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It‘s ’Not Pardoning a Turkey’: ‘Real News From The Blaze’ Panel Talks Obama’s Executive Overreach

With ‘Obamacare’ before the Supreme Court, the president’s ongoing struggle with the judicial branch has come to the forefront bypassing lesser publicized White House maneuvering to sidestep Congress. A New York Times report published Sunday analyzed President Obama’s strategy in recent months to use executive power to circumvent Congress under the slogan “We Can’t Wait,” pushing through his domestic agenda and avoiding Republican opposition. The move appears especially hypocritical considering that as a Senator, Obama was a leading critic of executive unilateralism by President Bush when dealing with national security and counterterrorism.

The Times reports that since February 2011, the president has directed the Justice Department to stop defending the Defense of Marriage Act against constitutional challenges, increased efforts to curb greenhouse gas emissions through environmental regulations, gave states waivers from federal mandates if they agreed to education overhauls, and scaled back deportation policy to give relief to illegal immigrants brought to the country as children.

President Obama announced his latest executive action at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum Monday with the formal establishment of the Atrocities Prevention Board, and an executive order that allows U.S. officials to impose sanctions against foreign nationals found to have used new technologies, including cellphone tracking and Internet monitoring, to help carry out grave human rights abuses. While these latest actions appear much less politically divisive than previous executive orders, the news raises questions of continued executive overreach.

“Real News” panelist Buck Sexton pointed out Monday that while the use of executive orders is not new, President Obama’s actions are especially alarming and contrast previous Administrations for they do not fall under war powers, and only used to implement domestic legislation that cannot pass in Congress.

“It‘s not ’this is an executive order to do something during a time of war,‘ it’s ‘this is an executive order to do something that I explicitly’–and I say this as the chief executive–’cannot get through Congress, therefore I’m going to find another way to get it on my own,’” Sexton said.

Appearing on the “Real News” panel Monday, Andrew Wilkow of The Wilkow Majority on SiriusXM said that not all executive orders change the government as we know it. However, the latest order is “not pardoning a turkey.” Wilkow argued that this is a trade policy issue which the president doesn’t have the authority to act unilaterally on.

In addition to executive overreach, S.E. Cupp expressed further disgust with the president speaking out against technology at the Holocaust Memorial Museum while remaining silent to ongoing human rights violations in Syria and Iran.

“It’s absolutely negligent on his part, and I thought it was embarrassing.” said Cupp.

Comments (19)

  • JEANNIEMAC
    Posted on May 3, 2012 at 11:35pm

    On Tea Party and Conservative websites, we are really preaching to the choir. Our friends and contacts who won’t watch Fox news or visit our websites, are sticking their heads in the sand. In 1991, at a Bilderberger meeting in Germany, David Rockefeller thanked the NY Times, the Washington Post, and other media, for keeping secret for over forty years, their plans for a one world government by the “:intellectual elite and world bankers.” The UN was formed with the intention of it being the means of forming this government. The communists never went away. The Russian Prime Minister, Khrushchev, told us, “We will bury you from within”. They have been working all these years to achieve their purpose. We all know that Obama, his czars and many in our Congress are communists. Allen West said that at least 80 Democrats are communists.
    Obama’s new slogan “Forward” was the slogan for Hitler, Stalin, Mao and others. He is taking the gloves off and showing us who is really behind his mask.
    . We who know what is really going on, must gather together to protect ourselves. Our 1st Amendment rights can only be protected by hanging onto our 2nd Amendment right to bear arms. Hillary Clinton has already signed the UN Small Arms Treaty. It is waiting to be passed by our Congress.
    Many people are seriously considering moving to Alaska if Obama stays in office. They intend to join the secessionist movement and declare independence from the union. Then, they will lock and

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  • BelindaB
    Posted on April 25, 2012 at 1:31pm

    barry soetoro should be in PRISON…and just might be real soon.

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  • nilo
    Posted on April 25, 2012 at 8:06am

    The article says “OVERREACH”. It much more than that. Is is power grabbing usurpation. He is at war with America, and right now his bullets are taxation and regulation. Lets hope they never become lead projectiles.

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  • GodAlwaysWins
    Posted on April 25, 2012 at 1:20am

    Now, now, dear citizens. I, your prime leader, Messiah of Islam and TOP Citizen of the World, have done this for your own good. Don’t you see?! I have done this because I said that I will rule this nation even if I have to use an executive order to do that and it will be through one of my many ways which will be a surprise. Hey, Michelle! Where did I put those Maniacfestos? Anyway, dear citizens, I am hear to CHANGE your nation as soon as I can. Heck! I am already half way there. Just like Hitler and Stalin, boy, those guys were great, I will do exactly as they did and I just want to warn you that if you disagree with my form of communism, then my thought doctors will proclaim you mentally ill…that’s insane for all you who have never looked up the definition…and then lock you away in mental institutions…ain’t it neat that we CHANGED insane assylums to mental institutions way back when???, wheee…and for the rest of you who have been seeing psychologists and other thought doctors, well, just wait because we have an even neater surprise in store for all of you. Don‘t think that is what I’m doing along with Pelosi and the rest of my supporters in office? Well, just you wait and see. Hey, Michelle, where’s that list of the prisons across the nation at?! Thank you, dear citizens, for electing me and allowing me finish what Hitler had started.

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  • packsack54
    Posted on April 25, 2012 at 12:19am

    Where does the boogeman sit in this country? Is it the TSA, FBI, Dept of HLS? Our in Washington D.C. I recall a man said There is nothing to fear but fear it self. FDR. I will tell you today if someone would come and hurt my family or my bill of rights hell will be paid. You better start standing up or this country is lost.

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  • Doc Freeman
    Posted on April 24, 2012 at 5:26pm

    It is time to put in writing exactly what Executive Orders can and cannot be used for. Originally in 1789 they were to help officers and agencies of the executive branch manage the operations within the federal government itself.
    Now many presidents use them for political power to put their own laws, rules, and regulations into place that Congress will not pass as laws and many are unconstitutional.
    Executive Orders should be limited to only the operation of the executive branch of government or for national emergency situations such as natural disaster or if our nation is attacked when Congress is not in session.

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  • walkintruth
    Posted on April 24, 2012 at 4:49pm

    People should be outraged. Most of them don‘t care or don’t even know what is happening. The media is not highlighting this as a major story. When the people hear he is doing something because congress won’t, they probably think it is ok because we are in such a mess. Some people may think it is his job to take action but they don’t understand it is dangerous to look the other way and not question it.I believe he has a crafty way to sneak these policies in while patting himself on the back.

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  • stevor
    Posted on April 24, 2012 at 3:36pm

    It was all RHETORIC when he was a “senator”. Now he RELISHES having that power, similar to being the KING that he considers himself to be (besides being messiah)

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  • leonardo44
    Posted on April 24, 2012 at 1:37pm

    I watched this segment on GBTV and Buck Sexton had much more substance on this important subject of executive overreach then is shown in this Blaze clip. I suggest watching the segment on gbtv instead.
    I often have to go to gbtv to watch show segments because The Blaze often cuts out the most intelligent part of the segment.

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  • AFreeManInTexas
    Posted on April 23, 2012 at 10:27pm

    Atrocities Prevention Board- Their first order of business should be to make sure Obama is not re-elected!!!

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  • whatthecrazy
    Posted on April 23, 2012 at 9:39pm

    WHY is he NOT being IMPEACED for the love of pete.Right now as we speak he should be in hand-cuffs.Now i understand why some ignorant yet decent people don’t want to be involved,it’s just easier be stupid………………………

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  • cuinsong
    Posted on April 23, 2012 at 9:37pm

    He’s a want-to-be Dick-tater-tot.

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  • GBTVFan_Non_American_Overseas
    Posted on April 23, 2012 at 9:20pm

    Obama will make look the last 3 1/2 years as the most wonderful time compared to what he is going to do the next 6 months….

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    • marhee9
      Posted on April 23, 2012 at 9:26pm

      I‘m afraid you’re right, it will like like a walk in the park. This guy has to be elected out of office in November. We simply can’t take another four years of this agenda. This is why we need smaller government. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kJC5Zw-ggrc

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  • DIVINEPROVIDENCE1776
    Posted on April 23, 2012 at 9:10pm

    Obama is a dangerous communist tyrant that needs to be out of a job in Nov. Great show Real News, It’s refreshing to have real journalism to watch. Keep up the good work!

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    • Teaparty-grammy
      Posted on April 24, 2012 at 4:27pm

      Yes, but as vindictive and unprincipled as he is, I worry about all the damage he will do as a “lame duck” when he is defeated in November. I say “when”, because I simply cannot believe after the debacle of his first four years in office, that this country would actually be stupid enough to give him another four years to finish the job of destroying our economy and our country.

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    • Teaparty-grammy
      Posted on April 24, 2012 at 4:29pm

      Also, getting rid of the Great Eared One is only half the battle. We then have to UNDO all the “executive orders”, the hidden agendas buried in legislation he HAS run through Congress like Obamacare, not to mention all the Communist and extreme Islamic “fellow travelers” he has appointed to positions within our government. ALL that has to be undone, if we are to save our country from these unprincipled, lying Communist lice.

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  • kickagrandma
    Posted on April 23, 2012 at 9:01pm

    HUMAN RIGHTS and obamabinladenhussein are mutually exclusive terms.

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