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The dums constantly breed irony, along with their idiocy.
Posted on: November 15, 2016 at 07:28:50 CT
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Hey obozo, elections DO have consequences, don't they?
To Democrats' Dismay, Trump Will Inherit Obama's Expanded Presidential Powers
The Presidency: With a new president much loathed by the mainstream media and progressive elites, it shouldn't be very long until we start hearing about the dangers of the "imperial presidency." Where were they, we wonder, during the Obama years?
It's quite an irony that the one whom many on the left said they couldn't stomach as president should become president and inherit a whole panoply of new presidential powers that President Obama used and no one other than conservatives objected to. Because now, a President Trump can use the same powers.
As Damon Root of Reason magazine has noted, candidate Barack Obama in 2007 professed deep concern about the expansion of executive power under President Bush, and vowed to be very different. "The president is not above the law," he said.
The New York Times got on its own high horse, ripping Bush for his "grandiose vision of executive power" all the way back in 2006. If they subsequently also shredded President Obama for his very real, extralegal expansions of executive power, we're not aware of it.
Flash forward to early 2014, when, frustrated with the Republican-controlled Congress, he said: "I've got a pen and I've got a phone ... and I can use that pen to sign executive orders and take executive actions and administrative actions."
His words only reinforced what he had already been doing. "For nearly eight years, President Obama massively expanded his authority on national security issues: on the prosecution of whistleblowers, secret surveillance courts, wars without congressional authorization, and drone campaigns without public oversight," noted Tim Mak of the Daily Beast. "During this time the left, with the exception of some civil liberties groups, remained largely silent."
Obama also unilaterally named a number of officials to fill offices that required Senate approval, claiming that he could do so because the Senate, he claimed, was not in session. In fact, it was.
Never mind that some constitutional scholars believe that those "executive actions" in some cases represented a constitutional breach. The left enthusiastically embraced Obama's use of extraordinary presidential powers because, hey, "elections have consequences," "the ends justify the means," and, as Obama himself once so eloquently put it, "I won."
They may now live to regret that. President-elect Trump will enter office with an extensive list of things to do — and, perhaps, equally important, to undo, including much of Obama's questionable agenda from eight years. Democrats in Congress will no doubt fight a rear-guard action to keep Trump from acting without congressional authority. Expect much wailing and gnashing of teeth. And no doubt, Trump will remind them: "I've got a pen, and I've got a phone."
Edited by GA Tiger at 07:30:43 on 11/15/16
To Democrats' Dismay, Trump Will Inherit Obama's Expanded Presidential Powers
The Presidency: With a new president much loathed by the mainstream media and progressive elites, it shouldn't be very long until we start hearing about the dangers of the "imperial presidency." Where were they, we wonder, during the Obama years?
It's quite an irony that the one whom many on the left said they couldn't stomach as president should become president and inherit a whole panoply of new presidential powers that President Obama used and no one other than conservatives objected to. Because now, a President Trump can use the same powers.
As Damon Root of Reason magazine has noted, candidate Barack Obama in 2007 professed deep concern about the expansion of executive power under President Bush, and vowed to be very different. "The president is not above the law," he said.
The New York Times got on its own high horse, ripping Bush for his "grandiose vision of executive power" all the way back in 2006. If they subsequently also shredded President Obama for his very real, extralegal expansions of executive power, we're not aware of it.
Flash forward to early 2014, when, frustrated with the Republican-controlled Congress, he said: "I've got a pen and I've got a phone ... and I can use that pen to sign executive orders and take executive actions and administrative actions."
His words only reinforced what he had already been doing. "For nearly eight years, President Obama massively expanded his authority on national security issues: on the prosecution of whistleblowers, secret surveillance courts, wars without congressional authorization, and drone campaigns without public oversight," noted Tim Mak of the Daily Beast. "During this time the left, with the exception of some civil liberties groups, remained largely silent."
Obama also unilaterally named a number of officials to fill offices that required Senate approval, claiming that he could do so because the Senate, he claimed, was not in session. In fact, it was.
Never mind that some constitutional scholars believe that those "executive actions" in some cases represented a constitutional breach. The left enthusiastically embraced Obama's use of extraordinary presidential powers because, hey, "elections have consequences," "the ends justify the means," and, as Obama himself once so eloquently put it, "I won."
They may now live to regret that. President-elect Trump will enter office with an extensive list of things to do — and, perhaps, equally important, to undo, including much of Obama's questionable agenda from eight years. Democrats in Congress will no doubt fight a rear-guard action to keep Trump from acting without congressional authority. Expect much wailing and gnashing of teeth. And no doubt, Trump will remind them: "I've got a pen, and I've got a phone."
Edited by GA Tiger at 07:30:43 on 11/15/16
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The dums constantly breed irony, along with their idiocy. - GA Tiger MU - 11/15 07:28:50