oped: Now the question begs...When is congress going to act on this out of control poser POTUS ?
Barry Barack Hussein Soetoro Davis Obama or whatever his real name is seems to think he has the legislative power to make Law regardless of what Congress says or does. If Congress fails to Impeach, then they are as guilty as Obama by enabling him to bypass the US Constitution and Bill of Rights!
By Jeff Mason
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President
Barack Obama said on Tuesday he would not wait for Congress to pass
legislation to advance his policy priorities this year and said he was
"getting close" to finishing a review of U.S. surveillance practices -
to be unveiled on Friday.
Obama, speaking to reporters during a cabinet meeting at the White
House, foreshadowed his upcoming State of the Union address and what
appeared to be a new messaging strategy by emphasizing his ability to
take executive actions without approval from lawmakers.
"We are not just going to be
waiting for legislation in order to make sure that we're providing
Americans the kind of help that they need," he said.
"I've got a pen, and I've got a phone. And I can use that pen to sign
executive orders and take executive actions ... and I've got a phone
that allows me to convene Americans from every walk of life," he said.
Obama began last year with high hopes of making progress on gun
control, immigration reform, and other issues after giving an inaugural
address that rallied his base and set an aggressive tone for his second
term.
But the year concluded
with few legislative achievements. His gun control efforts largely
failed and an immigration reform bill passed in the Senate but stalled
in the House of Representatives.
White House officials, while
referring to 2014 as a "year of action," have already played down the
prospect of getting a lot of laws passed and told reporters that they
would not measure the year's success by the administration's list of
legislative victories.
Obama
again listed immigration reform as a priority for the year. He will need
Congress to turn his goals on that issue into law. The president also
emphasized his goal of getting the U.S. economy to recover faster.
"The message to my cabinet - and that will be amplified in our State of
the Union - is that we need all hands on deck to build on the recovery
that we're already seeing. The economy is improving, but it could be
improving even faster," Obama said.
"And I am absolutely confident that in 2014, if we're all working in
the same direction and not worrying so much about political points but
worrying much more about getting the job done, that we can see a lot of
improvement this year," he said.
Republican speaker of the House John Boehner, whose support Obama will
need for the administration's legislative priorities, said the president
had lost focus on the economy.
"If the president's serious
about wanting to improve the prospects for our economy - and higher
wages and better jobs - all he has to do is pick up the phone and call
Democrat leaders in the Senate and ask them to move one of these dozens
of bills that we've sent over there that would help put Americans back
to work," Boehner said.
On a
separate issue, Obama is scheduled to make a speech on Friday outlining
his decisions on how to reform controversial surveillance activities by
the National Security Agency that were made public through revelations
by former U.S. contractor Edward Snowden.
Asked if he had finished his NSA review, Obama said: "It's getting close."
(additional reporting by Roberta Rampton; editing by Gunna Dickson)
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