Obama can only agree to whatever he can do without needing congress

12/14/2015 5:49:30 PM

^Hes issued more executive orders than any other president. Congress is less of a concern for this president than anyone before him.

For this page:

Quote :

"James Hansen, father of climate change awareness, calls Paris talks 'a fraud' ""

http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/dec/12/james-hansen-climate-change-paris-talks-fraud


This should have been right up Obama's alley. He couldn't even get this right.

12/14/2015 10:45:43 PM

Quote :

" ^Hes issued more executive orders than any other president. Congress is less of a concern for this president than anyone before him. "

http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/data/orders.php

[Edited on December 14, 2015 at 10:50 PM. Reason : not like these things are hard to look up]

12/14/2015 10:49:30 PM

Sorry, not trusting a liberal think tank like UCSB. Got anything less biased.

12/14/2015 11:17:13 PM

pretty weak schtick

12/14/2015 11:23:26 PM

How about wikipedia?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_federal_executive_orders

or Washington Post
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/fact-checker/wp/2014/12/31/claims-regarding-obamas-use-of-executive-orders-and-presidential-memoranda/

Snopes?
http://www.snopes.com/politics/obama/executiveorders.asp

Yes, all liberal rags, i know.

12/15/2015 9:58:58 AM

So no comment on Hansen's criticism? Yall would rather discuss the semantics of who's issued more executive orders?

Whose schtick is weak?

12/15/2015 10:41:07 AM

Lol. Dude, you emphatically stated that he's issued more executive orders than any other president, which is just flat-out wrong. It's not semantics, you're just wrong.

I think a lot of people agree the Paris talks were mostly a show.

12/15/2015 11:20:30 AM

RE: Your fluff-piece article

I fail to see how this impacts Obama's Credibility. This was a world-wide summit with 190+ countries involved. What would you want him to do? There are guidelines and benchmarks for all the singing countries, at a minimum. Did you want him to strong arm almost 200 countries to fall in line with his vision for climate change reform?

12/15/2015 11:21:47 AM

http://www.nationalreview.com/article/428503/obama-worst-year-washington

12/15/2015 3:26:16 PM

If only executive orders were tracked somehow and could be counted.

Wow. What a fucking idiot.

12/15/2015 3:35:10 PM

^^i was about to stop reading at

Quote :

"comedienne Amy Schumer, "

But then I used the Google and learned something new


Themoreyouknow.tiff

12/15/2015 3:43:03 PM

Quote :

"Don’t let the 2016 campaign news obscure a year of defeats for the president."

Don't let how shitty next year will be distract you from how shitty now is

lol

[Edited on December 15, 2015 at 4:44 PM. Reason : got that trade deal thoe]

12/15/2015 4:44:15 PM

12/17/2015 11:24:15 PM

So apparently, he was on that Bear Grills show talking about the effects of global warming. Maybe if he spent more time in Paris, and less time hopping around iceland, there could have been actual progress at the climate summit.

12/18/2015 12:35:01 PM

Quote :

"Maybe if he spent more time in Paris, and less time hopping around iceland, there could have been actual progress at the climate summit."

he's never been to Iceland

12/18/2015 12:56:50 PM

IF HE SPENT LESS TIME ISSUING THOSE 1000s OF EXECUTIVE ORDERS!!!1

12/18/2015 1:07:52 PM

Just signed the omnibus bill with CISA

12/18/2015 8:57:52 PM

The reason the uneffectiveness of the Paris climate deal is important, is because, no matter what, we will be paying a steep price for it. So instead of making a deal that could actually effect MMGW, we will just be cutting our GDP by nearly 1%. All for a show.

Quote :

"$170 billion hit to U.S. gross domestic product in 2030, or about 0.7% of the total economic output that year."

http://blogs.wsj.com/economics/2015/12/14/how-much-will-the-paris-climate-deal-cost-the-u-s/

12/21/2015 9:51:09 AM

The .7% is from May before we even had the summit, is it even analyzing what they agreed to in the summit?

12/21/2015 10:52:08 AM

I don't want to give him sole credit, since this was a bipartisan bill, but its nice to see legislation that makes sense:

http://www.cnn.com/2015/12/30/health/obama-bans-microbeads/index.html

12/31/2015 7:21:14 AM

More credit to these guys than the president:

Sponsor: Rep. Pallone, Frank, Jr. [D-NJ-6]

Cosponsor Date Cosponsored
Rep. Upton, Fred [R-MI-6]* 03/04/2015
Rep. Kildee, Daniel T. [D-MI-5] 04/29/2015
Rep. Connolly, Gerald E. [D-VA-11] 06/01/2015
Rep. Price, David E. [D-NC-4] 06/02/2015
Rep. Miller, Candice S. [R-MI-10] 06/02/2015
Rep. Farr, Sam [D-CA-20] 06/02/2015
Rep. Lofgren, Zoe [D-CA-19] 06/03/2015
Rep. Lowenthal, Alan S. [D-CA-47] 06/04/2015
Rep. McDermott, Jim [D-WA-7] 06/04/2015
Rep. Moulton, Seth [D-MA-6] 06/10/2015
Rep. Honda, Michael M. [D-CA-17] 06/11/2015
Rep. DeSaulnier, Mark [D-CA-11] 06/11/2015
Rep. Schiff, Adam B. [D-CA-28] 06/11/2015
Rep. Bustos, Cheri [D-IL-17] 06/17/2015
Rep. Dold, Robert J. [R-IL-10] 06/17/2015
Rep. Blumenauer, Earl [D-OR-3] 06/17/2015
Rep. Beyer, Donald S., Jr. [D-VA-8] 06/17/2015
Rep. O'Rourke, Beto [D-TX-16] 06/17/2015
Rep. Huffman, Jared [D-CA-2] 06/18/2015
Rep. Grijalva, Raul M. [D-AZ-3] 06/18/2015
Rep. Lieu, Ted [D-CA-33] 06/23/2015
Rep. Welch, Peter [D-VT-At Large] 06/24/2015
Rep. Larsen, Rick [D-WA-2] 06/25/2015
Rep. Trott, David A. [R-MI-11] 06/25/2015
Rep. DeFazio, Peter A. [D-OR-4] 07/07/2015
Rep. Napolitano, Grace F. [D-CA-32] 07/07/2015
Rep. Lipinski, Daniel [D-IL-3] 07/14/2015
Rep. Ellison, Keith [D-MN-5] 07/14/2015
Rep. Stefanik, Elise M. [R-NY-21] 07/27/2015
Rep. Schakowsky, Janice D. [D-IL-9] 07/27/2015
Rep. Polis, Jared [D-CO-2] 07/31/2015
Rep. Slaughter, Louise McIntosh [D-NY-25] 09/08/2015
Rep. DelBene, Suzan K. [D-WA-1] 09/08/2015
Rep. Cicilline, David N. [D-RI-1] 09/08/2015
Rep. Lawrence, Brenda L. [D-MI-14] 09/24/2015
Rep. Quigley, Mike [D-IL-5] 09/24/2015
Rep. McCollum, Betty [D-MN-4]

12/31/2015 8:32:33 AM

50% insurance premium increase this year? Thanks Obama!

12/31/2015 10:25:21 AM

^ not really Obama's fault (premiums would have risen anyway most likely), but ACA didn't address this problem with the healthcare system:

https://kaiserfamilyfoundation.files.wordpress.com/2013/03/ehbs-cumulative-increases-in-health-insurance-premiums-workers-contributions-to-premiums-inflation-and-workers-earnings-1999-2012-healthcosts.png

12/31/2015 12:45:17 PM

1/6/2016 5:10:27 PM

^^Not only that, every alternative proposed by the GOP would have lead to even higher premiums, a larger budget deficit, and less people insured (including doing nothing at all).

[Edited on January 7, 2016 at 12:46 PM. Reason : .]

1/7/2016 12:44:10 PM

i was afraid obama would cave and nominate a moderate justice but this man is about to give them a republican.

[Edited on February 24, 2016 at 6:39 PM. Reason : p]

2/24/2016 6:14:07 PM

he's trolling

2/24/2016 7:24:24 PM

Quote :

"Thursday’s report was an update of an HHS estimate last September, which found that 17.6 million uninsured adults had gained coverage as a result of the ACA. The new findings show that more than 6 million adults ages 19 to 25 have gained insurance under the law. Gains in coverage among previously uninsured adults were strong across all racial and ethnic groups, according to the report."

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/obama-20-million-people-gain-coverage-under-2010-health-law/2016/03/03/7bf5df06-e180-11e5-9c36-e1902f6b6571_story.html

3/3/2016 6:11:51 PM

Trump effect?:
http://www.vox.com/2016/3/10/11194930/obama-approval-rating?utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter&utm_campaign=voxdotcom&utm_content=thursday

Obama approval rating up to 50%

3/10/2016 7:48:36 PM

Tell me again why he couldn't pay his respects to Nancy Reagan?

3/11/2016 2:43:29 PM

Because he shouldn't respect her.

3/11/2016 2:45:35 PM

he has other obligations

presidents don't typically go to these funerals, it's traditional for first lady. Michelle is attending the funeral

obama didn't attend fords, bush didn't johnsons, clinton didn't attend nixons, carter didn't attend eisenhowers, reagan didn't attend trumans, etc...

[Edited on March 11, 2016 at 2:51 PM. Reason : more info for rjr]

3/11/2016 2:46:29 PM

if he went to every event Republicans complained about him not going to, he'd be doing one a week

also Nancy Reagan was a turd

3/11/2016 2:50:18 PM

in other news...who really gives a fuck about who attends nancy reagan's funeral? she dead. it doesn't affect anyone whether he shows up or not.

3/11/2016 3:05:38 PM

Where does the whole "divider in chief" thing come from? I think he has made his fair share of mistakes and did not follow through on some promises but what is this from the angry right?

It seems to me it feeds into the whole the people who say racism are the real racist nonsense..

3/12/2016 1:04:19 PM

Quote :

"Tell me again why he couldn't pay his respects to Nancy Reagan?"

this was a non-issue the minute the right attempted to make it an issue days ago, yet you still went with it?

is it just a critical thinking issue at this point?

3/12/2016 7:56:46 PM

http://blogs.wsj.com/law/2016/03/16/obama-to-nominate-d-c-circuit-judge-merrick-garland/?mod=WSJBlog

Obama to Nominate Judge Merrick Garland to Supreme Court

3/16/2016 10:40:11 AM

He was waiting until they wrapped up the primary race to take this massive shit on progressives. Denocrat voters are pathetic and on a string.

3/16/2016 3:18:18 PM

How was this not brought up?

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/10/world/middleeast/obama-criticizes-the-free-riders-among-americas-allies.html

Quote :

"“There’s a playbook in Washington that presidents are supposed to follow,” Mr. Obama said. “And the playbook prescribes responses to different events, and these responses tend to be militarized responses.” This consensus, the president continued, can lead to bad decisions. “In the midst of an international challenge like Syria,” he said, “you are judged harshly if you don’t follow the playbook, even if there are good reasons.”"

We're going to miss Obama a lot, no matter who wins in November.

3/21/2016 9:58:46 AM

So are we ignoring that the US is a key reason for the instability? By the you-break-it-you-buy-it general principal, which is a key tenant of bird law, we should expect to have a higher burden then allies.

3/21/2016 10:06:17 AM

Meh, the EU nations hardly have their hands clean when it comes to the Middle East. Our sins are just more recent.

3/21/2016 6:00:33 PM

This Cuba thing is pretty credible. Feels good to see the first steps towards peace and normal relationships with a country, it's a little bit of a relief from the quagmire of the Middle East.

3/21/2016 11:14:05 PM

^ Agreed. Glad to see a movement towards inclusion and friendship versus isolationism. Cuba wont change if they are shunned from the rest of the world.

3/22/2016 9:37:56 AM

play ball!

3/22/2016 7:15:35 PM

Quote :

""Give me a list of the political prisoners and I will release them immediately,""

Response from Castro, all while Obama looked on.

Quote :

"A few hours before Obama landed on the island on March 20, Cuban authorities arrested more than 50 Damas de Blanco (or Ladies in White) dissidents who were demanding increased human rights. This round of crackdowns was actually part of a weekly ritual — arrest, release and repeat — and part of the reason why tallying the exact number of political prisoners is so difficult. We compiled counts from several human rights and activist groups, as well as one vetted by Spanish-language network Univision. All together, the groups list 97 current political prisoners, 54 of whom appear on more than one list."

But I'm glad he was able to enjoy a baseball game during the visit. Hopefully he was able to bring home a couple Cuban cigars, since he left all of the prisoners behind. Maybe this will win him another Nobel Peace prize.

[Edited on March 23, 2016 at 12:22 PM. Reason : 1]

3/23/2016 12:20:55 PM

you ever figure out that whole Executive Orders thing?

3/23/2016 12:31:26 PM

Quote :

"In an Obama administration, we’ll lower premiums by up to $2,500 for a typical family per year,” then Sen. Obama claimed during a health care town hall in 2008."

Quote :

"the first year after Obamacare was enacted, premiums increased by 9.4 percent from 2010-11,” the report, released Wednesday, reads. “Since that time, the upward trend in prices has continued. From 2014-15, the average annual family premium for employer-sponsored health insurance increased 4.2 percent to $17,545.30.”"

[Edited on March 24, 2016 at 2:58 PM. Reason : Dude's a train wreck.]

3/24/2016 2:55:22 PM

I'll take that as a no

3/24/2016 3:32:21 PM

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/obama-worst-mistake-president/story?id=38289813

I'm glad he's honest at least, but this comes off as grossly incompetent. Seems like this could hurt Hillary too.

4/10/2016 5:33:52 PM