The ICTAMOTS Report
I Can't Take Any More Of This S#@&!
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Huffington Post
In signing the bill to fund the government for the rest of the fiscal year, the commander in chief also issued a “signing statement” in which he rejected several provisions of the bill, including attempts to take away his czars.
Buried deep in the $1 trillion measure are four provisions in section 627 that say the White House may not use any of the money to fund salaries or expenses for the head of Obama’s health reform office, his energy and climate adviser, his car czar, or the head of his urban affairs office.
But Friday, Obama essentially said ‘too bad’ in issuing a dense, legalistic statement that explains what he won’t accept in the bill:
Several provisions in this bill, including section 627 of Division C and section 512 of Division D, could prevent me from fulfilling my constitutional responsibilities, by denying me the assistance of senior advisers and by obstructing my supervision of executive branch officials in the execution of their statutory responsibilities,” Obama wrote. “I have informed the Congress that I will interpret these provisions consistent with my constitutional duty to take care that the laws be faithfully executed.
So much for checks & balances…
(Source: The Huffington Post)
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by Ken Blackwell, Huffington Post
Well, that didn’t last. President Obama went out to Osawatomie, Kansas, to deliver what the White House told us in hushed tones was a major address. He proclaimed it “the defining issue of our time.” It’s more than that, it’s the “make or break moment for the middle class and for all those struggling to make it into the middle class.”
He invoked Theodore Roosevelt’s 1910 speech at Osawatomie. He appealed to that example as his inspiration. And then he went on CBS’s 60 Minutes and compared himself to Lincoln, FDR, and Lyndon Johnson. What happened to TR? What happened to the great Trustbuster? No mention.
Most critics are jumping on Obama, hooting at his claim to be the fourth most consequential president in our history (and for reminding us that he’s only just getting started.) Mr. Obama cited — in a general way — his legislative accomplishments as his basis for climbing onto his own Mount Gushmore. -
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So much for Hope and Change. In Washington, the Obama administration is business-as-usual.
The AP Wire reports that despite campaign promises to take a machete to lawmakers’ pet projects, President Barack Obama is quietly caving to funding nearly 8,000 of them this year.
“So much for the promise of change,” Arizona Sen. John McCain said in the first of many assaults he is likely to make against pork-barrel spending this year.
Obama is hardly the first president to promise to make Congress change its pork-barreling ways, and he certainly won’t be the last. But he is the first to retreat so quickly, after only six weeks in the White House.
