Conservatives To Bush - BYPASS CONGRESS ALTOGETHER - Issue MORE Executive Orders!

[kpete]

Conservatives to Bush: Issue More Executive Orders
By Kenneth T. Walsh

Posted 2/15/07

With President Bush unable to get much traction so far in moving his agenda through Congress or in improving his job-approval ratings with the public, White House advisers are casting about for ways to jump-start his final two years, including issuing executive orders to get things done without having to ask for support from the Democratic-controlled Congress.

"He should get a list of the executive orders for the last 200 years, as a guide, and choose what he wants to do," says an informal Bush adviser. One proposal that fiscal conservatives are pushing is to halve all capital-gains taxes, as a way to encourage investment and job creation.

Some conservatives argue that even if Bush somehow regains his political footing, whatever he might work out with the Democratic majority in Congress wouldn't be very good legislation, so he should go the executive-order route and bypass Congress altogether.

http://www.usnews.com/usnews/news/articles/070215/15orders.htm

[Deja Q]

1. I think the phrase "wow" just about covers it.

[Jackpine Radical]

4. See ya in Political Re-education Camp. (nt)

[AlCzervik]

2. he has given the congress the reach around more than once. NOW with

Bill Moyers had an excellent program a few years ago about NCLB, basically Bush went around congress and got $75 million for some homeschooling companies, one of the biggest recipients was William "Slots Czar" Bennett"

[tabasco]

3. What will they say when we have a Dem president in two years?

These people are loyal to their party, not their Nation, like the brownshirts. They want to rewrite or erase the Constitution so that the corporate cabal can gain complete control. These people are un-American and working to destroy the USA. It is time that we recognize them as enemies of our democracy.

[Meat Stew]

23. Most partisan hacks

are loyal to a party over the country. That can be seen on both sides. Always has and always will be that way.

[tabasco]

32. Nope. Don't think so.

The 30% that still support Bush and his anti-American policies are like the brownshirts of Germany. Most Americans are not like that. Maybe you should run with a different crowd. Look at DU and all the condemnation of Dems. That is a healthy thing. If Dems started an unjust war, you bet your ass I would not support them.

[lonestarnot]

5. And I say that would be bidness as usual for the punk. I say

throw the fucker on the lawn.

[magellan]

6. "He should get a list of the executive orders for the last 200 years"

That'd be easy, compared to combing through those he himself has signed:

"Bush has used signing statements to challenge 1,149 laws that were contained in 150 bills, according to data compiled by Christopher Kelley, a political science professor at Miami University in Ohio. By comparison, all previous presidents combined challenged about 600 total laws."

House panel probing Bush's record on signing statements

[subterranean]

7. At first I thought this was from the Onion. But no. It's for real.

I wonder who this "informal Bush adviser" is that cannot be named? And who are the "some conservatives" suggesting that the president become a dictator?

[me b zola]

8. If i click my heals together 3 times and say...

I want my country back, I want my country back, I want my country back...
will a house fall on all of their heads?

How did we get here, where people are openly advocating for a dictatorship and an end to our Constitutional democracy?

[alfredo]

9. K&R

[Old and In the Way]

10. Basically, be a bigger Dictator.

Beware the Precedents you set, the sword cuts both ways. This imperial Presidency has got to end. Impeach this little prick.

[ima_sinnic]

11. so they want him to rule by decree, eh?

time for the torches and pitchforks

[rodeodance]

12. I really wish I could just ship em all to siberia!

[roamer65]

13. Hitler issued orders from a bunker that no one obeyed, too.

Can anyone say, "Bushler".

[sakabatou]

14. Yes, let the country run aground to the unitary executive.

[Straight Shooter]

15. Yes, bush, good advice, say GFY to the representatives of the citizens of this country.

We all know what you are. Go ahead, show yourself.

And I bet that "informal advisor" is Karen Hughes. Where the hell has she been lately, anyway?

[Up2Late]

16. So let me get this straight. U.S. News is pushing for a Bush DICTATORSHIP!?!?

Boy, they really are pushing the "Freedom of the Press" thing, huh?:mad:

[Hippo_Tron]

17. He already uses signing statements

For example, Bush will probably sign a resolution to set a date certain to pull the troops out of Iraq.

The signing statement will read: "Just Kidding"

[Golden Raisin]

18. Yawn. Congress is too busy debating

"non-binding" resolutions and keeping impeachment "off the table". The American people are too wrapped up in 'American Idol' and Anna Nicole Smith. Meanwhile, we have fascists in the Oval Office, no checks and balances, and our country, Constitution, Bill of Rights and Democracy are going down the toilet.

[Raksha]

19. In other words, he should just make himself dictator

without further ado. Congress? We don't need no stinkin' Congress!

That approach has the added benefit of allowing Repuke Congress critters to avoid going on record with their votes. After all, if they were never even asked to vote on an issue, their constituents can't hold them accountable for how they voted.

[Morgana LaFey]

35. Well, no. He's actually already done that.

He's just allowing the illusion to persist that we live in a democracy. After all, why upset the natives unnecessarily?

[DearAbby]

20. A'hem.....

Is it time for Pitchforks & Torches yet?

On edit, sick sense of humor, but seriously what is congress waiting for?

[radfringe]

21. When I hear stuff like this, I ask

"Ok, so bush gets ____ powers to do ______. He's out of office in January 2009. Those powers and actions have set a precedent. Considering the current political climate - it's likely the next president will be a Democrat - are you sure you want those kind of powers in the hands of a Democrat, like say - Hillary Clinton?"

It usually pulls the reich-wingers up by the shorthairs and the response is something along the lines of "that's different"

when pressed to explain how it is "different" - the subject quickly changes

[Hippo_Tron]

22. Stephen Colbert beat them to it

He did a segment about how we just need to eliminate the legislative and judicial branch and only have the executive branch. It's sad when those who satirize Republicans actually preempt them.

[Swamp Rat]

24. Hail Dark Master!

[nicknameless]

25. The marriage of Bosch and bush?!!! God help us!!!

What could be more nightmarish?


You've topped yourself, Swampy!
:scared:

[TheWatcher]

26. Perhaps it is time for the people of this country, who still want to save it, to revisit this

passage:

That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, — That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.

[Eurobabe]

27. Fuck Bush and IMPEACH his ass!!

[frogcycle]

28. I guess I need to brush up on my history...

is this the Fourth Reich?

[Hubert Flottz]

29. I think this is the Fourth Reich this week...

We need to send this story to our congress critters!

Edit...I sent the piece to My senator from WV.

[spanone]

30. Their hatred for democracy is awesome.

[Odin2005]

31. Every single one of these treasonous bastards should be hanged.

SIC SEMPER TYRANNIS!!! DEATH TO TYRANTS!!!

[happydreams]

33. Come on Repugfascisti tell us how you really feel.

Go ahead and say it: "Fuck democracy"!
It's what you want to say, so just say it!!

This is really good. Bush is simply digging the political hole he's in a little deeper

[Faryn Balyncd]

34. And these people actually call themselves "conservative"