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Posted By pc25 4 months ago in NewsMOSCOW -- With the clock running out on a new US-Russian arms treaty before the previous Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty, or START, expires on December 5, a senior White House official said Sunday said that the difficulty of the task... Political Punch Blog
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pc254 months ago
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http://hotair.com/archives/2009/07/05/obama-hey-le...
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With exactly five months to win Senate approval, the effort by the Obama White House in floating this idea now makes it sound like Obama wants to give away the store in order to score some points with his 1980s no-nukes agenda. And as much as the Democrats howled over the supposed devotion of George Bush to a “unitary executive,” Obama seems to have no trouble bypassing the check on executive power for treaty negotiation -
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pc254 months ago
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http://www.usconstitution.net/const.html#Article2
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He shall have Power, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Senate, to make Treaties, provided two thirds of the Senators present concur;
perhaps he should not be addressed as Mr. President but as Your Majesty instead......... -
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pc254 months ago
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Obama on President signing statements. Surprise of surprises another flip flop. This guy should join the Flying Wallendas.
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Whar a BS artist
“The problem with this administration is that it has attached signing statements to legislation in an effort to change the meaning of the legislation, to avoid enforcing certain provisions of the legislation that the President does not like, and to raise implausible or dubious constitutional objections to the legislation,” Obama answered.
and of course the OBOTS believed him.
http://hotair.com/archives/2009/03/13/video-signin...
If a President believes a bill to be unconstitional, John McCain argued, he has a duty to veto it. Obama apparently agreed … in 2008. Now it's a different story. Obama has become power mad after a mere 5 months on the job. -
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k9kssr4 months ago
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The take-over of the banks, the auto makers and stiffing the bond holders, trying to remove congressional oversight of the IG's, now this......way, way too much power-grabbing going on. People wake up, this country is going to hell in a handbasket fast.
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Wolfie20074 months ago
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"Fascism should more appropriately be called Corporatism because it is a merger of state and corporate power."
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Benito Mussolini
(Hmmm, ring an bells?)
Obama, at least in his own mind, has become the anointed authority on everything so there is no need or reason for oversight of his opinions, at least in his mind........ -
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