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What Constitution? Obama To Emphasize Intention To Use Unilateral Presidential Authority
While the stats of the union remain unremarkable at best, it would appear that despite the rancor in Washington, President Obama will get his way "whatever it takes." As the WSJ reports, the State of the Union address Tuesday night will emphasize his intention to use unilateral presidential authority — bypassing Congress when necessary — to an extent not seen in his previous State of the Union speeches. "We need to show the American people that we can get something done," Dan Pfeiffer, a senior White House adviser, told CNN; it seems no matter how totalitarian and unconstitutional it would appear to be.
President Barack Obama's State of the Union address Tuesday night will seek to shift the public's souring view of his leadership, a challenge the White House sees as critical to shaping the nation's policy direction over the next three years.
Mr. Obama will emphasize his intention to use unilateral presidential authority—bypassing Congress when necessary—to an extent not seen in his previous State of the Union speeches, White House officials said.
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Mr. Obama will stress that he intends to take unilateral action on a host of other issues: infrastructure development, job training, climate change and education. Administration officials hinted broadly at the assertive new direction Sunday.
"We need to show the American people that we can get something done," Dan Pfeiffer, a senior White House adviser, told CNN as part of a round of interviews previewing the speech.
The more aggressive, executive-led approach marks a recalibration by the White House after seeing how congressional Republicans responded in 2013 to the president's re-election, a senior administration official said. Several key White House initiatives stalled in Congress last year, including an immigration revamp, an increase in the minimum wage, gun-control legislation and economic proposals.
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"He says, 'Oh well, it's hard to get Congress to do anything.' Well, yeah, welcome to the real world. It's hard to convince people to get legislation through. It takes consensus," said Sen. Rand Paul (R., Ky.). "But that's what he needs to be doing is building consensus and not taking his pen and creating law."
Sen. Chuck Schumer (D., N.Y.) said in an interview that Mr. Obama's speech wouldn't present "a grandiose agenda. It's going to be a very practical agenda aimed at middle-class people."
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One big agenda item is apparently a "pledge" to hire more by US companies...
He also is expected to announce that some of the nation's largest employers, have signed a White House pledge agreeing not to discriminate against the long-term unemployed when making hiring decisions, according to a draft of the policy and interviews with several people familiar with the matter.
But the corporate hiring pledge also shows the limits of executive power. Under the nonbinding agreement, companies won't be obligated to hire the long-term unemployed, and it is unclear how the administration will monitor progress.
More lip-service, more class-warfare, more totalitarianism... just what we need for 'growth'... It does make one wonder if the surge in t-bill yields around the debt-ceiling dates are indicative of some reaction by the Republicans to this aggression?
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If you like your wookie, you can keep your wookie.
"Aimed at" is an interesting choice of words.
Aim. Fire.
The left only hates violent rhetoric when it is used against them.
After 5 years of lies, how can we believe anything Obama says?
He lies and that is all he knows or can do.
i have zero doubt that it is aimed at middle class people
Middle class. Working class. Upper class. Future class. Who's even recording this shit anymore? It's aimed at a little place called "Earth."
HA HA HA HA. HIRE LONG TERM UNEMPLOYED. REMIND HOW DID HAMP WORK OUT FOR THE MIDDLE CLASS. JUST SHUT THE FUCK UP OBAMA. THE COUNTRY HATES YOU !!!!
Wouldn't it be the greatest irony if his State of the Union address was used as evidence for impeachment...
The only thing keeping Obama from being impeached is the chimpout of epic proportions that would ensue shortly thereafter. Nobody wants to get blamed for that. The nation is just running out the clock until he's gone.
His name was Francis Sawyer.
+100 Grudgingly in that I wish that you were wrong, But you are right.
I'm certain there is more than that. Obama was PLACED there. Had nothing to do with elections. He will eventually be UN-PLACED when his job, whatever it is, is complete.
A Cat5 Chimpout would give many a worthless liberal a come to Jesus moment; those that were beat/raped/burned to death would provide a somber, yet hilarious lesson for the rest.
Some of us old farts had to google "chimpout".
You all need to thank Congress for giving the Executive Branch all that power. Bush thanked them and so will the next POTUS.
One must at least be polite.
The thing about that is, at some point, the music stops and they won't have a chair.
Get Konnected with the all new Kronies Action Figures!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZDXuPQ9ML9E
"We need to show the American people that we can get something done,"
THERE IS NO WE IN UNILATERAL
"I have a pen and a phone!"
Starting to sound Hitlerish, isn't he?
You had me at Forward.
The SOB thinks he's the real deal, I can hardly wait to see how our Reichsministerium für Volksaufklärung und Propaganda (formerly known as the critical thinking, last defense of the people, independent American journalist) will spin his little speech to the Reichstag.
I don't know if that would work. Hitler had a gift for oration. Even today, watching his speeches you could feel the power of his persuasion. He could fire up a crowd. Obama is a sad, limp-wristed pathetic little milktoast. That he has gained so much power with so little ability is truly amazing and a sad commentary of the lunacy that is our county.
Miffed
Throughout history, most effective politicians have been good orators and parliamentarians. Our current community organizer is not even a believable telepromptarian.
Does he have a zippo and a long knife?
"So this is how liberty dies...with thunderous applause."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FblQR8ZeUpQ
Only 47% support Obama, but 0% oppose him enough to do something about it.
If the conservative cunts don't turn their backs and march out tomorrow evening when Ogoon talks exec privilege, they are FINISHED.
I am guessing that Boehner McConnell and the rest fail to recognize this. I believe their fate will be sealed in24 hrs.
Those bastards don't have any backbone, and they will clap like the buffoons that they are. Their only concern is getting a piece of the action.
They live in fear of the media. Its far more important for them to retain their office for the chance to do right by us, even though they are always afraid to. They really do enjoy being the minority party, never having to actually do anything but be the loyal opposition. If it wasn't for those damned Tea party people they could have kept the minority in the house as well. Look at all the pressure that put on Boehner. They have everything they can to punish conservative voices in the house ever since. Someone is always trying to fuck up a good thing.
He's going to lock the doors, slip out, and have an addled Dutch communist burn down the House.
Absolutely no one in DC has the balls to do this, not even the wannabe populists like Warren or Paul. It's a pay to play system, and the offices and perks are too nice. Hell, the Tea Party is even bellying up to the trough.
It's not a few bad apples anymore. The apple tree itself is rotten to it's roots.
Ron Paul was the last conservative in congress, and America's fate was sealed in Sept 2008. Some would say Sept 2001.
Idi Amin redux in America.
At least Idi was an established dictator. Here, we're supposed to have a system of checks and balances. Good luck on the other two spineless branches challenging this hubristic breach of Constitutional authority.
AmeriKa eats its young. Idi Amin was a literal cannibal. Whose children do you suppose Obama is dining on?
YTies
Yawn.
is it too soon to kill osama bin laden again?
Tell Seal Team 7 to prepare.....
I thought they all died in a helicopter accident shortly after bravely shooting some old man in front of his wives and children.
That was Team 6....
Ah - my mistake. I've often wondered if he even showed them a weapon in his hand or if he was just executed, if indeed it was Osama and the entire disgusting incident wasn't made up out of whole cloth. I wonder why they didn't take him alive and bring him here for trial like Noriega, which would have been the proper course of action. Of course, dead men tell no tales. I also find it curious that they carried away the body and ostensibly buried it at sea, which makes absolutely no sense, and why they would need to do such a thing? What did they have to cover up? I refused to see the movie of the official version.
is it too soon to kill osama bin laden again?
Oh man! Zombie Osama!!
Rrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!
I think I hear him in my breezeway! Save me, Obama!
Better stop by the Redbox tonight. Tomorrow there won't be shit to rent!! Will this finally be the speech where he offers the population free room and board at Camp Fema?
The long term unemployed will have free room and board while Obama and the companies that signed his non binding pledge look for work for them. That speech is in 2 years IMO
Finally Detroit gets rebuilt.
Rebuilt by The Detroit FEMA Camp prisoners. 550 grams bread per day, fresh air year round, exercise ( of a fashion ) and views of Canada.
Avanti!
I have complete faith in President Obama's intentions during these troubled times. A constitutional scholar of his caliber partnered with his humility, integrity, and sense of fair play will serve the people well. I trust that a president of Obama's magnitude will put the people's concerns above his own, and he will wield power with great care. We are lucky to have this good man with a kind heart, and all you brutes should be ashamed of yourselves for the way you talk about him.
Sincerely,
MDB.
Now if you'll excuse me I have to go wash my eyeballs out with some soap.
Twice!
Now that's accredited!
It bears much crust, in a mattering kind of way.
Made me laugh.
Another day. Another speech. Executive Leadership...Obama style.
Where is MDB? I miss that cum dumpster!
I was wondering the same thing, until there was an MDB_ sighting on an earlier thread - I think the H7N9 Flu one.
no amount of executive orders is fixing this shit, we are going down
I hear he's going to broadcast his speech from the Jersey Shore; he'll raise his pen and phone and command the tide to reverse.
He'll regulate toilet paper next.
They are via quantitative easing. The dollar shall be your shit paper.
No surprise here...We are programmed to accept Totalitarian Rule ("Heavenly Father knows best") since Day 1 of Sunday school (or its Judaic and Muslim equivalents).
After that, it's not a big leap of imagination for sheeple to put their faith in their secular leaders also... a la "Leader knows best. It's for the greater good."
/sarc
The REAL tell is how the Sheeple will respond in the so-called "Land of the Free and Home of the Brave". Call my cynical, but I've got my odds on... the fearless Leaders, because 60+ years of Modern living has made us (as a people) too soft and scared.
Oh please, please, don't take my useless Chinese shit away!
People will not stand up until they have nothing, and I mean nothing at all to lose. Of course it is completely too late by then, but we will always have our principles.
You skipped the part where Original Sin means all humans are flawed and imperfect and will always fail and make mistakes, which is why no one should have too much power over other people.
Yeah, you are right about that conditioning. Atheists would never institute or accept autocracy. I mean just look at history.
Out of curiosity, what groups in the USA are most opposed to the growing ubiquitous power of the federal government, the "heavenly father" types or the atheists?
Do whatever you like, How ya gonna pay for it?
Paying for things is sooooo 19th century. We live in the golden age of digital printing now.
That's the Brooklyn meschugena, Yellen's job
It's as if he is trying to cause some sort of confrontation or even revolt.
He has been double dog daring anyone to step over the line every day since election. We are racists, homophobic, womanizing haters if we dare stand up. Remember the congress critter that stood up and said "you lie!" during a previous State of The Union speech? Its like Obama is the lure to bring the malcontents into the snare of the media to be eaten alive. Saddam Hussein got something like 95% of the votes in his elections. You think it was all love or maybe everyone was afraid to not support him? We have seen nothing as blatant a power grab since FDR. By the time this is over FDR will be a right wing extremist.
Hey I'm 1/3 Black so I can criticize Oblamo all I wish.
Uh, yeah. No shit.
I knew this day was coming when, over the years, congress gradually softened the laws regarding the EO. I knew they were leading America to imperialism
Nazi fuck.
All the people who personally actually experienced National Socialism are now dead. So we will have to learn the lesson again with this generation.
Adolf Hitler was elected by popular vote, but quickly got rid of "voting" once in power. History is rhyming as it always does.
Since everything Obama has done so far has turned to dirt I can see no reason not to allow him to grab full Latin Marxist Dictator powers.
There is no way that this feckin' half breed clown received the majority of human votes. Had to be the machines that ensured this malcontent's re-election.
Clowns....your point is well taken. Anyone who believes there has been an honest election in the US in the past 40 years should read Votescam the Stealing of America. It is truly amazing how far we have descended.
How does one human being get the right to tell another human being what to do or not to do if he/she is hurting no one knowingly or negligently.
I wish I could get a good answer, but no luck, so far.
Why they are smarter than you ... and must act in your self-inerest if you don't do what they think is necessary for you to "thrive".
define 'smarter'
How?
Guns, and dump bull knecked bruts in bad crypto gay nazi clown suits that will shoot you, your dog, your kids.
Waco
It has nothing to do with right and everything to do with power. When you have power you don't need a right.
Power always trumps rights. That's why the founders warned us to keep the govt from getting too powerful. Which we haven't done.
Ladies and gentlemen, its with a heavy heart that I must declare we are all Argentines now. -Dear Leader
Argentine women are hot. If all we get is Oprah and Michelle, I'm leaving. Of course, once the Dear Leader is fully installed we will have accept Reggie as First Ass Cowboy.
Obama, you are a limp dick cocksucking assmaggot. Take your "Chicago Way," go fuck yourself and leave us the fuck alone. Take your fucking walking carpet with you too.
+10 for assmaggot
Chuck Schumer wouldn't know a middle class person if he fell over one. Talk about a bankster's shill! Besides, there is NO MIDDLE CLASS in AMERIKA anymore!!
no shit... that asshole thinks $250k married filing jointly is lower middle class... fuck New York, fuck New York, and fuck Schumer
Defintion of Planet Earth: That rock in space where all the dumb motherfuckers live.
If we're doing a drinking game, I'm taking "Benghazi."
I want to stay sober on a school night.
You could get really risky and add the term "monetary reform".
Nah, j/k. You'll be sober as the day you were born.
I used to play the same game, but using the word "unprecedented"... I'm now on my third liver
After ObamaCare's launch, who wants Obama to do anything but play golf? (Must respect the office of the President) I would think even Republicans could negotiate this deal.
Guess I should visit the local USPS branch for a change of residency card. Do you think they'll tell me the street address of the FEMA camp to which I'll be assigned? You know, so I can receive mail and shit.
Depends. Many of us will be in the Pioneer Brigades, building the new model green communities. There might not be much at first. Train station, showers, oven.
Incrementalism has finally incrementalized
Barry, look up the definition of the word "we."
And actually read the Constitution too
He did from his notetaker in law college and found the whole thing boring with that old English talk. He's in the process of ghostwriting another version that's much shorter and easier to read.
He's gonna talk about girls.
He already did the whole "unilateral thing" in the first term.
This is all "Trilateral Commission" (don't forget Mom either) time now.
Which reminds me...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GuHlFUN13_8
Where are the girls here again?
Time to go read some Tom Clancy. And dream of what could be.
Red Storm Rising.
Actually I was thinking about the last few chapters of the sum of all fears.
Check out The a pyramid Code on YouTube. There is actually cause for hope in these darkest of times. The assclowns days are numbered.
Obama was supposed to "pivot" after 2010 elections from going fucktard far radical socialist. Congress was elected in a landslide to stop Obama. Treasonous media now sure to call Obama 'brave' and 'strong' for going around congress and Constitution.
The Media/Obama propaganda complex really the big story, maintains Obama's power. MSM won't even cover the fact that both Obama and Michelle lost their law licenses because of fraud. Barack for lying on his Bar application and Michelle for insurance fraud. They're both scum.
loooooosing it. his supporters....looooooosing it.
tantrum and meltdown because reality is cold.
Nothing Obama does actually works, so no worries.
The funny thing is, that's all part of the plan...... and it's working.
You mean the cruel thing
Start saving your old tires.
http://www.ctvnews.ca/polopoly_fs/1.1656214!/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/landscape_960/image.jpg
Is this for the Winnie Mandela appeal?
I believe admitting you still use the USPS is grounds for a fast tracked guillotine visit at camp FEMA, brosephus
He and they consider themselves "enabled." I, and many others, consider them treasonous.
Article 3, Section 3. "...their right...their duty..."
"Save a tree limb, use a guillotine."
The State of The Union message in a nut shell is more of the same. Many Americans continue to tire of President Obama as his continued promises often fall short and never seem to gel or come to fruition. Promises of gun control, immigration reform, and a healthcare system that works for all of us are just a few examples of where the President and Washington have disappointed America. Cheap tricks used in the past like pointing to a special guest, "an average American" brought to Washington as a "visual prop" as proof that policies are paying off for the masses can only carry us so far. When we inspect the economy of America, huge deficits, a weak recovery, and a questionable future will cast a shadow over all new promises made. The big surprise is how little outrage Americans can muster, more about the SOU speech in the post below,
http://brucewilds.blogspot.com/2014/01/current-state-of-union.html
Tune in Tuesday and watch Obomdog lick his own ass to show America the state of the union.
Obomdog will then lick his own balls to show us he can exercise unilateral presidential authority.
Hey I like the Fallujah idea. Maybe instead of stringing him up which he richly deserves, along with his pal Holder, we just parachute him down in Pakistan, or better yet, Libya. I'm sure his Muslim brothers would love to get to know him better.
The self-righteous Nazi/Stalinist progressives that voted for Obama got their wish: a fucking Police State run by one of "them". Oppression, state thievery, blatant corporate cronyism, state-sanctioned police brutality, NSA surveillance on every electronic device, divisive hate-your-neighbor policies, and more wars of vengeance, punishment and resource seizure -- whistle-blowers and dissidents will be punished by administrative procedures, travel restrictions, exile, censorship, torture, imprisonment, assassination or financial ruin.
Congratulations on the victory --
Worship at the altar of the State. Crusading Statist soldiers, goose-stepping off to war....the world is your battlefield.....
Same could be said about Bush. It has just become blatantly obvious.
Of course. That's why Bush and Cheney are in general agreement with Obama.
So that guy was horrible and any real criticism of the current jackbooted thug should be tempered? Or considered the same? Really? This "logic" chaps my ass. Don't focus on what I'm doing because that guy was much worse than me real or imagined. It's a high school level argument that too many people engage in. If we continue to judge public servants by the last one, soon we will be rationalizing genocide. Well, the other guy killed 20 million citizens and this one has only killed 9 million so...Sorry, I see this a lot and don't mean to pick on you.
Maybe the puppet in the office does not make the decisions, thus the decisions never change.....just the face of the puppet......
Life is not measured left/ right. Its measured up / down.
It's all fun and games until the bullets start flying, real Americans start drawing real lines in the sand, and DHS et al. folds like a cheap lawn chair.
I might go to church tomorrow and light a candle and pray. All the stuff beat into my head growing up that caused me to rebel and become a bankster are coming true!
The Pen is rrrrrrr
The Pen rrrrrrrrreeeeeeeee
The God Damn Pen is blue.
"Liar Liar"
Youtube already banned it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A3bU8M3FgfE
http://vimeo.com/85143398
Transcript: http://www.presseportal.de/pm/69086/2648795/-snowden-exklusiv-der-wortla...
"Mr. Snowden, did you sleep well last night?" So it begins, here in English:
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x1aefb0_snowden-interview-in-english_news
"Good moring, Mr. Weaver. We had flapjacks for breakfast. What did you have?"
Thank God every one of us dies.
I've said it before....
I hope, one day, to wake up on a planet that makes sense.
Until then, there's ethanol.
Ethanol? Just buy a beer.
:)
Anyone who can sit and watch the whole thing without throwing up deserves a medal of valor. For people to be swayed by their perception of his leadership, they would have to first be convinced that he has the ability to show leadership. Since it's been 5+ years and we have yet to see any, good luck with that. If I wanted to watch somebody lie for 2 hrs I would just watch Pinochio. The other preferable thing would be to sit outside in the -30 degree weather and watch my fingers get frostbite.
"Don't struggle. I always get my way."
A Rapists comment, or the opening line from tomorrow nights speech?
Tune in tomorrow to find out
Fuck you Barry.
listen to you guys... how many folks here are fans of Jacksonian Democracy?
I think Jackson is popular on this site because he killed the bank and disliked bankers in general. One thing that I will say about Jackson is that his capacity for compassion was only matched by his capacity for hatred. If you were the common man, or somebody who had been wronged in his eyes, he was a great ally. If you were black, indian, British, etc... you did not want to come across his path. He also did not like the whole checks and balances bit, as was evidenced by him telling the SCOTUS that they had made their ruling, now they had to try to enforce it as he blatantly went against said ruling.
The irony of Jackson being on the $20. I wonder why the Fed did that...some sort of humor?
Is that Jessie Jacksonian Jr. demon-cracy? If so....HELL NO!
Let's just put it out there: We know- already-what's going to be said in the 2 hours he's going to take to say it. Its like the Oscars but with only 1 winning speech giver.
Its just going to be boring. Then comes the MSM's spin for the rest of the week on Directive 10-289 regarding which companies he's got lined up to take on 90 million unemployed.
I'll actually do something productive: bake beer bread. 2 birds 1 stone.
I've grown tired of all this democractic BS. We've lived with this for over 200 years and what has it gotten us? Just a bunch of freedom that we don't know how to handle. What we really need is less freedom and choice, and more bureaucrats telling us what is best.
"Start saving your old tires."
lol tire fires. Those things are impossible to put out. It's almost like they are specifically designed to burn forever.
Ha Ha that's funny. I imagined a million old tires stacked around some strategic location, (no need to be specific) hint hint and whooosh. Smoke the bastards out!
Then I realize it would never happen because the spy apparatus would pick up on it before it could come to fruition. The district would be shut down pretty quick.
Social media is a great tool for organizing but it's also a great early warning system for....THEM.
There are some extinct volcanoes just out of Albuquerque. The old prank used to be taking some tires and gasoline to them, dragging them to the top right before sunrise and lighting them on fire.
You'd probably get charged with several terrorism related felonies if you tried that today.
Keep count.
Every honest member of Congress will walk out when Rex Obama takes the podium.
(my prediction is zero)
He's not even an American, how cunning!
Fuck you Obama!!! Hopes the NSA reads this :) Yes FUCK YOU
Authority intoxicates,
And makes mere sots of magistrates;
The fumes of it invade the brain,
And make men giddy, proud, and vain.
-Samuel Butler
We're at step (3) of the Hayekian playbook right now:
(1) A Party gets voted into power by promising a Plan to fix some pressing social problem, ignoring the fact that if said problem could be solved by majority opinion, the majority would have already solved it.
(2) Representing a diverse coalition, Party members cannot agree on a simple, specific Plan, so they cobble together a Rube Goldberg monstrosity with just the right mix of hokum and magic pixie dust to appease everyone.
(3) When put into action, this Plan quickly falls apart. Saboteurs of the opposing party must be blamed, and decisive executive action must be taken to fix the Plan. Of course that just exposes other flaws, so the Plan now changes unpredictably from day to day.
(4) WAR!!! We must defeat this other country! Because, uh, their leaders also need a distraction from their own failed plans.
(5) The war ends, and the vanquished leaders are hanged while the victors wave to vast cheering crowds. The old, failed plans are forgotten, and it's time for a new Plan to rebuild the country. Back to step (1).
Larry Sinclair already described Obama's dick tastes. Spit it out. Didn't like it.
An Illegitimate President by-pasing Congress. You can't make this shit up. America truely is a nation of Fucking Idiots. Enjoy your Serfdom Sheeple!
If you think Obama is bad, wait till they force Hillary the Hag on us.
Just Impeach this Motherfucker! Don't let him keep using the Race-Card. Besides, he's Half Caucasion! Impeach that half! Then his Black-half, will whither on the vine. Nobody will miss this guy. I guarantee it!
Hey man, you don't have to be so crude even if you don't like the President.
There' a lot more evil about this government than Mr. O.
Yes. W. Bush really got the ball rolling.