Friday, December 23, 2016

Live by executive action ....













Live by executive action, die by executive action

If Trump washes away Obama’s legacy, ending implementation of a scores of Obama executive orders, actions and regulations, they will be wiped away like a dry erase board—and Obama will have nobody to blame but himself for acting unilaterally to begin with.




Whatever can be done with executive action can be undone by executive action.

That was one of the messages outgoing President Barack Obama had for his successor, President-elect Donald Trump in an interview with NPR, where Obama said, correctly, that “If he wants to reverse some of those rules, that’s part of the democratic process. That’s, you know, why I tell people to vote — because it turns out elections mean something.”

Trump will be in the driver’s seat. Ironically, not so much action is required by Congress. Which, really, is Obama’s fault, since he relied on executive action so much during his tenure.
So, suddenly, upon assuming office, Trump could start immediately rescinding controversial executive actions, whether Obama’s executive amnesty for millions of illegal immigrants with U.S.-born children, or his decision to close the Guantanamo Bay detention facility.

In total, Obama has issued 260 executive orders. Those could all be rescinded on day one, as there is no legal requirement they be retained.

There’s also a bevy of regulations, including the 2009 Carbon Endangerment Finding by the Environmental Protection Agency and its corollaries, the new and existing power plant rules, that constituted the agency’s expansive war on coal electricity.

There are labor regulations, including the overtime pay rule or the persuader rule.

There was the Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing rule that conditioned the receipt of community development block grants on municipalities making changes to local zoning along racial and income guidelines.

Those could be rescinded by the agencies that issued them, through the process under the Administrative Procedures Act, which could take a couple of years. Best to get started right away.

There is also the Congressional Review Act (CRA), which gives Congress the power to roll back with simple majorities regulations within 60 legislative days of being implemented. That goes back to June, and according to the Heritage Foundation, includes “many dozens of major rules [that] could be vulnerable to a CRA challenge. These include, among others: Rules under the Dodd–Frank financial regulation law, Sick leave for federal contractors, Offshore drilling rules, and Energy mandates for home appliances.” [FULL]

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New York gay couple Matt Lasner and his husband Attorney Dan Goldstein targeted Ivanka Trump and her family today at JFK Airport in New York City.

After spotting Ivanka and HER CHILDREN the unhinged leftists CHASED HER DOWN!

Ivanka was on a JetBlue flight leaving JFK Thursday morning with her family when a passenger ( professor @mattlasner) started screaming, “Your father is ruining the country.” The guy went on, “Why is she on our flight. She should be flying private.” The guy had his kid in his arms as he went on the tirade.

A passenger on the flight tells TMZ Ivanka ignored the guy and tried distracting her kids with crayons.

JetBlue personnel escorted the unruly passenger off the flight. As he was removed he screamed, “You’re kicking me off for expressing my opinion?!!”

Ivanka Trump was flying commercial today.


The unhinged Hillary supporters harassed Ivanka and her children on the plane.
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"Sam is quite good at what she does . . . freakin whacked out, but good.  Beck is not stupid, but he is nuckin futz.

Whoever wrote this (prob’ly Sam), it is good stuff, despite the politics"
(Ron Metzger)


Beck was raised Roman Catholic (what's the second largest church in the United States? Answer: Ex-Catholics); is now a Mormon.  He's been a target of the left since his gig on CNN, where leftists mounted a sponsor boycott. The intensity of the Left's hate intensified after he moved to FOX, where his show was top rated.  The likes of Soros's Moveon.Org went balls out with a second sponsor boycott (to this day I refuse to purchase Sargento Cheese products).  Fox put pressure on him as well, and he suffered an apparent nervous breakdown.  I like Beck, and admire his ability to "turn the other cheek," as Christians are obliged to do; something I have great trouble with. Sigh.

Anyway, I agree with Metzger to a great extent, but take exception to his Beck's gratuitous attacks on us good guys, which cause me to give him just a C+.

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