OBAMA WHITE HOUSE PROMISES A DICTATORIAL 2016 - Voters are clear: They don’t want the president using executive orders to go around Congress
Judging by recent remarks from his chief of staff, Obama’s last year in the White House is going to be a painful one for conservatives.
White House chief of staff Denis McDonough told reporters this week to hold off on declaring Obama a lame duck just yet. According to the top official, 2016 is set to be a year of “audacious executive action” from the president.
“We’ll do audacious executive action over the course of the rest of the year, I’m confident of that,” McDonough said, adding that the president has been quiet about his plans to avoid having his orders undermined by Congress.
“Process is your friend, but process also dictates what you can do,” he said. “And we do want to make sure that the executive actions we undertake are not left hanging out there, subject to Congress undoing them.”
McDonough said the president is considering using executive orders to advance anything he feels he has failed to accomplish because of congressional pushback.
Specifically, some of the things the president will likely try to accomplish via executive fiat in his last year include allowing more immigrants into the country, closing the prison at Guantanamo Bay and even adding to his previous gun control orders.
According to McDonough, the president’s main question when choosing to issue new executive orders during his remaining time in the White House will be: “Why not?” “That’s the spirit through which we’ll approach this last year,” he said.
According to the results of a recent Rasmussen poll, most Americans aren’t looking forward to the president’s wave of unilateral demands in 2016. Fifty- eight percent of respondents to a recent poll said they disagree with Obama’s recent executive orders on gun control.
Voter attitudes about possible executive orders to respond to climate change (57 percent disapproved) and immigration (61 percent disapproval). “Voters aren’t happy,” said Rasmussen’s Alex Boyer in a video poll release. “Voters are clear: They don’t want the president using executive orders to go around Congress.”
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White House chief of staff Denis McDonough told reporters this week to hold off on declaring Obama a lame duck just yet. According to the top official, 2016 is set to be a year of “audacious executive action” from the president.
“We’ll do audacious executive action over the course of the rest of the year, I’m confident of that,” McDonough said, adding that the president has been quiet about his plans to avoid having his orders undermined by Congress.
“Process is your friend, but process also dictates what you can do,” he said. “And we do want to make sure that the executive actions we undertake are not left hanging out there, subject to Congress undoing them.”
McDonough said the president is considering using executive orders to advance anything he feels he has failed to accomplish because of congressional pushback.
Specifically, some of the things the president will likely try to accomplish via executive fiat in his last year include allowing more immigrants into the country, closing the prison at Guantanamo Bay and even adding to his previous gun control orders.
According to McDonough, the president’s main question when choosing to issue new executive orders during his remaining time in the White House will be: “Why not?” “That’s the spirit through which we’ll approach this last year,” he said.
According to the results of a recent Rasmussen poll, most Americans aren’t looking forward to the president’s wave of unilateral demands in 2016. Fifty- eight percent of respondents to a recent poll said they disagree with Obama’s recent executive orders on gun control.
Voter attitudes about possible executive orders to respond to climate change (57 percent disapproved) and immigration (61 percent disapproval). “Voters aren’t happy,” said Rasmussen’s Alex Boyer in a video poll release. “Voters are clear: They don’t want the president using executive orders to go around Congress.”
http://personalliberty.com/obama-white-house-promises-a-dictatorial-2016/
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