Another Broken Obama Promise

The threatened government shutdown was averted last week when Barack Obama, the Democrats, and the Republicans reached an agreement for a budget for the remainder of 2011.  This is a budget the democrats should have passed last year when they had control of the House and Senate.  They didn't because they didn't want to be labeled as big spenders going into the 2010 elections.

The spending bill finally passed in the Republican controlled House and passed in the Senate as written prohibited the White House from devoting funds to those czars directing the administration’s policy agenda for health care, climate change, the auto industry and urban affairs.

Obama broke the terms of the eleventh-hour agreement, issuing a signing statement Friday indicating he would employ czars–of which he’s tapped a record 39–as he sees appropriate.

In December 2007 Obama vowed to never issue signing statements as an end-run around Congressional instructions, like, say, the directives he uses to curtail the appointment of senior administration officials not subject to Senate confirmation.

 “While it is legitimate for a president to issue a signing statement to clarify his understanding of ambiguous provisions of statutes and to explain his view of how he intends to faithfully execute the law, it is a clear abuse of power to use such statements as a license to evade laws that the president does not like or as an end-run around provisions designed to foster accountability,” Obama said. “I will not use signing statements to nullify or undermine congressional instructions as enacted into law.”

As President Obama wrote this last Friday, “The President has well-established authority to supervise and oversee the executive branch, and to obtain advice in furtherance of this supervisory authority.  “The President also has the prerogative to obtain advice that will assist him in carrying out his constitutional responsibilities, and do so not only from executive branch officials and employees outside the White House, but also from advisers within it. Legislative efforts that significantly impede the President's ability to exercise his supervisory and coordinating authorities or to obtain the views of the appropriate senior advisers violate the separation of powers by undermining the President's ability to exercise his constitutional responsibilities and take care that the laws be faithfully executed.”

House Speaker John Boehner's office said the move was typical for Obama to object to the elimination of its czars after he already once bypassed Congressional approval for their appointment. And Representative Steve Scalise (R-LA), the chief sponsor to legislation to defund the small army of administration-appointed advisers, accused the president of violating the Constitution and ruling like a “dictator.”

I don't care what Congress or the American people, or the Constitution says.  I Barack Obama make all decisions and do as I want.  He does act like a dictator.

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