Originally posted by jdub297
reply to post by captaintyinknots
Obama is expected to make more frequent use of executive orders, vetoes, signing statements and policy initiatives that originate within the
federal agencies to maneuver around congressional Republicans who are threatening to derail initiatives he has already put in place, including health
care reforms, and to launch serial investigations into his administration's spending.
"There is going to be an effort on the president's part to use [executive powers] to satisfy his base and institutionalize what he can," said John
Kenneth White, professor of politics at the Catholic University of America.
This week, the Environmental Protection Agency begins regulating greenhouse gas emissions at some energy plants and factories -- a move Obama pushed
for after his cap-and-trade environmental legislation stalled in Congress.
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The administration defended Obama's use of such powers, including making recess appointments, as a proper exercise of his authority and often as a
response to Republican obstructionism. On signing statements, press secretary Robert Gibbs said Obama used them to highlight "what problems might be
inherent in a piece of legislation, without asking that the federal government disallow or ignore congressional intent."
Obama also hasn't hesitated to make policy through executive order, including freezing federal workers' pay, launching an investigation of the BP oil
spill and cracking down on Somali outlaws.
"He is the manager in chief, and things like signing statements and however you thwart the will of Congress, sure -- there are lots of things
that go on other than passing new laws and giving out money that are all part of managing this incredible enterprise," said Stephen Hess, a Brookings
Institution expert on the presidency.
washingtonexaminer.com...
Your self-revealing epithets cannot change the fact that "progressive" policies and legislators were roundly rejected in November. Obama will use the
executive to accomplish what the legislature will not do for him.
(The only "tea baggers" I know are ALL liberal/progressives, and they really do not care about politics.)
deny ignorance.
1)Reread the first line of your source. "Expected to". So now you are hating on what he hasnt even done yet. Doesnt hold a lot of water.
2)You again show your bias here. You continually speak only about what the 'other' party is doing, not realizing that they are all the same.
3)I know better than to get baited into this, yet I let myself anyway. Outside of all of your deflections and attempts to make this out as though only
Obama is the issue, you have deflected from my origional point completely-that Obama is the same as Bush is the same as Clinton is the same as the
other Bush.
4)If you haven't noticed, I'm ignoring your attempts to make this personal, and ignoring your silly little snipes and attempted insults. Keep 'em up
if you wish, but all they do is reveal how empty you truly are.
5) There is a fundamental problem in your line of thinking. No one has all the answers. And those that TRULY dont have the answers are the ones who
think they have them all.
edit on 4-1-2011 by captaintyinknots because: (no reason given)
