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Comments that were left at another site? Why would HA want to do that?

Midas on January 4, 2011 at 1:56 PM

No, I mean the comments left here at the headline link. Sorry if I wasn’t clear.

President Obama may formally object to a provision that would prohibit the use of any funds to transfer detainees from the detention facility in Guantanamo Bay to the United States for any purpose.

Congress had better stand up to this tyrant in the WH. He means to seize powers from the legislative body and defy Constitutionally defined powers/authority as written in this founding document.

Does anyone remember the outrage in the MSM when President Nixon tried to “impound” funds voted by Congress to use them for a different purpose than Congress intended? How many of the lefty media would compare Obama to Nixon now?

Most people, and most Congress-critters, have a worse NIMBY complex for Gitmo terrorists than they would for a nuke plant on the San Andreas fault. Not even super-liberal (up)Chuck Schumer wanted KSM tried in New York City.

A little reminder to Barack Hitler Obama: The House of Representatives, from which all revenue-raising bills must originate, has a Republican majority. If Obama starts playing games with money voted by the new Congress, things could get really ugly. Cut off the money, starve the beast!

Ed, why not just import comments whenever you promote a Headline?

novaculus on January 4, 2011 at 1:09 PM

Comments that were left at another site? Why would HA want to do that?

Skandia Recluse on January 4, 2011 at 1:40 PM

Well…he is a dictator in the making. I have no doubts all this skirting of congress, and laws, and ruling by executive orders, and regulation proves just that. This man is hell bent on being a dictator.

Even with the signing statement, though, the White House says that Obama won’t tempt Congress by violating the provision.
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This is strictly a grandstanding measure,

Obama is raising a constitutional issue by claiming the authority to ignore legislation passed by congress.

The constitutional responsibilities of the president are to execute the laws that congress passes. A president who claims to ‘object’ to a law that has been passed is setting up the position where he will next refuse to enforce law that he does not agree with.

When Bush did it, it was wrong.

When Obama does it, bow down and praise the messiah for being so smart, and so wise.

*Now I need a shower*

To define and punish Piracies and Felonies committed on the high Seas, and Offences against the Law of Nations;

To declare War, grant Letters of Marque and Reprisal, and make Rules concerning Captures on Land and Water;

To raise and support Armies, but no Appropriation of Money to that Use shall be for a longer Term than two Years;

To provide and maintain a Navy;

To make Rules for the Government and Regulation of the land and naval Forces;

To provide for calling forth the Militia to execute the Laws of the Union, suppress Insurrections and repel Invasions;

To provide for organizing, arming, and disciplining, the Militia, and for governing such Part of them as may be employed in the Service of the United States, reserving to the States respectively, the Appointment of the Officers, and the Authority of training the Militia according to the discipline prescribed by Congress;

But then that takes this thing known as ‘reading comprehension’, which is something that is lacking from the Constitutional Law Prof.

O/T: Per Breitbart, John Roberts of CNN is leaving for Fox News.

silvernana on January 4, 2011 at 1:09 PM

HA had a Headlines thread on this story last night. Has been moved off the front page by now I think.

The “Constitutional law professor”

Bwahahaha.

Speaking of Harvard, last week I passed along the amusing story of Adam Wheeler, who faked his way into, and nearly faked his way thru, that esteemed institution. Puffington Host now has a fascinating take on this.

So, basically, America’s best university, home to the future leaders of our good country, got punk’d, for lack of a better phrase. By a 20-year-old. Adam Wheeler challenged the admissions gods and won.

According to Harvard’s website, each application to the school is read by two or more members of their admissions committee, after which the files “are considered very carefully in a series of committee meetings where a majority vote is required for admission.” And yet. Wheeler flew in as a transfer student in 2007. And it wasn’t as if he was hiding the holes in his story from Harvard’s gatekeepers. He had authorized the admissions committee to corroborate his error-heavy application by requesting his (nonexistent) secondary school records. Evidently, they declined.

Sure, qualified students are accepted into Harvard each year, ones who presumably did not fabricate their accomplishments. But after the Wheeler fiasco, how can we be so sure?

This is strictly a grandstanding measure, one with a heaping helping of hypocrisy on top.

If Barry excels at anything, it’s HYPOCRISY.

The downside of a Signing Statement is that it removes the ability to flip-flop or in most cases even be flexible. It has the real effect of starting the judicial review process without even filing a suit, as it locks in many aspects of the Executive branch position.

While many will view a Signing Statement on the Defense Authorization bill as an “evil” act. It will be even more “evil” if there is no statement. The opponents of the Gitmo shutdown should be waiting with baited breath to see what clarifications the Executive branch considers important enough to put into a Signing Statement, as this is the minimal test they will have to clear to have the court consider any reversals.

So some of Dear Leader’s advisers think ignoring the law, passed with real bi-partisan support, that ties his hands on the Gitmo terrorists is a good idea. These morons may finally provide the vehicle that those opposed to signing statements have awaited: An act of defiance of Congressional authority so egregious that the whole process may be found to be unconstitutional.

I love the smell of napalm, uh, litigation, in the morning. Smells like victory.

novaculus on January 4, 2011 at 11:51 AM

Ed, why not just import comments whenever you promote a Headline?