Obamas Cordray Appointment A Tyrannical Abuse of Power
Obamas Cordray Appointment A Tyrannical Abuse of Power
I’m speechless, so I’ll just put Mike Brownfield’s article here. This is the scariest thing I think the president has said. He’s even said it before. The scary part is that he’s got so many sycophants ready to follow him and applaud his every word. We MUST stand up!! We need to be heard. No matter what name they hurl at you, no matter what crazy argument they use, be strong. Stand up for what’s right. This isn’t right!!
Here’s Mike Brownfield’s article:
Morning Bell: Obama’s Tyrannical Abuse of Power
Mike Brownfield January 5, 2012 at 9:41 am
Standing behind a podium on a stage just outside Cleveland, President Barack Obama delivered a speech yesterday that will reverberate throughout history. No, its lasting impact will not come because of its soaring rhetoric. Instead, it will make its mark because it was at that moment on a Wednesday afternoon in Ohio that the President announced his plans to act in total and utter disregard of the U.S. Constitution with his illegal appointment of Richard Cordray to serve as director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB).
It’s an astonishingly reckless exercise of executive authority that Heritage’s Todd Gaziano described as a “tyrannical abuse of power.” Never before in the 100-plus years of precedent on the recess appointment power has a President taken such an action while the Senate was still in session. Yet notwithstanding that fact, President Obama yesterday decided that he would be the first.
Here’s why the President finds himself so far outside of constitutional bounds. Under Article II, section 2, clause 2 of the Constitution, the President has the power to fill vacancies that may happen during Senate recesses, as Gaziano writes. In this case, President Obama was seeking to fill the vacancy in the CFPB, a new agency that has come under significant criticism given its unparalleled powers to issue expansive regulations with virtually no accountability. Republicans in the Senate, to date, have refused to confirm the President’s nominees to head up the CFPB, vowing to block Senate approval until reforms are made to the agency. So President Obama has decided to act without their approval by attempting to make a recess appointment. The trouble is that Congress is not in a recess because the House of Representatives never consented, as required under the Constitution, Article I, section 5. That means that the President simply does not have the power to make this appointment. Gaziano explains the implications of the President’s actions:[The recess appointment] power has been interpreted by scores of attorneys general and their designees in the Department of Justice Office of Legal Counsel for over 100 years to require an official, legal Senate recess of at least 10-25 days of duration. (There are a few outlier opinions, never sanctioned by the courts, that suggest a recess of six to seven days might be enough–but never less than that.)
The President’s purported recess appointment of Cordray would render the Senate’s advice and consent role to normal appointments almost meaningless. It is a grave constitutional wrong that Senator Mitch McConnell (R-KY) has already denounced. But it fits a pattern of extra-constitutional abuse by the White House that seems more interested in energizing a liberal base than safeguarding the office of the presidency.
Why take such action? The President says it’s because he can’t wait for Congress to act on behalf of the American people. The truth is that the President is hell bent on ramming through his agenda, and he is entirely unwilling to compromise with the duly elected representatives who sit in the House and Senate. By circumventing the Senate and appointing Cordray, the President can ensure that his big-government regulatory agenda is enacted without the reforms that Congress is demanding. Unfortunately, the Cordray appointment is not the only example of the President’s wanton, unilateral actions.
Apart from Cordray, the President also plans to make three appointments to the National Labor Relations Board without Senate approval, which will fundamentally alter the makeup of the board and enable the President to realize his Big Labor agenda. That means an unrestrained push to unionize businesses at all costs and punish companies that seek to grow in non-union states (as was attempted in the Boeing case) — even if it means harming both workers and the economy. And in the case of environmental regulations, immigration law, No Child Left Behind, the auto bailout, the selective enforcement of voting rights laws, and the regulation of the Internet (among others), the Obama Administration has in fact enacted its agenda via legislative fiat time and time again.
king obama | The Gateway Pundit
king obama | The Gateway Pundit.
Judge for yourself. I know how I feel about this. How do you feel? Do we think HE has TOO MUCH power yet? He has to go. Share your thoughts.
Here’s Jim’s article from GP:
King Obama Takes Control – Breaks Rules On Recess Appointments… Just Because …Update: McConnell Issues Statement
Posted by Jim Hoft on Wednesday, January 4, 2012, 4:06 PM
Barack Obama used his recess powers to appoint a head for the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and three new radical members of the NLRB today despite the fact that the senate was in session yesterday.
The Washington Times reported:President Obama used his recess appointment powers Wednesday to name a head for the controversial Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and three new members to the National Labor Relations Board — moves Republican lawmakers said amounted to an unconstitutional power grab.
The president acted just a day after the Senate held a session — breaking with at least three different precedents that said the Senate must be in recess for at least three days for the president to exercise his appointment power. Mr. Obama himself was part of two of those precedents, both during his time in the Senate and again in 2010 when one of his administration’s top constitutional lawyers made the argument for the three-day waiting period to the Supreme Court.
Mr. Obama tapped former Ohio Attorney General Richard Cordray to head the CFPB, and named three others to the labor board — all of which had been stymied by congressional Republicans who said Mr. Obama is accruing too much power to himself through those two agencies.
Of course, the democrat-media complex will ignore this violation of justice as if it never happened. Being a far left socialist has its perks.
The recess appointments are almost certain to be challenged in court.
A VOTERS’ GUIDE TO REPUBLICANS
Okay, I’ll admit it. I love this guy. Please watch this video. He’s awesome.
Uploaded by BillWhittleChannel on Dec 13, 2011
EVERYBODY knows that Republicans are EVIL! What kind of Evil? Greedy, Fascist, Racist evil — the worst kind! Bill Whittle unravels the facts behind this perfect storm of evil in a breezy fashion that provides a hurricane of historical data to lift the white robes of even the most stalwart Democrats.
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Here’s the video:
Three Years Under Obama
Please, please watch this video from Pajamas Media. It’s been around for a couple of weeks, but I hadn’t had time to watch it until now. Wow! Bill Whittle explains things in a way that is completely understandable about what’s happened to our country the last three years under Obama. I’m sure I couldn’t explain it this well, so I’ve decided it’s my job to find people who can. Bill Whittle is certainly one of them.
Please watch this video.
Uploaded by Pajamasmedia on Dec 21, 2011
In his last Afterburner of 2011, Bill Whittle takes a look at the state of this country three years into Obama’s rule and has amassed a list of breathtaking failures bound to stun and/or depress champions of smaller government. Solyndra, Fast & Furious, the Keystone Pipeline and the deficit are just a handful of the scandals that make Bill’s blood boil. So what do we need to do in 2012 to counteract Obama’s policies? Take a look.
Here it is:
Santorum Only Loses First Place in Iowa by Eight Votes!!
Well I said this would happen if we put our faith in the Lord instead of just choosing who we thought could win this election. I truly believe if we stand by our principles and values the right person (Rick Santorum) can and will go all the way. As I watched his speech tonight, there was still no final vote count. Most of the time it showed Santorum in the lead, and I truly believe now that eight votes behind is basically the same as winning. He’s shown America that he can do it. I do believe he’s the true conservative in this race, (besides Michelle Bachman) and I compare him to Silent Cal. That’s silent Calvin Coolidge who was the best president of the 20th century, until Ronald Regan. For me, I’ve really prayed about this. For you, you may have different criteria you pray on and your answer may be different than mine. Either way, we have to have faith and not just settle with our votes on who we think has the best chance of winning. If we pray, and put our faith in the person who most resembles our principles and values, then they will have the best chance of winning. Especially if we really want to change our country for the better.
For the first time, I’m not afraid to stand up and tell people exactly how I feel. Now I know people in my family may think I’ve always done that, but it’s only been with them. I believe we need to have the courage to STAND UP and be heard. If we want real change in this country, we can’t just sit back and hope it will change. Faith alone won’t do it either. WORK!! Work is what we need to do to accomplish the change we seek. Look how Rick Santorum worked. He was in last place just a few weeks ago, but he went to 99 counties in Iowa and over 300 town meetings. He didn’t just sit back and hope people would just understand his message. He got out and personally told people his message. The eight vote loss was only after two lost precincts were found.
The first words of his speech were: “Game On“. With these votes the game really is on. It may not be as easy a victory for Mitt Romney as everyone thought it would be. Either everyone’s work paid off or Iowa is more sick of Obama than people realize, because Iowa had the largest turnout for a Republican Caucus.
According to what I saw on Atlas Shrugs the vote was:
Percentage Reporting 98%
Candidate Votes %
Santorum 29,662 25%
Romney 29,657 25%
Paul 25,926 22%
Gingrich 16,002 14%
Perry 12,442 11%
Bachmann 6,031 5%
Huntsman 734 <1%
Cain
This seems sort of miraculous to me after all the news I watched and heard all day. Everyone said Santorum would probably take third place, which was still a miracle considering he had been at the bottom just a couple of weeks ago, but to nearly tie with first place is a testament to his faith and hard work. He didn’t spend as much money as others spent, but he got the word out.
We CAN be the difference in this election. We just need to STAND! And maybe like me, be LOUD!! That’s what makes me LaMar’s Loud Daughter.
Lowry Calls Out Alan Colmes for Mocking Death of Santorum’s Baby | Video | TheBlaze.com
Lowry Calls Out Alan Colmes for Mocking Death of Santorum’s Baby | Video | TheBlaze.com
I got this story from The Blaze, but it’s certainly not the only place I saw it today. I couldn’t remain silent on this anymore. It was so repulsive, I had to comment.
Okay, I’ll be honest and say I couldn’t bring myself to watch the video. It hits a little too close to home for me. If my daughter had not been stillborn, but had been born alive and then died, I think the loss would have been even worse than it was. It would have been easier to take her home and show her to the boys and let them hold her and then have the funeral than it was to hand her over to a total stranger and then not see her again until she was brought to the church by the funeral home. I wish the boys had seen her the way my husband and I were able to see her, before the funeral home dressed her and tried to do her make up. They did the best job they could, but she looked completely different because her little body did not hold up well for the funeral. My boys still thought she was beautiful, but how much better would it have been if they could have held her? I know why the Santorum’s took their baby home and I envy them the opportunity. This only makes me admire Rick Santorum more. Anyone who mocks him or makes his actions seem less than they actually were is not deserving of mine or anyone else’s respect. Alan Colmes is despicable to talk about this in any way. Each couple handles this type of situation differently and no one has the right to judge the way anyone else deals with their loss.
Here’s the Alan Colmes, Rich Lowry video from Monday:
Watch the latest video at video.foxnews.com
I can’t get the video to show up here, so please click on the above link to see it. Below I have Rick Santorum tonight on Hannity talking about the apology he received from Alan Colmes. He also talks a bit about why the family did what they did with the baby. I for one need no explanation. Here is Rick Santorum, being the class act I have always felt he was and is:
If I could vote today, my vote would be for Rick Santorum. He has the values and principles I look for.
We can’t just vote for who we think can win. It’s the Primary. This is our choice to vote for who we really want. How can the Lord step in when we need him if we only vote for who we think can win, but they don’t reflect the principles and values we want in a leader? Why should He help if we don’t really look for what we need as a country? We need to find who we think would truly be best for our country and THEN ask the Lord to step in. He’ll do his part if we do ours.
That’s one of the things I learned from my Dad. That’s what makes me his LOUD daughter!!
» Still No Justice For Brian Terry – Big Government
» Still No Justice For Brian Terry – Big Government
Why isn’t our country more outraged by this murder? The gun used in this murder was put in the killer’s hands as a direct result of our government’s actions. We must stand for this American hero. If the media won’t report about the reason for the death of Brian Terry, then we must speak for him and his family. The administration is too busy covering their butts to even bother with the atrocity they had a hand in committing. We need to ask questions until there are answers for the Terry family.
I’m posting the video and some pictures from this article and I urge you to read about Brian Terry here.
» Patriots to Rally Tuesday as Holder Plans Major Announcement on Voting Laws – Big Government
» Patriots to Rally Tuesday as Holder Plans Major Announcement on Voting Laws – Big Government
Here’s just a sample from this article:
Just when you thought Attorney General Eric Holder couldn’t get more sordid and arrogant, he has. His testimony last week before the House Judiciary Committee took the scandal plagued Justice Department into territory not traveled since John Mitchell worked overtime to conceal administration wrongdoing nearly four decades ago…
As bad as Watergate was, it didn’t involve hundreds of murders, dead American law enforcement agents, and the illegal distribution of thousands of firearms. How long has it been since an Attorney General appeared before Congress and words such as “contempt” and “impeachment” were used by members as they were last week?
Many in Washington remain unconvinced of the extent of the destructive radicalism permeating this administration, and particularly the DOJ. In the speeches I give around the country, I lament that I wish Bill Clinton was still President. These are not your grandfather’s democrats. These are not just liberals. From bringing cases to force schools to allow child transvestites, to forcing schools to give Muslim teachers almost four weeks paid vacation for an Islamic pilgrimage, radicalism prevails.
Debunking the Biggest Lie: “Palestinian” – Atlas Shrugs
Debunking the Biggest Lie: “Palestinian” – Atlas Shrugs
As always, reading Atlas Shrugs blog by Pamela Geller is quite informative about the Middle East and the article she posted on her blog by Eli E. Hertz is no exception. I was taught as a child that Israel is God’s promised land for the Jews. I was confused as I grew up and realized many people don’t believe Israel is the Jewish people’s homeland. This article explains in a way that is very understandable and states why Newt Gingrich was right in his comments about the Palestinian people. I know many people will disagree with this article and hatred of the Jews and Israel runs rampant throughout the world, but since I stand with Israel, I found that this article is straight to the point.
Please read it, and thank you to Pamela Geller for making it available. Here’s just a little sample of the article:
Palestine is a Geographical Area, Not a Nationality December 11, 2011 | Eli E. Hertz
In an interview with Republican Presidential Primary front-runner and former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich, a former Professor and Historian, he explains his position on the Arab-Israeli conflict and states that the Palestinians are “an invented Palestinian people, who are in fact Arabs.”
It is time to tell the truth that is based on facts:
Until the Jews began returning to the Land of Israel in increasing numbers from the late 19th century to the turn of the 20th, the area called Palestine was a deserted waste land that belonged to the Ottoman Empire, based in Turkey.
‘Palestinianism’ in and of itself lacks any substance of its own. Arab society on the West Bank and Gaza suffer from a deep social cleavage created by a host of rivalries based on divergent geographic, historical, sociological and familial allegiances.
What glues Palestinians together is a carefully nurtured hatred of Israel and the rejection of Jewish nationhood.
NY Dem Congresswoman Asked About Fast And Furious: Never Heard Of It…
NY Dem Congresswoman Asked About Fast And Furious: Never Heard Of It…
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