This group in the White House has no problems lying straight to our faces. As a Senator, Obama was asked if he would promise not to use signing statements. He said Yes and went on to excoriate Bush’s use of them. Now that he has broken yet another promise, the White House is in cover-your-ass mode.
Barack Obama the presidential candidate did not disagree with the practice of signing statements but rather the way former President George W. Bush used them, the White House said Saturday after Obama as president issued another signing statement of his own.
The president raised eyebrows Friday when he signed the hard-won 2011 spending bill and added a statement that implied he would ignore some parts of the bill including language defunding the president’s use of czars.
Bush did issue hundreds of often controversial signing statements during his two terms, and Obama, while running for office in 2008, blasted Bush for doing so.
In 2008, Obama responded to a question asking if he would promise not to use signing statements by saying yes and blasting Bush’s efforts “to accumulate more power in the presidency.”
“That’s not part of his power, but this is part of the whole theory of George Bush that he can make laws as he goes along,” Obama said. “I disagree with that. I taught the Constitution for 10 years. I believe in the Constitution, and I will obey the Constitution of the United States. We’re not going to use signing statements as a way of doing an end-run around Congress.”
White House press secretary Jay Carney said that Obama’s use of signing statements as president is “actually entirely consistent with what he’s said and with our policy.”
Just ignore his promise not to use signing statements and you too can believe the bullshit this White House sales.
For those who don’t know the story about Project Gunwalker, here’s the background. The ATF is allowing gun-runners, who they have under investigation, to purchase firearms. These firearms are ending up in the hands of the Mexican drug cartels who are using them to kill U.S. law enforcement agents, as well as Mexican citizens.
Brian Terry was one of the agents killed and the gun that killed him is linked back to one purchased by these gun-runners the ATF had under surveillance. Obama and Eric Holder have stated they had no idea about this operation of allowing guns to enter Mexico, but e-mails show a different story.
The Justice Department and ATF have not cooperated with Sen. Grassley’s investigation.
(CNSNews) – Democrats in America today are twice as likely as Americans in the Great Depression era to favor imposing heavy taxes on the rich as a means of redistributing wealth, according to data published today by the Gallup poll.
A Gallup poll conducted April 7-11, in the lead-up to the annual deadline for filing federal tax returns, showed that 71 percent of Democrats believe the government should use heavy taxes on the rich to redistribute wealth. In 1939, after ten years of the Great Depression, only 35 percent of all Americans believed government should do that.
In the April 11-17 survey, Gallup asked more than 1,000 American adults: “People feel differently about how far a government should go. Here is a phrase which some people believe in and some don’t. Do you think our government should or should not redistribute wealth by heavy taxes on the rich?”
71 percent of Democrats told Gallup the government should impose heavy taxes on the rich to redistribute wealth and 26 percent said the government should not. By contrast, only 28 percent of Republicans said the government should impose heavy taxes on the rich to redistribute wealth, while 69 percent said the government should not.
Overall, in the April 7-11 Gallup survey, 47 percent of Americans said government should impose heavy taxes on the rich to redistribute wealth while 49 percent said the government should not.
According to Gallup, back in March 1939, after a decade of the Great Depression, the Roper poll conducted a survey for Fortune Magazine asking the same question. At that time, only 35 percent of Americans believed government should impose heavy taxes on the rich to redistribute wealth while 54 percent said government should not.
Can we start calling Democrats Socialist Progressive Democrats? I do.
Coming from a terrorist from the Weather Underground who bombed police stations, the Capital building and the Pentagon, Bill Ayers, Obama’s “neighborhood friend” is calling the Pentagon a “terror organization” and labels Sen. John McCain a “war criminal” during a Q & A with Larry Elders.
Bombing your government buildings and police stations is not “vandalism.”
This is Obama’s close friend. Yes, I know. Bam tried to say they have no close connections, but the evidence says otherwise. They lived in the same neighborhood. Obama started his political career with a fundraiser at Ayers home, hosted by Ayers and his terrorist wife, Bernadine Dohrn. Obama and Ayers both served on the board of the Woods Fund of Chicago.
It’s all just coincidental. Ayers is a black liberation goon and Obama sat in the church of a racist black liberation preacher named Jeremiah Wright. Remember, Obama infamously said: “Judge me by the people who surround me.”
Using Ayers logic, I guess we can call Obama a war criminal for bombing Libya?
California Democrat Congresswoman Loretta Sanchez has something to say about the Tea Party caucus and the members individually. As reported on Fox, Sanchez says“Everything to them is unconstitutional. It’s unconstitutional, it’s unconstitutional, it’s unconstitutional.” Consider her point for a minute.
Sanchez goes further in her derision and feigns a Southern accent when she does it. Now I’m sure some of the Tea Party freshmen and women are indeed form the South, and perhaps a couple have an accent as strong and Southern as Mississippi governor Haley Barbour, but I am certain all of the Tea Party caucus are not from Southern states. In fact the leader of the Tea Party caucus is Michele Bachmann from Minnesota, and while the progressively educated may think Minnesota is in the South, let me assure them, it is not.
What this is about is using a feigned Southern accent to deride and belittle her fellow lawmakers. Clearly the imitation is indicative of the old mantra that people from the South are dumbassed hicks. She then tied the Tea Party members to the Birtther group when she thought she’d be funny and offered “Sanchez, can I see your papers? I don’t believe you’re a congresswoman. Let’s see your birth certificate.” How inclusive and welcoming of her.
This is exactly what my article was addressing yesterday…the complete lack of respect from the other side that thinks themselves so superior. I likened that disrespect to the pre-American Civil War when anti-slavery movements in the Northern states devoted considerable effort to demonizing Southerners. As I argued, it wasn’t so much a political or ideological disagreement as it was a two-fold issue.
Americans better hope the Supreme Court takes this up before it goes into full effect. Not only is it unconstitutional, it was sold by frauds using lies, bribes and fraudulent numbers.
(Reuters) – The Supreme Court will likely reject a request to speed up a ruling on President Barack Obama’s healthcare overhaul law, legal and financial analysts said.
The justices on Friday are scheduled to consider Virginia’s request seeking to bypass the normal appeals process for a quicker ruling on the constitutionality of the law, which has been Obama’s signature domestic accomplishment and has provoked a fierce political battle.
The analysts said such requests are rarely granted and the Supreme Court would likely allow the sweeping law to be considered first by the appeals court under the usual process.
They said that probably means any Supreme Court review of the law would be put off until its 2011-12 term that begins in October, depending on how fast the appeals courts rule.
The analysts said a high court decision then could come before the 2012 U.S. elections, in which the politically charged law could face renewed criticism from Republicans and could emerge as a major issue as Obama seeks re-election.
Kevin Russell, a Washington lawyer who argues before the Supreme Court, said it would be surprising if the justices granted Virginia’s appeal seeking expedited review.
“The court has granted only a handful of such requests in the past and almost never over the objection of the federal government, which has opposed Virginia’s request,” he said.
Several federal trial judges around the nation have upheld the law but others declared it unconstitutional on the grounds Congress overstepped its authority in requiring that Americans start buying health insurance in 2014 or pay a penalty.
…and those of us who know the Constitution know that it does not grant Congress the power to fine/penalize. They only have the power to tax.
That damn President Bush President Obama. What ever happened to the right to criticize your government? Guess all American flyers are terrorists now.
Washington (CNN) — Don’t like the way airport screeners are doing their job? You might not want to complain too much while standing in line.
Arrogant complaining about airport security is one indicator Transportation Security Administration officers consider when looking for possible criminals and terrorists, CNN has learned exclusively. And, when combined with other behavioral indicators, it could result in a traveler facing additional scrutiny.
CNN has obtained a list of roughly 70 “behavioral indicators” that TSA behavior detection officers use to identify potentially “high risk” passengers at the nation’s airports.
If these “detection officers” suck as bad as the baggage screeners, we are in deep shit.
Many of the indicators, as characterized in open government reports, are behaviors and appearances that may be indicative of stress, fear or deception. None of them, as the TSA has long said, refer to or suggest race, religion or ethnicity.
Yes. It must be pointed out that TSA will not stop those who are known to hijack planes. Political correctness will be our downfall.
But one addresses passengers’ attitudes towards security, and how they express those attitudes.
It reads: “Very arrogant and expresses contempt against airport passenger procedures.”
Come on people. Who doesn’t enjoy having a perfect stranger grope your junk while Ahmed, a man who fits the profile of almost every terrorist…between 17 and 45 years of age with a one-way ticket, strolls by?
TSA officials declined to comment on the list of indicators, but said that no single indicator, taken by itself, is ever used to identify travelers as potentially high-risk passengers. Travelers must exhibit several indicators before behavior detection officers steer them to more thorough screening.
Yes we do think you’re stupid because you think this second go-around Americans who voted for you silver-tongued self will vote for you again in 2012. You also think Americans are stupid and clueless about the fraud that is in your health care bill.
Another day of Obama flip-flopping against a position he had as a Senator. As we know, anything Obama said as a Senator has an expiration date. Amazing how quickly he flip-flops on almost all his stances. Basically Obama’s signing statement is telling Americans he won’t follow the laws enacted by Congress.
Obama’s signing statement was issued to keep his beloved czars and his lust to bring terrorist from Gitmo to U.S. soil. What should be pointed out is that Obama negotiated the bill with Republicans, agreed to it and then waited a few days to issue his signing statement telling Congress he won’t obey the law.
In a statement issued Friday night, President Obama took issue with some provisions in the budget bill – and in one case simply says he will not abide by it.
Last week the White House and congressional Democrats and Republicans were involved in intense negotiations over not only the size of the budget for the remainder of the FY2011 budget, and spending cuts within that budget, but also several GOP “riders,” or policy provisions attached to the bill.
One rider – Section 2262 — de-funds certain White House adviser positions – or “czars.” The president in his signing statement declares that he will not abide by it.
“The President has well-established authority to supervise and oversee the executive branch, and to obtain advice in furtherance of this supervisory authority,” he wrote. “The President also has the prerogative to obtain advice that will assist him in carrying out his constitutional responsibilities, and do so not only from executive branch officials and employees outside the White House, but also from advisers within it. Legislative efforts that significantly impede the President’s ability to exercise his supervisory and coordinating authorities or to obtain the views of the appropriate senior advisers violate the separation of powers by undermining the President’s ability to exercise his constitutional responsibilities and take care that the laws be faithfully executed.”
Therefore, the president wrote, “the executive branch will construe section 2262 not to abrogate these Presidential prerogatives.”
In other words: we know what you wanted that provision to do, but we don’t think it’s constitutional, so we will interpret it differently than the way you meant it.
During his presidential campaign, then-Senator Obama was quite critical of the Bush administration’s uses of signing statements telling the Boston Globe in 2007 that the “problem” with the Bush administration “is that it has attached signing statements to legislation in an effort to change the meaning of the legislation, to avoid enforcing certain provisions of the legislation that the President does not like, and to raise implausible or dubious constitutional objections to the legislation.”
Then-Sen. Obama said he would “not use signing statements to nullify or undermine congressional instructions as enacted into law.”
He said he wouldn’t do a lot of things as Senator that he is now doing as President.
The president said that no one “doubts that it is appropriate to use signing statements to protect a president’s constitutional prerogatives; unfortunately,the Bush Administration has gone much further than that.”
That was then, before he became President. Bush issuing signing statements=BAD. Obama issuing signing statements=GOOD. We’ve seen this before.
Obama also issued a signing statement against the transfer of Gitmo detainees to the U.S. What is amazing is that this was a law put into place by Democrats when they controlled by the House and Senate but Obama waited to issue a signing statement while Republicans control the House. Political gamesmanship.
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Thanks to the election of Barack Obama, parasites and criminals now feel empowered to demand freebies. With Obama’s illegal open border/stop deportation policies, US taxpayers will have 12 million more parasites to pay for. This only happens in America. No other countries allow criminals to openly live and mooch off their citizenry.
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As most suspected. Obama showing up at an event to showcase the southern part of the Keystone Pipeline was just a photo-op to trick stupid Americans who believe anything he says. WASHINGTON (AP) — Jobs numbers and other benefits touted by supporters of the Keystone XL oil pipeline are probably exaggerated, President Barack Obama told [...]
