Opinion Forum

Update: More on Obama and Signing Statements

April 17th, 2011

By Dan Miller Shortly after submission of my previous post, several more relevant articles appeared. Here Candidate Obama’s interpretation of his 2008 message on signing statements was explained. As I understand it, it means that President Obama will issue signing statements only concerning legislation he doesn’t like, not legislation Former President Bush doesn’t like. “While […]

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Tags: Congress, Constitution, czars, Executive, line item, signing statements, veto
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Constitutional Scholar Obama on Signing Statements

April 17th, 2011

By Dan Miller The silly old Constitution no longer means what it seemed to during the reign of King George The Brute. In 2008 (my how time flies), Candidate Obama rejected presidential signing statements, i.e., signing into law a bill passed by the Congress but saying he won’t abide by the parts he doesn’t like. […]

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Tags: Congress, Constitution, czars, Executive, line item, signing statements, veto
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Is President Obama Shifting Right, or Being Shifty?

January 25th, 2011

By Dan Miller He’s playing both ends against the middle. Nuts? Don’t bet on it. Has President Obama had a miraculous Paul of Tarsus like conversion while traveling his own road to Damascus? A true Obama moment? According to Rasmussen, his favorable vs. unfavorable ratings have been in the positive range. The country is broke […]

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Tags: administrative, agencies, councils, czars, regulations, rules, satire, trade
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Know What Obama Could Use? A Snake Oil Czar

July 4th, 2010

By Dan Miller President Obama is just one man. He clearly can’t sell all this snake oil himself. * * * We have a disastrously inadequate petroleum reserve; there is a crisis. “We consume more than 20 percent of the world’s oil but have less than 2 percent of the world’s oil reserves,” or so […]

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Tags: czars, drilling, leadership, oil, President, reserves, satire, Senate, snake oil
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Czar Crazy

July 30th, 2009

Rep. Eric Cantor, (R-VA) wrote that just over a year ago, Candidate Obama said: The biggest problems that we’re facing right now have to do with George Bush trying to bring more and more power into the executive branch and not go through Congress at all. And that’s what I intend to reverse when I’m […]

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Tags: czars, Obama, White House
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