October 24, 2012 - 7:11 am
House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Va.) yesterday released a report showcasing more than 40 examples of breakdowns in the rule of law over President Obama’s term.
“The Imperial Presidency” pulls together investigations from various House committees and administration actions from circumventing the regulatory process to creating new programs and superagencies without the consent of Congress.
Some highlights:
- “In April of 2011, the NLRB filed a complaint against The Boeing Company for building an assembly line in South Carolina despite the fact the NLRB could not demonstrate that Boeing was breaking any law. The NLRB tried to force Boeing to move the work to Washington State from the non-union facility in South Carolina. Ultimately the NLRB backed down and dropped their case against Boeing, only after their coercive efforts caused Boeing to modify its agreement with a Washington-based union.”
- “On July 19th, 2010 President Obama signed Executive Order 13547 to adopt the final recommendations of the Interagency Ocean Policy Task Force to implement a new National Ocean Policy, which includes a mandatory Coastal and Marine Spatial Planning initiative to ‘zone’ the oceans. In this unilateral action, he established a top-down, Washington, D.C.–based approval process that will hinder rather than promote ocean and inland activities and cost American jobs.”
- “It is clear that Congress wanted the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) to be the sole federal agency setting these standards, and that states were preempted from going their own way. Yet the Obama administration has given EPA the lead role and has allowed California to wield significant influence, in effect allowing California to dictate an auto standard for all other states. Under this administration’s rules, NHTSA is a decidedly junior partner despite being the only one with any expertise on fuel economy standards.”
- “The Administration’s Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) took the position that the Administration has the power to declare what religious staff positions at a religious institution are ‘religious enough’ to enjoy the protections from government interference guaranteed by the First Amendment. Ultimately, the Supreme Court decided 9-0 against the Obama Administration’s position. Even President Obama’s two Supreme Court appointees found the Administration’s position untenable.
- The Obama Administration refused to enforce the requirement, under the Foreign Relations Authorization Act, Fiscal Year 2003, to record ‘Israel’ as the place of birth on passports for U.S. citizens born in Jerusalem upon request.
There’s much more in Cantor’s report – read the whole thing here.
Mess with the bull, you get the horn. These last two weeks the Obama administration will be hoisted on their petard.
After the inauguration of Romney, indictments.
The most important document produced in the entire four years of Obama’s Lawless Presidency.
And, it is missing SEVERAL key components.
1)Dropping a DEFAULTED case of armed thuggery, with racial threats of murder, at a polling place.
2)Having a DOJ that announced that it would not prosecute or defend on behalf of the rights of persons of a certain race or color.
3)Running guns to drug cartels, then covering it up, then asserting an executive privilege that does not exist.
4)Creating a slush fund for a private company that was known to be failing, while creating a sweetheart circumvention for the Obama bundler to recoup his money before the American taxpayer.
5) Turning off the credit card security system for campaign financing, intentionally allowing illegal foreign and bundled funds to circumvent the law.
6)Leaking national security secrets to the NYTimes and then refusing to appoint anyone who was not beholden to Obama to investigate the leak.
7)Having federal agents conduct a midnight roust of an amateur videographer, then perp walk him in front of notified news cameras , hold him in jail and not give him a court date until after the election…because he asserted his freedom of speech rights to criticize radical Islam.
8)Suing states that tried to protect their borders, instead of talking to them with no preconditions…an offer made to a sworn enemy instead.
Eric Cantor’s list and the added ones NEED TO GO VIRAL. WE need to make sure that millions of people are notified and understand this issue. Our honorable media (NRO, PJM, Daily Caller, Townhall, HotAir, Instapundit, Drudge, Powerline, Ace of Spades, Commentary, American Spectator, Fox News, Rush, ….every single non-leftist site MUST make the Lawless Presidency a blast news item. For every single day remaining in this campaign.
Send this list and add to it (only those things which show lawlessness…no general complaints or off topic complaints). And demand, beg, plead, ask, every single person and news outlet to highlight this in their communications with Americans everywhere.
THIS is the fork in the road.