Obama extends his presidential power in bypassing Congress on gun control-Reuters (Why not? Who’s going to stop him?)

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The GOP is laughing because they like an all powerful government against the rubes. Obama and the GOP together have easily destroyed the world's most advanced civilization.

1/17/13, “Obama extends presidential power in bypassing Congress on gun control,“ Reuters, Marcus Stern

“During the past two years as his frustration with a “dysfunctional” Congress has grown, President Barack Obama has resorted to bypassing the legislative branch as he did on Wednesday to implement tighter gun control laws.

“Where they won’t act, I will,” he said in October 2011 as part of a “We Can’t Wait” campaign he launched 10 months after Republicans took over the U.S. House of Representatives.
 
Since then, the president has turned to executive orders, policy directives, waivers, signing statements and other administrative steps to bypass Congress and act on contentious issues, including immigration, welfare, education reform and now gun violence….

“Increasingly, what we’re seeing is a lot of the policy-making apparatus of the federal government shifting to the executive branch,” said William Howell, a University of Chicago expert on presidential powers….

Obama has bypassed Congress on at least four major issues….

Analysts say the partisan gridlock of the moment is part of a longer trend in which the legislative branch, established under the Constitution as the first branch of the federal government, is giving way increasingly to a presidency.

“Congress has been taking themselves out of the game for several decades now,” said Elaine Kamarck, who worked in the White House during the 1990s for then-Vice President Al Gore and now is a public policy lecturer at Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government.

Obama formalized his intent to act more unilaterally in October 2009, 10 months after Republicans took control of the House.”…

[Ed. note: This is false. Democrats had control of the House until Jan. 2011. Even after the GOP got control of the House, GOP leadership aimed to do what Obama wanted because they happen to agree with him on most things.]

(continuing): “Rarely does Congress or the Supreme Court reverse executive orders, according to legal scholars. When they are reversed or modified, it usually is by a future president. A rare example came in 1952 when the Supreme Court, ruling in the Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. v. Sawyer case, rejected then-President Harry Truman’s use of an executive order to put the steel industry under government control.”

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1/14/13, “Obama and Moderate Republicans See Conservatives as Common Enemy,” Rush Limbaugh transcript


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