...   
      
    TR> When Congress denied Obama authority to transfer money to   
    TR> the International Monetary Fund, he did so anyway, issuing   
    TR> an executive order promising to give that body $140 billion   
    TR> for redistribution to Third World countries.   
      
    Or did he just release money previously allocated?   
      
    TR> Now he's made another mockery of bipartisanship and the   
    TR> Constitution in making six recess appointments, including   
      
    When Bush did that where was your complaint? The constitution   
    provides for recess appointments. That is where the whole thing   
    comes from. Bush did it regularly.   
      
    As to bipartisanship, that should be made a mockery of.   
      
    TR> two people so objectionable that a near supermajority of   
    TR> Democratic senators wouldn't confirm them: James Cole as   
    TR> deputy attorney general, whose lax position in the war on   
    TR> terror is disturbing,   
      
    TR> and Francis J. Ricciardone Jr. as ambassador to Turkey.   
      
    Well, I don't know anything about Ricciardone, but if the right   
    consider's Cole's position on the war on terror "lax", he's   
    probably right on target.   
      
    TR> It obviously doesn't matter to these zealots that an   
    TR> overwhelmingly Democratic   
    TR> Congress couldn't pass cap and trade or that the Clean Air   
    TR> Act gives them no authority to regulate so-called   
    TR> greenhouse gas emissions. It doesn't matter   
      
    The Supreme Court not only gave them the authority, but decided   
    it was their duty.   
      
    TR> that their proposed regulatory blitzkrieg would further   
    TR> damage an already anemic and precarious economy.   
      
    Maybe, maybe not, esp with the changes likely to take years to   
    have any effect.   
      
    And some of them will probably improve the economy by increasing   
    employment to meet the standards.   
    ...   
      
    TR> Unlike those annoying evangelical Christians, who employ   
    TR> gentle persuasion techniques in their efforts to   
    TR> proselytize, Gaia's acolytes use the coercive   
      
    Gentle in your face intimidation. Esp in the military.   
      
    ...   
      
    TR> compassionate liberals, they're phasing in the pain to   
    TR> soften the blow (and the public's outrage) -- just as they   
    TR> did with the sundry gimmicks of Obamacare.   
      
    What Gimmicks of Obamacare? It's right out there in public, if   
    you cared to look.   
      
    TR> And let's not forget gas prices. Remember when liberals   
    TR> used to oppose rising gas prices -- you know, under Bush,   
    TR> even when they were still less than $2 per gallon?   
      
    Yeah, when they were $1.36 in 2002, we thought that was too   
    high. When they hit $2.30 in 2005 they were even more too high.   
    When they hit $3.25 in 2008 they were way too high.   
      
    Oh, and I'm talking regular, not mid or premium.   
      
    TR> According to Sen. Barbara Boxer, those astronomical prices   
    TR> were the result of George Bush and Dick Cheney's being "too   
    TR> cozy with the oil industry."   
      
    Yep. And, as I pointed out, gas topped $3 after the republicans   
    won the house.   
      
    TR> All these developments serve as a nice complement to   
    TR> Obama's seven-year ban on drilling in the eastern Gulf of   
    TR> Mexico and along the Atlantic and Pacific coasts. King   
      
    Why was Bush keeping in place an 8 yr ban on offshore drilling?   
    That ban was more extensive by far than Obama's. Where were you   
    then?   
      
    Since BP's corruption is being shown more and more, an   
    investigation of all oil companies should be done before any are   
    allowed to risk our enviornment again.   
      
    TR> Barack wasn't about to let the insubordinate courts have   
    TR> the last   
      
    He shouldn't. The only court that matters is the supreme court,   
    and the supreme court has become the activist court in this   
    country. The supreme court has exceeded it's authority by far.   
    Any court that rules that corporations have human rights is   
    bought and paid for.   
      
    Obama's "political theology" is far closer to the American   
    people than the republicans dogma.   
      
      
      
   BOB KLAHN bob.klahn@sev.org   http://home.toltbbs.com/bobklahn   
      
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