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Obama's Dangerous Claim to Executive Power

Negotiating with Republicans has never been in Obama's playbook

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Three days after his inauguration in 2009, President Barack Obama silenced Republican lawmakers who voiced concerned about the enormity of spending in his stimulus bill by uttering two brash words, "I won."

That was his governing philosophy, as he rammed through the American Reinvestment and Recovery Act.

But in the fall of 2010, Republicans swept into control of the House of Representatives, and since then, Obama's agenda has been stalled.

With little prospect of gaining control of the House in 2014, Obama is resorting to discrediting the Constitution's limits on presidential power rather than bargain with congressional Republicans.

Here are the president's own words, explaining why he refuses to negotiate to end the government shutdown and resolve the fast approaching debt ceiling problem.

His views on presidential power ought to alarm all Americans.

"I will not pay ransom," said Obama, for a stopgap-spending bill to open the government.

Historically, presidents have had to make concessions to Congress to secure funding. President Reagan endured eight shutdowns. Each time he negotiated with the Democratic speaker of the house, Tip O'Neill, conceding on issues from mid-range missile defense to support for Nicaraguan contras to quickly end the shutdown.

Fast-forward to the current showdown. The House Republicans' fourth (and latest) offer asks for only two changes in ObamaCare: First, eliminate the subsidy for members of Congress, which has outraged the public.

Second, delay for a year making insurance mandatory for individuals. Let anyone enroll in ObamaCare who wants to. But don't penalize individuals for being uninsured in 2014 when the president has already postponed the penalty on big companies for not insuring workers.

"The Affordable Care Act is a law that passed the House. It passed the Senate; the Supreme Court ruled it constitutional. ... and it is settled," said Obama.

Not so. The health program the president is imposing on us is not the Affordable Care Act. The president has dismembered and mangled it. Gone is the employer mandate, the cap on out of pocket expenses, income verification and over half the deadlines specified in the law. The president delayed or did away with these features without asking Congress. Illegally.

Then, he added 1,472 waivers and connived a subsidy for members of Congress that no one else in American earning $174,000 a year could get.

The Supreme Court has ruled twice that presidents cannot delay, amend and repeal parts of laws.

"It has not been done in the past, and we're not going to start doing it now," said Obama, explaining why he will not negotiate with House Republicans over raising the debt ceiling.

The truth is presidents have often had to make concessions to get the debt ceiling raised. In 1995, Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich tried to extract major spending reforms from President Bill Clinton.

The two sides sparred for more than a week past the "deadline" for a hike. That is what the framers intended.

"That's not how our constitutional system is designed," the president said disingenuously. The designer himself, James Madison, explained in Federalist 58 that the president must come to Congress as a supplicant to borrow, tax or spend. That dependence on Congress is "the most effectual tool to remedy" any grievance the people could have against their president.

That brings us to the nefarious proposal taking shape on Capitol Hill. Senate Democrats reportedly will offer a bill shifting to the president the discretion to raise the debt ceiling any time through 2014, except if two-thirds of each house of Congress vote to disapprove. This device, first tried in the Budget Control Act of 2011, weasels around the U. S. Constitution's system of checks and balances and substantially enlarges executive power.

Who is Obama, the 44th president, to demand more borrowing latitude than his 43 predecessors?

As Madison warned in Federalist 62, "an elective despot is not what we fought for."

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DHS Secretary Nomination Approved Targetting U.S. Citizens Abroad With Drones

Conservatives with Libertarian leanings are gonna havea FIELD DAY with this guy -  http://swampland.time.com/2013/03/18/on-u-s-drone-policies-ex-pentagon-lawyer-warns-of-erosion-of-support/

Via Washington Post:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/obama-to-nominate-jeh-johnson-former-pentagon-official-as-next-dhs-secretary/2013/10/17/74eb8856-3768-11e3-ae46-e4248e75c8ea_print.html

President Obama will nominate Jeh Johnson, formerly the Pentagon's top lawyer and a key figure in the administration's debate over the legality of drone use, to head the Department of Homeland Security, according to White House officials.

The official announcement will take place at 2 p.m. Friday at the White House. Johnson, if confirmed by the Senate, would succeed Janet Napolitano, who announced she was leaving the cabinet post in July.

As the former Defense Department general counsel, Johnson was responsible for the legal work at the nation's largest bureaucracy. His job placed him at the center of some of Obama's most important national security decisions, from the practice of targeted killings beyond America's defined battlefields to the intervention in Libya.

"The President is selecting Johnson because he is one the most highly qualified and respected national security leaders," said a senior administration official, speaking on condition of anonymity to discuss the nomination before its announcement. "During his tenure at the Department of Defense, he was known for his sound judgment and counsel."

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Mass Dem Gov. Deval Patrick Teams Up With Radical Mosque
Where Boston Bombers Attended To Issue State's First
Eid ul-Adha Greetings [whatever the hell that means]

Deval Patrick issued this in conjunction with the Islamic Society of Boston, the same mosque attended by Dzhokhar and Tamerlan Tsarnaev.  The ISB has long history with radical Islam.

(Hmmmm....I wonder how long the clown had to practice those raghead words...
even better, Numbnut Patrick has a gay daughter, he should have asked the ISB
how she would be treated in the Evil Islamic world)

I couldn't resist this Paul Harvey video below.  He nailed it:

Dear American Citizen: Most would agree the reach of the Federal Government is simply too big, and has lacked true accountability by the press - Yet now the mainstream media (seemingly) is beginning to show signs of investigative journalism. And they should! Admittedly, the IRS has been targeting "Pro-America, Patriot, less Government, more G-d" non-profit groups. Using Paul Harvey's words and images from our current culture, this video has a message that clearly speaks into the souls of American citizens.

***PAUL HARVEY'S 'IF I WERE THE DEVIL' TRANSCRIPT***

If I were the devil ... If I were the Prince of Darkness, I'd want to engulf the whole world in darkness. And I'd have a third of it's real estate, and four-fifths of its population, but I wouldn't be happy until I had seized the ripest apple on the tree — Thee. So I'd set about however necessary to take over the United States. I'd subvert the churches first — I'd begin with a campaign of whispers. With the wisdom of a serpent, I would whisper to you as I whispered to Eve: 'Do as you please.'

"To the young, I would whisper that 'The Bible is a myth.' I would convince them that man created God instead of the other way around. I would confide that what's bad is good, and what's good is 'square.' And the old, I would teach to pray, after me, 'Our Father, which art in Washington...'

"And then I'd get organized. I'd educate authors in how to make lurid literature exciting, so that anything else would appear dull and uninteresting. I'd threaten TV with dirtier movies and vice versa. I'd pedal narcotics to whom I could. I'd sell alcohol to ladies and gentlemen of distinction. I'd tranquilize the rest with pills.

"If I were the devil I'd soon have families that war with themselves, churches at war with themselves, and nations at war with themselves; until each in its turn was consumed. And with promises of higher ratings I'd have mesmerizing media fanning the flames. If I were the devil I would encourage schools to refine young intellects, but neglect to discipline emotions — just let those run wild, until before you knew it, you'd have to have drug sniffing dogs and metal detectors at every schoolhouse door.

"Within a decade I'd have prisons overflowing, I'd have judges promoting pornography — soon I could evict God from the courthouse, then from the schoolhouse, and then from the houses of Congress. And in His own churches I would substitute psychology for religion, and deify science. I would lure priests and pastors into misusing boys and girls, and church money. If I were the devil I'd make the symbols of Easter an egg and the symbol of Christmas a bottle.

"If I were the devil I'd take from those who have, and give to those who wanted until I had killed the incentive of the ambitious. And what do you bet? I couldn't get whole states to promote gambling as thee way to get rich? I would caution against extremes and hard work, in Patriotism, in moral conduct. I would convince the young that marriage is old-fashioned, that swinging is more fun, that what you see on TV is the way to be. And thus I could undress you in public, and I could lure you into bed with diseases for which there is no cure. In other words, if I were the devil I'd just keep right on doing on what he's doing.

Paul Harvey, good day."

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Idiot Pelosi: Obumacare Is About "The Liberation of People To A Life of Liberty, Freedom"

(This Bitch is totally insane)

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2013/10/17/nancy_pelosi_no_question_that_obamacare_website_has_to_be_improved.html
REP. NANCY PELOSI: I am very proud about my state of California, where it's going great, and most of the states that have their state-run exchanges, it's all going positively well. There's no question that what's happening with the systems, the national plans is something that has to be improved. They were overwhelmed by the traffic. Okay, but now let's see how long it's going to take to have that be fixed. But, that's about the technology — about the benefits, about the liberation of people to a healthier life of liberty, freedom to choose their happiness, that all remains.

I hope that we would have some answers soon and that the answer will be, okay, we've found the glitch or whatever it is, it has been corrected and here's a demonstration of how people, when they approach it now, will be received.

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Obumacare Workers "Getting Sick, Fainting During Conference Calls"

(Obumacare seems to have that effect on people)

Via WaPo:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2013/10/16/meet-cgi-federal-the-company-behind-the-botched-launch-of-healthcare-gov/

. . . The healthcare.gov debacle has taken its toll on the working environment at CGI Federal's 10-story complex in Fairfax, Va., according to a staffer working on a related project who asked not to be named. "There's been a lot of agitation and anger, because CGI really prides itself on having family flexibility," he said, noting the firm's liberal telework policy. Instead, the Obamacare contract has sucked more and more staff off other projects, and people have been working around the clock to first get the site ready for Oct. 1, and then fix it when things started to go wrong. "There's a lot of frustration," the staffer said. "People are getting sick, fainting in conference calls."

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NY Daily News Rag Runs Political Cartoon Comparing Redskins Logo To Swastika, Confederate Flag

This is sooooooo STUPID!  BTW.. What they call the Confederate Flag was Lee's Battle flag for the Army of Northern Virginia... it was hijacked by the Demo-rats that ran the government.  If they have too, I recommend they change it to the Washington Thinskins:

WASHINGTON -
http://www.myfoxdc.com/story/23726152/political-cartoon-compares-redskins-logo-to-swastika-confederate-flag#axzz2i7OBw4g9

The Redskins name debate just isn't going away.

A new political cartoon in the New York Daily News is raising eyebrows by comparing the Skins logo to a swastika and the confederate flag.

Next to it is written the caption "Archaic Symbols of Pride and Heritage."

FOX 5 reached out to a number of businesses that advertise at Fed-Ex Field, the home stadium of the Redskins, to see if the name bothered them.

They either had no comment on the issue but offered support for the team and the partnership – or didn't call us back altogether.

In a related story, The Richmond Free Press is dropping the Redskins nickname for the Washington NFL team from its pages, calling it racist.

In an editorial Thursday, the weekly primarily aimed at the city's African-American community called the name insulting to Native Americans and divisive.

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Surprise!  Debt Jumps $328 Billion In Single Day Of Operation

(After 150 days of being stagnation the national debt has increased to $17B+.  I understand someone in the White House just wired a little cash to an off-shore private account last night.  It's probably nothing to worry about.  )

Via The Washington Times:
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/oct/18/us-debt-jumps-400-billion-tops-17-trillion-first-t/

U.S. debt jumped a record $328 billion on Thursday, the first day the federal government was able to borrow money under the deal President Obama and Congress sealed this week.

The debt now equals $17.075 trillion, according to figures the Treasury Department posted online on Friday.

The $328 billion increase shattered the previous high of $238 billion set two years ago.

The giant jump comes because the government was replenishing its stock of "extraordinary measures" — the federal funds it borrowed from over the last five months as it tried to avoid bumping into the debt ceiling.

Under the law, that replenishing happens as soon as there is new debt space.

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Mike Huckabee

Forbes has been digging into the question of why the Obamacare website keeps crashing. It's not just the cronyism that led to companies with hardly any IT experience but lot of lobbyists getting contracts to build the website. And it's not just the fact that it was a rush job. No, Forbes' conclusion is that the site keeps crashing because the government was trying to hide the truth from us.

For years now, we've been promised that this new health care scheme would let us keep the plans we like and the only change is that the cost would drop by about $2500 a year. In reality, many plans are being dropped and replaced with plans that cost thousands of dollars more. It apparently came as a shock to our leaders than when you force insurance companies to cover a lot more things with no preexisting condition exemptions, the cost goes up. Forbes claims that Health and Human Services officials were afraid that if people saw those prices, there'd be an open revolt. So instead of just letting people shop for insurance anonymously, like most websites do, it required people to register before they shop, so it could learn their income and tell them if they qualified for subsidies. Requiring all that information just to sign on creates a huge bottleneck and crashes the system. So let me save Washington a lot of trouble in the future: guys, we know that everything you get involved in costs more. It's not a state secret. Now, could you please just get out of the way and let us see the damages?

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Colorado: City-Owned Cemetery Bans Jesus From Gravestones
Over Fear People Will Be "Offended"

(Sadly, there are plenty of morons on the left who would be offended... but I'd like to know who, specifically would be offended by the name 'Jesus' on the grave marker of a pastor's wife?  What kind of malicious, godless, slop-sucking heathen would object to a dying woman's last wishes?  Oh, I forgot... progressives, atheists, your local government Facists)


Via Fox News:
http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2013/10/18/family-fights-to-include-jesus-on-grave-marker-at-city-owned-cemetery/

The family of a Colorado preacher's wife is still fuming after the director of the city-owned cemetery refused to engrave her final resting place with the name 'Jesus' because it might offend people. The city eventually reversed course under public pressure.

"We were in disbelief," said Stacy Adams, the daughter-in-law of Linda Baker. "Who tries to censor Jesus from a cemetery?"

Linda Baker lost her battle with cancer last week. She was the wife of Mark Baker, the pastor of Harvest Baptist Church in Ovid.

Adams said her mother-in-law was passionate about her Christian faith and her family. Her final wish was to have her cemetery marker engraved with the ichthys, a symbol of early Christianity. She also wanted the word 'Jesus' written inside the fish.

"At first they told us it wouldn't fit," Adams told me. "But after we kept pushing them the cemetery director told us that it might offend somebody. They weren't going to allow it."

The family was devastated and asked the cemetery director to reconsider. He refused.