"73 days will occur at the end of eight years dominated by troubling usage of executive power."
"73 days. It might seem like a short amount of time, but in the context of the transition from the 44th President of the United States to the 45th, it may prove to be an eternity.
The time between Election Day and Inauguration Day is always one of uncertainty in Washington, D.C. It is often marked with a decided uptick in displays of executive power (both legitimate and illegitimate). But this election cycle is shaping up to be particularly problematic in this regard.
The 73 days between November 8, 2016 and January 20, 2017 present a unique opportunity for political mischief, and there are three main reasons for it:
First, and maybe most obvious, any time a President is nearing the end of the second term, there is a natural tendency to focus on 'accomplishing' as much as possible in the final days of their Administration – with the focus on their legacy.
Once Election Day has passed, there is little to no political price for the President’s party to pay as a result of actions taken in the waning days of the Administration, and thus the President is emboldened. Also, because the outgoing President is ineligible for reelection, he is unencumbered from personal campaign duties and it is only natural that a large majority of his attention is focused on the last several weeks of the term.
Next, the upcoming 73 days will include a lame duck session of Congress, complete with a full-fledged appropriations debate. When Congress returns to Washington, D.C. after the elections, it will be focused on approving federal spending levels beyond the current expiration on December 9, 2016. This is a contentious endeavor under the best of circumstances, but in this case Congress will not only be acting under the influence of both an outgoing and an incoming President, but will also be doing so with a great number of Senators and Representatives serving in their final days of Congress.
Finally, and likely most critically, the upcoming 73 days will occur at the end of eight years dominated by troubling usage of executive power. To give you just a few examples, the Obama Administration has used executive action to usurp Congress’s constitutional authority over immigration policy, bypass the Senate’s advise and consent role, and mandate religious employers violate their conscience.
In short, this is a President who has regularly pushed the limits of executive power, and has done so in the regular course of his Administration. It is incumbent upon us to expect a dramatic increase in this tendency during the final 73 days of the Obama Administration, who has seemed more obsessed with his own legacy than any other modern president.
That is why the ACLJ Government Accountability Project is preparing to carefully and systematically monitor any and all executive actions taken during the final 73 days of the Administration.
We will be monitoring all agency actions (whether made through a formal rulemaking process or less formal means—such as an agency press statement or even a presidential statement or memorandum). If and when we encounter a suspicious executive action, we will quickly engage in two primary ways:
We will thoroughly analyze and document the impact of the action in question, as well as outline the constitutional integrity of the action.
We will inform the American People of the action being taken, and facilitate a method by which those who are concerned may respond.
This strategy is aimed at ensuring the American People are able to exercise a proper check on what we expect will be a dramatic expansion of executive power. This check is critical in terms of public policy, but also to ensure that the balance of power envisioned by our Founders is preserved.
There is little doubt that it will be an extremely active 73 days. But with your help, we can provide the constitutional check on what we expect will be an effort to dramatically expand the bounds of executive power."
Yazidi Parents Who Survived Islamic State Name Newborn Baby ‘Trump’ - Breitbart
"Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg Attacked By Left For Lacking Bias To Help Hillary Win." - Breitbart
Comedian Wanda Sykes Heavily Booed After Her Anti-Trump Rant
Also listen to a producer's under the breath comments, calling the audience out for their attack on the new president elect by Sykes.
Note The Charity Being Served At This Horrible Event
Thanks but no thanks? Liberals now identify this as their "comedy."
"Sykes reportedly stayed onstage to finish her performance despite the booing, according to the Boston Herald. The paper reported that comedian Nick DiPaolo was also booed over political material in his set. [Wait for it . . .] The annual Comics Come Home fundraiser features local Boston-area comics and is held to raise money for adult and child cancer patients and their families." - Breitbart
Business Insider Reports There Are Already New Liberal Media Attacks On Trump . . . This One On His New Chief Strategist
GIVE IT UP!
No one believed Trump could even become a Republican candidate. Then the establishment Republicans went after him when he won the primaries, some attacking him as #nevertrump.
The globalists at the UN and EU laughed at him from their migrant-filled countries in Europe, their multiculturalism suffocating their freedoms around their necks while raping their wives and children. Then the press lied about him again and again, a 60 Minutes reporter last night acting like some intolerant ***** from the old money of Palm Beach, not realizing it was attitudes like hers that pushed Trump over the top with EVERYDAY voters.
The Democrat Party went on to say Hillary was the only one who could win America's approval for president in the next four years. Now Trump is president elect with the others full of crap.
He beat them all at their own game "while having never played the game!"
Whatever he does now doesn't matter. Your opinions are like used coffee grounds filled with mold in the garbage, never ever again to give anyone enjoyment. Trump has made all the right moves since the day Kocky Kelly attacked him from FOX News in the first Republican candidate debate around 18 months ago.
You've all misjudged the anger by many Americans who have grown tired of a president that was finally caught on video admitting he was mentored by the Communist, Frank Marshall Davis, lied that he didn't know Bill Ayers, (the founder of the Weather Underground and SDS Marxists) and trained ACORN on the south side of Chicago on the techniques of Saul Alinsky's thugs. Then in 2007 at a Democrat fundraiser, Obama gave our National Anthem his crotch salute, as named by some in the military, putting his folded hands over his junk.
The only thing genuine about Obama was that he was born lucky to get his father's skin color and not his mother's, which gave him a free pass with the radicals on the left; from getting help by the Communist New Democrat Party in Chicago for the Illinois Senate to moving the debate for candidate for president over to the DailyKOS and MoveOn.org in 2008 for the first time. He even sang the Muslim Call To Prayer "perfectly" according to an editor at the New York Times in 2008 while running around lying to get votes that he was really a Christian. Yet as president he would later say salvation was only from the (socialist) collective.
His relationship with a supporter of the Third Reich, George Soros, proved his corruption had no end, Soros literally paying rent-a-thugs to march in Ferguson as if real protesters, then burning down the business district some owned by immigrants and minorities.
Major Democrat Party Socialist Leaders Meet With Communist George Soros To Take America Back From The People's November Election - Politico
Oh, by the way, it continues even at the date of this writing.
Did you see the scores of rented buses on the side streets in one city as Marxists protest Trump's election? Hmm, I wonder who paid for those all those many buses to be driven to the protest cities, some photographed carrying "clenched fist" signs. Yet the media was some what silent that it could be Obama's own SS filling those rows and rows of buses to the brim! - Webmaster
Obama’s Legacy may be over now that Trump, who ran on ending Obamacare and canceling executive orders, has been elected. Political Cartoon by A.F. Branco.- ComicallyIncorrect
"Famous Swedish TV Chef Attacked By Muslims Over Resemblance To Trump." - TruthRevolt
Dangerous Media Spin Masters
Hey to CBS 60 Minutes Arrogant Report On Trump last night!
What does this video below look like, everyday Americans angry at Trump OR Obama's own commies on parade?Very dangerous reporting by CBS.- Webmaster
Oh my, oh my, look at all the busses that brought what CBS 60 Minutes calls "independent" commie protestors on Trump's election, organized by Obama supporters George Soros and MoveOn.org to name a few of the attending Marxists.- ZeroHedge
Political Correctness And The Goal Of Its Marxist Creators To Rip A Society Apart
Note: The 49ers franchise has caused great harm to this nation. Why? Because if their quarterback is allowed to protest the acts of a few police in America against black suspects, then why can't others protest the ambush and murder against innocent police who had nothing to do with that!- Webmaster
This was not about free speech. It's about tyranny.- Webmaster
"The FIRE's Shibley says protests of police misconduct and discrimination are allowed, but they could be considered an endorsement of the cause by the university." - CJ
"Five black members of the SMU marching band kneeled during the national anthem before the Mustangs played TCU on Friday, according to Grant McGalliard, a special contributor to the Dallas Morning News’ SportsDay." - USAToday
"Members of some North Carolina college marching bands, protesting what they consider police brutality, have abandoned kneeling while playing 'The Star Spangled Banner' before football games and instead are wearing ribbons or armbands on their uniforms.
A First Amendment expert says such protests are allowable but may reflect badly on both band members who do not wish to participate and the university as a whole.
"Hunter Markson, a UNC-Chapel Hill senior who is a member of the marching band, said he was upset by the Aug. 24 protest, which he said made it look as if the entire band were protesting."
Protesting band members at both N.C. State University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill have attached ribbons to their uniforms or hats while continuing to stand in formation as they play the anthem.
The protests echo those of San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick, who began sitting on the bench before preseason National Football Games when the anthem was played. Kaepernick said he was objecting to oppression of black people in the United States. Other NFL players have joined the protest by kneeling during the anthem.
The practice of kneeling during the anthem has been repeated by players in several college football games, but it hasn’t spread widely in part because in many occasions, the players do not take the field until the anthem is over.
Band protests in North Carolina started not long after the September riots in Charlotte that occurred after a black police officer shot and killed a black resident. At East Carolina University, 19 band members dropped to one knee during the anthem before the Pirates’ Oct. 1 game against the University of Central Florida. Fans began booing when the band performed at halftime of the game, and radio station WFAY in Fayetteville, which broadcasts ECU football games, refused to carry the team’s next game against the University of South Florida as a consequence.
ECU officials issued a statement Oct. 3 announcing a ban of similar protests by band members at future games.
Two UNC-Chapel Hill band members kneeled and put down their instruments during the playing of the anthem before the Sept. 24 game against the University of Pittsburgh. Since then, however, protesting band members have started donning ribbons or armbands, though the demonstrations largely have escaped notice. N.C. State and UNC-Chapel Hill have played only one home game since the ECU controversy, and it was on Oct. 8 when torrential rains associated with Hurricane Matthew forced band members to wear ponchos, concealing modifications to the uniforms from spectators’ view.
Robert Shibley, executive director of the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education, said that universities allowing such displays by band members could be seen as a university-wide endorsement of the political message the band members are expressing.
The FIRE is a nonprofit educational and legal foundation that protects individual rights at U.S. colleges and universities, including 'freedom of speech, legal equality, due process, religious liberty, and sanctity of conscience.'
Part of Shibley’s concern is that N.C. State’s band director reportedly allowed band members who wanted to protest police misconduct to wear black ribbons or armbands but would not allow students who wanted to show support for law enforcement authorities to wear blue ribbons or armbands.
'If [university officials are] willing to let people take one political viewpoint and modify the way they perform or modify their uniform and not another viewpoint, then effectively [the officials] taken a position on that issue,' Shibley said.
Shibley, a Duke University graduate, played in the band.
'We were expected to wear the uniform and not to make our own modifications to it,' Shibley said. 'It’s the same with athletes. They can be told this is what the uniform needs to look like. That’s what the word ‘uniform’ means.'"
Michael Pardue of Nashville, an N.C. State alumnus and band member, said he’s glad the university is not allowing band members to kneel during the playing of the anthem. 'But I think that by limiting [uniform modifications] to one ribbon only, that’s not free speech,' Pardue said.
In an email exchange between Pardue and Daniel Monek, head of the N.C. State Music Department, Pardue expressed concerns that band members who wore ribbons or arm bands showed a lack of respect for the anthem and that allowing individual protests would compromise the uniformity of the band.
Monek responded by saying that members of a group as large as a marching band will have a variety of perspectives, but their '[c]ommitment to one another as a team is significant.' He said the university was trying to foster a constructive dialogue among band members.
Monek did not respond to a request for comment.
Hunter Markson, a UNC-Chapel Hill senior who is a member of the marching band, said he was upset by the Aug. 24 protest, which he said made it look as if the entire band were protesting.
'There were only two clarinet players kneeling down,' said Markson, a former research intern at the John Locke Foundation. 'Now people think the band is liberal activists. Not all of us agree with what they’re doing.'
Markson said that band directors in middle school and high school told him the band should be considered a unit.
'These people were not performing as a group,' Markson said. 'They were doing something that was important to them, but they were doing it as individuals.'"
Did you forget the above June 2010 event of around one hundred American Islamists throwing rocks and bottles at Christians protesting on public property? I'm not surprised if you did with America's corrupt liberal media being sure to prevent you from seeing these disturbing images.
So it is any surprise that the most powerful Muslim in Congress is reported to throw his Koran into the ring for the Chair of the socialist DNC* for 2017, with the objective of removing the Constitution through clear intimidation by his associate organizations CAIR and the Muslim Brotherhood that have been trying to do just that since Obama took office? And guess who supports his nomination. Thug Harry Reid.
It is the same Brotherhood that almost destroyed elections for the Egyptian people with assistance from Barack Obama and of course, Hillary Clinton, these corrupt American leaders treating the Egyptians as if second-class citizens. They had hoped to destroy the Egyptian leadership that would break positive ties with Israel while then taking control of the Middle East. - Webmaster
"Rep. Keith Ellison Enters Race For DNC Chair With Strong Support."- NBC News / AOL
* - Support Marxist organizations include Media Matters, DailyKOS, MoveOn.org, American Progress, Tides Foundation and many others.
