WashingtonExaminer: President Obama on Tuesday said he's “not just going to be waiting for legislation” from Congress to move forward his agenda in 2014, further stoking a clash between both ends of Pennsylvania Avenue over the reach of executive power.
“I've got a pen and I've got a phone,” Obama said before a Cabinet meeting at the White House, issuing a challenge to GOP lawmakers who have blocked most of his second-term agenda.
Obama is hailing 2014 as a “year of action” after enduring the roughest 12-month stretch of his presidency.
However, the outlook for his top priorities, including immigration reform and progressive economic fixes, is hazy in the Republican-controlled House.
In alluding to his “pen” and “phone,” Obama made clear that he would not hold back from issuing executive orders and rallying the public behind his agenda.
...just like a good little populist tyrant. Seems like every year the soft tyranny picks up steam. At some point, Congress and the Courts have to stop cowering in the corner when it comes to this man.
H/t: WZ
Related link: Megyn Kelly to Mitch McConnell: If Obama’s executive power grabs are so terrible, why not impeach him?
ADDENDUM: Rush explains the absurdity of Obama's belief that he somehow holds the power to run the country like a dictator...
This is just absurd. He’s basically bragging about the fact that he can do executive orders to make things fair. He can do executive orders and executive actions to get rid of the unfairness. He’s gonna make this lousy country finally fair! Never mind he’s been running it for five years. Never mind the fact that his entire economic policy has undermined the old saw about work hard and you can make it. Because not only can you not work hard, you can’t work. We’re up to 92 million Americans not in the labor force. But this is classic Limbaugh Theorem stuff. This is Obama as an outsider saying he’s looking at Washington and the country, and he sees all of this inequality and all of this unfairness, and he’s just at his wits’ end now. He’s tried and he’s tried and he’s tried! He’s got these Republicans standing in his way. “Okay, I’m gonna just start writing executive orders.
“To hell with it! I’m gonna finally make everything fair.” Now, he might have a pen, and he might have a phone, but what he does not have is the constitutional power to run this country like a dictator, and yet that’s exactly what it sounds like.
