The imperiousness of President Obama knows no limits, as the New York Times tells us:With much of his legislative agenda stalled in Congress, President Obama and his team are preparing an array of actions using his executive power to advance energy, environmental, fiscal and other domestic policy priorities.
Mr. Obama has not given up hope of progress on Capitol Hill, aides said, and has scheduled a session with Republican leaders on health care later this month. But in the aftermath of a special election in Massachusetts that cost Democrats unilateral control of the Senate, the White House is getting ready to act on its own in the face of partisan gridlock heading into the midterm campaign.
"We are reviewing a list of presidential executive orders and directives to get the job done across a front of issues," said Rahm Emanuel, the White House chief of staff.
Any president has vast authority to influence policy even without legislation, through executive orders, agency rule-making and administrative fiat. And Mr. Obama's success this week in pressuring the Senate to confirm 27 nominations by threatening to use his recess appointment power demonstrated that executive authority can also be leveraged to force action by Congress.
Business leaders fear that Obama will issue a recess appointment to place radical labor lawyer Craig Becker on the National Labor Relations Board--after the US Senate failed to approve his appointment. And despite the Climategate scandal, the Environmental Protection Agency might force carbon gas regulations onto a skeptical public--while a cap and trade bill remains stalled in the Senate.
One term president.
Oh, will Obama issue an executive order to steal the 2016 Summer Olympics from Brazil?
Related post:
Workforce Fairness Institute launches petition drive against Becker recess appointment
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2 comments:
With respect to your comment about the EPA, the EPA's Endangerment finding was required by a conservative Supreme Court Decision that specifically found that the EPA had the power and the authority and the duty to regulate CO2 emissions under the Clean Air Act. See, Massachusetts v. EPA. Get your facts straight before you spout off about something you do not know anything about.
I am familar with the bill proposed by Lisa Murkowski that if enacted, will prevent the EPA from regulating gases that may or may not lead to global warming. The Dems don't support this bill.
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