Obama: I wish I could bypass Congress and change things on my own
posted at 4:02 pm on July 25, 2011 by Allahpundit
Via National Journal. He’s quick to add, “But that’s not how our system works.” Doesn’t it? Bypassing Congress to whatever extent possible has been his strategy for more than a year, culminating in an unauthorized war in Libya that even his own lawyers believe is illegal. (FYI: According to Mike Mullen, that war is now indeed a “stalemate.”) Scarcely a day passes without a new op-ed by some lefty law professor arguing that the Fourteenth Amendment lets Obama raise the debt ceiling unilaterally, despite decades of congressional precedent to the contrary. And ICE has already decided to go ahead and consider factors championed by the DREAM Act in immigration cases despite the fact that the Act hasn’t passed. O may say “no we can’t” here to the suggestion of executively-imposed amnesty, but in light of the above, can you blame the La Raza crowd for thinking (and chanting) “yes we can”?
George Will, describing The One as “Huey Long with a better tailor,” has had enough:
Inordinate self-regard is an occupational hazard of politics and part of the job description of the rhetorical presidency, this incessant tutor. Still, upon what meat doth this our current Caesar feed that he has grown so great that he presumes to command leaders of a coequal branch of government? He once boasted (June 3, 2008) that he could influence the oceans’ rise; he must be disabused of comparable delusions about controlling Congress.
When he was a lecturer on constitutional law, he evidently skipped the separation-of-powers doctrine. But, then, because this doctrine impedes the progressives’ goal of unleashing untrammeled government, they have long loathed it: Woodrow Wilson, the first president to criticize the American founding, considered the separation of powers the Constitution’s “radical defect.”
It has, however, rescued the nation from Obama’s preference for a “clean” debt-ceiling increase that would ignore the onrushing debt tsunami. There are 87 reasons for Obama’s temporary conversion of convenience to the cause of spending restraint — the 87 House Republican freshmen. Their inflexibility astonishes and scandalizes Washington because it reflects the rarity of serene fidelity to campaign promises.
The true stupidity of this clip, of course, is that — as with everything else — his constitutional faux-modesty is motivated by getting reelected. It’s not that he has some profound separation-of-powers objection to an executive amnesty; it’s that he knows independents would seethe at the power grab, especially on an issue as sensitive as immigration, and it’d end up hurting him badly at the polls. He’s already got the Latino vote locked up. Better, then, to play it safe with indies by paying lip service to La Raza about how his hands are tied or that he “needs a dance partner,” etc. Whatever excuse works.
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The Messiah will speak, again, tonight.
Schadenfreude on July 25, 2011 at 4:42 PM
Barack Obama is the American version of Hugo Chavez. If we don’t get rid of him in 2012, there is no telling what he might do.
RebeccaH on July 25, 2011 at 4:43 PM
I wish he’d try, so we could impeach him and throw him in prison.
TexasJew on July 25, 2011 at 4:43 PM
“The Rs want to starve you but I will save you from them all” –Me, I and Me
Schadenfreude on July 25, 2011 at 4:44 PM
I have to give Obama credit. He gave AP a nice welcome-back present.
DrAllecon on July 25, 2011 at 4:44 PM
What is the most frightening part of this equation is how does a narcissist this totally clueless become the leader of the free world. His corruption and incompetence is on levels never comprehended before. We have to remember that the establishment/RINOs created a political climare where this kind of disaster could happen. Flush the RINOs in the in 2012 so this does not ever happen again. If the Tea Party had not held their ground our economy would have been screwed for years. The debacle is not over yet.
volsense on July 25, 2011 at 4:44 PM
Another speech from the DOTUS?
IMPEACH OBAMA…….Save America!!!!
PappyD61 on July 25, 2011 at 4:46 PM
The land deserves the punishment, for taking a chance with him. If he were not real, no one could invent such an impertinent thug. That he got to where he is, based on nada, and that he and his will live like billionaires, is the travesty to the world.
Schadenfreude on July 25, 2011 at 4:46 PM
Fixed.
Freelancer on July 25, 2011 at 4:47 PM
This. Plus, watch what all he’ll do from Nov. 2012, to Jan., if he loses. The executive orders can be reversed. The pardons can not.
Schadenfreude on July 25, 2011 at 4:47 PM
Obama is Captain ANTI-America!!
PappyD61 on July 25, 2011 at 4:49 PM
welcome back, AP.
ted c on July 25, 2011 at 4:51 PM
I wonder when he’s going to address the NAHWWP?
The National Association of Hard Working White People?
Twana on July 25, 2011 at 4:53 PM
Yep, screwed ‘em once all ready and is set to do the same in 2012.
As Ron White has observed, “You can’t fix STUPID!”
GarandFan on July 25, 2011 at 4:53 PM
Greece was the word.
Welcome back, AllahPundit!
onlineanalyst on July 25, 2011 at 4:54 PM
he’s pining to be a dictator…a la Chavez. Get the guy a maroon beret, a parrot, and an OD green jacket….
ted c on July 25, 2011 at 4:57 PM
BARCK OBAMA: THE DEBT STAR.
Welcome back, AP.
Lourdes on July 25, 2011 at 4:57 PM
I meant:
BARACK OBAMA: THE DEBT STAR
…BUT “BARCK OBAMA” is actually an improvment!
Lourdes on July 25, 2011 at 4:58 PM
How lucky is this, first night back and Mr. Pundit gets to do an open thread for The Won’s television show.
Cindy Munford on July 25, 2011 at 4:58 PM
Here’s what the lame duck will say and do.
http://bit.ly/pBkqNf
NoNails on July 25, 2011 at 4:58 PM
Oblather: Please bypass Congress…so we can impeach and be rid of you!!
landlines on July 25, 2011 at 5:00 PM
Every action, decision, favor to a voting bloc centers around his re-election. Now that Obama has given voice to what we have long suspected (unilateral decisions), one has to wonder what he will do when he isn’t re-elected.
Thankfully Boehner is standing firm. Obama needs to give in to this, but he’s so stubborn and selfish. Is this the tipping point?
And welcome back AP. Your updates were sorely missed during the Oslo massacre.
conservative pilgrim on July 25, 2011 at 5:01 PM
If only we gave Obama more power, he’d make the trains run on time!
Tantor on July 25, 2011 at 5:03 PM
Why does crap for brains think he can go on national television AGAIN and complain about not getting his way?
Tonite will be more of the same, but he is losing indies and leadership in his own party and even some in the media each and every time he crys and stomps his feet.
You are losing the debate BHO…….even the media see’s it. You’re done!
JohnnyMojo on July 25, 2011 at 5:06 PM
You know, this is the second time he has said this in a matter of days. That is not a good sign. One time is just a stupid slip of the tongue. Twice in a few days sounds like a plan.
I am serious. This guy is dangerous. The first time he was just whining. This time he kicked it up a notch and said “it’s tempting to go around congers on a matter of things” or something like that. This is serious stuff. This isn’t some street cleaner fantasizing about power.. this is the President of the US.. a guy who may very well be responsible for trafficking guns down into Mexico, who has seized American business, who has destroyed our economy, praises our enemies and stiffs our friends. Obama has already crossed a lot of lines. He ignores court orders and ignores laws.
This guy is looking at 2012 and is getting really nervous.
Saying this twice in a few days.. this is scary stuff here. Just give him a reason and he will go for it.
JellyToast on July 25, 2011 at 5:06 PM
The real news here is that Allah’s (PBUH) back.
Thought I was going to have to start breathing into a paper bag there for a minute.
Love Ed, Tina, Jazz, and the other occasional Green Roomers, but HA’s just not the same without him.
Purple Fury on July 25, 2011 at 5:09 PM
Doesn’t this guy understand we’ve seen that we can get along just fine without him?
Okay, enough about Allah, let’s get back to Obama.
/I kid! I kid!
pain train on July 25, 2011 at 5:12 PM
And not just the latino vote, I’m afraid.
Midas on July 25, 2011 at 5:13 PM
The mask is slipping. He’s not telling us anything we didn’t already know. I just hope and pray that the American people don’t fall for it and give him sympathy and think the TP is evil.
-Aslan’s Girl
Aslans Girl on July 25, 2011 at 5:17 PM
Welcome back Allah, hope you had a fantabulous vacay
Thank you Jazz :)
cmsinaz on July 25, 2011 at 5:17 PM
Don’t you just long for the days when the only thing on the TV in the Summer was Shark Week?
txmomof6 on July 25, 2011 at 5:17 PM
Oh, and NICE to see you back home, AP!
-Aslan’s Girl
Aslans Girl on July 25, 2011 at 5:17 PM
I think this PBHO fella is going to be a shoo-in for,”most despised living former President”, after he leaves office. But his time is NOT YET finished, maybe he can attain Benedict Arnold status?
bigmike on July 25, 2011 at 5:18 PM
I would love to just slap that shiite-eating grin off his face. I absolutely loathe him.
silvernana on July 25, 2011 at 5:18 PM
There is no such thing as a non-criminal illegal immigrant, by definition.
What utter nonsense.
hillbillyjim on July 25, 2011 at 5:18 PM
You know the freaking MSM will be there to cheer him on! Anybody really think Chris Matthews is going to complain about Obama seizing more power?
So what would we all ever know if tomorrow the internet was dead and talk radio and Fox was nothing but static? Where would you go? CNN? MSNBC? ABC?
If we don’t know what is going on then we don’t know do we? But we will be told something from the trusted MSM I am sure.
This is not paranoia.. Obama is the one acting paranoid. Anybody who does not take this guy seriously is fooling themselves.
All he needs to do in his mind is get things under control. How do you think he’d go about doing that?
I’m throwing this out…. in 2008, during the election, we had an emergency so grave and threatening that President Bush and others came out to Americans and said we needed immediate action to avert a world wide crisis. The threat was immediate. Action had to be taken “now!”
Obama may have his blueprint. The stage may already be set. America defaulting could “throw the world into a financial crisis so large it would be cataclysmic.” Obama has to act now! Congress and democracy is moving to slow! Emergency powers must be used now to avert financial apocalypse!
The opportunity is there for him. Will he seize it?
JellyToast on July 25, 2011 at 5:22 PM
I read somewhere just a few minutes ago (can’t find it now) where ICE is going to start implementing parts of the DREAM Act even tho it didn’t pass Congress. This administration doesn’t need Congress – they do what they want to do. Obama is throwing this out because it is probably his plan and this just softens it a bit.
silvernana on July 25, 2011 at 5:24 PM
Welcome back, AP!
I’m starting to get the feeling that Obama isn’t going to be running for the next election… there is a mental breakdown in his near future. I’ve seen enough to be frightened for where is mind is going, and it is no place good.
ajacksonian on July 25, 2011 at 5:26 PM
Don’t you just long for the days when the only thing on the TV in the Summer was Shark Week?
txmomof6 on July 25, 2011 at 5:17 PM
SHARK WEEK!
annoyinglittletwerp on July 25, 2011 at 5:32 PM
Governor Tarkin: The Imperial Senate will no longer be of any concern to us. I have just received word from Washington that the Emperor has dissolved the council permanently. The last remnants of the Old Republic have been swept away forever.
General Tagge: But that’s impossible! How will the Emperor maintain control without the bureaucracy?
Governor Tarkin: The regional governors now have direct control over their territories. Fear will keep the local systems in line. Fear of Obamacare.
malclave on July 25, 2011 at 5:33 PM
..yeah, I’ll bet you do, a**hole.
The War Planner on July 25, 2011 at 5:35 PM
Welcome back indeed, Allah, you were much missed!
While you were gone, the Won played 4 rounds of golf, took two vacations, did fourteen fundraisers, alienated several allies, destroyed the economy, undermined the Constitution and misremembered his own age.
Nothing much different from the usual happened, in other words.
MTF on July 25, 2011 at 5:36 PM
My thoughts exactly. Very scary stuff.
bitsy on July 25, 2011 at 5:37 PM
Great description.
He was a Democrat, too!
INC on July 25, 2011 at 5:40 PM
He’s definitely toying with it in his mind.
What’s the James Bond quote?
“Once is happenstance, twice is coincidence, thrice is enemy action.”
INC on July 25, 2011 at 5:42 PM
Coming soon:
bitsy on July 25, 2011 at 5:46 PM
my “sediments” prexactly!
Chewy the Lab on July 25, 2011 at 5:52 PM
INC on July 25, 2011 at 5:40 PM
Except O’s tailor sucks! His pants are always swimming all over his legs and clinging in weird places as though he’s wearing panyhose. Also, any casual shirt he wears (like the “sandwashed” silk shirt he wore on 4th of July) was like 10 sizes too big. Then there’s his infamous “mom jeans”, ugh.
-Aslan’s Girl
Aslans Girl on July 25, 2011 at 5:53 PM
I called John Boehner’s office and spoke to one of his staff about this.
I said that this is the second time in just a few day I have watched a video of the President fantasizing about bypassing congress and that I think it should be addressed by the GOP. No American President should be out there repeatedly making statements about how tempting it is to by pass congress and seize more power for themselves! One time is just a stupid thing to say. Twice in a few day.. people need to ask the question.. Why is he saying this?
The staff person was very respectful and sounded concerned and didn’t seem aware about it. I told him he could see the video on HotAir.
I don’t know if I can post the capital switchboard number here or not, but just google it or something. It’s not hard to find. The GOP can not let Obama get away with saying crap like that repeatedly. this is not what American president do! Obama needs to be spending his time doing other things than out giving speeches where he admits he’s tempted to be a dictator!
I also plan on calling a few others as soon as I am finished typing!
JellyToast on July 25, 2011 at 5:55 PM
Is Obama The Emperor, or is he Jar-Jar?
batterup on July 25, 2011 at 5:56 PM
Obama will get his.
“Time wounds all heels.”
J. Lennon
teacherman on July 25, 2011 at 5:56 PM
He’s hiding his anorexic build.
slickwillie2001 on July 25, 2011 at 6:03 PM
I’ve also just called Rand Paul’s office as well as my own Senator’s office Pat Toomy. Couldn’t reach Toomy and his mail box was full, but Rand Paul’s staff was great!
JellyToast on July 25, 2011 at 6:07 PM
At this point, I’d rather listen to Fidel Castro.
Dhuka on July 25, 2011 at 6:08 PM
Just curious…did O’bama actually “accomplish” anything legislatively during his extremely short “career” as an Illinois and then national “Legislator”?
I asked this same question in a thread last week. No results then.
Del Dolemonte on July 25, 2011 at 6:11 PM
Yo, Barry. Check out what a Reagan conservative Repub has done just since January of 2010 when he took over as HMFIC with a ginormous deficit, a collapsing economy etc like you inherited from Bush. Oh, btw this is in one of your purple states that has gone back to RED. Your former spokes- stooge and DNC Chairman Tim Kaine, along with useful comrade Mark Warner made a wreck of things by spending, spending, spending like you have been doing. How come you can’t git-R-done like Bob McDonnell, Barry? Huh? It can be done. Vote Reagan conservative/Tea Party.
http://www2.timesdispatch.com/news/commentary/2011/jul/24/tdcomm01-virginia-posts-another-bipartisan-conserv-ar-1190995/
JimP on July 25, 2011 at 6:12 PM
The Dems own the Fannie/Freddie meltdown. There the ones who created it but they refuse to take the blame for it, and the Democrat Media covers for them.
Del Dolemonte on July 25, 2011 at 6:14 PM
ConservativePartyNow on July 25, 2011 at 6:26 PM
Bypass congress, the constitution and mostly the American people. Messiahs ought not be held by mere mortal conventions -they have omnipotent powers, don’t you people mess with me -I will go around you….
Such a petty little man with delusions of grandeur. Like others we’ve seen-he has his cult, but it is up to his Creator if he allows him much more arrogant self-aggrandizement without a humbling experience to bring him back down to earth.
Don L on July 25, 2011 at 6:29 PM
Am dialing now! Good idea. I just assumed they had peeps to monitor these statements. God Bless the new media!
Chewy the Lab on July 25, 2011 at 6:35 PM
God is on our side, Barrack Obama. When I write “our”, you, obviously, are not included.
Blue-lipped, jug-eared, bass-tard.
carbon_footprint on July 25, 2011 at 6:35 PM
this is how unions have shaken down management for decade. think of barry as Trumka….what would Trumka do?
Unions often hold a gun to management’s head. Management just wants to run a business…so they often give in. This is barry’s strategy…the Rs just want the country to go about it’s business. Barry says, fine..but first give me the money
We always look back at Management in Steel, Auto, industries and say well, they are partially at fault because they gave the unions everything they wanted. But now we can see what happens…When your company is going to go over the cliff, the union guy says fine…give me the money
r keller on July 25, 2011 at 6:37 PM
Rush and I think he’s cracking up. Just not knowing what he has planned for us is very nerve racking. He does have a nice smile, tho, at least most of the time unless he’s raking Repubs over the coals or hosting the premier of Israel.
Kissmygrits on July 25, 2011 at 6:41 PM
Just curious…did O’bama actually “accomplish” anything legislatively during his extremely short “career” as an Illinois and then national “Legislator”?
I asked this same question in a thread last week. No results then.
Del Dolemonte on July 25, 2011 at 6:11 PM
He’s an articulate black man.
That’s all that was necessary, you racist!
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annoyinglittletwerp on July 25, 2011 at 6:47 PM
I’ve posted this on another blog as well as FB.
Again, this should not just a big joke. Twice in a few days he has stated he wished he didn’t have a congress. It’s fair to ask after the second time… Do you have some kind of plan here Mr. President? How many more times are you going to state this? maybe if you spent less time fantasizing about being a dictator and more time acting like a President we’d have a budget deal by now!
This is campaign fodder for the GOP! If I were in the RNC I’d be making a commercial out of those bites so freaking fast it would make your head spin!
JellyToast on July 25, 2011 at 6:49 PM
Gee…I can’t help but wonder what the reaction of the libtards and the mainstream media would be if GWB had said this? Anyone wanna’ go out on a limb and venture a guess?
Dopenstrange on July 25, 2011 at 7:00 PM
Oh great! A wannabe dictator. He pretty much does has the authority of a dictator now.
He doesn’t seem to get stopped by Congress or the Courts. He and his thug administration continue to ignore court rulings and do whatever they want.
lonestar1 on July 25, 2011 at 7:02 PM
Loved Krauthammer’s statement that Obama is giving another speech tonight because he has gone from emperor to bystander in just three days.
silvernana on July 25, 2011 at 7:03 PM
No.
While in IL Emil Jones took legislation others Dems had worked on and handed it off to Obama.
A couple of years ago I tried to track down any legislation Obama had initiated and finished as a US Senator. I don’t remember finding anything major (if anything at all). I didn’t count co-sponsored bills as once one guy proposes something a lot of others join in.
INC on July 25, 2011 at 7:06 PM
I should have included this part of the quote as well:
INC on July 25, 2011 at 7:08 PM
Funny, that sounds similar to the vapor trail that he left through Harvard. Credentials with no accomplishments.
slickwillie2001 on July 25, 2011 at 7:29 PM
Like Hugo Chavez et al?
gullxn on July 25, 2011 at 7:36 PM
Yet, it was Bush that was consolidating power in the executive branch. Right.
Pablo Snooze on July 25, 2011 at 7:47 PM
No, but you can vote it out of office. We voted a whole bunch of stupid out in November 2010 and are ready to get of more stupid next November.
pdigaudio on July 25, 2011 at 8:03 PM
…… spoke like a reeeeeeal COMMUNIST !!!!!!
aniladesai on July 25, 2011 at 8:39 PM
The constitutional argument confuses me. I am surprised that these presumably intelligent law professors can’t comprehend the difference between invalid debt and debt that someone is incapable of paying. For example, if the issue with all of the mortgages over the last 5 years was that the debt was invalid, the result would be that the homeowners would own their homes free and clear rather than being foreclosed on.
Selkirk on July 25, 2011 at 8:42 PM
In your heart……….you know he wants to be CHAVEZ.
PappyD61 on July 25, 2011 at 9:06 PM
Just to remind everyone one of the reasons that Obama is in the White House……THE FIGHTER JOHN MCCAIN.
This little nugget from Mid-October 2008
McCain appears to concede he could lose by telling voters: We have nothing to fear with Barack Obama in the White House
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1076999/McCain-appears-concede-lose-telling-voters-We-fear-Barack-Obama-White-House.html
PappyD61 on July 25, 2011 at 9:10 PM
He is so in love with himself.
And they called Bush the smirking chimp.
disa on July 25, 2011 at 11:30 PM
Obama is a racist pure and simple! To put it in liberal terms he is a real hater.
He surely hates this country.
No doubt about it.
He don’t need us and we definitely don’t need him!
Divorce BHO in 2012!!!
Sherman1864 on July 26, 2011 at 11:10 AM
I agree it was McCain who put him in the White House.
mixplix on July 27, 2011 at 11:21 AM
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