Obama’s Reelection Strategy: Bypass Congress
In a recent interview, President Obama reiterated his intention to bypass Congress to pursue his extreme policy agenda. That’s not in itself news; it’s been going on in every area of federal policy (as I discuss in detail in Democracy Denied) and the president has been boasting about it for months in his country-wide “we can’t wait” campaign. The notable thing this time around is that Obama offered his plan to bypass our elected representatives in Congress as an explicit re-election strategy.
The interviewer, Rob Quirk of KOAA-TV, asked Obama what it would take to win reelection. Obama’s reponse: “Well, what we’re going to have to do is continue to make progress on the economy over the next several months. And where Congress is not willing to act, we’re going to go ahead and do it ourselves.”
In other words, the Obama election strategy for election 2012 is to act as if election 2010 never happened, disregard the Republicans in Congress, and put the full force of the federal executive apparatus to work towards his reelection.
For months Obama has been out on the stump campaigning on the taxpayer dime, a trend that is almost certain to accelerate. He hits the ground running in 2012 with a statewide tele-townhall in Iowa and a major campaign-style event in Ohio. Ironically, these events are presented as pushing a legislative agenda in Congress, the very same Congress the president has already declared irrelevant. Their real purpose is entirely political.
Obama is also abusing the appointments process to install ideologically radical nominees to advance his bypass-Congress reelection strategy. Although Congress has remained in pro forma session to prevent recess appointments since the 2010 election, Obama recently announced that he would dispense with over a hundred years of precedent and declare Congress to be in recess; that’s right, the president now believes he can rewrite Senate rules. On January 4, Obama unilaterally rewrote Senate rules and installed Richard Cordray as the head of the vast new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. The bureau can now begin regulating every aspect of our financial lives without any congressional oversight (unless courts invalidate the “recess appointment.”)
Obama may also use his newly created power to “recess appoint” when Congress is not in recess to install radical union lawyers in a court-packing scheme at the National Labor Relations Board, allowing it to continue rewarding the unions with a bureaucratic rewrite of the nation’s labor laws. Shortly before the end of last year the Board – before the term expired for Obama’s previous recess appointee, union lawyer Craig Becker – voted to allow unions to ambush employers with organizing elections with as little as seven days notice.
Obama may make dozens of other controversial appointments in this manner, making a mockery of the Constitution’s advice and consent requirement to fill the federal courts and agencies with radicals who could never withstand Senate scrutiny, even with his own party controlling the Senate.
Regardless of how many more radicals Obama can slip into key positions, Obama knows that to win reelection he needs to recapture the sense of historical excitement that surrounded the 2008 campaign. So he will put the full weight of the federal executive branch into advancing the key policy objectives of the constituencies that will provide him boots on the ground: unions, environmentalists, social justice street organizers, identity politics groups, and class warriors.
Key rewards and inducements for the environmental groups include a head-spinning array of expensive regulations from EPA, an all-out government-wide assault on hydraulic fracturing, and continued slowdowns in permitting and leasing from the EPA and the Interior Department. Also worth watching is a proposed Endangered Species Act listing of the so-called Dunes Sagebrush Lizard, which until recently was just an ordinary lizard, but may now become a “unique subspecies” whose listing would devastate oil production in West Texas.
What a surprise.
Hitler did the same thing.
Great minds think alike.
I agree with you, but for one thing. Minds like that run in the same gutter.
You can add this to my list of reasons why we do not want Obama re-elected.
http://bluecollarphilosophy.com/2011/12/top-10-reasons-to-not-re-elect-president-obama-in-2012/
1. Expect a non-Socialist Socialist agenda to be advanced.
2. Expect the solutions to our problems to be more bureaucracies.
3. Expect Marxist propositions to be frequently employed while being couched in terms of justice, fairness, equality in order to redistribute what you have to others.
4. Expect unions to play an ever increasing role in forcing us to acquiesce to the Totalitarian agenda of the Democrats.
5. Expect more praise of Communist China and how America should seek to model the Communist country.
6. Expect a Liberal media, that is philosophically in line with President Obama’s vision of the world, to obediently and dutifully help advance Obama’s policies while attacking his political opponents.
7. Expect Obama’s war against the middle class to continue.
8. Expect Obama to continue to push a pro-abortion agenda that will increase abortions in this country despite concerns about lowing the numbers.
9. Expect the gay rights agenda to be further pushed on the America people, even to the point to where there are consequences for resisting it.
10. Expect Obama, who professes to be a “Christian“, to peruse policies that will lead to the persecution of Christians in America.
What alarms me (besides hugobama)is the low quality,parasitic sharptonesque brainwashed lemmings who would vote for this Nero. Our political system is set up to be a cage for Presidentian creatures who try to morph into dictators,a dangerous,entrenched malevolent force from hell,for all the reasons we are about to find out! A vote for nobama is a vote against America! When laws become unjust we have no responsibility to obey them! A Gandhian march to the sea to get some salt is in order!
The media is complicit, thank goodness for the internet and sites like PJM. The double standard is sickening, the media eviserated W for abusing executive powers but cheers O. Sadly, the majority of the electorate is more knowledgeable about pop culture and sports than our Founding documents, economics, public policy, history…you get the idea. Those dependent on government handouts have no idea what’s coming, there is a good piece today on entitlements
http://spectator.org/archives/2012/01/05/the-paramount-issue-of-2012
Indy,
I would add that the MSM is DIRECTLY RESPONSIBLE for the mess we find ourselves in. For without their complete bootlicking support of this Communist and his Communist usurpers, he would be thrown out of office for treason. But millions of people remain uninformed. They simply don’t know what Obama and his corrupt administration is doing to them, their future, the future of their children, grandchildren and freedom in this country. I will never forgive the media for what they have done. Obama would not have gotten away with all he has done if they were watchdogs for The People. Alas, they are not….and here we find ourselves.
IMO you can add Fox News to the list of MSM corroborators. When is the last time you heard anything bad about Saudi Arabia and islam lately on Fox? You won’t – since a prominent Saudi prince or some such guy bought into Fox he’s killed any honest reporting by Fox about Saudi Arabia – and for that matter any negative coverage having to do with islam – the religion spawned in hell.
Don’t get me started on the glowing reports Fox has broadcast about how electable Romney is vs everyone else. Listening to John Gibson on Fox Radio all you hear is what a wonderful guy Romney is and how electable he is vs everyone else blah blah blah. This is the first 15 minutes of his show and I only listen because I sometimes forget to change the station to Rush or put on some music before this clown comes on. Gibson tries to defend his ‘neutrality’ by saying he isn’t for this or that candidate – “just pointing out how obvious” which candidate we need to back. Thanks Mr. ‘Obvious’ but I can find my own way. Why the push John? Bill O keeps saying the most electable candidate is Romney. Hannity is the least obvious – seems to have some semblance of neutrality. I’ve stopped watching Fox for the most part and started gathering my news fro PJM among other sources.
Obama’s propaganda ministers (read: network news anchors) will aid and abet this UNCONSTITUTIONAL power grab.
The US Constitution is the supreme law of the land.
Unless you’re a Democrat/liberal/progressive, in which case The US Constitution is an obstacle to be gotten around.
The Constitution, in their book, is an obstacle to be destroyed.
You gotta be kidding.
How is this any different to the way presidents have operated for decades? He was elected to run the executive branch of the government, and he’s free to do anything within the law and budget. That’s how it works, and how it’s supposed to work.
If you don’t like the constitutional separation of powers, then campaign to change it. Don’t pretend that you’ve only just discovered that the president doesn’t have to do everything that the congressional majorities might happen to like on any given day. That’s not how it ever worked.
What next – outrage that he gets a big house to live in while he does the job?
Now … I’d love to hear your constitutional view on presidential signing statements.
Which law? He’s ignoring so many I’ve lost track. And where’s the budget? Senate hasn’t seen fit to present one, and last I checked, King Barry has a money tree in his back yard he is using to get reelected, as opposed to upholding the constitution he swore to uphold when he took office. I’m guessing he figures the Bible is living and breathing just like his constitution so his oath is now meaningless and up for sale…And every other president has conducted business like that? You sure???
Techno, I suggest you read the Constitution. Article II outlines the rights and duties of the Executive Branch. Obama is violating these.
Take a look at Section 3; it says that the President can fill vacancies only during the Recess of Senate. Senate is not in recess.
Take a look at Article I, Section 8, which outlines the rights and duties of the Legislature. That includes the right to declare war and ‘calling forth the militia’. Obama ignored this Constitutional right when he moved the troops into Libya. How? He ‘redefined’ all on his own, the meaning of war, to mean ‘boots on the ground’ and defined dropping bombs as ‘not war’. Heh. Slick.
Obama’s continual contempt for and denigration of Congress, which is the Voice and Will of the People, sets him up as a dictator. Do you approve?
Now … I’d love to hear your constitutional view on presidential signing statements.
You would ?
This president, in his self-anointed role as constitutional scholar, swore up and down in the 2008 campaign that there was no way in hell he would use signing statements when approving legislation.
He reneged on that New Year’s Eve in signing the “defense act”, accompanied by a long and elaborate signing statement, just as he reneged on his self-righteous 2007 insistence that it was “unpatriotic” and irresponsible to raise the debt ceiling and on his equally self-righteous insistence that using the (budget) reconciliation process (only 50% vote approval, not 2/3) would be completely wrong for massive social legislation like “healthcare”.
He reneges willy nilly on any and all so called “principled” stands he purported to hold in the past.
On occasion, when overly candid, he is wistful about the power of the hierarchy in China that can just “do stuff” without any messy process of involving other branches of government or the will of the people.
Given his conviction that he and his merry band of union supporting socialists know best for America and wrapped in his thin skin, Obama is downright hostile to the notion of constraints on the power of the Executive.
Dear comrade, whatever has Dear Leader done wrong? We have always been at war with East Asia. Anything else you heard was mistaken and must be dutifully reported to the Ministry of Peace.
(Sorry, but this is so Orwellian that even George Orwell would run away screaming from this administration. I do agree with everything you have said, plus much more. )
There is no budget. Obmama’s budget was rejected by the Senate 99-0. The senate has not produced a budget for all of this president’s term and more. Only the Republican house has produced a budget that was tabled in the Senate. This president and the government at large is spending money illegally, never mind we don’t have the money anyway.
What budget? We can’t get a Democrat Senate to even consider the budgets that get passed by the House of Representatives. How does Obama know he is operating within the constraints of the budget. Obama is a communist attempting the power grab that will be required to achieve a one party system. He has a bunch of fellow travelers( chicken shits ) in the media blaring the trumpets.
They only get upset when its a Democratic president using executive powers to advance the agenda he was elected to advance. If congress (i.e. Republicans) stands in the way of that agenda he is obligated to use every tool at his disposal to realize that agenda. They, of course, don’t like it but that is how the process works.
Actually, it’s exactly NOT how the process works. Disobeying the clear and plain legal restrictions on the position, engaging in criminal activity with the expectation of being able to avoid the consequences, trying to convert the Presidency of the United States into a dictator’s position, are not business as usual. Pretending (or just lying, as I suspect you are doing) doesn’t make it so.
Gotta do your homework before making sweeping specious statements, guy.
Sure any number of presidents have skirted constitutional law, and all this has led to a situation where a truly cynical, amoral, shallow man on a power trip can up the ante on abuse of power. That man is Obama. A lot of us posters here know the difference between genuine executive powers and those made up on the fly. Obama has contempt for process when it gets in his way like no other president in recent memory. You are part of the probem because you’re apparently overawed by the idea of priviledge for the powerful. Maybe you should move to a genuine banana republic where you’d feel at home.
Isn’t there a legal way to get rid of this joker before the election. Maybe the Senate could start the process now.
Yes, the House of Representatives can impeach Holder today.
There are about 200,000,000 Americans who haven’t heard of Operation Fast and Furious. They need to be informed.
With Reid controlling the Senate and the 2012 elections 11 months away?..good luck with that
Yes, Indy, this is the reason bo hasn’t been impeached. The House “shall have the sole Power of Impeachment” but the Senate “shall have the sole Power to try all Impeachments.” Since Reid is in bo’s pocket there’s no way he would ever agree to try him for impeachment. Now, if republicans gain both the House and Senate in November but bo gets re-elected I can see him being impeached then.
Maybe Dingy Harry needs to have an accident. He is, after all, a Nevada(=Las Vegas) senator…
If the House would have the stones to impeach him, even Reid could not stop the trial in the Senate. Although, he would no doubt try.
God, please deliver us from Obama, Holder, and Reid. Soon.
I read that Harry Reid is grateful for Obama’s support during the last election. That explains why he is supporting everything Obama wants. So, Obama bought Reid’s soul and Reid will do anything for Obama so show his appreciation.
Obama can’t wait?
We can’t wait til he’s out of office.
After almost four years of experiencing the abject misery Obama has put the country through, anyone still willing to vote for this dim-witted, worse-than-dismal president, deserves the four years of wretchedness that will follow should he win re-election.
Make no mistake: Barack Obama, unencumbered by the perpetual campaign of these last three years, will turn Ronald Reagan’s “morning in America” into four years of “mourning in America” as he strives to remake the nation in his own image, because he can think of nothing more perfect.
An embattled monarch without control of the House or the Senate, he will not govern; he will rule. Executive orders and regulatory fiat, things he found so useful in his first term, will be the order of the day in his second. The nation will tremble before his wrath. Our freedoms and prosperity will be sacrificed to his outsized ego and his dream of a pre-eminent place in the history books.
Read more: http://www.americanthinker.com/2012/01/obama_americas_greatest_asset.html#ixzz1iaLauyIu
Yes, he will go down in history as AmeriKs’s first commie tin pot dictator. And like all commie dictators in history, he will be viewed as incompetent, insane, and evil. I hope we can survive and restore our constitutional govt.
Not to put too fine a point, the word in English is dictatorship.
WHERE ARE Congress and Judiciary? It is THEIR JOB to STOP Obama with his vandals from their unlawful extensions of the Executive Office. Do none of them read the Law to which they each and all swear/affirm oath when taking their seats as “representative” of the free citizens of the USA? Or their administrative staffs not enlighten them?
Are none or them aware, so busy playing in-group games in their exclusive secret brotherhoods, they are NOT lords, royals, elite, feudal clan chiefs, OR tribal elders? They are representative of the citizens – ALL the citizens, not 1% or even 99% but ALL, without regard to race, sex, class, national origin, or any dividing attribute – of the USA. That USA which in constitution is constructed of three equal branches of government to do precisely what Congress and Judiciary are failing to do at this minute: oversee each other office of government and STOP arrogations of powers not delegated in the Constitution, the fundamental AND supreme Law of the Land. Instead accepting and institutionalising into law the depredations proposed by Obama without even it is reported reading the bills that impose on Americans into the future.
WHERE are the free and free-born citizens who cherish their nation? While instruments of Obama the Destroyer in the OWS and the cheering media and celebrities play out their hand with all threat?
Protesting politely the theft of their freedoms, physical as well as legal. Waiting until November 2012 to voice their objections.
WAKE UP ! November 2012 shall be TOO LATE. These vandals have taken the measure of their opponents and know them craven, unwilling to put their – or too often the citizens – “money where their civic responsibilities lie”: to protect and defend the liberties now being summarily removed from them with this Adminstration.
As in the present Congress and the slate of wannabees for the presidency of the rival political party so hungry for glory they forgot “We must all hang together or most assuredly we SHALL all hang separately”.
Obama and his did not forget, and are laughing at their soi-disant opponents doing battle for them in their supreme egotisms. The same manouevres of the past half century from these vandals with their forward troops in the “best and brightest” of pitting citizens against citizens along class, sex, race lines. To divide that nation formerly known as the Land of Liberty, the Land of the Free, and MELTING POT from which the proudest name world-wide was American with a Capital A.
A nation divided against itself cannot stand.
A fine epithet for the former land of the free, my friend. I have been a strong patriot for what this country was founded upon, but even I have hit my limit. Now it is simply time for me to gather weapons and ammunition and be prepared to defend my home and family against anything and everything government related.
The infrastructure of America has now collapsed to the point of no return. The vast majority of citizens care nothing for patriotism unless it involves the government giving them money in exchange for their ignorance. The vast majority of children, the so called “leaders of the next generation”, know nothing outside of video games and pop culture. Unless Justin Bieber is running for some political office, no child cares about their civic duty to learn of what has made our country what it -was-. Furthermore, few parents feel compelled to discuss this with their children because they cannot see this deadly snake winding its way through our sacred halls.
The last bastion of the Old Republic is now what few gatherings of patriotic individuals exist, such as those at this site. Mournfully, I have lost faith in the American public at large. They are now, as John Titor said back in 2000/2001, “sheep being led about, ignorant of their civic duties.”
Small correction: I used epithet instead of epitaph. My mistake.
“WHERE are the free and free-born citizens who cherish their nation?”
Take a look at the polls:
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/other/president_obama_job_approval-1044.html
The more Obama has engaged in strong-arm tactics and legally questionable maneuvers of late, the MORE the voters approve of him.
The history of other nations has shown that citizens often flock to a strongman in tough economic times.
When unemployment is high, citizens haven’t found work in over a year, the economy is stagnant and no immediate relief is in sight, they will demand that these problems be fixed by any means necessary, all that stuff about liberty and freedom be damned.
The Weimar Republic was one notorious example.
I think I’m going back to referring to the President as The Self-Exalted One.
He clearly feels that just being President of the United States, subject to the restrictions of the Constitution, is beneath him.
I’m not calling him a dictator. Yet. But he definitely qualifies as a wannabee demagogue.
Which puts him somewhere between Huey “The Kingfish” Long and Hugo Chavez.
And only a damned fool wants to be there.
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He is following Hugo Chavez’s road to absolute power. Many years ago, I said Chavez will never leave unless physically removed, or premature death intervenes. We will have to wait and see how far along the path Obama travels.
“Obama may make dozens of other controversial appointments in this manner, making a mockery of the Constitution’s advice and consent requirement to fill the federal courts and agencies with radicals who could never withstand Senate scrutiny, even with his own party controlling the Senate.”
Isn’t this what the Founding Fathers feared, that a president would try to usurp the power of Congress and become a dictator? Well folks, it’s happening. Between these “recess appointments,” Obama-appointed “czars,” and using Federal agencies like the EPA to bypass Congress and enforce their own laws, you’ve got a person here that doesn’t think much of either our Constitution or Congress. He’s a socialist, through and through, and if we don’t watch out, he WILL try to take over all power. Heck, he even went to war in Libya with nobody’s approval. So unless Congress wants to be totally irrelevant in the future, they had better do something about this NOW. Time is running out for our republic and, at this rate, I’m not sure we will even be able to make it to November.
What I am about to say may not apply to all Congressional members, but look at China for the perfect example of what Congress has been doing. Cash in on the economy, gain political support, and then distance yourself from the “lowlives” who put you in power. When the President becomes Dictator, Congress will be rendered irrelevant. Naturally, those guys keeping their nice fat taxpayer-endorsed paychecks will side with the Dictator so that they keep their money and power. They realize that the likelihood of being put to the question by a lazy, intellectually dishonest populace is nonexistent. Therefore they will, by decree of the Dictator, be appointed as feudal lords whose only oversight is the Dictator himself.
Unless a movement is started now to combat this overbearing governmental apparatus, the end has come for the Home of the Brave. This is our moment in history to define whether or not we can come back from a societal decline that has destroyed entire civilizations from the beginning of mankind up until now. The Dictator has clearly proven himself to be a master of the written word both in terms of redefining definitions and inventing logic to back up his new definitions. The only course left to us, should we wish to take it, is to forcefully protest this Dictatorship before it is set into stone. This is timed, however. Should we wait too long, we will be unable to disassemble this enormous monstrosity and then we shall all be slaves to something we could have prevented.
~Zamir
This will be addressed by Congress especially in the House,fueled by the tea party and their telephones. We have a Great system that works, first with Congressional disgust now, and by us voters in one short year.Out with quarterback sneaks, out with the Czars and out with nobama!
Stay calm, the worst is yet to come. I do hope we have an election, as elctions are usually understood. Benito Obama may not want to leave the WH, and he will always have the media’s support.
Would you like to set the odds on whether we have an election?
12-Libertyship46 makes good points. But, Phil, you need to look at that sentence again:
“Obama may make dozens of other controversial appointments in this manner, making a mockery of the Constitution’s advice and consent requirement to fill the federal courts and agencies with radicals who could never withstand Senate scrutiny, even with his own party controlling the Senate.”
It states: Obama … [is] making a mockery of the Constitution’s advice and consent requirement to fill the federal courts and agencies with radicals …”
Really? The Constitution requires radical appointments? That doesn’t sound quite right, but it is what the sentence says.
Didn’t Moochelle say she likes being referred to as “your majesty” or something like that? I still say he will win because we are killing anyone on the rep side who will run against him.
“Your Execellency”, and she “kinda liked it”. A little too much, me thinks, like Marie Antoinette “let em eat cake” along with the 4 million dollar vacation junkets an separate planes, a penchant for expensive alcohol and fine foods while telling us “let em eat bean sprouts”, she makes Marie look like a piker.
Thanks for correcting me. I guess we should start referring to her as “your excellency” from now on. I only wish it was for the next 10 months.
This occurred during a guest appearance on iCarly TV show. -not in real life. I do not like Michelle or her husband but I give her a pass on this one.
Obama is not an original thinker. He is taking plays out of Chavez’ handbook(guided by Castro).
We need to look at who O has aligned himself with to understand our future. Muslim brotherhood.
Obama will win the 2012 election by a landslide. Ala Chavez, Castro, Putin etc. Black panthers and the unions will see to it.
Our congressman and senators are only there to allow O to continue his march. ( of course they are provided scraps from the o’s table)
Thank all you know who voted for O in 2008.
And remind them that their life is better and will only get better i 2013 when O takes it all away.
So far, Congressional reaction to Obama’s move yesterday (bypassing conventionally accepted process that Congress must be in recess 3 days for a president to make recess appointments) has been a lot of huffing and puffing.
So far, I haven’t seen Eric Holder suffer any particular anything for Fast & Furious & lying under oath (anybody who doesn’t accept that Holder lied about his knowledge of F&F is brain dead). I haven’t seen Steven Chu or his dept. of energy suffer any consequences for Solyndra and related green boondoogles, throwing literally millions of taxpaper dollars out the window.
Congress better grow a pair and protect what’s left of the Republic.
“Well, what we’re going to have to do is continue to make progress on the economy over the next several months. And where Congress is not willing to act, we’re going to go ahead and do it ourselves.”
The royal WE.
Excellent point. I completely overlooked that as a symbol of the federal government, not the symbol of a narcissistic Dictator.
WIKIPEDIA (don’t miss the final line !!!):
The majestic plural (pluralis maiestatis/majestatis in Latin, literally, “the plural of majesty,” maiestatis being in the genitive case), is the use of a plural pronoun to refer to a single person holding a high office, such as a monarch, bishop, or pope. It is also called the royal pronoun, the royal “we” or the Victorian “we.” The more general word for the use of we to refer to oneself is nosism, from the Latin nos. It is most commonly used to denote the excellence, power, and dignity of the person that speaks or writes.
In pluralis maiestatis a speaker refers to her- or himself using a grammatical number other than the singular (i.e., in plural or, where attested, dual form). For example, the Basic Law of the Sultanate of Oman opens thus:
“On the Issue of the Basic Law of the State We, Qaboos bin Said, Sultan of Oman.”
ObamaCare implementation will move forward in the same arbitrary and politicized fashion that abuses regulations and guidance documents from the IRS and HHS to punish political enemies with expensive interpretations that have no statutory basis and reward political allies with waivers.
It is moving forward, Sebelius’ minions writing literally volumes of regulations, day and night, to implement the arcane language in the 2000+ page bill.
Constructing a Gothic superstructure of government regulation whose operative rule will be that any American will need to seek some moron bureaucrat’s approval for a medical procedure. (Hitler was insistent on government controlled “healthcare” as a precondition for the entrenchment and survival of national socialism.)
A recent call into Mark Levin’s show from a neurosurgeon is instructive
Death panels anyone ?
Obama’s re-election strategy – BYPASS THE ELECTIONS ENTIRELY.
No, I don’t think that he will bypass the election. What he is doing is getting a 2008 supporter, Peter Ackerman, to set up this bogus “America Elects” organization to run a third party candidate designed to siphon off enough of the anti-Obama vote to throw the election to him. Something like what Ross Perot did to Bush 41 so that Clinton was elected with a plurality. He’s hoping that enough of the independents will cast a protest vote for the third party rather than for the Republican nominee because that’s the only way that he can win with 42-44% of the popular vote.
Call me cynical, but I have been over 90% right in predicting what this fascistic president would do. And he’s going to keep using “executive authority” in increasingly egregious ways until there is a successful legal or political challenge to him.
Obama’s current incarnation is just more evidence that he is a cheap punk who was smart enough and lucky enough to become president. So, the semi-dignified O we saw through election year 2008 to 2010 has given way to the full blown punk. The dignity of the office is no longer able to hide it.
Are the dems going to have the guts to run someone else or do they believe that the damage O has already inflicted on their brand is beyond repair for the foreseeable future? But with so many Congressional dems behaving like they’ve been imported in from a hostile foreign government for the purpose of inflicting as much misgovernment on us as they can get away with one has to assume the answer is no. If dems want to go down with Obama it’s fine with me. It’s all rather puzzling stuff though. Obama just isn’t worth it.
They know he’s not worth it. But he’s all they’ve got.
He and the equally classless (your (not so) excellency) wife.
They were always punks.
All in congress are reaping the benefits from the O and his tactics.
Both sides are getting richer and padding their future with every new trick from O.
Heck,even Ron Paul is getting richer by running against everything O stands for.
As long as the foxes are making the rules for the hen house, well you know the end to that story.
We are watching our country be turned into Venezuela by this unprincipled Hugo-wannabe. And what are we doing about it?
We are working to win the next elections and roll back the regime.
And if the subversives will try to violate the legal process of the elections we will ask the Military and the FBI to defend the Constitution.
My strategy is simple;arm yourself,turn somebody, and work for a like-minded candidate.
Obama Wanna…all talk and no action, damnit. Next thing you know he’ll be wearing a flight suit and strutting around claiming he got Bin Laden himself! HA HA HA HA. Like that last mother of a President we had
Would someone please explain to me why it has not occurred to anyone up there in DC to lodge impeachment proceedings against Obama?
Because they have no *stones*. All they appear to care about, within the Belt, is the appearance of the system “working.” That’s it, right there, our elected officials believe the appearance is the reality.
Bribes. Is there anyone left in Washington who can’t be bought?
We need no stinkin’ “Constitution” nor “Congress” !
HalleluO !
PS This thing is taking a nasty turn, the guys are seriously thinking to go Chavez.
The One’s behavior, especially regarding taxation, reminds me of another quote from a western; “The Magnificent Seven” (1960).
Regarding the peasants he robs and oppresses, Calvera (Eli Wallach) says, “If God hadn’t meant them to be sheared, he would not have made them sheep”.
The One, and progressives in general, regard the American people in just that way. And of course sheep are made into mutton when the owner wishes it.
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People keep saying “it can’t happen here.” Nonsense. It has happened here.
Obama’s creation of “recess appointments” when the Senate is not in recess may not be the worst example of his ruling by decree or his ignoring of both the laws on the books and the laws he himself has signed, but it is the most obvious and blatant—and it flies in the face of the Senators of his own party at least as much as it does the Republicans.
Again: the Democrats control the Senate, and it is the Senate that Obama has flipped the bird to with his non-recess recess appointments. Wake up, Democrats! “Your” President has as much contempt for you as he has for the Republicans. He has no respect for the system of government he is supposed to be leading; he wants to be a dictator—has said as much—and has already taken steps which prove he believes he can get away with it.
Democrats! Join with your Republican colleagues to impeach and remove this upstart.
@buzz; you make some strong points!
In a rational and honest Senate it would matter. But the Demonrat controlled Senate they could care less and probably support what Dear Leader is doing. And the spineless GOP is mute…so one has to wonder what McConnel et al are thinking. Or as big-government GOPers do they also support DL.
There is no turning back now. The march toward iron-fisted imperial rule has begun.
1)Dismantle the military
2)Gut the military’s budget
3)Seize the banks
4)Seize property through government foreclosure and eminent domain
5)Seize manufacturing and production
6)Shut down natural resources
7)Seize the communication channels and propagandize the information stream
8)Begin to give the Workers Party perks, favors and graft through bankruptcy court, the NLRB, given them rigged ways to win “popular election” in the workplace
9)Seize universities and make “re-education” the only curriculum of higher learning
10)Seize popular culture, entertainment, and “public” radio and tv making it essentially a voice of the state
11)Weaken all old allies
12)Pass massive legislation that kills free market business and do it in reconciliation, without giving anyone a chance to read it
13)Fail to even attempt to produce a free market budget, thumbing your nose at the most elemental of duties to represent the people and their system of self-governance
14)Crush any attempt to secure your borders by the people and their representatives
15)Declare wars unilaterally, announce plans to surrender to your enemies, weaken the homeland security through every measure
16)Run up so much debt that the free market system will be unsustainable and crash
17)Appoint czars and czarinas to circumvent the Constitution
Welcome to the revolution. You are now living under the thumb of Marxists. They don’t care about your silly rules and your naive belief in an old piece of paper that doesn’t apply to them. Your Constitution is dirt to them. Your rules are meaningless. Keep playing by them, though. It makes their job that much easier….beating you with your own rulebooks.
By all means, be timid, meek and give them the benefit of the doubt. Nibble around the edges. Be halting and hesitant. Don’t call them Marxists and don’t call this a revolution or a coup and don’t call the propaganda machine out for its treason.
Roll over. Surrender. Give up.
This could end badly…Orwell.
HERE’s a concise “laundry list” recipe to VICTORY over Obama in 2012.
GINGRICH can do this. SANTORUM just might. Romney?!? Phhhhht.
1.Every day, the U.S. government takes in $6 billion and spends $10 billion. This means that every day the federal government spends $4 billion more dollars than it has.
2.The real unemployment rate is a jaw-dropping 11 percent.
3.Every fifth man you pass on your way to work is now out of work.
4.College graduates are now 34% less likely to find a job under Obama than they were under President George W. Bush.
5.Every seventh person you pass on the sidewalk now relies on food stamps.
6.The ravages of the Obama economy now mean that more Americans live under the federal poverty line than at any time in U.S. history since records have been kept.
7.Under President Barack Obama, every fifth child in America now lives in poverty.
FROM:
http://invinciblearmor.blogspot.com/2012/01/which-republican-has-guts-to-speak.html
WTF Ed? Get educated before you post the American tragedy as if it has all occurred in the last three years. The whole f’ing government body has contributed to this massive f*ck up. It’s been happening for years. Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, Ford, My love Reagan, Daddy Bush, Billy Bob, Little W, and now the big O. Government works for the silver spoon people not us. Government only needs us to front the money! Go Gingrich. Start the debate!
Er, folks — recess appointments were used by all recent presidents. Reagan (to name one) appointed far more people during recess than Obama did. Stupid practice frankly, the recess appointment, as it’s an obvious loophole, but still.
Sorry to reply to myself, but I just found out the real problem — namely, that congress was in fact in session. Yes, it was a pro-forma session, but so what? Like the fillibuster, these sort of things might look ridiculous, but they are a protection agaisnt tyranny.
@ Skeptic; Obama worries me,he has no problem crossing the line,I love the Military, i know its too large but so what, I FEEL SAFE! Can*t find a dime in the biggest budget busters;social security,medicare,medicaid?
When the Senate was in pro forma session under George Bush, he respected the rules and did not make appointments.
Obama knows very well that these appointments are in your face, against widely accepted rules and procedures, as he proceeds to stack the NLRB with more of his pro union rats while directing his press guy Jay to warble about protecting the consumer.
He just doesn’t give a damn.
Kerpen errs in saying there is a recent “precedent” for making recess appointments when Congress is not in recess. A letter from Kagan while she was solicitor general is not a precedent. It’s a stupid letter.
Besides, the period she cited when Congress was continually in session in 2007 is the period when Reid kept Congress in session to block any Bush recess appointments, and Bush was law abiding not to attempt what Obama has now done.
Now Congressional Repubicans need to unite and state that they do not recognize this appointment and will shut things down until Obama backs down.
A letter from Kagan while she was solicitor general is not a precedent. It’s a stupid letter.
You mean the same Elena Kagan who nearly wet her pants with excitement at her role in crafting the dumb legal rationales for Obamacare ? (whose dumb memo said …”I can’t believe we got this crap through !”)
(I paraphrase liberally
)
The girl who won’t recuse herself when the court takes it up later this year ?
The First DA/DT Justice!
impeach
The real problem is O setting up the system for shutting down TV and radio stations and the Internet, to prevent the public from seeing Marshal Law and the military seize control when it happens. We will be unable to communicate
to the Pentagon to revolt and arrest O. This is the very scary part. Make no mistake, they are not fools, they tell us in advance what they are going to do, blitz-crig and all.
This is the result of an Ivy leagued, ‘Constitutional Scholar’? Man am I glad I saved money at my Div II school..
For the near-daily foot-in-mouth moments/sound bytes our Mussolini wannabe puts on display, the anemic economy, many of our allies snubbed, the anything-but-Lead this chump glaringly exudes yet there is STILL adoring/fawning over this Steve Urkel.
And many of these are private sector, employed and supposedly intelligent people at that. (???)
If Uhbama declared tomorrow he’s going to Ghana and asked ‘Who’s with me’? – There would be millions willing to go.
I sadly liken these moronic masses to Jack Nicholson’s, ‘One Flew Over..’ character post-lobotomy.
Apparently ‘knowledge is power’ is a disdainful, fictional construct.
Bypass the Demonrats. Talk about vampire squid – they are it.
GOP Senators not running for reelection this year should be outfront denouncing this move on the Senate floor right now. House GOP members should be on the floor of the House denouncing the president’s “appointments”. Every GOP governor and legislature should be denouncing the president’s move and calling on their state’s legislatures by resolution denounce the president’s actions.The GOP caucus, including those running for the presidency, should denounce the president’s actions. The GOP caucus should also take legal action thru the courts, including where possible the SCOTUS. If they don’t do this now, this usurpation will stand.
I agree A ray. We should not stand by like sheep while the wolf licks his lips. I’m contacting my senator to demand he speak out!
I want Gingrich to take on bigO(zero)!
President Obama said we are going to continue to make progress on the economy. We have not made progress on the economy. In fact President Obama’s economic policies have made the economy worse. When Obama took office in 2009 the unemployment rate was 7.8%. After his economic stimulus was passed on a partisan vote and the money from the stimulus went into the economy the very next month the unemployment rate went up to 8.2%. The following month the unemployment rate went up again to 8.6%. In the first half of 2011 economic growth after the money from Obama’s stimulus package was used up was only 0.1%. This is very weak economic growth. Obama’s stimulus package only create 500,000 permanent jobs in almost 4 years so President Obama’s stimulus package has not created a lot of permanent jobs. The only this Obama’s stimulus package did was add more money to the debt. Obama will say well the unemployment rate dropped from 9% to 8.5%. That is good news. Well that is not good news because the reason why the unemployment rate dropped to 8.5% is because 315,000 people left the work force in November and were not looking for a job. The Department of Labor does not consider anyone who does not have a job and not looking for a job unemployed so when 315,000 people left the workforce in November and were not looking for a job they were not consider unemployed so the unemployment rate went down.
What I do not see anyone really commenting on though is the tyrant would not have the capacity to do a whole lot were it not for a congress which continues to allow the bureaucratic state to expand. While they must have thought themselves clever that by doing things through the bureaucracy they would be insulated from political liability while enjoying the “benefits” of satisfying donors through “regulation” (laws renamed), they managed to massively expand the executive and create the capacity to rule as a tyrant with little interference from congress.
Face it, there is not a whole lot he cannot do now.
And, believe me, it will get much, much worse in terms of the tyrant exercising this illegitimate power.
The problem began long before this President and the solution must go deeper than simply replacing this incompetent ideologue. Mr. Obama’s imperious disregard of the Constitution is only one manifestation of a national government which has expanded far beyond its original constitutional bounds. We can only hope to be free of this or future administrations of its ilk when we restore the original limits on the national government which have been stripped away by Supreme Court decisions since 1937. Given how entrenched that Supreme Court jurisprudence is, this can only be done by amendments restating those original constitutional limits. See http://www.timelyrenewed.com.