Thread: Obama New Measures to Bypass Congress Dictator-like Decree

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Obama Announces Public New Measures to Bypass Congress and Use Dictator-like Decrees

- Jerry McConnell
Saturday, October 29, 2011

The Christian Science Monitor published a Staff Writer Linda Feldmann article titled “Obama looks to bypass Congress with help for homeowners, studentsâ€

If he bypasses Congress on student loans and mortgages he will trythe same thing on immigratiuon. Remember he passed a unilateral TPS for Haitians before he extended it to everyone with a deportation proceeding.

(Clip of Obama making a campaign speech on 10/26)

Obama: "But listen, we're not gonna wait though. We're not waiting for Congress.....
....We're can't wait for Congress to do it's job....
....We said we can't wait for Congress to help small businesses...

(Another speech on 10/24)
Obama: "We said we can't wait for an increasingly dysfunctional Congress to do it's job....
...But remember what I said; we can't just wait for Congress....
...Cuz we can't wait for Congress to help our families and our economy...
...We can't wait for that action...
...I'm not gonna wait for it...

Megan Kelly: Well President Obama repeatedly using the phrase "we can't wait" on the campaign trail over the last few days, blasting Congress in an attempt to sell his latest stimulus plan to Americans.
Karl Rove says you have to drill down on exactly what the President's really saying here. Karl's with me now. He's the former senior adviser and deputy Chief of Staff to President George W. Bush; Karl thank you for being here.

You say that the slogan unintentionally showcases an essential truth about the Obama presidency. What is that truth?

Karl Rove: He's far more comfortable campaigning than he is comfortable at governing. Take this weeks focus; infrastructure. He went to Las Vegas and Los Angeles and talked about infrastructure and how we need to have a temporary program for highway construction. Well here's the problem:
In 2009 a six year highway bill came to an end. It lapsed. And since 2009, President Obama has not done the heavy lifting to get a highway bill passed.
In fact in June of 2009 when the democrat chairman of the House Transportation Committee announced he was ready to present a bill, the administration attacked it. And since then we've had no highway bill, which has caused confusion and uncertainty among state officials and in the private sector, and we've had 8 temporary extensions of the highway bill - and now the President comes and lectures us saying 'I can't wait for Congress'.

Well wait a minute Mr. President, you're the President, and you should have been working with democrats in Congress in 2010 and 2009 when you controlled the Congress, to renew the highway bill. Focus on that rather than giving us these temporary measures.

Megan: So you say it's like the slogan "I told the viewers my mom had on the kitchen cupboard: 'Lack of planning on your part does not justify an emergency on your part'.

Karl: Right, but you know what, it's more than just this current thing. It extends throughout. The President outsources the drafting of important legislation of Congress, so we end up with like the failed stimulus bill and the affordable care act - bills that are unworkable and impractical and, you know, unpopular.

And yesterday there was an extraordinary piece in the in the McClatchy newspapers (link to story) about how the President is disengaged with Iraq. It turns out the President did not speak to the Prime Minister of Iraq between February 13th and the day they called him up to say we won't have US troops in Iraq after the end of the agreement that have with you, at the end of the year. The President did not talk to the head of Iraq during that entire time, trying to work out an arrangement by which US troops could be kept in Iraq as a buffer against Iran and Syria.

I just find it astonishing that the President's so disengaged from this most personal of diplomacy which is so vital to our country.

Megan: You use the word 'disengaged' and in your opinion piece this week you talk about the motivation behind these things. You say it shows an 'indifference to governing'. What do you mean by that; what do you think is really going on?

Karl: Look, I think he's an ideologue. He has a sort of check list of things that he'd like to get done, but as to the concrete substance of them, he's unengaged.

Look at BP for example; the oil spill in the Gulf. It took him 55 days from the oil spill until he finally sat down and met with an expert who knew what the heck was going on in the Gulf of Mexico. He was criticized for not engaging in it, but it still took him 55 days to sit down with somebody who was smart enough to know what was really going on. If you're sitting in the White House one of the first things you want to do when an emergency arises, is make sure the President has the best advice from people with subject matter expertise, and it didn't happen there. We see this time and time again. He just seems to be uninvolved.

Megan: Do you see a different man on the campaign trail? The White House says it's not campaigning; it's promotion of stimulus II. But in any event it's serving 2 purposes at least, promotion of stimulus II and getting ready for campaign '12.

Karl: It's easier for him to attack his political opponents than negotiate with them. He loves being out on the campaign trail. He loves flying around the country in Air Force 1 or gettin' on that bus. Think about this: the President has had a fund raiser since the beginning of April every 4 days. He's had more than twice as many fund raisers in his re-election campaign so far as Bush did in his re-election campaign. And I don't think that Bush's first "bus tour" was until the summer of 2004. Now we've had the President out for a 2nd bus tour of this fall, more than a year before the election.

He's comfortable campaigning; he's just not comfortable at all with the job of being President of the United States and those tough duties of the Oval Office. He pushes them off onto other people, or ignores them.

Megan: You can check out Karl's opinion piece in the Wall Street Journal. Karl, thanks so much for being here.

Karl: Thanks for having me.


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