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Obama warns Trump not to overuse executive orders |
2016-12-20 |
[Breitbart] WASHINGTON, Dec. 19 - With about one month to go before he leaves office, President Barack Obama gave some exit interview-type advice to his successor Donald Trump: Don’t rely too heavily on executive orders. In an interview with NPR’s Steve Inskeep on Thursday that aired in its entirety Monday on Morning Edition, Obama said it’s preferable to work with Congress. "Keep in mind, though, that my strong preference has always been to legislate when I can get legislation done," Obama said from the Cabinet Room in the White House. "In my first two years, I wasn’t relying on executive powers, because I had big majorities in the Congress and we were able to get bills done, get bills passed. And even after we lost the majorities in Congress, I bent over backwards consistently to try to find compromise and a legislative solution to some of the big problems that we’ve got -- a classic example being immigration reform, where I held off for years in taking some of the executive actions that I ultimately took in pursuit of a bipartisan solution -- one that, by the way, did pass through the Senate on a bipartisan basis with our help." |
Posted by:Besoeker |
#15 A pen, a phone, a clock, a chair. A yen, a throne, a shock, Brumaire. |
Posted by: Zenobia Floger6220 2016-12-20 23:29 |
#14 King Ludwig alert. |
Posted by: Jack Salami 2016-12-20 21:26 |
#13 That depends on just how many EOs overturn BOs EOs. Ifor one have never been able to figure out just EOs affecting domestic policy are constitutional. But then my mind doesn't understand Beltwayese |
Posted by: Cheaderhead 2016-12-20 20:58 |
#12 That statement by O is one of the most Bozonic utterances I ever heard. |
Posted by: Alaska Paul 2016-12-20 18:47 |
#11 File this one under "Alternate History". |
Posted by: Pappy 2016-12-20 16:01 |
#10 "and refrain from golfing too much!" |
Posted by: Frank G 2016-12-20 13:29 |
#9 kind of sad, really, if not so damned predictable |
Posted by: Grampaw Groluck9066 2016-12-20 13:22 |
#8 Pen and a phone, bitch. |
Posted by: charger 2016-12-20 12:46 |
#7 Obama as Elder Statesman, mind boggles. |
Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2016-12-20 12:02 |
#6 ...the pen will be easy but sticking the phone up his ass will be a lot harder Posted by Frank Delightful mental image. Please send fotos as they become available. |
Posted by: Besoeker 2016-12-20 11:59 |
#5 "...some of the executive actions that I ultimately took in pursuit of a bipartisan solution..." Do the Progs actually listen to the words uttered by this fool? |
Posted by: Vast Right Wing Conspiracy 2016-12-20 11:57 |
#4 the pen will be easy but sticking the phone up his ass will be a lot harder |
Posted by: Frank G 2016-12-20 11:51 |
#3 Are you fucking kidding me??? Mister Executive (Screw you Congress) Order himself is telling his successor not to do what he did???? Work with Congress??? Oh my aching back...what a hypocrite. |
Posted by: Sock Puppet of Doom 2016-12-20 11:40 |
#2 Heh(tm) |
Posted by: Procopius2k 2016-12-20 08:39 |
#1 My goodness, at least he's going out on the same boat he came in on. ME, I,ME, I,ME, I,ME, I,ME, I,ME, I,ME, I,ME, I,ME, I, |
Posted by: AlanC 2016-12-20 07:20 |