The Obamanation

[TheMercenary]

Another fine example of the Double Standard....

Democrats irked by Obama signing statement
By ANNE FLAHERTY (AP) – 35 minutes ago

WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama has irked close allies in Congress by declaring he has the right to ignore legislation on constitutional grounds after having criticized George W. Bush for doing the same.

Four senior House Democrats on Tuesday said they were "surprised" and "chagrined" by Obama's declaration in June that he doesn't have to comply with provisions in a war spending bill that puts conditions on aid provided to the World Bank and International Monetary Fund.

In a signing statement accompanying the $106 billion bill, Obama said he wouldn't allow the legislation to interfere with his authority as president to conduct foreign policy and negotiate with other governments.

Earlier in his six-month-old administration, Obama issued a similar statement regarding provisions in a $410 billion omnibus spending bill. He also included qualifying remarks when signing legislation that established commissions to govern public lands in New York, investigate the financial crisis and celebrate Ronald Reagan's birthday.

"During the previous administration, all of us were critical of (Bush's) assertion that he could pick and choose which aspects of congressional statutes he was required to enforce," the Democrats wrote in their letter to Obama. "We were therefore chagrined to see you appear to express a similar attitude."

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Originally Posted by TheMercenary

Another fine example of the Double Standard....

Where is this double standard? Levees are failing everywhere because of wacko extremists who loved George Jr and Rush Limbaugh. We are still patching the destruction. Today's jobs losses now and for years to come are directly traceable to wackos who stifled innovation, created enemies where none existed, tried to even get into a shooting war with China, spent so much money as to both destroy a surplus and run up record deficits, turn even our allies adversarial, subvert innovation and science by even having White House lawyers rewrite science papers, all but try to destroy Hubble, encourage GM et al to destroy even Hybrid technology (because anything done by Clinton has to be destroyed),so encouraged he destruction of education that now something like 50% of designers in the Silicon Valley are immigrants, ‘Mission Accomplished’ which we have yet to pay for (wacko George would not even put those bills in the budget), gave Afghanistan back to the Taliban (because only the dumbest would say "America does not do nation building"), enriched big pharma with laws that protect their 40% price increase for drugs, inspired hate of immigrants, gays, and other minorities, even refuse to prosecute Enron, encouraged fraud at the highest levels of the economy, even subverts the Security and Exchange Commission, refused to prosecute those who created the CA energy crisis, refuse to condemn or address those who intentionally created the NE blackout, ignored the lessons of ‘Long Term Capital Management’, protected industries so that they remain unproductive (corporate welfare), continued to destroy American jobs by protecting enemies of America such as big steel, encouraged fraud and deception across the entire financial industry - AIG, Merrill Lynch, et al, ....

But none of these stupidities caused today’s job losses? Ostrich thinking is alive and well. Job losses today are directly traceable to wacko politics and Rush Limbaugh diatribes that replaced intelligent thinking.

Even lessons from Nixon and Vietnam are déjà vue. Lies, mismanagement, spending, and denials in 1968, 1970 and later resulted in massive job losses, stagflation, and even destruction of US military power in 1975 and years later. We have yet to see damage created George Jr and wacko extremist. As intelligent people have warned long ago, we will be paying for these disasters for the next ten years. We are reaping disasters created when wacko politics were spouted here by the brainwashed. Fortunately, this time we have intelligent leadership that has apparently minimized much of the damage. Things were that close to near disaster.

Never forget the faces on those Congressmen as they left the briefing by Bernanke and Paulsen. We were that close to an abyss that was that deep. And we will be paying for years for damage created by wacko extremist politics.

How much damage? Australians are learning how that destruction has yet to affect their national security. America will suffer significant military weakness in the next decade because of wackos like Cheney. Whereas Clinton would even send two carrier groups to Taiwan to confirm their protection. Today and in years future, the US will no longer be able to do that with confidence. America military strength will diminish tomorrow due to the disasters both financial and military created by yesterdays wacko extremists. Even deja vue Nam. Australia must reassess their national security today because America’s military strength must diminish tomorrow. Thank you Cheney - who claims he was one of history's greatest military tacticians. Who even all but protected bin Laden for a politcal agenda.

Thank you George Jr for being so destructive as to do absolutely nothing useful (but sit in a child's chair) even on 11 Sept 2001. When told "America is under attack" by his chief of staff, what did the dumb man do? Sat there in a child’s chair for 15 minutes. Did not even ask one question. Did on 11 Sept what he continued to do to even harm American jobs today. Sat their so that innovators and other partiots would do nothing. Went to CA for a campaign fund raiser so that even the USS Bataan could not help save Americans in New Orleans.

Job losses directly traceable to people with too much politics, too little intelligence, and now in denial about why jobs are being destroyed.

Jobs losses today are but another trophy of wacko extremists and those who are told how to think using only a political agenda. Even Australia must change their strategy; to make new plans for their national security due to the stupidity of those who worshipped wackos extremism and overt military crusades this past decade. So dumb as to even try to get into a shooting war with China over a silly spy plane. We have yet to see all the damage created by those so dumb as to vote for Cheney.

Wacko politics says, "Blame Obama". Then we will not blame the real reason why jobs will continue to be lost. Fortunately we have leaders who use intelligence (not politics). So a near disaster has been averted. Can you imagine where we would be today if George Jr had a ninth year? That should make every intelligent person tremble. Worse, wacko extremist already miss George Jr. Even make speeches hoping that Obama will fail. Wacko extremists never worked for America - which is why they cannot admit how many more jobs will be lost due to their politics.