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2014-01-27 -Land of the Free
Obama to bypass Congress in 2014, rule by agency decree
Rule? Nice ring to it for a despot.
[Daily Caller] White House officials say President Barack Obama will continue to aggressively use his control of federal agencies to impose his progressive agenda on the economy and society throughout 2014.

He'll largely continue to ignore GOP legislators, except to push GOP leaders to accept an amnesty for at least 12 million Democrat-leaning illegal immigrants, according to several White House officials who outlined the strategy to the Washington Post.

"Washington Stalinist veterans have been brought into the West Wing to emphasize an executive style of governing that aims to sidestep Congress more often," said the approving Washington Post article. The new plan "is to bring all of the government alive in a way we have never been very good at," said another official.

"We'll be doing that as aggressively as possible.... and if we succeed, that is a big presidency,"
and a very small constitution,
a senior administration official told the Post.

Obama's goals are more ambitious than what he had expected to get from the GOP after his 2012 reelection, an official said.

"Even in the best case -- if the [GOP's] fever had broken and the clouds had parted -- we still would have only gotten maybe 40 percent of what we wanted," said the official, who echoed Obama's frequent description of the GOP's conservative beliefs as the incoherent ravings of a sick patient.
Declaring your opposition insane was a familiar them in Stalin's Russia.
The new "pen and phone" strategy appears to be a more aggressive version of the post 2010 "We Can't Wait" strategy, in which Obama ha repeatedly promised to implement progressive policies when the GOP-led Congress refused to pass them.
"Pen and phone" please beware of constitution and gun.
Numerous GOP legislators, including House Speaker John Boehner, have protested Obama's unilateral actions as lawbreaking and unconstitutional.
Speaker Boehner, thou protesteth too much. Time for a legislation strike, legal actions, declarations of 'high crimes and misdemeanors,' sit-in on the Capital steps, along with a citizens march on Washington.
"If you look at what this administration has done -- from Obamacare to the Environmental Protection Agency to the [immigration enforcement], the rules and regulations and executive orders that he rolls out on the fly -- it is quite clear that he ignores what is in the law and he does what he wants to do," Louisiana Rep. John Fleming told The Daily Caller.
Posted by Besoeker 2014-01-27 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11134 views ]  Top

#1 In modern usage, the term "dictator" is generally used to describe a leader who holds and/or abuses an extraordinary amount of personal power, especially the power to make laws without effective restraint by a legislative assembly[citation needed]. Dictatorships are often characterised by some of the following traits: suspension of elections and of civil liberties; proclamation of a state of emergency; rule by decree; repression of political opponents without abiding by rule of law procedures; these include single-party state, and cult of personality. Wikipedia
Posted by Omavising Ebbemp9815 2014-01-27 00:52||   2014-01-27 00:52|| Front Page Top

#2 Now, now, the Bammer + Globies haven't PCorrectly-Deniably surrendered East Asia + 1/2 of the Pacific to China yet, i.e. ordering the USDOD-Navy to attack the PLA while also simultan ordering US forces to NOT arrive on time in-theater, so clearly the Artic is wrong - at best, is premature.

* IIRC TOPIX, WORLD NEWS > THE WORST YEARS OF OBAMA ARE NOW UPON US.

Espec iff the USN is going to deploy only two CVNS + BGS at any one time starting in 2015

Lest we fergit, MSM-NET = FEARS OF CHINA/PLA-LED, "NUCLEAR(?) PEARL HARBOR" IN PREEMPTIVE STRIKE VEE LRBMS AGZ MAJOR OR KEY US BASES DURING A PROTRACTED PERIOD OF SEQUESTRATION.

What more iff POTUS BAMMER = "D *** NG IT, I ORDERED YOUSE TO ATTACK - I DIDN'T SAY ANYTHING ABOUT ATTACKING IN A TIMELY MANNER"!
Posted by JosephMendiola 2014-01-27 01:39||   2014-01-27 01:39|| Front Page Top

#3 Bring him to court and strike down these unconstitutional making of laws by executive decree.
Posted by OldSpook 2014-01-27 02:18||   2014-01-27 02:18|| Front Page Top

#4 When Obama was elected John Derbyshire defined him as "african socialist"---bad, bad racist John!
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2014-01-27 03:32||   2014-01-27 03:32|| Front Page Top

#5 Congress needs to grow a pair and put this executive nonsense into the courts for destruction. Each and every executive order must be challenged on the basis of the founding articles of the Constitution.
Posted by OldSpook 2014-01-27 03:37||   2014-01-27 03:37|| Front Page Top

#6 The Achilles Heal is his responsibility per the Constitution to faithfully execute the laws passed by Congress. There are no doubt many that he refuses to execute. Therefore list them and impeach him based on the ones he clearly and flagrantly refused to execute.
Posted by Omavising Ebbemp9815 2014-01-27 04:20||   2014-01-27 04:20|| Front Page Top

#7 OlSpook.

Senate is Democratic remember? It is not a question of having or not having.
Posted by JFM 2014-01-27 06:30||   2014-01-27 06:30|| Front Page Top

#8 "Obama will be ready to rule on day one."

~ Valerie Jarrett talks to Tom Brokaw on 'Meet the Press' Published: 11/10/2008 at 11:54 AM.
Posted by Besoeker 2014-01-27 07:27||   2014-01-27 07:27|| Front Page Top

#9 "You can keep the doctor you have."
"I am not a dictator."


The list grows.
Posted by Procopius2k 2014-01-27 08:38||   2014-01-27 08:38|| Front Page Top

#10 OldSpook:

Courts are being packed by hand-picked Obama puppets. Republicans in Congress are little if any better. Whom does that leave to oppose him?
Posted by Iblis 2014-01-27 10:21||   2014-01-27 10:21|| Front Page Top

#11 If you like your constitutionally limited republic you can keep your constitutionally limited republic
Posted by Bright Pebbles 2014-01-27 10:24||   2014-01-27 10:24|| Front Page Top

#12 Whom does that leave to oppose him? Posted by Iblis


Only the group who is currently in the cross-hairs, the Tea Party.
Posted by Besoeker 2014-01-27 10:29||   2014-01-27 10:29|| Front Page Top

#13 Yep, and Sen. Schumer is saying the same thing.

Eins, zwei, drei, vier...

Congressional Repubs, quit screwing around and please take the fucking gloves off...
Posted by Raj 2014-01-27 10:29||   2014-01-27 10:29|| Front Page Top

#14 Congressional Repubs, quit screwing around...

Congressional Repubs are completely compromised.At least the old-guard Establishment. Obama's NSA has the goods on all of them, that's why they're all looking for a way to roll over.

We need to completely clean house.
Posted by Sheremp Hatfield7003 2014-01-27 12:41||   2014-01-27 12:41|| Front Page Top

#15 I agree. Washington DC is beyond repair with the corruption.

Raze it to the ground, start with just the constitution and all other laws are void. Build it up from there.
Posted by DarthVader 2014-01-27 13:17||   2014-01-27 13:17|| Front Page Top

#16 I think the nation's capital should be on a random rotating basis every 4 years.

Every 4 years a city, of all the cities with a population of 100K to 1M (but not over), is chosen to be the next capital for the next 4 years. If someplace like Nome Alaska gets chosen then so be it. If someplace like bumfluck TX gets chosen - that will be the capital.

Put all the departments in double-wide trailers which get hauled around. Max 5 trailers per department excluding Defense.
Posted by CrazyFool 2014-01-27 13:59||   2014-01-27 13:59|| Front Page Top

#17  "All within the state, nothing outside the state, nothing against the state."
~Benito Mussolini
Posted by Besoeker 2014-01-27 14:13||   2014-01-27 14:13|| Front Page Top

#18 Obama to bypass Congress in 2014, rule by agency decree

And Congress to do it's part by kowtowing to the new emperor and crying "What can we possibly do to stop him?"
Posted by gorb 2014-01-27 14:38||   2014-01-27 14:38|| Front Page Top

#19 The one thing democrats and republicans can agree upon: the tea party must go.

There is a merging of the two major parties. They certainly speak to different philosophies but the results are the same: more borrowing, more spending, more taxing, more printing and less freedom
Posted by airandee 2014-01-27 15:21||   2014-01-27 15:21|| Front Page Top

#20 My Dodge has this nasty habit of almost smacking any bumper with a Obama bumper sticker and then the horn inexplicably blows. Obama bumper stickers, new cause for spontaneous road rage.
Posted by Omavising Ebbemp9815 2014-01-27 18:52||   2014-01-27 18:52|| Front Page Top

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