Thread: Cavuto cuts off Bachmann on executive orders

Cavuto cuts off Bachmann on executive orders

'Rome's burning, and you're filing lawsuits'

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Fox News show host Neil Cavuto hit his stride, including a little bit of heat and rhetoric, as he blasted Republicans for a lawsuit announced on Wednesday by House Speaker John Boehner that alleges President Obama is acting outside of the law with his executive orders.

At one point he cut off U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmann, R-Minn., mid-sentence, to go to a commercial break.


The action is against Obama over his profligate use of executive orders, actions that many in Congress have described as illegal.
Boehner said he would be launching the court case against the president over his use of executive orders to change the nation’s laws regarding immigration, Obamacare, minimum wages and more – all without any action from Congress.
Bachmann had agreed to come on the program to answer questions about the move, which she said she had sought a long time ago already.
She explained, “The Constitution is a stop sign for the president, as it is for the Congress, as it is for the Supreme Court.”
But Cavuto was having none of it, talking over the congresswoman.
“We spend too much time … We need to fix whatever is wrong,” he said. “Seems to me there’s so much wrong here, [with Congress saying], ‘We’re going to drag your ass to court.’”
“Criminy,” said Bachmann. “Give me a second and I will tell you.
“I don’t know why John Boehner’s filing this now. I called for this going back to the State of the Union. Why he’s doing it now, I don’t know,” she said.
Cavuto continued pushing hard for instant responses.
“Where was your rage when Democrats were going after President Bush [over] executive orders?” he demanded. “This is a waste of time.”
“Rome’s burning, and you’re filing [lawsuits],” he said.
After cutting off Bachmann, he returned to the screen and apologized for getting “a little heated.”
“Looks like I just cut off the congresswoman,” he said.
But he said he wouldn’t apologize for his “sentiment,” or the fact that “we are wasting time filing lawsuits past one another.”
“I’m looking around and seeing Rome burning, and I think someone should pick up a hose and put out the fire,” he said.
“When there’s conflicts … between the legislative branch and the administrative branch, it’s, in my view, our responsibility to stand up for this institution,” Boehner said of Congress on Wednesday.
“This is not about impeachment, this is about his faithfully executing the laws of this country.”
Boehner continued, “The Constitution makes it clear that the president’s job is to faithfully execute the law. In my view, the president has not faithfully executed the law.”
Obama since his move into the Oval Office has frequently used executive orders to change laws he doesn’t like. Probably the biggest example is Obamacare, where Obama has a multitude of times simply issued an order changing something in the law, without going through Congress.
U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmann, R-Minn.

He’s granted exemptions from requirements, changed the dates on legal timelines and more.
He also used his peremptory “pen” and “telephone” privileges to simply drop a requirement in the law that recipients of some kinds of federal aid work, and he’s ordered Border Patrol agents to ignore the federal law regarding some illegal immigration.
Just days ago he arbitrarily ordered the Department of Labor to extend family leave to same-sex couples. And a short time earlier, he mandated that the minimum wage for federal contractors be raised, and deportations of many illegal aliens be halted.
Earlier, Boehner spokesman Michael Steel explained the issue. “The president has a clear record of ignoring the American people’s elected representatives and exceeding his constitutional authority, which has dangerous implications for both our system of government and our economy. The House has passed legislation to address this, but it has gone nowhere in the Democratic-controlled Senate, so we are examining other options.”
Obama repeatedly has refused to negotiate with members of the House over political issues, issuing demands that it must be his way. Then he’s complained that the GOP leadership in the House isn’t cooperating with him.
Obama’s executive orders earlier rose to the level that his threat to Congress that “I’ve got a pen and I’ve got a phone” was reviewed by the Congressional Research Service.
The agency’s report said executive orders are accepted generally as part of a president’s authority, but they are not in the Constitution, and there are limits.
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“While the president’s ability to use executive orders as a means of implementing presidential power has been established as a matter of law and practice, it is equally well established that the substance of an executive order, including any requirements or prohibitions, may have the force and effect of law only if the presidential action is based on power vested in the president by the U.S. Constitution or delegated to the president by Congress,” said the report written by attorneys Vivian S. Chu and Todd Garvey.
Specifically, there are problems whenever a presidential whim stretches into the authority of Congress, or other limits, the report said.

Ambassador Alan Keyes wrote that the Constitution’s “checks and balance” system “only operates effectively through the energetic initiative or effective resistance of the different branches of government. The executive has the advantage when it comes to energetic initiatives, or ‘active resolutions’ as Alexander Hamilton put it. The judiciary makes decisions, but has no enforcement power. The legislature formulates and adopts laws, but the Constitution leaves actual implementation/enforcement of the laws to the executive, i.e., the president of the United States.”
Obama’s aggressive use of executive orders dates back to his first inauguration, when he ordered presidential records sealed in a move that has remained largely unexplained.
It was a presidential aide to Bill Clinton, Paul Begala, who put the controversy into perspective back in July 1998.
“Stroke of the pen. Law of the land. Kinda cool,” he said, delighting in how the Clinton machine was able to simply dictate what it wanted to have happen.

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I agree with Cavuto..."""""What do we do"""", we walk in there arrest him for treason!!!