“We Can’t Wait”: Obama embraces executive orders to bypass Congress

Charlie Savage
NY Times
April 23, 2012

COMMENT: Apologists here for Obama’s use of executive orders point out the other recent presidents who’ve also overreached their use of executive orders. This makes the abuses more important, not less, as this has been an on-going deviation from the Constitutional limits of the president since at least FDR in the 30s. An executive branch run wild makes the abuses of kings and dictators almost inevitable. That is why it must be reined in; that’s why the framers constructed limited powers in their document. On the otherhand, there’s clear evidence that all of Obama co.’s study of the Constitution must have been focuses on tactics to skirt its limitations.

“ In questions of power, let no more be heard of confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief by the chains of the Constitution.” -Thomas Jefferson

WASHINGTON — One Saturday last fall, President Obama interrupted a White House strategy meeting to raise an issue not on the agenda. He declared, aides recalled, that the administration needed to more aggressively use executive power to govern in the face of Congressional obstructionism.

“We had been attempting to highlight the inability of Congress to do anything,” recalled William M. Daley, who was the White House chief of staff at the time. “The president expressed frustration, saying we have got to scour everything and push the envelope in finding things we can do on our own.”

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But increasingly in recent months, the administration has been seeking ways to act without Congress. Branding its unilateral efforts “We Can’t Wait,” a slogan that aides said Mr. Obama coined at that strategy meeting, the White House has rolled out dozens of new policies — on creating jobs for veterans, preventing drug shortages, raising fuel economy standards, curbing domestic violence and more.

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  • A d v e r t i s e m e n t

Many conservatives have denounced Mr. Obama’s new approach. But William G. Howell, a University of Chicago political science professor and author of “Power Without Persuasion: The Politics of Direct Presidential Action,” said Mr. Obama’s use of executive power to advance domestic policies that could not pass Congress was not new historically. Still, he said, because of Mr. Obama’s past as a critic of executive unilateralism, his transformation is remarkable.

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3 Responses to ““We Can’t Wait”: Obama embraces executive orders to bypass Congress”

  1. WHEN IS THE BASTARD GOING TO FINALLY BE REMOVED FROM OFFICE?

    GRAB HIS ARSE, TOSS INTO PRISON, END OF STORY … IT DOESN’T TAKE A ROCKET SCIENTIST … YANNO’?

  2. What else would you expect from an undocumented Kenyan, a foreigner with unamerican masters parachuted into a rigged election to finish the job of destroying the economy, the currency, the constitution and the will of the people. If that weren’t enough, other objectives include dividing the people along racial lines, subjecting the citizens to sexual groping by low IQ extroverts under the command of a fat man-hating woman and cornering the market on hollow point ammunition production for the next five years. Yes indeed the kenyan would be expected to rule by executive order, if these things he does could never be passed, even by the criminals currently collecting salaries as Congressmen. Where are the uniformed military and police who still have a conscience and remember their duty to protect the constitution? If they are waiting for the hotdog sucking public to draw first, their fates will be sealed and they will be the first to go.

  3. Congress impeach Obama for his high crimes against the people or face a revolt and your demise in November.

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