Obama the Lawless

[PoliticalChic]

Krauthammer the insanely lame and stupid.

I mean, look at the guy:

He's a third-rate Bond villain.

What a stupid post.

Typical of one of your level and persuasion.

 

[JoeB131]

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It might also be irrelevent. Since Reid deployed the Nuclear Option, the Republicans can't filibuster appointments and Obama will fill the courts and agencies with the folks he wants, anyway.

So it's like closing the gate AFTER the horse got out.

Poor Joe, vying hopelessly for most clueless poster here.
It will always matter because Obama's illegal appointees made hundreds of decisions that will be voided if their appointments are found invalid.

Probably not, but i know you guys have to have your dreams...

Unlikely SCOTUS would inflict that kind of chaos on the country.

 

[The Rabbi]

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It might also be irrelevent. Since Reid deployed the Nuclear Option, the Republicans can't filibuster appointments and Obama will fill the courts and agencies with the folks he wants, anyway.

So it's like closing the gate AFTER the horse got out.

Poor Joe, vying hopelessly for most clueless poster here.
It will always matter because Obama's illegal appointees made hundreds of decisions that will be voided if their appointments are found invalid.

Probably not, but i know you guys have to have your dreams...

Unlikely SCOTUS would inflict that kind of chaos on the country.

Poor Joe. Reality sucks when you are a high school dropout.

 

[OKTexas]

Krauthammer the insanely lame and stupid.

I mean, look at the guy:

He's a third-rate Bond villain.

Yep the kind of villain that becomes a psychiatrist, writer and best selling author after becoming a quadriplegic and shedding his liberal sickness. You might try to immolate him.

 

[Sarah G]

Krauthammer the insanely lame and stupid.

I mean, look at the guy:

He's a third-rate Bond villain.

Making fun of the handicapped are we???

Oh nobody is allowed to have an opinion of that weasel because he's handicapped?

 

[Geaux4it]

President Obama's Top 10 Constitutional Violations Of 2013

By Ilya Shapiro

One of Barack Obama’s chief accomplishments has been to return the Constitution to a central place in our public discourse.

Unfortunately, the president fomented this upswing in civic interest not by talking up the constitutional aspects of his policy agenda, but by blatantly violating the strictures of our founding document. And he’s been most frustrated with the separation of powers, which doesn’t allow him to “fundamentally transform” the country without congressional acquiescence.

But that hasn’t stopped him. In its first term, the Administration launched a “We Can’t Wait” initiative, with senior aide Dan Pfeiffer explaining that “when Congress won’t act, this president will.” And earlier this year, President Obama said in announcing his new economic plans that “I will not allow gridlock, or inaction, or willful indifference to get in our way.”

And so, as we reach the end of another year of political strife that’s fundamentally based on clashing views on the role of government in society, I thought I’d update a list I made two years ago and hereby present President Obama’s top 10 constitutional violations of 2013.

1. Delay of Obamacare’s out-of-pocket caps. The Labor Department announced in February that it was delaying for a year the part of the healthcare law that limits how much people have to spend on their own insurance. This may have been sensible—insurers and employers need time to comply with rapidly changing regulations—but changing the law requires actual legislation.

2. Delay of Obamacare’s employer mandate. The administration announced via blogpost on the eve of the July 4 holiday that it was delaying the requirement that employers of at least 50 people provide complying insurance or pay a fine. This time it did cite statutory authority, but the cited provisions allow the delay of certain reporting requirements, not of the mandate itself.

Read the others here: President Obama's Top 10 Constitutional Violations Of 2013 - Forbes

 

[The Rabbi]

Krauthammer the insanely lame and stupid.

I mean, look at the guy:

He's a third-rate Bond villain.

Making fun of the handicapped are we???

Oh nobody is allowed to have an opinion of that weasel because he's handicapped?

Dems making fun of the handicapped for sport is an old time tradition.
[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SRV5Y1JCGRI]Biden Gaffe: Asks a Gentleman in a Wheelchair to Stand Up - YouTube[/ame]

 

[S.J.]

Making fun of the handicapped and voter fraud.

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LXERh0lwL0M]CAUGHT ON TAPE: Wendy Davis Supporters Mock Greg Abbott's Disability - YouTube[/ame]

 

[mudwhistle]

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"One big difference between then and now, though, is that everyone assumed a ruling against the mandate would be no better than 5-4. Obama had four liberal justices in the bag for his position, as usual; the only question was whether they could get one conservative. Per Moe Lane, the word from SCOTUSblog about this morning’s arguments is that even some of the liberals seem ready to abandon ship."
Sure sounds like the Supreme Court?s going to rule against Obama on recess appointments « Hot Air

It might also be irrelevent. Since Reid deployed the Nuclear Option, the Republicans can't filibuster appointments and Obama will fill the courts and agencies with the folks he wants, anyway.

So it's like closing the gate AFTER the horse got out.

Just Obama paying back the folks that contributed the most to his campaign.

 

[FA_Q2]

Oh god I wish they would just get it over with already, Christ, all these histrionics and no charges yet? What is the matter with them, if they know for a fact that he is breaking the law then just do it. What is their problem? So used to sitting on their hands in congress that real action scares them? Sick of fucking hearing about how unlawful he is, impeach immediately if he's really that god damn bad.

Of course they will not because it's all just bullshit to make you people think that do nothing bunch of jackasses in congress is holding the line against evil rather than just being worthless turds.

Hello? You do realize that the SENATE holds the power of impeachment, right?

The house might get to pass the articles but it is the senate that tries the president. Talk about a PR nightmare – the house impeaching the president and the senate laughing at the proceedings.

You also need 2/3 to actually convict essentially meaning not even the republicans owning the senate make such a move likely.

SO....people like you just engage in the mental masturbation of impeachment....for what fucking reason? Cause you don't have anything better to do or what?

But I really wish the Repubs in Congress would give it a shot. Great for the next election cycle.

People like me? I suppose you can find a single instance where I have supported or called for the president to be impeached?

No of course not but then again your world is built entirely of idiot partisan hacks that cannot think for themselves. Not all of us are cut from the same asinine cloth that you were – we are not all hacks.

 

[FA_Q2]

Emancipation Proclamation - Executive order
Desegregation of the Armed Forces - Executive order
The New Deal - EO
Japanese-American Internment - EO
Indian Reservations - EO

Obama the "lawless".

Do you honestly believe that all of those were legal? Truly?

Because if you do, you are downright scary and seem fine with a dictator…

 

[rdean]

I'm still waiting for Charlie Strangelove to apologize for his support of the Iraq War.

Tricking the country into Iraq was not only impeachable, but treason.

 

[rdean]

Emancipation Proclamation - Executive order
Desegregation of the Armed Forces - Executive order
The New Deal - EO
Japanese-American Internment - EO
Indian Reservations - EO

Obama the "lawless".

Do you honestly believe that all of those were legal? Truly?

Because if you do, you are downright scary and seem fine with a dictator…

Only one president used less executive orders than Obama.

Obama takes fewer vacations than most presidents.

Right wingers hate him because he is black and they are trying to teach the country to never elect another black as president. It's called "cut off nose to spite face".

 

[S.J.]

It's crystal clear from this thread that liberals are just fine with a dictatorship (as long as it's THEIR dictator).

 

[FA_Q2]

Emancipation Proclamation - Executive order
Desegregation of the Armed Forces - Executive order
The New Deal - EO
Japanese-American Internment - EO
Indian Reservations - EO

Obama the "lawless".

Do you honestly believe that all of those were legal? Truly?

Because if you do, you are downright scary and seem fine with a dictator…

Only one president used less executive orders than Obama.

Obama takes fewer vacations than most presidents.

Right wingers hate him because he is black and they are trying to teach the country to never elect another black as president. It's called "cut off nose to spite face".

I suppose that you have a point here. You quoted me and yet did not address anything that I stated.

 

[Geaux4it]

Emancipation Proclamation - Executive order
Desegregation of the Armed Forces - Executive order
The New Deal - EO
Japanese-American Internment - EO
Indian Reservations - EO

Obama the "lawless".

Do you honestly believe that all of those were legal? Truly?

Because if you do, you are downright scary and seem fine with a dictator…

Only one president used less executive orders than Obama.

Obama takes fewer vacations than most presidents.

Right wingers hate him because he is black and they are trying to teach the country to never elect another black as president. It's called "cut off nose to spite face".

its not the EO's, it's the EO's hes signing thats the problem. No other modern President has messed with changing laws... Thats what congress is for

-Geaux

 

[Geaux4it]

Emancipation Proclamation - Executive order
Desegregation of the Armed Forces - Executive order
The New Deal - EO
Japanese-American Internment - EO
Indian Reservations - EO

Obama the "lawless".

Do you honestly believe that all of those were legal? Truly?

Because if you do, you are downright scary and seem fine with a dictator…

Only one president used less executive orders than Obama.

Obama takes fewer vacations than most presidents.

Right wingers hate him because he is black and they are trying to teach the country to never elect another black as president. It's called "cut off nose to spite face".

Well as you point out, we don't have to look far as to the root cause of Obama's complete ineptness as POTUS.

At least he has somewhat of a legit excuse.

-Geaux

 

[The Rabbi]

Do you honestly believe that all of those were legal? Truly?

Because if you do, you are downright scary and seem fine with a dictator…

Only one president used less executive orders than Obama.

Obama takes fewer vacations than most presidents.

Right wingers hate him because he is black and they are trying to teach the country to never elect another black as president. It's called "cut off nose to spite face".

its not the EO's, it's the EO's hes signing thats the problem. No other modern President has messed with changing laws... Thats what congress is for

-Geaux

That concept is too advanced for libs, who think only in very concrete terms. So to the them it's entirely a number because they are at least smart enough to look at two numbers and figure out which one is bigger.

 

[Geaux4it]

3. Delay of Obamacare’s insurance requirements. The famous pledge that “if you like your plan, you can keep it” backfired when insurance companies started cancelling millions of plans that didn’t comply with Obamacare’s requirements. President Obama called a press conference last month to proclaim that people could continue buying non-complying plans in 2014—despite Obamacare’s explicit language to the contrary. He then refused to consider a House-passed bill that would’ve made this action legal.

4. Exemption of Congress from Obamacare. A little-known part of Obamacare requires Congressmen and their staff to get insurance through the new healthcare exchanges, rather than a taxpayer-funded program. In the quiet of August, President Obama directed the Office of Personnel Management to interpret the law to maintain the generous congressional benefits.

5. Expansion of the employer mandate penalty through IRS regulation. Obamacare grants tax credits to people whose employers don’t provide coverage if they buy a plan “through an Exchange established by the State”—and then fines employers for each employee receiving such a subsidy. No tax credits are authorized for residents of states where the exchanges are established by the federal government, as an incentive for states to create exchanges themselves. Because so few (16) states did, however, the IRS issued a rule ignoring that plain text and allowed subsidies (and commensurate fines) for plans coming from “a State Exchange, regional Exchange, subsidiary Exchange, and federally-facilitated Exchange.”

6. Political profiling by the IRS. After seeing a rise in the number of applications for tax-exempt status, the IRS in 2010 compiled a “be on the lookout” (“BOLO&#8221 list to identify organizations engaged in political activities. The list included words such as “Tea Party,” “Patriots,” and “Israel”; subjects such as government spending, debt, or taxes; and activities such as criticizing the government, educating about the Constitution, or challenging Obamacare. The targeting continued through May of this year.

7. Outlandish Supreme Court arguments. Between January 2012 and June 2013, the Supreme Court unanimously rejected the Justice Department’s extreme positions 9 times. The cases ranged from criminal procedure to property rights, religious liberty to immigration, securities regulation to tax law. They had nothing in common other than the government’s view that federal power is virtually unlimited. As a comparison, in the entire Bush and Clinton presidencies, the government suffered 15 and 23 unanimous rulings, respectively.

8. Recess appointments. Last year, President Obama appointed three members of the National Labor Relations Board, as well as the head of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, during what he considered to be a Senate recess. But the Senate was still holding “pro forma” sessions every three days—a technique developed by Sen. Harry Reid to thwart Bush recess appointments. (Meanwhile, the Dodd-Frank Act, which created the CFPB, provides that authority remains with the Treasury Secretary until a director is “confirmed by the Senate.&#8221 In January, the D.C. Circuit held the NLRB appointments to be unconstitutional, which ruling White House spokesman Jay Carney said only applied to “one court, one case, one company.”

9. Assault on free speech and due process on college campuses. Responding to complaints about the University of Montana’s handling of sexual assault claims, the Department of Education’s Office of Civil Rights, in conjunction with the Justice Department, sent the university a letter intended as a national “blueprint” for tackling sexual harassment. The letter urges a crackdown on “unwelcome” speech and requires complaints to be heard in quasi-judicial procedures that deny legal representation, encourage punishment before trial, and convict based on a mere “more likely than not” standard.

President Obama's Top 10 Constitutional Violations Of 2013 - Forbes

 

[mudwhistle]

It's crystal clear from this thread that liberals are just fine with a dictatorship (as long as it's THEIR dictator).

They don't mind tyranny as long is the tyrant is somebody they voted for.

Everything Obama has done would be deemed so terrible if it was a Republican doing it.