Allegiance to the U.S. Constitution has fallen so far that members of the Establishment media are encouraging Barack Obama to bypass Congress and rule through executive orders. The most recent encouragement came in the form of an article posted today on the inside-the-Beltway website Politico entitled “Obama 2.0: Reinventing a Presidency.” The authors, John F. Harris and James Hohmann, state that negotiating with the new Congress — elected by the largest electoral tidal wave since the 1930s — would prove inconvenient for the president and hamper his left-wing agenda, so he should ignore them and keep giving the American people hope-and-change, good-and-hard.
Harris and Hohmann write, “Six weeks of lame-duck legislating should be more than enough to convince President Barack Obama that two more years of this would be a drag.” Instead, “numerous veterans of previous White Houses and other experts” advise that Obama should be “discarding the Congress-focused strategy of the first two years and coming up with new and more creative ways to exercise power and set the national agenda.” In fact, the authors state, “Republican gains in Congress make it essential for him to use new avenues of power.”
When President Bush refused to remove all combat troops from Iraq after the 2006 midterms, the media insisted he was living “in a bubble,” but when the American heartland calls for less government and more responsibility, executive department diktats become “essential.”
These proposed avenues include executive orders, federal regulations, and “letting conservatives think they have achieved some of what they want.”
The Politico pundits cite their idea of a great example of an executive power grab: Bill Clinton’s executive order nationalizing 1.7 million acres of Utah land with the stroke of a pen. Obama is similarly dedicated to massive land grabs and sea regulations, including a recent proposal to seize 27 million acres in the West.
Another grand idea, according to the “centrist Democratic think tank” Third Way, is to press forward for a bipartisan amnesty plan for illegal aliens. In fact, Obama has instituted a de facto, default stealth amnesty for illegal aliens — suing Arizona, suspending immigration law enforcement, and pushing hard for passage of the DREAM Act. Before the midterm elections, Obama told Univision Radio listeners they must “punish our enemies,” indicating Republicans who stand up for the majority of Americans who oppose amnesty. SEIU International Secretary-Treasurer and honorary chair of the Democratic Socialists of America Eliseo Medina admitted last summer “comprehensive immigration reform” would allow the far-Left to “create a governing coalition for the long-term.” Some bipartisan compromise!
These new, sweeping powers will not benefit Obama alone but all unelected federal regulators in the executive department. Politico suggests federal agencies will begin churning out regulations at a record pace, as this author has forecast. These unelected bureaucrats will have a free hand in regulating industries as they see fit, with little in the way of either Congressional oversight or constitutional authorization.
Today’s article is but the latest incitement for Obama to begin ruling by decree. Curiously, the “grassroots” encouragement for fascism 1) came shortly after an anonymous White House insider told the L.A. Times Obama will rule by executive order in 2011 and 2) are made almost exclusively to organizations funded by George Soros.
Karen Dolan posted an article on the website of the Soros-funded Institute for Policy Studies encouraging IPS members to “push Obama to finally do the right thing through as many Executive Orders as we can present to him.”
The Huffington Post‘s Ben Feller wrote that Obama 2.0 “will use executive authority when blocked by Congress, and steel for scrutiny and investigations if the GOP is in charge.”
The Center for American Progress, begun with Soros money, issued a 54-page report detailing an executive order agenda for Obama beginning next year.
Some left-wing agitators are taking the initiative for the bottom-up component of the revolution themselves. Al Sharpton said he held “a series of meetings” last week with the FCC in the hopes the FCC would kick Rush Limbaugh off the airwaves. “The FCC has the responsibility to set standards — to say the public cannot be offended based on their race or their gender in this country,” he whined. Later, Sharpton told MSNBC’s Ed Schultz he would “push for public hearings” at “the beginning of the year,” forcing Limbaugh to prove he is not a racist or face censure by the feds.
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Should Al Sharpton determine who has the right to speak on TV?
If the Politico article is not breaking new territory in its content, it is significant for another reason: it is the first mainstream media outlet to make the case that the president can and should ignore the will of the American people. Politico is no extremist left-wing group like IPS or openly committed to “progressive” politics like CAP or HuffPo. It is considered a reputable news source by…well, the same people who consider network news reputable news sources. This article is an indication the mainstream media will spend the next two years covering for Obama’s power grab and explaining to flyover country why his anti-democratic actions are in Americans’ best interests.
Americans who want the facts cannot look to the liberal media. They will have to cultivate alternative news sources, like talk radio.
And this website.
Readers of this website will not be surprised by Obama’s lust for power nor his media allies’ cheerleading efforts. This author was the first to reveal the Obama administration’s power grab in an article posted on this website in early October. (See this article and this article.) We will remain on the case, exposing his machinations and the mass media’s distortions, until he is voted out of office or removed from power.
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Obama can shove his executive order where the sun don’t shine!
Any viewer / reader of Politico is not surprised.
Bush does something, the LEFT howls.
HERE is the LEFT ADVOCATING this president rule by fiat / executive orders,
but you’ll not hear this covered on CNN, I bet. That’s the problem with the
Left ( other than their blatant corruption & lies ) THEY have one set of rules
for most of us, and A BETTER SET of rules for themselves !
YET they think they’ve cornered the market on fairness, equality.
Such is their hypocrisy.
IMHO, this situation can’t go on. If Obama wants to become DE FACTO dictator, we can make it difficult for him to achieve
that aboMinable goal! We need to organize MASS RALLIES and
protests, demanding his Impeachment and Resignation! It is
essential (IMO) that we learn ASAP to be one or MORE steps
ahead of this Gangster Government, whic has FORSAKEN Legality
and Legitimacy! Show them that they can’t silence us. To do
that will be over our DEAD bodies! Gentlemen, ENOUGH IS ENOUGH!
NO MORE!!! Keep the Faith! God is IN CONTROL, and He has the
last say! MARANATHA!!
I am not opposed to this , it will make it easier to eliminate his executive orders after his impeachment and prosecution than undoing a bunch of this same trash enacted into law by a corrupt congress . Of course for justice to be served the reid and pelosi enablers should all be locked up too , and more important than that they should all lose all retirement benefits whether in prison or not
GET THIS JERK OUT OF OUR WHITE HOUSE ASAP!!!
President Obama has used czars and executive orders to his advantage in the past. He can have his way in many areas by executive order, unchallenged. However, a prudent congress can control many of his actions through withholding funding. In my view he can not rule by executive order without violating our Constitution, which he has done many times in the past two years. I expect President Obama to continue to create national crisis and at some point declare martial law, expanding his powers. He may have waited too long to try this charade. Also he has kicked out his chief henchman in a pretense of running for mayor of Chicago. A majority of Americans and some congressmen have learned to anticipate Obama’s deceitful maneuvers. Unless congress passes laws strengthening the authority of presidential csars, Obama will not rule effectively through executive orders. Let’s pray God will remove him from his throne if he attempts this unlawful act.
OBAMA, you're NOTHING but a LOW LIFE SH*THEAD!!!!! YOU SUCK!!!!
If this illegal piece of trash usurper in the White House starts down this road, then it is time to rise up and complete what our ancestors did in 1861! They want a fight, bring it on!!!!!!
Seems I remember just a few years ago a rumor that was spreading about how George Bush stated: “The Constitution is just a gd piece of paper.” Well, this bunch of fools in DC are using the Constitution to wipe their arses. The rumor about Bush’s statement is false. If you can prove that my statement about this bunch of fools is false–go for it!
2012–that target on your back ain’t for patting!
I want to know how these asses, Al Sharpton and Ed the "blow hard" Schultz can get away with all the BS thew spew.
They're in bed with the President and Geo Soros
Sure obama, go ahead and rule by exec. order. You are going to swing on a rope before its all over, lets get it over with. The sooner the better. And lets not forget soros. He needs to swing on the rope too.
I’m with you Shucksters, except with a little twist. Try him for treason and right before you hang him pour pigs blood all over him and make him drink a dab if possiable, Then hang him, after all we wouldn’t want him to go to heaven and partake of those fantacy virgins now would we.
The American people are tired and angry at all of these shenanigans going on in the White House and Congress and I would not be surprised to see a revolt in the streets of America.
I read an article the other day and it said that Washington was giving the middle finger to the taxpayers and saying to us that they will do as they please!
Isn’t it about time that all of this rhetoric be put behind us and lets all get together [including the Tea Party folks] and start pushing for Obama’s IMPEACHMENT? How much more harm are we going to let him do to the country to where we will not be able to undo what he has master-finded? Lets start rallying and demonstrating and calling, faxing, and emailing our Senators and Representatives and let them know that we are very, very serious about removing Obama from office.
Almost all dictatorships do not end well. Governing by fiat or executive order is not good in the long run where the intent is to side step laws already on the books. The thing to fear is when executive orders are used to the point of bending to a breaking point, then government has lost, lost it's mandate to govern.
he’s going to have to be careful; if he tries this there’s going to be a revolt like nothing he’s seen yet! That’s why we have a Constitution—to prevent this kind of thing from happening!
There are a lot more people in this country that are absolutely FED UP with ALL of it (!!!) than there are those in Washington! I agree, it's heading for a revolt FOR THE PEOPLE, BY THE PEOPLE!
Obama the muslim & his communist supporters are taking over America.
I find it curious that Mr. Obama and all of the left-wing heavy hitters out there, who tell the American people how selfish they are and how they need to help those less fortunate, are the self-same people who are so insulated by their own wealth and position that they will never have to endure the hardships that they impose on the rest of us. They will continue to be “living in a bubble”: In their mansions, in their highly secured neighborhoods, in fuel-guzzling cars and planes, taking luxurious vacations, staying in the best hotels, and eating in the most expensive restaurants-and if they need medical care, getting the best that private insurance can buy. I’ll bet that, comparing apples to apples, those hypocrites don’t even come close to doling out their own dollars in the same percentages that we, their humble subjects, are expected to.
and they work for us….how does this work??
We ALL need to keep our eyes and ears open. This whole Fiasco in our Gov’t is a Plot and one that has been planned for a LONG time. We can’t underestimate what they can do and WILL do. We can’t rule out ANY conspiracy theories as ‘IT CANT HAPPEN HERE IN AMERICA’ because it already has!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VebOTc-7shU
We have to be prepared for the ‘worst’ scenario! God Bless us ALL and give us the Courage & Strength to do your Will! God Bless America!
“A sense of entitlement is a powerful thing. It led Democrats to believe they were invulnerable to public opinion, and seduced them into believing they could do all manner of things in contravention to the Constitution and the established rule of law. They believed they could do these things without consequences — or at least, serious consequences; and that the wave of animosity against the policies of George W. Bush that swept them into office, would insulate them from any fallout from their votes.” — Richard Pecore
They were WRONG! Despite the overwhelming opinion of the voters on Nov. 2nd, the leftists still cling to their last vestiges of power in this "lame duck session"…and like a small spoiled child, try to break the toy rather than return it to its rightful owner. It is our duty to prevent the destruction…and to remain vigilant so that this type of statist regime is NEVER permitted to attempt a "fundamental transformation" of our nation ever again! (Continued in next message.)
“A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself. For the traitor appears not a traitor, he speaks in accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and their arguments, he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of the city, he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to fear.” — Marcus Tullius Cicero, Roman orator, statesman 42 B.C.
Whenever anything from Politico shows up around here, we automatically turn it off. It's a mouthpiece for the left. Obama has only one accomplishment. He has divided this nation like nothing seen since the Civil War. He has outdone FDR & LBJ. Both of those figures of the past were very controversial during their time in the WH (and I know because I was into politics even then), but neither came close to stinking up the place like Obama.
Al Sharpton makes his living by agitating the crowds. He is a very unchristian man because his heart is so full of hate. I cannot understand why black leaders don't work to lift up their communities instead of always preaching to them how mistreated they are. It is all BS. If you are an American citizen then you are one of the luckiest people in the world. If you can't have a decent life here then it is your own fault. The fact is that America has overcome many problems because of God loving Americans. There isn't enough racism in America to keep anyone from being what they want to be. Old Al should look for a different drum to beat. His is all worn out.
History repeats itself…
Although Obama swore to uphold and defend the Constitution, he must not take the oath seriously. Maybe it is because of his Muslim upbringing, which permits the use of deception and lying (called taqiyya), especially in regard to dealing with "infidels" (Christians, Jews, and others that are not Muslims).
He is supposedly a Constitutional lawyer, but he seems to use his knowledge of the Constitution to find ways to circumvent it.
When the new Congress takes control next year, they need to exercise the system of checks and balances to prevent Obama from the abuse of his power as well as bringing impeachment charges against him, requiring him to PROVE his citizenship and eligibility, investigate his past possession of multiple Social Security cards and determine how he was able to travel to Pakistan at a time when U.S. citizens weren't permitted to travel to that nation.
Outstanding comments.
I have never heard Rush make a racist statement. Al Sharpton is the one that's racist. He starts trouble, lies to get attention and would love nothing better than destroy the Conservative talk shows. Then you have that fruitcake Schultz or whatever his name is interviewing Sharpton and agreeing with him. Just goes to show how stupid a lot of people can be. This nut job on The Ed Show" needs to take a valium and quit trying to incite trouble. I am so sick and tired of people like him who want nothing more than to cause trouble. Mr. Schultz, I hope you read the comments on these stories. When this Country fails, and you are kicked to the side of the road wanting help, I feel sorry for you. The left is using you with no regard to your well being. I can imagine many people will hold you and several others for inciting trouble and eventually the collapse of this Country. How will you feel about yourself then? When there is no food to feed your gut, will you think about all the times you damned the Conservatives who kept warning about what was happening? Will you wish you had reconsidered how you came across on the air and regret what you have said? You will. Will you enjoy the abuse of power coming from the Admin when it affects you? No you won't. But, by then, it will be too late.
If Mr. Obama continues down a path of destruction of our beloved country, including destruction of our liberties and freedoms, we must, by means of civil disobedience, march enmass into the Oval Office as a means of protest. With live media coverage I don't think the Secret Service or the military would dare to start shooting into our peaceful, yet determined, group.
Ben, you are a joke and a traitor. This article alone sets you up as a seditionist. And, then your abysmal attempt at being a modertor on the recent GOP debate is laughable. Were you supposed to be the ones the candidates were debzting or each other?
Reminds me every day why I don’t watch the joke called main stream media traitor clowns that are in the pocket of liberals. Bought and sold. Doesn’t it bother your journalist self to so partisan?
Sorry, meant to say this was meant for John Harris (not Ben Johnson). Oops!