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President Obama Issues Major ‘Green Energy’ Executive Order

Sep. 3, 2012 1:05pm Becket Adams

President Obama Issues Executive Order on Carbon Emissions and Industrial Efficiency

President Barack Obama delivers remarks in the Rose Garden of the White House in this file photo. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Between conservatives focusing all their attention on the successes/failures of the Republican National Convention in Tampa, Fla., and the left having a meltdown over the supposed “racism” and unprecedented disrespect of Clint Eastwood’s “Empty Chair” routine, little attention has been given to an executive order issued last Thursday by President Barack Obama that targets industrial “efficiency” and carbon emissions.

“Today, we are taking another step to strengthen American manufacturing by boosting energy efficiency for businesses across the nation,” said President Obama.

“This action will cut costs, increase efficiency, and help our businesses create strong, middle class jobs. We’ll continue to do everything we can to put more people back to work and build an economy that lasts,” he added.

The order, which aims to increase the number of cogeneration plants in the U.S. by 50 percent by 2020 and slash carbon emissions by 150 million tons per year, is the administration’s latest effort to “deploy cleaner and more efficient energy production in the country by working around political resistance to climate change and ‘green’ energy legislation on Capitol Hill,” Reuters reports.

“The Federal Government has limited but important authorities to overcome … barriers, and our efforts to support investment in industrial energy efficiency and CHP [Combined heat and power] should involve coordinated engagement with a broad set of stakeholders,” the order says.

Translation: If duly elected representatives of the people get in the way of “climate change” (formerly known as “global warming,” formerly known as “global cooling”) legislation, work around them.

“The man is legislating by presidential fiat!” conservative author and radio show host Mark Levin said Friday. “This is unconstitutional.”

The order dictates that the Departments of Energy, Commerce, and Agriculture, and the Environmental Protection Agency coordinate their actions to provide “policy and technical assistance” to states in order to ensure energy efficiency targets are being met.

What could possibly go wrong?

The order also “establishes a new national goal of 40 gigawatts of new combined heat and power capacity by 2020, a 50% increase from today,” according to a statement from the White House.

“Meeting this goal would save energy users $10 billion per year, result in $40 to $80 billion in new capital investment in manufacturing and other facilities that would create American jobs, and would reduce emissions equivalent to 25 million cars,” the statement adds.

Sure, it sounds nice and (like most things in this administration) it promises a great return on investment, but are there any possible downsides to this executive order?

“This is a fiat from on high for these utilities to change the way they process energy — an enormous capital expense and many of them are going to close down,” Levin argued. “And they only have eight years to do it as part of this ‘cap-and-trade,’ ‘green’ energy, ‘climate change’ bull crap.”

“You’re going to see your bills go up, up, and up some more. And you’re going to see brownouts and one day blackouts,” he added.

But more than the possible economic burden the order may cause, Levin takes umbrage with the fact that the president keeps issuing these types of orders.

“The fact of the matter is he doesn’t have the power to mandate this. We don’t have a king who decides, ‘you know what? You utilities, this is how you’re going to process energy.’ Imperial president! … [T]he very nature of our government, our very constitution is under attack,” Levin said Friday.

Read the full order here.

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Comments (584)

HotFixIt
Posted on September 3, 2012 at 1:43pm
Every single energy generation plant needs to start their energy decrease evaluation system tests now … everything that is effected by this mandate… brown outs, black outs.. sorry public.. we are working within the mandate President Obama recently signed… we are just trying to do as your president has required and trying to make everything as green as possible.. reducing our carbon output and seeing how it affects our plant… we can’t help how it affects the energy output and the electrictiy you receive.. go talk to the president.. he mandated this. Once the public suffers the results of Obamas mandates he will have difficulty getting a single vote in November…

As for the consequences to the electrical generation companies… if they don’t.. they will be out of business in a couple of years anyway if Obama stays in office. Take a stand!

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- hi
  Posted on September 3, 2012 at 2:10pm
  Yes they should shut down the plants now before the election!
  
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- just happy
  Posted on September 3, 2012 at 2:13pm
  Or much simpler and BETTER, IGNORE THE KING and follow the CONSTITUTION. An unconstitutional law is NOT a law!!…
  
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- Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
  Posted on September 3, 2012 at 2:13pm
  If that happens with the power companies I will tell you what comes next: Nationalization of all energy companies and the oil/coal/natural gas providers as well.
  
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- hi
  Posted on September 3, 2012 at 2:13pm
  Clarification
  I meant they should create the blackouts not completely close the plants.
  
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- thecrow2123
  Posted on September 3, 2012 at 2:25pm
  @Snowleopard
  I work for a gas company and let me assure you that is already well under way
  
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- Texan4ever
  Posted on September 3, 2012 at 2:29pm
  Start with blackouts in Washington DC, or better yet, Charlotte, NC this week.
  
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- Want our country back
  Posted on September 3, 2012 at 2:43pm
  Stunner. Warren Buffet’s Company a Big Winner in Obama’s Keystone Decision
  Posted by Jim Hoft on Tuesday, January 24, 2012, 5:47 AM
  http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2012/01/stunner-warren-buffets-company-a-big-winner-in-obamas-keystone-decision/
  Warren Buffet’s Burlington Northern Santa Fe LLC will benefit greatly by Barack Obama’s decision to nix the Keystone Pipeline from Canada.
  Bloomberg reported:
  Warren Buffett’s Burlington Northern Santa Fe LLC is among U.S. and Canadian railroads that stand to benefit from the Obama administration’s decision to reject TransCanada Corp. (TRP)’s Keystone XL oil pipeline permit.
  With modest expansion, railroads can handle all new oil produced in western Canada through 2030, according to an analysis of the Keystone proposal by the U.S. State Department.
  “Whatever people bring to us, we’re ready to haul,” Krista York-Wooley, a spokeswoman for Burlington Northern, a unit of Buffett’s Omaha, Nebraska-based Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (BRK/A), said in an interview. If Keystone XL “doesn’t happen, we’re here to haul.”
  The State Department denied TransCanada a permit on Jan. 18, saying there was not enough time to study the proposal by Feb. 21, a deadline Congress imposed on President Barack Obama. Calgary-based TransCanada has said it intends to re-apply with a route that avoids an environmentally sensitive region of Nebraska, something the Obama administration encouraged.
  
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- v15
  Posted on September 3, 2012 at 2:44pm
  Despite all of Obama’s dictatorial executive orders, it bothers me that people on here would rather vote for a 3rd party candidate (Johnson) or write in “Ron Paul” than vote for someone like Romney that would at least put a stop to a lot of this madness. Argue with Romney’s politics all you want but he is not going to be anything like Obama. Romney isn’t the best but we can’t turn this country around in one election. We can, however, completely destroy our nation if we allow Obama to get in 4 more years.
  
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- Whistleblower
  Posted on September 3, 2012 at 2:48pm
  Is President Barack Obama being blackmailed ?
  
  http://illinoispaytoplay.com/2012/09/01/is-president-barack-obama-being-blackmailed/
  
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- barber2
  Posted on September 3, 2012 at 2:59pm
  V15: The guys who say that are died- in- the- wool anarchists. They would much prefer the “revolution” they think will come from Obama II than the recovery which Romney offers. Don’t let them bother you; they are lost causes and only here to annoy/ bait you. They will vote for Obama.
  
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- chips1
  Posted on September 3, 2012 at 3:09pm
  Maybe blackfemailed?
  
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- db321
  Posted on September 3, 2012 at 3:15pm
  Wait a moment, Conservative Republicans are supposed to be to busy focusing on the racial empty chair comment made by Client Eastwood. So why are we paying attention to a stupid Green Energy Executive order.
  
  I’ll tell you why, because like Clint Eastwood said, We own this Country not Obama, not his administration, and certainly not the liberal media. I feel Clint was being Clint and I did not hear Clint lie – he spoke the truth like only Clint can.
  
  So I am going to vote against Obama and I am never going to give the Liberal News one second of ratings by tuning in to see, for one moment, what the Morons are talking about on MSNBC, CBS, NBC, ABC, and CNN.
  
  I hope energy rates goes through the roof overnight across America. I can pay triple the rates until Jan when Romney takes over. It may be a little too much for Welfare recipients to pay – Oh Well!
  
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- WAKEUPUSA2012
  Posted on September 3, 2012 at 3:27pm
  Sure as hell didnt hear much noise when it was Bush issuing all those executive orders.
  
  We have to learn that its not onaly obama who is screwing up this country. These “republicans” from the last administrations have screwed us up even worse. If you beleive in individual liberty, your government thinks you are a terrorist.
  
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- Want our country back
  Posted on September 3, 2012 at 3:57pm
  WAKE UP USA – (I’m shouting) President Bush is NOT running!!!!!! You had better wake the hell up yourself & vote for Mitt Romney and not some pie in the sky Ron Paul & Gary Johnson….. I don’t understand why you aren’t getting it. Your talking points are moot.
  
  Sorry for shouting
  
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- Bum thrower
  Posted on September 3, 2012 at 3:59pm
  YOU have to PAY for living too good while the rest of the world suffers because of YOU, you nasty USA……That’s CHANGE you were promised!!
  
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- Salamander
  Posted on September 3, 2012 at 4:15pm
  If everyone ‘goes green’ with wind and solar AND adds emergency generators to cover the ‘black out’ periods of no power, we’ll have air pollution the likes of which we have never known!
  
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- U.N.hater
  Posted on September 3, 2012 at 4:23pm
  Didn’t Obamas FCC czar say something about putting certain people out of buisness and letting the minoritys take up those buisnesses? Minoritys in the near future will get government loans to start up those buisnesses. I think someone does not like white people or jews. Does anyone else remember that?
  
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- slr4528
  Posted on September 3, 2012 at 4:26pm
  This is actually a really good idea…this would make a very strong point.
  
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- NHwinter
  Posted on September 3, 2012 at 4:38pm
  Email your Representative in Congress and the House and demand they stand against this EO. If we the people do not speak up, Congress will do nothing. Make you voice heard.
  
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- SagebrushRebel
  Posted on September 3, 2012 at 5:41pm
  This president doesn’t give a crap about the people of this country! He could care less how much it will cost to heat or cool your home, or how much it cost families to put gas in the tank, or how much the cost of food is skyrocketing! If you still think he cares about what the average person is going through, then you are a bigger fool than he is.
  
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- cloudsofwar
  Posted on September 3, 2012 at 6:21pm
  the States need to say…..NO.
  
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- Fatheroftwo
  Posted on September 3, 2012 at 6:31pm
  I’d like to know when Congress is going to step up and tell the President that an Executive order only applies to the Executive branch and no where else!! I say, defy all such orders and tell the President to go suck an egg!!! It’s time Congress and the Courts put the Executives in their place!!
  
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- GBTVFan_Non_American_Overseas
  Posted on September 3, 2012 at 6:48pm
  It seems Barry is in full “lame duck” mode……60 dangerous days yet….
  
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- wvgirl
  Posted on September 3, 2012 at 6:53pm
  I think a lot of you “get it” by now. But a lot still do not understand that , as Glenn has said, and I have thought from the beginning, “GREEN IS THE NEW RED”. “Green energy”, global warming, emissions, Cap and Trade, etc, all trojan horses for the emplementation of Communism/Socialism through the take-down, take-over of all our industry. They’re already taking down the family- run farms (a la Oregon, this past week) in order to control the food supply. OCommie also issued another fiat, last week, I believe, mandating lighter, smaller, less “emmissions”. People, you have to be vocal IN PUBLIC, on FB, on Twitter, in your communities, to your friends. Preaching to the choir is no longer an option. Put signs in your yards, speak up, write, post, everything you can think of to get this Chavez wanna-be, soon to be total dictator, out of our government. And do it quickly. Time is short. You are right, Snowleopard. Nationalization of everything in this country. Complete Socialism/Communism, and they won’t even know what hit them, they are so caught up in the “singular” issues of class warfare, they can’t see the forest for the trees.
  
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- pudssweetie
  Posted on September 3, 2012 at 7:24pm
  @Wakeup,
  In doing some research, G.W. Bush signed a total of 248 executive orders in his 8 years in the WH, Obama thus far has signed 138 EO’s and if he stays another 4 years will certainly surpass Bush. So get off your Anti Bush crap.
  
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- U.N.hater
  Posted on September 3, 2012 at 7:28pm
  What give’s the president the power to bypass congress like a king and issue executive order’s? Only if the country is under martial law can a president sign into law an executive order. Now go look up how many executive oreder’s were sign by a president befor the civil war. So how many? We are under martial law and have been since. Tell me who declared an end to martial law after the civil war? NO ONE!
  
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- Sirfoldallot
  Posted on September 3, 2012 at 8:00pm
  How can this nation be distroyed by 1 guy ? If not him some 1 else.
  
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- PoliticiansRCrooks
  Posted on September 3, 2012 at 9:42pm
  Blame your self Republicans. Ron Paul was the only one willing to destroy the department of energy. Now get used to it morons.
  
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- WAKEUPUSA2012
  Posted on September 3, 2012 at 10:02pm
  Im just saying be a equal opportunity critizer. Ive also said on here I am most likely vote for mittens. Just becuase I think he can hold off the coming economic collapse, and he is better than obama…which isnt saying much. But oh well. Just go back to sleep when we have a r in the white house. ZzZzZzZzZzZzZz
  
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- mayancalendar2012
  Posted on September 3, 2012 at 10:10pm
  @ politiciansrcrooks
  I’m beginning to think that your sentiments are right on. I don’t think Romney or McCain for that matter would have issued such an order, but I also guarantee you won’t hear a word of this from the Republican leadership between now and election day.
  An emergency press conference ON PRIMETIME TELEVISION is the only thing that would convince me that this fascist order is going to be opposed.
  Bend over Amerca – we’re about to get backdoored.
  
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- I_KNEW_Youd_Say_That
  Posted on September 3, 2012 at 10:25pm
  I KNEW He’d Say That!
  
  But why? This is WIN-WIN CRISIS for the destruction of America:
  
  SCENARIO A
  Obama reads the teleprompter, commits the Constitutional crime.
  - Americans kick up a fuss that even left-leaners in Congress see their jobs (and their necks?) on the line. Obama is censured (maybe impeachment?). In disgrace, Obama loses the election.
  OR
  - Congress does nothing. American voters see DICTATORSHIP coming from the Democrat Party, vote Republican, and Obama loses the election.
  THEN
  Barack “ObamaCare” Obama loses the election and Mitt “RomneyCare” Romney wins the election. America sighs relief and goes back to sleep. Romney now reads the teleprompter.
  
  SCENARIO B
  Obama reads the teleprompter, commits the Constitutional crime, and Americans roll over and go back to sleep, and Obama or Romney wins the election and one continues to read the teleprompter.
  
  SCENARIO C
  Obama declares an emergency and starts national marshal law. Obama continues to read the teleprompter.
  
  How did I know? I can watch Glenn Beck explain it:
  
  “DICTATORSHIP PLAN For America 2012!! :: Glenn Beck Names The TRAITORS & Exposes Their CONSPIRACY!!”
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kAu_-UmERuo
  
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- F.O.S. DIAPERHEAD
  Posted on September 3, 2012 at 10:43pm
  @snowleopard
  
  Yep, the commie bstrd is going to try to sneak that Chavez **** in on us little by little. First the insurance industry and now the energy industry. He’s a typical commie bstrd. Don’t worry though, he absolutely will be stopped. This country is full of people that have no idea what’s going on, but at the same time there are enough of us that are aware enough to keep it from going too far. This election will be his last chance to get out! I guarantee the people here in Louisiana will not tolerate him beyond November.
  
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- artistskeptic
  Posted on September 3, 2012 at 10:49pm
  If the SOB Odumbass stays in power for a second term our children and grandchildren ave no future opportunities. The SOB must be taken out !!
  
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- idarusskie
  Posted on September 3, 2012 at 11:29pm
  Co-generation is nice but you need to have a use for the waste heat. This is like adding heat recovery to recover the heat off of your car engine, sure you could do it. But at what cost?
  
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- mamatango
  Posted on September 3, 2012 at 11:56pm
  Every time I read about any of Barry’s new escapades, the song “The Sidestep” that Charles Durning sang in “The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas” runs through my head!
  
  I wish somebody musically and video inclined would make a re-mix for O. That would be SO funny!
  
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NJG75FJkjr8
  
  Lyrics: THE SIDESTEP
  From : “The Best Little Whorehouse In Texas”
  
  http://lyricsplayground.com/alpha/songs/t/thesidestep.shtml
  
  What do you think??? ROFLMAO
  
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- The-Obama-Romney-Ticket
  Posted on September 3, 2012 at 11:58pm
  Before we all formulate a response, look at it from THEIR perspective. This is WIN-WIN CRISIS for their destruction of America:
  
  SCENARIO A
  Obama reads the teleprompter, commits the Constitutional crime.
  - Americans kick up a fuss that even left-leaners in Congress see their jobs (and their necks?) on the line. Obama is censured (maybe impeachment?). In disgrace, Obama loses the election.
  OR
  - Congress does nothing. American voters see DICTATORSHIP coming from the Democrat Party, vote Republican, and Obama loses the election.
  THEN
  Barack “ObamaCare” Obama loses the election and Mitt “RomneyCare” Romney wins the election. America sighs relief and goes back to sleep. Romney now reads the teleprompter.
  
  SCENARIO B
  Obama reads the teleprompter, commits the Constitutional crime, and Americans roll over and go back to sleep, and Obama or Romney wins the election and one continues to read the teleprompter.
  
  SCENARIO C
  Obama declares an emergency and starts national marshal law. Obama continues to read the teleprompter.
  
  How did I know? I can watch Glenn Beck explain it (and YOU can, too):
  
  “DICTATORSHIP PLAN For America 2012!! :: Glenn Beck Names The TRAITORS & Exposes Their CONSPIRACY!!”
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kAu_-UmERuo
  
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- Maji
  Posted on September 3, 2012 at 11:58pm
  He’s preparing to lose so he’s going into “scorched earth” policies early.
  
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- Anonymous T. Irrelevant
  Posted on September 4, 2012 at 12:52am
  @NHWINTER
  I have emailed and called my Congressman, Senators, and Speaker of the House about stopping the use of Execuive Order and how it’s not a law, until I am blue in the face and fingers, and my pc is smoking.
  Seems that either no one cares, or is listening. I only received a form letter back from one Senator that was not even related to the subject.
  
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- DarkJello
  Posted on September 4, 2012 at 1:49am
  “This action will cut costs, increase efficiency, and help our businesses create strong, middle class jobs.”
  
  If this was true, why in the FUDGING world would “greedy” businesses not implement these measures on there own?!? Also, we are supposed to believe that it would be so amazing that the aforementioned “greedy SOBs” could aslo add even more middle class jobs and still make more money?!?
  
  I am super, duper confused.
  
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- jadams1214
  Posted on September 4, 2012 at 3:45am
  @V15 It is the republican congress that just stands by and let’s this happen,not the people who vote third party. It is the republican congress who continues to vote for debt ceiling hikes to finance these beaurocracies. It is the republican congress who could start impeachment proceedings for doing unconstitutional things.It is Paul Ryan who is a member of that republican congress for 12 yrs. and has voted every time to fund big government. Stop blaming third parties who have no seats in congress and blame your own republican party and VP nominee.
  
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- PATTY HENRY
  Posted on September 4, 2012 at 3:59am
  1. ENERGY PLANTS/OFFICES make almost as much $$$ as OIL COMPANIES – great source of wealth and power. (DID YOU KNOW that every Canadian Prime Minister has come first through the ranks of the Nationalized Canadian Power…it’s a honey pot of money, Play ball their way or don’t play. NOW it’s happening here but not for long.
  2. THEY HAVE NO RIGHT to charge us for the very AIR WE BREATHE. GORE tried it because he wanted to “GET EVEN” he thought he was robbed..thank GOD he was never President! THIS IS NOT anything any twerpy President can/should do. HE is just TRYING TO GOAD US INTO OUT AND OUT REBELLION.
  3. THAT CREEPY LITTLE SNOTTY CUTTER WOMAN needs to be sat down and taught about AMERICA. SHE needs to know that the RICH already pay 40% of all the taxes (3% paying 40%) and even if they took 100% of the RICH’S $ (over my dead body) there would be enough to pay for OBAMA’S cronie (how do you spell that?)_ crony …hand outs!! HE is a thief, a liar and a cheat and he thinks it’s funny. HE IS so bloody EVIL. WITHOUT AMERICA sharing our wealth, our knowledge our protection you bloody a.h. fool …millions more people around the world would die. YOU don’t deserve to be called PRESIDENT…you are a classless, cruddy, spoiled brat of no achievement other than what was bought for you. YOU ARE A PATH OF DESTRUCTION (like who will respect the NOBEL PEACE PRIZE after you, you dope. WORK HARD PEOPLE…these fools won’t be happy until they have ruined ev
  
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- PATTY HENRY
  Posted on September 4, 2012 at 4:34am
  PATTY HENRY
  Posted on September 4, 2012 at 4:25am
  
  ALONG WITH THE EMPTY CHAIR In every front yard..we need to have a new AMERICAN GREETING:
  
  HELL NO !
  
  Forget the niceties…just greet each other with HELL NO!
  
  We have 60 days to put the pressure on these dopes. EVERY STORE OWNER, every TAX PAYER, EVERY PATRIOT and GUN OWNER, EVERY AMERICAN CONSTITUTION LOVING SOUL SHOULD
  pick up the chant HELL NO
  
  That sawed-off SOB and his Demonic Minions like Barbara Boxer and Piglosi and REID and Axelrod, Jarrett, Cutter and on and on are the worst possible people. BOXER has been trying since 9/11 to give away our rights to our OWN PEOPLE. Where the hell was that INFORMATION when she was finally Challenged?? NO MORE PC, no more ‘civility’ these A H’s use our gentility against us…they
  think its a sign of weakness. LET’S SHOW THEM WHO THE BLOODY ADULTS ARE.
  WRITE YOUR CONGRESS MEN/WOMEN and just say
  
  HELL
  
  NO
  
  !!! (no on that jerk’s energy debacle; no on Buffett profiting; NO on EGYPT… HELL NO ON ALL OF IT!
  
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- Bill Rowland
  Posted on September 4, 2012 at 6:28am
  This is bad but imagine the damage Sweet Old Barack can (and probably will) do in the 75 days between the election and the inaugeration of a new president. Worse still, if he gets reelected, get ready for executive order after executive order as he reshapes us into a third world economy. Poverty and hunger will become the norm, dependence on the government for subsistance will be required. If you are not on food stamps and welfare you will be. You will have to do without so many things that we take for granted now. Energy costs will deter your ability to heat and cool your home. Gasoline will be so costly that getting to the store for milk and bread will take planning.
  All Hail King Obama!!
  
  OMG Nov 6, 2012
  
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- old white guy
  Posted on September 4, 2012 at 6:28am
  bloody amazing. obama can lie day after day with a straight face. when he says anything will benefit business you can be darn sure the reverse will be true.
  
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- casseopea42
  Posted on September 4, 2012 at 7:43am
  Sorry Mr. President, the stockholders voted and decided not to do this. My stockholders outweigh your whining.
  
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- CABERNETQHS
  Posted on September 4, 2012 at 8:22am
  @POLITICIANSRCROOKS
  
  You may be right about Ron Paul and the DOE, but he’s not going to be elected…there’s no way, so get on with your life.
  
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- Zero1
  Posted on September 4, 2012 at 8:23am
  So, we are replacing our regular manufacturing jobs with green jobs.
  Green normally means less, so does Green Jobs = Less Jobs?
  
  http://www.dailyjobcuts.com
  -
  
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- wingedwolf
  Posted on September 4, 2012 at 8:26am
  Exactly the reason I have an LP gas generator and 1500 gallons of fuel…..
  
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- peeoui
  Posted on September 4, 2012 at 8:44am
  They would never do it, but 24 hours without electricy and the statement it was because of executive order.
  I am going to have to stay off these boards. I am getting depressed
  
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- georgette
  Posted on September 4, 2012 at 9:08am
  speaking of taking a stand…
  
  We went to see the movie 2016 at a large theater complex….
  The ticket sellers said :
  –the movie was sold out at each and every showing.
  –The crowd was absolutely silent during the movie…
  –at the end of the movie……the people stood.. and rocked the house…….every time.
  
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- paperpushermj
  Posted on September 4, 2012 at 10:47am
  THECROW2123
  Posted on September 3, 2012 at 2:25pm
  @Snowleopard
  I work for a gas company and let me assure you that is already well under way
  _________________________________________.
  Please explain
  
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- Want our country back
  Posted on September 4, 2012 at 10:49am
  Harry Reid’s Son Representing Chinese Solar Panel Plant in $5 Billion Nevada Deal
  http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2012/09/04/Harry-Reid-s-Son-Representing-Chinese-Solar-Panel-Plant-In-5-Billion-Nevada-Deal
  
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- bumfuzeled
  Posted on September 4, 2012 at 10:52am
  I think North Carolina should start today with rolling brown outs to conserve energy in compliance with this new imperial mandate.
  
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- Amarilloan
  Posted on September 4, 2012 at 12:16pm
  This is an interesting concept. Perhaps business should get together and have shutdown days en masse and put out the statement that Obama’s executive orders will cause much more that that.
  
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- Protoham
  Posted on September 4, 2012 at 1:14pm
  I suggest the shut down the plants that feed Washington DC first!!!
  
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- kryptonite
  Posted on September 4, 2012 at 1:15pm
  Well, I can foresee a blackout on Election Day, if stats start to predict a Romney win in battleground states.
  
  I hate being a pessimist, but to my knowledge no commie in power has ever stepped down. Either they “win” every election or they declare themselves dictators, preferably the former. In the case of Putin, he got himself a token president in the interim and then “retook the presidency” (Medvedev was rewarded with the PMship; what a joke).
  
  Nowadays commie pukes avoid the dictatorship label at all costs, given the international repercussions. The UN is aware that these dictators violate its Universal Declaration of Human Rights, but with the rise of Barack to power, the UN is now completely under commie-Islamist control. So We the People are on our own. Israel is on its own. God help us.
  
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- kryptonite
  Posted on September 4, 2012 at 1:27pm
  @AMARILLOAN
  Perhaps business should get together and have shutdown days en masse and put out the statement that Obama’s executive orders will cause much more that that.
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  It would backfire in the worst possible way. Republicans would be accused of using extreme scare tactics, wanting to tank the economy, you name it. It would cost us the election — if we still stand a chance.
  
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- j_berry50
  Posted on September 4, 2012 at 2:17pm
  Let’s just get rid of that guy who thinks he is “king”or “dictator-ruler”.Meanwhile, China is putting in one new COAL-BURNING POWERPLANT per week and buying most of the coal from the USA!!! Washington keeps lying to us about Chinas windmills and solar energy.
  
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- ezekiel22
  Posted on September 4, 2012 at 2:47pm
  They can and should start by browning and blacking out Washington DC while all of Congress is in session. Starting Now.
  
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- child of the King
  Posted on September 4, 2012 at 9:59pm
  If this executive order goes south and businesses or companies shut down and he starts feeling the heat over it, he’ll just say it’s fault of former president George Bush’s policies or it’s the Republican parties fault for not going along with this. Anything that goes wrong isn’t his fault,it’s somebody elses fault.
  
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- PIGSWILLNEVERFLY
  Posted on September 4, 2012 at 10:36pm
  What the Media Will Never Tell You about Obama…Part 1 http://www.gulagbound.com Read it. Share it. Get it out to everyone.
  
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- Kristina In Americaland
  Posted on September 4, 2012 at 10:56pm
  Sick of politicians in general, missing Ron Paul 2012, or think you are too busy to follow this election?
  
  The Kardashians Don’t Need You, America Does – Mommy’s, Daddy’s & Libertarians LISTEN UP!
  
  http://kristinainamericaland.wordpress.com/2012/09/04/the-kardashians-dont-need-you-america-does-mommys-daddys-libertarians-listen-up/
  
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- dfinch
  Posted on September 4, 2012 at 11:21pm
  Whistleblower—I read several months ago that this Nhadmi Auchi gave hundreds of thousands of dollars to the Obama re-election fund. Let’s hope this all comes out.
  
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- Kevin The Elder
  Posted on September 5, 2012 at 7:09am
  An article on GulagBound informs that the administration (bypassing congress) is now:
  •Mandating that America’s immigration laws will no longer be enforced.
  •Passing the DREAM Act via a policy memo.
  •Instituting Cap and Trade via regulations.
  •Instructing that the Defense of Marriage Act will no longer be enforced.
  •Deliberately arming drug cartels with weapons, which led to the murder of hundreds, if not thousands of Mexicans, including the murder of American Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry.
  •Permitting drug cartels to operate within the US, as evidenced by the beheadings in America that the media refuse to report.
  •Bringing known terrorists/un-indicted co-conspirators into our White House and into our government to dictate US military and intelligence training, policy, rules of engagement and to receive access to classified National Security information.
  •Mandating that America’s voting laws will no longer be enforced, including voter intimidation by the New Black Panthers and actively fighting every attempt by states to clean their voter rolls or to institute voter ID laws.
  •Mandating a moratorium on drilling even though it violates a court order.
  •Taking over property, resources and industry through executive fiat (i.e. an authoritative determination: dictate).
  •Actively working to cede US sovereignty to the UN via treaties which, thankfully, are not yet acceptable to other countries.
  
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- Kevin The Elder
  Posted on September 5, 2012 at 7:09am
  Thanks to @PIGSWILLNEVERFLY who directed us to http://gulagbound.com/33237/what-the-media-will-never-tell-you-about-obama-part-1/#.UEcjGaNnWj8. My comments above came from the article, but there is so much more, I’d strongly recommend it to all.
  
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- FCS
  Posted on September 5, 2012 at 7:12am
  Concerning the Keystone Pipeline, we’ll be lucky to see any of that Canadian oil…the PRC is all over it…Warren Buffet will need to get to the back of the line. I read recently where a Chinese energy company SOE (State Owned Enterprise), a govt subsidized, assisted and directed business which I “thought” at least use to be a violation of the WTO (unless your China), is attempting to buy out the Canadian oil company producing the oil that would have gone into the Keystone pipeline. Their plan is to build a pipeline to Vancouver and ship it straight to China on COSCO tankers (yet ANOTHER PRC SOE!). The CHICOMs just can’t believe their good fortune! A moron in the White House! I don’t know which is worse, his stupidity in shutting down the Keystone Pipeline or his blatant arrogance in using Executive Orders to undermine the Constitution’s clear mandate concerning separation of powers.
  
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- wherestheproof
  Posted on September 5, 2012 at 10:22am
  I can’t reply to the post below regarding Buffett and the Keystone so I have to reply here. Anyway, Buffett is doing mighty fine in the whole green scam. Look here: https://www.energyintegrityproject.org/Page_15.html
  
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- bamanana
  Posted on September 5, 2012 at 10:35am
  All energy plants accross America should hold a news conference to inform the public & then start the brown outs & black outs early before the election to show the people just what this man is doing. Please before November.
  
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- bamanana
  Posted on September 5, 2012 at 10:39am
  We need to send e-mails in the hundreds of thousands to the energy companies accross America to hold a news conference to inform the American people what this tyrant has just done. Start the black & brown outs before November please to show the kool-aid drinkers what this man really wants to do to us & our country!! I’m starting with my friends on FB & my e-mail list today!!
  
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TreeTrimmerJim
Posted on September 3, 2012 at 1:40pm
This is an example of the uncertainty businesses are experiencing. Over night energy costs are rising. What are the next costs to follow?

Follow the money. Who is making money off this executive order? Who is supplying that money? How does spending that money create a return on investment? What is the pay off period? When in human history has having the same quality and highest prices been good for business?

This President makes Presidents Hoover and Roosevelt look brilliant and not smarter than a fifth grader.

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- No Grass
  Posted on September 3, 2012 at 7:35pm
  The Executive Order:
  http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2012/08/30/executive-order-accelerating-investment-industrial-energy-efficiency
  Here is a list of EPA CHP partners:
  http://www.epa.gov/chp/partnership/partners.html
  
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- michael48
  Posted on September 3, 2012 at 8:31pm
  thnx glass…read the list…looks like a campaign donations list for the “LUSH in chief” GE and several afiliates…Jefferey Immelt…the China Group…manufactures..IMAGINE THAT…Calpine a Kalifornica Co. thats been bancrupt TWICE..noses up moonbeam browns behind…terribly run co. in co-gen BS…typical GOV. GUMBA crapola…
  
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- girya16240
  Posted on September 4, 2012 at 12:29pm
  @V15 – I think whether we vote for Obama or Romney, we are screwed. The point of voting for someone other than Romney is that it puts pressure on politicians to see that a rapidly growing amount of American citizens are unhappy with both major parties in America. It is the principle of the matter to support what and who we actually agree with, instead of superficially supporting the very principles, policies, and ideas that we actively disagree with. It does no one any service to settle for a lesser evil. Rather, we need to rise up and speak for what is truly right and good. If Romney or Obama wins, we’re screwed. So if we’re screwed anyway, why not make a point in the process stating that we didn’t want them anyway?
  
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- LA_WriterChick
  Posted on September 5, 2012 at 3:40am
  Follow the money is right. After that whole Climate Change email leak, I started poking around. Here’s just the tip of some corporations, government types who may profit: http://aprilbaby.typepad.com/a_california_life/climate-change-hysteria/
  
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ipockpa
Posted on September 3, 2012 at 1:40pm
Why do people think Romneywill void executve orders? He has many of the same ideas.

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- TreeTrimmerJim
  Posted on September 3, 2012 at 1:44pm
  His history of achievement. His history of common sense choices. His history of integrity.
  
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- The Gooch
  Posted on September 3, 2012 at 1:46pm
  Romney wants to “help” me and my family?
  I’d be grateful if he and his ilk left us the hell alone. Wouldn’t THAT be a novel idea?
  
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- American Soldier (Separated)
  Posted on September 3, 2012 at 2:14pm
  @tree your suppose to end it with at the end.
  
  Wait….. You were being serious?! Hahahahah
  
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- TelepromoterNChief
  Posted on September 3, 2012 at 2:18pm
  …oh and Romney HAS a history unlike the Kenyan occupying The White House.
  
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- hi
  Posted on September 3, 2012 at 2:23pm
  Gooch
  Great point!!
  
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- canadianlady
  Posted on September 3, 2012 at 2:34pm
  Because Romney understands the economy and knows that crucial to a smooth running economy is a steady supply of reasonably priced energy. What Obama is doing is literally destroying the business sector.
  
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- WakingSheep
  Posted on September 3, 2012 at 3:20pm
  Yeah but it’s repeal and replace!
  
  …….repeal…..and…..replace…..
  
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- Bill Rowland
  Posted on September 3, 2012 at 3:49pm
  Sweet Old Barack has ordered he Departments of Energy, Commerce, Agriculture and the EPA to work wirh the states to implement this policy.
  I believe it was Ronald Reagan who said that the most feared words in America were; “I’m from the government and I’m here to help”
  
  OMG Nov 6,, 2012
  
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- PoliticiansRCrooks
  Posted on September 3, 2012 at 9:44pm
  Romney is a fraud. A crazy loony Mormon. I’ll be making sure I am not a registered Republican tomorrow.
  
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- DarkJello
  Posted on September 4, 2012 at 1:56am
  @politiciansrcrooks:
  
  That comment sounds like bigotry to me.
  
  I don’t believe Romney could do worse than Owebama even if he tried!!
  
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The Gooch
Posted on September 3, 2012 at 1:37pm
It’s good to be king…
Can I get a “Hallelujah!!!” from all the seculists, progressives and even the nihilists!?!

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commonsenseguy
Posted on September 3, 2012 at 1:36pm
what he is doing is just what he and the left wing idiots want and that is to put their commie boots on the throats of American business and the America taxpayers and choke the hell out of us, this is a dictator in the making and unfortunately our so called congress can not do any thing to stop his take over because the democommies have control.

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- just happy
  Posted on September 3, 2012 at 5:51pm
  FORWARD to Washington!! 10 million strong. that is 3 in every 0ne hundred of us but we can do it.!! We are already supporting nearly half the population plus corporate welfare too, we can support three more to go to Washington with this one objective: Government regulation of anything that is private business or personal life choice that is not specifically stated in the constitution,and it’s legally passed amendments, is no longer to be enforced by any federal or state agencies and is herewith terminated and REPEALED
  
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OBERSHA
Posted on September 3, 2012 at 1:35pm
4 more years of this should even wake up the Democrats

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- IAMPCBOB
  Posted on September 3, 2012 at 2:21pm
  I wish that were so, but I am afraid most have their heads so far up in the dark regions they will NEVER see the light! Even if they did they are too proud to ever admit that the conservatives and Republicans were right. We are being taken over by one of the slickest dictators in all of history and all they can do is shout, “MORE!” All I can say is, they will sure have a lot of useful idiots to get rid of! Another term under the ‘leadership’ of this man will mean the final end of America. Republicans are NO saints, true, and I could have picked a better candidate with my eyes closed, but it would be nearly impossible to pick a WORSE candidate on the Dems side! We either beat Obama or it’s curtains for ALL of us, useful idiots and all.
  
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VoteBushIn12
Posted on September 3, 2012 at 1:33pm
So the person arguing against this motion is Mark Levin. That’s who the Blaze is QUOTING when they describe the downside to the law… Mark Levin the “conservative author and radio show host”.

Yeah, he sounds qualified to comment on how this bill will effect energy prices… Please. He’s a Lawyer, not an electrician, not an engineer, not a scientist. Why is he being quoted in this article?

Come on Blaze. You want to provide the counter-opinion, find someone of substance with reputable background in the domain.

Levin is a fear-monger and his day will come.

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- garylee123
  Posted on September 3, 2012 at 1:43pm
  OK….I have 41 year in the energy field. This is stupid. And the DICTATES of this man is unconstitutional. He has no legal controlling voice over ANY company.
  
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- fredbolling
  Posted on September 3, 2012 at 1:44pm
  Spoken kije a true commie dem baby killer.
  
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- freethinking
  Posted on September 3, 2012 at 2:01pm
  Couldn’t say it any better.
  
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- progressiveslayer
  Posted on September 3, 2012 at 2:10pm
  So called man made global warming has been thoroughly debunked,it’s junk science agenda driven by a few who want to be rich at the expense of us.http://www.john-daly.com/hockey/hockey.htm
  
  http://climatedepot.com/
  
  BTW Levin’s a constitutional lawyer so he’s qualified to speak as to the constitutionality of the fraud in chief’s executive order.
  
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- bjorn-free
  Posted on September 3, 2012 at 2:14pm
  Mark is speaking from his vast Constitutional Reagan administration experience you ass clown. There is NOT A SINGLE engineer that can avert this debacle. Yes, I have 29 years in the Nuclear industry as an electrician, start-up technician, procedure writer, PM writer and Project Scheduler and Electrical Training Instructor.
  
  I also remember Carter’s attempt to pacify the greenie weenies when I returned from my tour of duty in German in 75′ guess what all it did was drive up all my costs from fuel to housing interest rates.
  
  If this is the best you have for critical thinking skill save face while you can and go use the basement shower to clean up your informational post stinks……to the highest cooling stack……
  
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- VRW Conspirator
  Posted on September 3, 2012 at 3:19pm
  yeah…like was already said…you toad monkey..
  
  Levin…the Constitution Lawyer who unlike BHO actually passed his classes without help and understood the Constitution itself not the “case law” built around it by politically motivated SC Justices. You mean Levin, the former Asst. U.S. Attorney who has argued and filed briefs before the SCOTUS.
  
  You mean this Mark Levin
  
  “Beginning in 1981, Levin served as advisor to several members of President Ronald Reagan’s cabinet, eventually becoming Associate Director of Presidential Personnel and ultimately Chief of Staff to Attorney General Edwin Meese; Levin also served as Deputy Assistant Secretary for Elementary and Secondary Education at the U.S. Department of Education, and Deputy Solicitor of the U.S. Department of the Interior.
  
  He practiced law in the private sector and is president of Landmark Legal Foundation, a public interest law firm founded in 1976 and based in Leesburg, Virginia.”
  
  You mean that man with EXPERIENCE outside of “community organizing”? You mean that guy??
  
  Oh yeah..no reason to believe him…believe the Doofus in Chief…the Empty Chair President…the stuffed suit behind the podium….the Abject Failure in the Oval Office…go ahead punk…Make My Day!!
  
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- chalkdust
  Posted on September 3, 2012 at 5:35pm
  Uh, yea the point is that it’s NOT A BILL IN CONGRESS! IT IS EXECUTIVE FIAT! UNCONSTITUTIONAL! Congress shall make laws not the president. He couldn’t get cap and tax through congress so HE decides to make an executive order bypassing congress. Get your head out of your a$$.
  Trying to force power companies to meet these efficiency standards by some jack wagons executive order is most likely fatally flawed in that a rudimentary understanding of the laws of thermal dynamics tells you this is not possible. Read about energy sinks or net energy losers.
  
  So, not only is it not constitutional, it’s also not an obtainable goal. At least with out significant huge cost increases.
  
  For everyone who thinks green energy is the future: lets hope so. However, we need a paradigm shift not just in technology but in known physics. In other words it will take a discovery of new laws of physics.
  
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- Wool-Free Vision
  Posted on September 3, 2012 at 5:48pm
  VRW Conspirator, I like the cut of your jib and would like to subscribe to your newsletter. In both this comment in defense of Levin and the one you posted below on executive orders, you saved me a ton of typing by saying EXACTLY what I intended to say. Thank you very much, and please keep up the good work, my fellow American.
  
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- RJJinGadsden
  Posted on September 4, 2012 at 12:24am
  VoteBushIn12, The most idiotic thing you said in that post was a single word in the first paragraph, then another in the second. “Law” and “Bill.” Just as Levin explained, this is another Executive Order, he is waving his magic wand again and attempting to rule by fiat. And, his point is that is in violation of the Constitution. It is not a law, and of course it never was a bill. That would have been the “right thing to do” as he often says. You know, send the bill through Congress for a vote in both houses? The was our Constituion was designed to make government work?
  Furthermore, I see this as his latest assault on the Coal Industry. He knows that he has already lost their union support, so why not just drive that stake home? We might just see West Virginia and Pennsylvania go red this year.
  
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- Dismayed Veteran
  Posted on September 4, 2012 at 9:35am
  My wife’s family comes from the coal mines of Wyoming and Utah. My father-in-law was a powder monkey in Superior, Wyoming and a Fire Boss in Price, Utah. My brother-in-law was Mine Electrician and a MSHA Inspector. My nephews are Fire Bosses in coal mines in Utah. My wife worked at a coal-fired electrical generation plant. All were United Mine Worker members at one time. They are all non-union now as are most mines in the west. To a person, the miners hate Obama. They see him as a direct threat to their jobs and security. Every single miner I talked to at my mother-in-laws funeral were voting against Obama.
  
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- VoteBushIn12
  Posted on September 4, 2012 at 11:14pm
  He isn’t arguing constitutionality, he’s arguing its detriment to the American people – a perspective he has minimal authority to weigh in on. And in any case, Obama is a constitutional scholar also, so why should I believe Levin’s testimony?
  
  Executive Order? You think Obama is the first to use it? Please.
  
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_federal_executive_orders
  
  And all of you claiming credentials in the field, great! I am glad you have weighed in. I would like to hear more about it. Please provide some data to support your position and I will gladly read it. My issue is that the Blaze didn’t both finding someone of your expertise and instead fell to the easy, obama hating, fear-mongering, right wing nutcase to weigh in. THAT’S the issue I have; not with “what” was said, but with “who” said it.
  
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NewLife56
Posted on September 3, 2012 at 1:31pm
I’d have a shreeder ready and shred every order this idiot has signed my first day in office if I was Romney, and then do exactly like King Obama and issue a few of my own. Namely, life all bans on drilling, approve the keystone pipeline, and open ALL of Anwar just to Pi*ss off the liberals.

But watch and see if Romeny does this, the courts will have this sudden urge to interfer, but If I was Romney I’d just ignore the idiots and do it anyway.

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- TAXEVERYONE
  Posted on September 3, 2012 at 1:41pm
  An! Idiot talking to his merry band of idiots, who by the way are lining up at the Charlotte Freak Show.
  
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- American Soldier (Separated)
  Posted on September 3, 2012 at 2:17pm
  So executive orders are unconstitutional when a democrat is making them but perfectly fine when a republican is doing it. There’s a word that describes that thought process. Hypocrisy.
  
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- VRW Conspirator
  Posted on September 3, 2012 at 3:29pm
  Executive Orders are not unconstitutional or illegal when they fall within the scope of the job of the Chief Executive. the President can not write EO’s for things that he feels Congress has not done that he wants them too… EO’s can not change existing laws, like the DOMA, CAFE standards, or emission standards. the EPA can only enforce what Congress allows and authorizes them too…they can not require stricter standards or “greener” energy sources simply because the Presidents says so, Congress must legislate those standards and sources.
  
  this EO, the ban on Gulf Drilling -which was already struck down in court but then he signed another one anyway (a violation of the law BTW), ceeding of authority to the UN like Agenda 21 and gun laws, stopping deportation of illegals for any reason, stopping prosecution of illegals or those guily of race crimes and voter tampering like the Black Panthers, obstruction of Congress like Eric Holder.. THESE things are UNCONSTITUTIONAL by any President!! they directly prevent the application WITHOUT prejudice of US LAW!!
  
  and as others have said…if Romney has the BALLS, his first act will be to sign an EO that repeals all EO’s from Jan 23, 2013 back to Jan 1, 1790. his second would be to sign a new EO defunding Obamacare, the EPA, and other agencies…as a President can under law in times of economic emergency.
  
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- Quest4Freedom
  Posted on September 4, 2012 at 12:42am
  Sounds good to me.
  
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F_This
Posted on September 3, 2012 at 1:31pm
Hey Di*kwad! Take that flag pin off of your jacket. You are the epitome of an American destroyer! I hope you suffer the most horrible fate one could. I have never seen such an arrogant azz in my life, bypassing congress on everything you do because even your own dems wouldn’t vote for these things. Lawbreaking POS!

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- SCREW-WINDOWS
  Posted on September 3, 2012 at 2:27pm
  I too find it disgusting that he would even try and pass himself off as anyone that respects America I would respect him more if he just fessed up and said the truth. “I am a Commie”
  
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- MOLLYPITCHER
  Posted on September 4, 2012 at 7:53am
  @F-THIS
  He’s a treasonous bastard. Needs to be thrown in jail. The worst prison in the U.S. is too good for him.
  Unless he repents, God will deal with him accordingly. Unfortunately, we have to put up with him in the meantime.
  
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Detroit paperboy
Posted on September 3, 2012 at 1:30pm
Can someone please tell me why we are wasting money on even having a congress ??????just send em home, Odumbass has got this legislation thing handled…..John Boehner , you are a spineless wimp and you need to GO………

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- TelepromoterNChief
  Posted on September 3, 2012 at 2:21pm
  Please don’t call John names. You know how it upsets him.
  Crybaby John is such an embarrassment to the Republican Establishment.
  Of course, how could we forget about Michael how do you like me now Steel.
  Useless.
  
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- slr4528
  Posted on September 3, 2012 at 4:35pm
  Where is Boehner and McConnell….these two leaders need to step down or be forced out from their leadership roles. How do we place pressure on Congress to achieve this???? In January after the elections will there be votes cast for speaker of the house and Senate?? We need Demint to lead the GOP in the Senate.
  
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- HigherRoad
  Posted on September 3, 2012 at 6:02pm
  Too bad Newt’s not Speaker anymore. He wouldn’t put up with that! I think he’s a lot tougher now than he was back in the Reagan years!
  
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Moozmom
Posted on September 3, 2012 at 1:28pm
Google Tom Fife, google Tom Fife, google Tom Fife
Everyone
Do it now!

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- Gary_K
  Posted on September 3, 2012 at 2:54pm
  Here I will help ya.
  
  http://www.americanfreepress.net/html/global_elite_picked_obama_171.html
  
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- PIGSWILLNEVERFLY
  Posted on September 4, 2012 at 7:37am
  So, i read this, but it’s even worse than that: http://www.leninandsharia.com
  
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DocScience
Posted on September 3, 2012 at 1:27pm
Reading the executive order, it’s not major anything. It’s meaningless fluff. Does NOTHING.
Mere green window dressing with the pretense of helping industry and creating phantom jobs.

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progressiveslayer
Posted on September 3, 2012 at 1:27pm
The edict has been handed down from the Marxist POS fraud president,he has spoken.

I will speak, hear me patriots this is how millions of Americans feel about the POS fraud president currently dismantling capitalism.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EW-i1LTDxR0

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Eastinfection
Posted on September 3, 2012 at 1:27pm
Why doesn’t he just issue an executive order demanding that all Americans be “rich and famous liberals” within two months? Be just as effective. PS: wish the blaze would do an audio link when they quote Levin… it’s not quite the same when i try to do his voice in my own head.

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- Eastinfection
  Posted on September 4, 2012 at 10:38am
  It’s there now! Thanks Blaze!
  
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kickagrandma
Posted on September 3, 2012 at 1:20pm
I tell you what, obummernation~~~ you just do what you want.

OUR GOD JEHOVAH IS getting ready to kick you black **** right up between your shoulder blades, son. Hide and watch!!!

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- CatB
  Posted on September 3, 2012 at 1:31pm
  Yes .. let’s see how good these executive order are when he is GONE GONE GONE … otherwise we are done anyway .. so really it all comes down to .. Obama or America .. who will people choose?
  
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- muffythetuffy
  Posted on September 3, 2012 at 1:35pm
  THE GOP WILL SUPPORT THE PRESIDENT
  
  Watch John McCain II back the President’s new decree. I wish people would stop saying this is a free country and that things will change when Romney takes over. Nothing is going to change in November, Humpty Dumpty has fallen off the wall and cannot be fixed. Congress does not want to fix it anyway.
  
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Truth4SureNuff
Posted on September 3, 2012 at 1:19pm
People need to wake up to HEMP, it is a fantastic building material and it sequesters carbon.
It can produce up to 200 gallons of bio diesel and 500 gallons of methanol per acre, it can be pelletized and burned in place of coal and it has no sulpher to cause acid rain. It is a renewable energy souce / building material / food source and clothing source, it is rot resistant, bugs and rodents don’t eat it, C’mon let’s fix many of the worlds problems go green and mean it

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- dimbulbz
  Posted on September 3, 2012 at 1:48pm
  (deep inhale…)”Now thats what I call a campfire!”
  
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- wboehmer
  Posted on September 3, 2012 at 2:02pm
  “It can produce up to 200 gallons of bio diesel and 500 gallons of methanol per acre . . .”
  
  GET REAL!
  
  Like most, you apparently have no appreciation for the scale of energy use – 20 million barrels/day U.S. petroleum consumption.
  
  But it’s a free country . . . so feel free to use your puny (not-to-mention stinky & unaffordably expensive) hemp biofuel to take you right on back TO THE STONE AGE!
  
  Just don’t insist I go with you.
  
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- highcarry
  Posted on September 3, 2012 at 2:17pm
  bugs don’t eat it? i wish you’d tell the grasshoppers that. and the cows.
  
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- krusty
  Posted on September 3, 2012 at 2:28pm
  When was the last time there was any acid rain? Post links please.
  
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- Eastinfection
  Posted on September 3, 2012 at 3:45pm
  @ KRUSTY… Woodstock
  
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ReviveOurNation
Posted on September 3, 2012 at 1:18pm
What is Congress doing to stop his legislating by fiat? NOTHING! What in the hell are they waiting for? Only one courageous to speak out, Allen West, they suppress. GOP leadership is worthless!

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- pissantno.10
  Posted on September 3, 2012 at 1:27pm
  reid will just stop evey thing they try and do
  
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- commonsenseguy
  Posted on September 3, 2012 at 1:33pm
  they are part of the total destruction of America, the senate is full of commie lovers and they will do as they are told.
  
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- Lucy Larue
  Posted on September 3, 2012 at 6:48pm
  REVIVEOURNATION!
  Exactly right you are!
  This President is channeling Yul Brynner in the 50′s movie “The King and I.” Yul said as the KIng of Siam,”Let it be written! Let it be done.”
  Who IS this man that is our President?! Who IS he?!
  
  I now understand the plight of the German citizenry during Hitler’s rise.Almost half the German populace thought that Hitler and his minions were buffoons. They did nothing,
  When they finally realized the evil….,it was too late.
  
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Tri-ox
Posted on September 3, 2012 at 1:18pm
Is there any doubt that obama is the greatest enemy that America has ever faced?

Time is short – America is in grave peril.

If we are to survive as a nation, obama must be removed from power.

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- VoteBushIn12
  Posted on September 3, 2012 at 1:34pm
  Well take to the streets then, big talker.
  
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- kickagrandma
  Posted on September 3, 2012 at 2:36pm
  PRAY, Darlin’.
  
  II Chronicles 7:14
  
  And, work. Carry handouts of obummer’s war on America, his war vs. Christians and hand them out every time you get the chance.
  
  PRAYER AND ALMIGHTY GOD. Nothing more and nothing less.
  
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- thecrow2123
  Posted on September 3, 2012 at 2:44pm
  @VoteBushIn12
  Be carefull what you wish for **** rot! If he does win again it’s very likely that is exactly what will happen.
  
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- VoteBushIn12
  Posted on September 5, 2012 at 7:54pm
  @THECROW2123
  
  You and your blaze banging boy friends will take the street in protest and, at the same time, the MAJORITY of Americans will take the street in celebration. That’s the greatest thing about elections – the winning team has numbers on their side.
  
  See you in the gutter big boy.
  
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progressiveslayer
Posted on September 3, 2012 at 1:16pm
This is another example of Barry’s war on coal and capitalism in general.Anything to make running a business more difficult is used by this anti capitalist,he uses the so called ‘green energy’ BS mantra to tax businesses meaning ultimately the end user for emitting a harmless element CO2.

“This action will cut costs, increase efficiency, and help our businesses create strong, middle class jobs. We’ll continue to do everything we can to put more people back to work and build an economy that lasts. The whole story is a BS lie but this is the worst because this action will have the opposite effect on energy costs,they’ll rise exponentially.

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purecolorartist
Posted on September 3, 2012 at 1:15pm
Yes, check out this article – Green War on Poor:
http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/315369/green-war-poor-robert-zubrin

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- just the facts
  Posted on September 3, 2012 at 1:29pm
  All smoke and mirrors. All a lie. He has no plan to help us – just a progressive agenda.
  
  If one does a little homework, and run the numbers, its only a method of taking more money from all of us. The plan sounds great – it just won’t work. We’re going to pay for this big time – just as everyones going to pay for his previous actions comming Jan. Are things tough?; well their going to get tougher. This guy must be voted out.
  
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Detroit paperboy
Posted on September 3, 2012 at 1:14pm
Meanwhile the spineless RINO John Boehner is in a corner sucking his thumb and crying like the girl he is……..wtf ?

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- RJJinGadsden
  Posted on September 3, 2012 at 1:18pm
  I keep saying that Ohio can do far better.
  
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- NancyBee
  Posted on September 3, 2012 at 1:38pm
  Boehner has been a real disappointment!
  
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- AJAYW
  Posted on September 3, 2012 at 2:15pm
  He is a prim example where we should have a box to vote None of the above. Leaving the seat open until next voting cycle.
  
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- JRGJR
  Posted on September 3, 2012 at 2:34pm
  Boehner won’t say a word. Too many years left till retirement.Just ride the buss with the rest of the good children, don’t make too much noise or get thrown under it by the media.
  
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- crackerone
  Posted on September 3, 2012 at 3:13pm
  Almost Paperboy. He’s pie-eyed sitting a bar, smoking his little smokes, and crying because he is a drunk.
  
  Get your ass in a AA meeting John! Maybe sober, you will grow a pair.
  
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ginger100
Posted on September 3, 2012 at 1:12pm
Praise be the preezy, savior of heaven on earth.

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Midwestgirl1116
Posted on September 3, 2012 at 1:11pm
He cannot pass anything on his own, so he uses executive order. Empty suit, empty chair, black heart.

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Shakespear
Posted on September 3, 2012 at 1:09pm
YEAH! With all those illegals (voters) pouring across the border. We are going to need a lot more electricity.

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AJAYW
Posted on September 3, 2012 at 1:09pm
Obama’s America
For Obama to accomplish his goal of fundamentally transforming the USA, first he
had to render congress irrelevant.
To do this he had to become a member of a political party. He chose to use the
democrat party because their liberal ideas would be useful in helping him get a
foothold. He used the past three and a half years to do this. The democrats
allowed themselves to be used, thinking they could get what they want and then
control him. Democrats, and the failed leadership of the Republican party in
congress, in fact helped him make them irrelevant. If reelected, their
irrelevancy will become visible to all and there is nothing that can be done
about this. His overheard remark to Russia (that after the election he would
have more flexibility) was far more telling than most want to accept. He has
already started doing small things bypasssing congress and has gotten little
kickback. After the election the, democrat party can kiss the love affair with
him good bye they will not be needed. America will see the real fundamental
transformation Obama had in mind. Obama’s America- He will dictate to and use
what he now controls to the fullest.
DOJ,EPA,IRS,DHS and TSA – He has his people running these departments and they
now only report to him and congress can’t block their actions. That will be how
history writes DICTATOR OBAMA coming into power.

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- chicago76
  Posted on September 3, 2012 at 1:40pm
  Well said, Congress is irrelevant now. The democrats wanted it that way, except to give Obama more power. In the end though the Democrats will lose as much as the Republicans. The first purge of Tyrants is always their own party.
  
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- Oneirishman
  Posted on September 3, 2012 at 1:51pm
  Very true. However, congress does have powers they are not using. Only congress controls the money in this country, not Obama. If congress stops paying these agencies they would all come to a halt. What I worry about is after this election, is Obama capable of damaging this country in a lame duck? You bet. How do you stop him? Impeach the lil *****!
  
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- barber2
  Posted on September 3, 2012 at 3:03pm
  ONE: You may be right and we may have to see if congress gets the guts to deal with Lame Duck Obama. The Far Left, at that point, will take off their masks and go for broke. We are dealing with an extremely dangerous group here whose allegiance is not ” in God we trust ! “
  
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