Ed Morrissey agrees:
For real insight into impotence, read the list of executive orders Obama pledged to sign immediately. Only a few of the actions have any real connection to the Newtown or Aurora shootings, and most of the rest consist of clarifications and requests for further study. For instance, much debate has ensued about how to identify the mentally ill on weapons-purchase background checks.
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So on the one hand, he is a "dictator", who is "radically reshaping the Republic" and asserting "unprecedented totalitarian powers" etc etc, but at the same time just "puffing and posing" and "impotent". I'm not saying you are not being inconsistent, but we sure get mixed messages from the far right these days. Mark down as Obama Derangement Syndrome.
Especially when you consider the fact that all of this conservative "puffing and posing" is as about "executive orders" that don't, in fact, even exist.
That's right.
All this fuss by the far right over "executive orders" when not a single one of the actions he has called for includes any, not one, single executive order.
But never let facts get in the way of a good rant.
The man has the background and character of a classic fascist. He does all he can to circumvent congress in order to get his way ... and he'd do away with congress if he could; he'd run his country like a big time fascist. I'm not sure which president one can go back to find a finer example of pushing the rules to the limit in order work around congress.
The problem is though, he's got a little thing called the constitution and rule of law that gets in the way so he's stuck at times posing like a peacock ... as he did here ... with little to show for it.
I agree though, that some of the hair pulling over his executive orders is over-done. If it were that illegal, he'd have been taken to the SCOTUS and spanked many times over.
Absolutely right, no one like him, as dictatorial as him, as anti-democratic as him, ever.
Think about his record of ant-democratic actions:
- PATRIOT Act, allowing the state to spy on its own citizens without a warrant, jailing citizens indefinitely based on suspicion with no need for a trial or to give them access to a lawyer
- going to war based on lies and misrepresentations costing hundreds of thousands of lives
- abetting the enemy by outing your out secret agents
- sanctioning torture
- exchanging military weapons to our enemies in exchange for the release of contra freedom fighters then lying about it in Congress
- all of his many secret small wars like Grenada that were never sanctioned by Congress
- and then there was...
... Oh, wait. Sorry. Wrong presidents. Wrong party.
Nevermind.
As a means of cleansing, the first act of the new President in 2016 should be to declare all executive orders signed between Jan 2009 and his Inauguration to be null and void.
If there was anything that was actually worth doing in the morass of executive orders, then they can be sent to the Congress for review and appropriate legislation drafted.
Of course the Congress elected in November 2016 will also have a huge job on their hands, passing a budget for the first time in seven years and so on.
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