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<blockquote data-quote="Old Man Jingles" data-source="post: 3959147" data-attributes="member: 18222"><p><strong><a href="https://reason.com/blog/2016/11/14/ive-got-a-pen-and-ive-got-a-phone-obamas" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: 15px">'I've Got a Pen and I've Got a Phone': Obama's Executive Overreach Becomes Trump's Executive Overreach</span></a></strong></p><p><strong><span style="font-size: 15px">The dangers of unchecked executive power.</span></strong></p><p><em><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'">In December 2007 presidential candidate Barack Obama <a href="http://archive.boston.com/news/politics/2008/specials/CandidateQA/ObamaQA/" target="_blank">told</a> The Boston Globe that if he won the 2008 election, he would enter the White House committed to<strong> <span style="color: #ff0000">rolling back</span></strong> the sort of overreaching executive power that had characterized the presidency of George W. Bush. <u>"The President is not above the law," Obama insisted.</u></span></em></p><p><em><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'"><strong>Once elected</strong>, however, President Obama began to sing a different sort of tune. "We're not just going to be waiting for legislation," Obama <a href="http://washington.cbslocal.com/2014/01/14/obama-on-executive-actions-ive-got-a-pen-and-ive-got-a-phone/" target="_blank">announced</a>. "I've got a pen and I've got a phone...and I can use that pen to sign <strong>executive orders</strong> and take <strong>executive actions</strong> and <strong>administrative actions."</strong></span></em></p><p><em><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'"></span></em></p><p><em><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'">Obama's pen and phone did not sit idle. For example, despite the fact that the Constitution grants Congress, not the president, the authority "to declare war," <u>Obama unilaterally declared war on Libya in 2011</u>. Similarly, despite the fact that the Constitution requires the Senate to confirm all presidential appointments to high office, except in those limited circumstances in which the Senate is not available to act because it is in recess, <u>Obama unilaterally placed multiple officials in high office</u> without senatorial approval during a period in which the Senate was <a href="http://reason.com/blog/2013/01/28/obamas-unconstitutional-executive-power" target="_blank">still in session</a>.</span></em></p><p><em><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'"></span></em></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'"><span style="font-size: 18px"><strong>To make matters worse, many of Obama's fervent liberal supporters pretended to see nothing wrong with such obvious abuses of executive power.</strong></span></span></p><p><img src="https://media.reason.com/mc/precleared/Obama-signing-WH-Flickr.jpg?h=188&w=250" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Old Man Jingles, post: 3959147, member: 18222"] [B][URL='https://reason.com/blog/2016/11/14/ive-got-a-pen-and-ive-got-a-phone-obamas'][SIZE=4]'I've Got a Pen and I've Got a Phone': Obama's Executive Overreach Becomes Trump's Executive Overreach[/SIZE][/URL] [SIZE=4]The dangers of unchecked executive power.[/SIZE][/B] [I][FONT=Georgia]In December 2007 presidential candidate Barack Obama [URL='http://archive.boston.com/news/politics/2008/specials/CandidateQA/ObamaQA/']told[/URL] The Boston Globe that if he won the 2008 election, he would enter the White House committed to[B] [COLOR=#ff0000]rolling back[/COLOR][/B] the sort of overreaching executive power that had characterized the presidency of George W. Bush. [U]"The President is not above the law," Obama insisted.[/U] [B]Once elected[/B], however, President Obama began to sing a different sort of tune. "We're not just going to be waiting for legislation," Obama [URL='http://washington.cbslocal.com/2014/01/14/obama-on-executive-actions-ive-got-a-pen-and-ive-got-a-phone/']announced[/URL]. "I've got a pen and I've got a phone...and I can use that pen to sign [B]executive orders[/B] and take [B]executive actions[/B] and [B]administrative actions."[/B] Obama's pen and phone did not sit idle. For example, despite the fact that the Constitution grants Congress, not the president, the authority "to declare war," [U]Obama unilaterally declared war on Libya in 2011[/U]. Similarly, despite the fact that the Constitution requires the Senate to confirm all presidential appointments to high office, except in those limited circumstances in which the Senate is not available to act because it is in recess, [U]Obama unilaterally placed multiple officials in high office[/U] without senatorial approval during a period in which the Senate was [URL='http://reason.com/blog/2013/01/28/obamas-unconstitutional-executive-power']still in session[/URL]. [/FONT][/I] [FONT=Georgia][SIZE=5][B]To make matters worse, many of Obama's fervent liberal supporters pretended to see nothing wrong with such obvious abuses of executive power.[/B][/SIZE][/FONT] [IMG]https://media.reason.com/mc/precleared/Obama-signing-WH-Flickr.jpg?h=188&w=250[/IMG] [/QUOTE]
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