in particular.”

Section 1513 further specifies, “The first report…shall be submitted not later than 45 days after the end of the first full quarter following the date of enactment of this Act….The last report required to be submitted…shall apply to the quarter in which the [Recovery Accountability and Transparency] Board terminates under section 1530.” Section 1530 declares, “The Board shall terminate on September 30, 2013.”

In other words, the Obama administration is required by law to submit quarterly reports on the “stimulus” through the third quarter of 2013. By now, it was supposed to have released fourteen such reports. It has released only eight. The last one covered the period ending in June 2011. That’s right — 2011.

With only 58.6 percent of Americans currently employed — down 2.4 percent from the time of Obama’s first inauguration — it’s not surprising that the Obama administration doesn’t really want to fulfill it legal responsibilities and release subsequent reports on its failed “stimulus.” However, it hardly seems fair — to use one of Obama’s favorite words — that the rich and (extremely) powerful think that they can choose whether or not to abide by the laws they spearhead and sign, while the rest of us are forced to obey them.

Perhaps it’s time for the rich and powerful to do their fair share and obey the laws that they enforce against others. And perhaps this is something that the House of Representatives might want to look into.

http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs...w-not-releasing-quarterly-reports_697896.html

Our RINO leaders need to sprout some balls and stop acting like Obama shits grenades.

 

[mercury14]

Our RINO leaders need to sprout some balls and stop acting like Obama shits grenades.

What does it matter? Kruger will spit out an economic report and Republicans will call it useless because it uses economics (aka voodoo).

 

[IrezumiKiss]

...Because they love a good dictator, and the warm embrace of totalitarianism:

Yes, He Can: Twenty Ways Obama Can Use Executive Power to Push a Progressive Agenda
The Editors January 23, 2013 | This article appeared in the February 11, 2013 edition of The Nation.

When President Obama announced his sweeping new plan for preventing gun violence on January 16, it included no fewer than twenty-three “executive actions,” in addition to a series of legislative proposals. The message was clear: in the face of congressional intransigence—on gun control and beyond—Obama will push changes through the executive branch that he believes to be for the good of the country. “Congress too must act, and Congress must act soon,” Obama said, while making it clear that the White House will not wait for the GOP-controlled House.

It was not the first time the president has flexed his executive muscle. Obama deployed such power during his first term on a number of notable occasions. The “Mini–Dream Act” executive action, for example, was hugely successful, both in terms of public policy and progressive politics. It helped people in an immediate and tangible way, was enormously popular with Latinos and Asian-Americans, and may well have won him re-election.

Others, like raising the CAFE standards to demand better fuel efficiency from carmakers and capping student loan payments, were part of the Obama administration’s “We Can’t Wait” initiative, launched in the fall of 2011, following the debt ceiling fiasco and the House Republicans’ refusal to seriously consider the American Jobs Act. “We can’t wait for an increasingly dysfunctional Congress to do its job,” Obama said at the time. “Where they won’t act, I will.”

The president has also acted through the appointment process. He made a recess appointment of Richard Cordray to head the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, despite intense congressional opposition, and another three recess appointments to the five-member National Labor Relations Board, putting it back in action after the Republicans refused for months to confirm any new members. Obama also handed down the Health and Human Services Department contraception mandate—a critical fulcrum point in the GOP’s politically costly “war on women.”

Less high-profile measures have included utilizing the 1906 Antiquities Act, first used by Theodore Roosevelt to protect historic or beautiful public land, to preserve a few areas, including Fort Monroe in Virginia and Fort Ord in California. Last fall, Obama also named Colorado’s Chimney Rock Archaeological Area as a national monument, and dedicated the César E. Chávez National Monument in California.

The president can do much more. So can the cabinet departments and federal regulatory agencies. As Barack Obama begins his second term, and weighs his overall legacy, it will be crucial for progressives to push him to act on a broad range of issues for which there is an absence of congressional will (or a concerted effort to block progress). Pressing for reforms through executive action—using both “street heat” and “suite heat”—should be a serious focus of our work in the coming months.

http://www.thenation.com/article/17...-use-executive-power-push-progressive-agenda#

Despite the Constitution, our Imperial President decides which laws to obey, meanwhile the left looks over it's shoulder and winks.


Obama Continues to Violate His Own ‘Stimulus’ Law by Not Releasing Quarterly Reports
10:41 AM, JAN 26, 2013 • BY JEFFREY H. ANDERSON

Have you heard much about President Obama’s $787,000,000,000 economic “stimulus” (now estimated to cost $831,000,000,000) lately? In its last report, published in 2011, the president’s own Council of Economic Advisors released an estimate showing that, for every $317,000 in “stimulus” spending that had by then gone out the door, only one job had been created or saved. Even in Washington, that’s not considered good bang for the buck.

Moreover, that was the fifth consecutive “stimulus” report that showed this number getting progressively worse.

Alas, that was the last report we’ve seen. Never mind that Section 1513 of the “stimulus” legislation, which Obama spearheaded and signed into law, requires the executive branch to submit a new report every three months. It reads:

“In consultation with the Director of the Office of Management and Budget and the Secretary of the Treasury, the Chairperson of the Council of Economic Advisers shall submit quarterly reports to the Committees on Appropriations of the Senate and House of Representatives that detail the impact of programs funded through covered funds on employment, estimated economic growth, and other key economic indicators.”

(The head of the Council of Economic Advisors, currently Alan Krueger, is appointed by the president, confirmed by the Senate, and works in the Executive Office of the President. He is the president’s chief economic adviser.)

Indeed, the old reports that the administration released begin, “As part of the unprecedented accountability and transparency provisions included in the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 [the ‘stimulus’], the Council of Economic Advisers (CEA) was charged with providing to Congress quarterly reports on the effects of the Recovery Act on overall economic activity, and on employment in particular.”

Section 1513 further specifies, “The first report…shall be submitted not later than 45 days after the end of the first full quarter following the date of enactment of this Act….The last report required to be submitted…shall apply to the quarter in which the [Recovery Accountability and Transparency] Board terminates under section 1530.” Section 1530 declares, “The Board shall terminate on September 30, 2013.”

In other words, the Obama administration is required by law to submit quarterly reports on the “stimulus” through the third quarter of 2013. By now, it was supposed to have released fourteen such reports. It has released only eight. The last one covered the period ending in June 2011. That’s right — 2011.

With only 58.6 percent of Americans currently employed — down 2.4 percent from the time of Obama’s first inauguration — it’s not surprising that the Obama administration doesn’t really want to fulfill it legal responsibilities and release subsequent reports on its failed “stimulus.” However, it hardly seems fair — to use one of Obama’s favorite words — that the rich and (extremely) powerful think that they can choose whether or not to abide by the laws they spearhead and sign, while the rest of us are forced to obey them.

Perhaps it’s time for the rich and powerful to do their fair share and obey the laws that they enforce against others. And perhaps this is something that the House of Representatives might want to look into.

http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs...w-not-releasing-quarterly-reports_697896.html

Our RINO leaders need to sprout some blah blah blubhgghdhgghhgghghghgggygygyguhhhh

 

[bumlicker]

reality check sigh!!!

reagan brought our country back from the brink of the 2nd worse president in our nations history another socialist named jimmy carter. obama hasnt done shit for our country his whole theme is bring evryone down to poverty level and we will all be equal nice policy sounds a bit like what country or countrys sigh???

 

[mercury14]

reagan brought our country back from the brink of the 2nd worse president in our nations history another socialist named jimmy carter. obama hasnt done shit for our country his whole theme is bring evryone down to poverty level and we will all be equal nice policy sounds a bit like what country or countrys sigh???

Oh so much higher taxes on the wealthy and on capital gains aren't an obstacle to recovery at all?

 

[Busybody]

If he keeps issuing executive orders at his current rate, Obama will end his eight years in office issuing roughly 90 fewer such orders as did Ronald Reagan.

Just a reality check.

http://www.archives.gov/federal-register/executive-orders/disposition.html

it is NOT the number per se

it is THE INTENT

RR was an AMERICAN and PRO AMERICA....Obama isn't....REALITY CHECK!

I don't expect YOU to understand

 

[Busybody]

“We have long since made clear that a state of war is not a blank check for the President when it comes to the rights of the Nation’s citizens.”

- Justice O'Connor


http://www.ontheissues.org/Court/Sandra_Day_O_Connor_Homeland_Security.htm

your point?

 

[bumlicker]

everything he does

everything obama does is an obstacle to recovery. he has know idea what a budget is. typical hahvad grad . i love the democrats there going to make us the russia of the world with no relevence chinas on the way to be the only superpower i think we need to tax me more and let n.korea have the money. there poeple havent had a good meal in decades

 

[renard_ruse]

In the past you could expect a public backlash when one branch of government started becoming too powerful. The People believed in the ideal of the separation of powers. Now, the public is too stupid to realize what separation of powers is or why it was built into our system in the first place.

Generation Y probably has no clue what it even is. That generation thinks they are so smart but they are actually just a bunch of mindless media controlled morons. That's not meant to be mean or to insult them, simply to point this fact out. I wish they weren't like this, but its become clear over the past decade they are. Generation Z so far doesn't show signs of being any better, so I'm not holding my breath for a pendulum swing anytime soon.

For now, unfortunately, not much can done until the public decides things have gone too far left. You can't fight zeitgeist.

 

[sigh]

reagan brought our country back from the brink of the 2nd worse president in our nations history another socialist named jimmy carter. obama hasnt done shit for our country his whole theme is bring evryone down to poverty level and we will all be equal nice policy sounds a bit like what country or countrys sigh???

I posted fact. You post opinion. Guess what? I don't live in your "reality" but you can't escape the facts of mine.

 

[Liar]

Where did this "imperial" meme start? It's not even the right word.

"Imperialism" is the expansion of a country's influence beyond it's borders. The word you're looking for is "totalitarian", you semantically challenged morons. You even use it in your own posts.

Words, they mean things.

 

[sigh]

it is NOT the number per se

it is THE INTENT

RR was an AMERICAN and PRO AMERICA....Obama isn't....REALITY CHECK!

I don't expect YOU to understand

another opinion

why bother with facts?