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What to do With a Truly Lawless Regime

By: scipio62 (Diary)  |  February 3rd, 2011 at 03:32 PM  | 

RESIZE: AAA

No, not the one running Egypt. I mean the Obama regime:

A Louisiana federal judge on Wednesday held the Interior Department in contempt for re-imposing a deepwater oil-drilling ban last year after the judge had struck down an earlier version of the moratorium.

That would be U.S. District Court Judge Martin Feldman. His original ruling chastised the Department of the Interior for imposing the ban without basing it on any hard data that other drilling operations were in danger of having the same problems as the BP rig that spewed a huge amount of oil into the Gulf of Mexico.

Republicans need to get ugly on this. It isn’t the first time the Obama regime has acted in such a lawless fashion.

That moratorium issued by Interior Secretary Ken Salazar was based on blatant lies. Interior’s Inspector General came out with a report which showed the White House, specifically those working for “Climate Czar” Carol Browner, put in those lies.

Anyway, The Hill continues:

Interior issued a new version of the deepwater ban in July that it eventually lifted in October, but permitting for deepwater projects has not yet resumed.

Feldman’s order Wednesday takes Interior to task for the way it went about issuing a new, but very similar, version of the ban after he granted an injunction against the first one.

In other words, Salazar’s minions got cute and re-established the same ban in July but with different words. And even though the moratorium was lifted, Interior is still not issuing permits.

Feldman came down as hard as he could:

Judge Martin Feldman’s ruling — which is stuffed with harsh words for Interior — orders the department to pay attorneys’ fees in the case against last year’s drilling ban brought by several offshore oil services companies.

What Interior has done is engage and continue to engage in unlawful behavior, helped by the White House.

This lawlessness has also extended to the FCC and its chairman Julius Genachowski. After being told by a court that the FCC had no business regulating the internet, Genachowski went ahead and did it anyway.

Genachowski, Salazar, Browner, and any of their minions involved in either the illegal internet regulations and the drilling moratorium needs to be hauled up by the GOP to answer for their dishonest and illegal actions. Republicans can hold up Feldman’s original ruling, the Interior IG report, Feldman’s contempt order, and the ruling against the FCC. They should ask these jerks if members of the administration believes it is above the law. Then, the Republicans need to vilify and humiliate these people publicly and loudly. Lastly, demand Obama sack the lot of them and remind the President his position is not one of an absolute ruler, that he must adhere to the rule of law just as every other President must. They should also remind the President the powers given to the House and the Senate under the Constitution when dealing with unlawful individuals in an administration.

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  • http://westforwestwing2012.com heartlander

    I would only add that, although there are numerous grounds for impeachment by now (see, for examples, “50 Impeachable Crimes and Counting”, which was written last August, and there have been more since then), everyone in Congress seems (however understandably) loath to consider that possibility. So I would suggest that Congress “starve the beast” by using its power of the purse. Do NOT appropriate funds for the offending programs, czars and agencies. Hit ‘em where it hurts.

  • http://westforwestwing2012.com heartlander

    I emailed my Congressman and Senators:

    I emailed you earlier today about the Obama administration?s suppression of data from the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) concerning abortion ? ordering the CDC not to prepare its annual compilation of abortion statistics that it has been preparing every year for the last 40 years. [See Erick's front-page piece today -- hl] I urged you to call for an investigation.

    But now, I have just read that an equally disturbing perversion of scientific protocol has been committed in the Department of the Interior. The Office of the Inspector General has shown that the Obama Administration misrepresented the assessments of its own panel of experts about the response to the Deepwater Horizon oilwell accident last spring.

    By now, of course, we all know that the Obama administration has been deliberately defying the orders of a federal judge to lift the drilling moratorium and allow offshore drilling to proceed. Indeed, Judge Martin Feldman on Wednesday held the Obama administration in contempt of court for its stubborn refusal to abide by his earlier ruling.

    This petulant ? and unlawful ? defiance is rampant throughout the Obama administration. Despite the ruling of Judge Vinson in Florida last week that Obamacare is frankly unconstitutional, the Obama administration has not altered by even an iota its current directives implementing the Obamacare legislation. Indeed, the HHS has signaled its minions to keep moving full speed ahead with Obamacare as if nothing had happened!

    This lawlessness has also extended to the FCC. After being told by a court that the FCC had no business regulating the internet, FCC chairman Julian Genachowski went ahead and did it anyway.

    Finally, there is the scandal of all the non-Senate-confirmed ?czars? in the administration, and the most recent attempts by Obama to rule by executive order and by bureaucratic regulations (issued by EPA, FCC, HHS, etc.) in direct contravention to the will of the people as expressed by their representatives in Congress.

    We have here an executive branch that is defying court orders, doing end runs around Congress, and even tossing out long-established scientific protocol within its own agencies such as the CDC.

    Something must be done to smack down an administration that considers itself above the law. There are, technically, dozens of grounds for impeachment of the President by now, yet I have heard nothing along those lines from anyone in Congress. So, as an alternative for the present time, I would suggest two things: (1) Have numerous, well-publicized hearings/investigations exposing the unlawful behavior of this administration; (2) ?starve the beast? by cutting off money for the offending programs, czars and agencies. Congress does have the power of the purse. It needs to use it aggressively.

    Thank you so much.

    • rightwingmom52
    • http://redmerrimack.blogspot.com/ charliebravoNH

      against Salazar. Judge Martin Feldman’s ruling opens the door for this. It is time the House GOP show the Obama administration that they are laws and they have to be obeyed. I have already written my Congressman on this. I hope others do the same.

      The GOP “backbone” starts with all those who got them elected as well as the voters back home.

      • E Pluribus Unum

        I don’t actually know. Is that true?

        But IMHO, you add this to the EPA implementation of Cap-n-Tax, and what DOJ has done with the NBPP, and you got grounds to impeach Barack.

        • http://redmerrimack.blogspot.com/ charliebravoNH

          and it has been tried before.

          “The President, Vice President and all civil Officers of the United States, shall be removed from Office on Impeachment for, and Conviction of, Treason, Bribery, or other high Crimes and Misdemeanors.”

          A Cabinet member is a civil Officer.

          There is Precedent on this

          William Belknap, Secretary of War under President Ulysses S. Grant was impeached for taking kick backs from Defense Contractors.
          Belknap resigned but the House Impeached him anyway. There was no need for a Senate removal.

          In 2007 the 110th Congress House Res 589 directed the House Judiciary Committee to investigate Attorney General Alberto Gonzalez. Gonzalez resigned.

          • E Pluribus Unum

            Muchas gracias

  • Scope

    Don’t forget that Darrell Issa is unable to get any info out of the regime in order to conduct his investigation into the admin’s refusal to abide by FOIA requests.

  • http://www.theprecinctproject.wordpress.com ColdWarrior

    as a horde that pushes against its enemies on all fronts with spears, slowly and methodically. Wherever they encounter mush, the keep pushing. When they encounter steel, they withdraw that part of the horde and apply it elsewhere.

    They didn’t encounter much steel when they implemented the groping and the nudie scanners.

    They haven’t encountered much political response to their failure to secure our border.

    The real question for each of us is what are we going to do?

    I recommend we unite politically inside the Republican party at the local committee levels as soon as possible and in the greatest numbers possible.

    If anybody has a better strategy, I’m all ears.

    Thank you.

    ColdWarrior

    • http://www.coloradans4palin.com bjwilson83

      And definitely necessary. But the left uses another strategy that we need to continue to use as well: mass protests. Only one person in a district can be PC, but any number of them can show up outside a legislator’s office with signs and chants. Often times, this seems to be more direct and to the point.

      • http://www.theprecinctproject.wordpress.com ColdWarrior

        who show up outside their office with signs and chants.

        It’s all about who controls the outcome of the elections. Focus on making sure in every Republican Party primary election a constitutional conservative wins.

        Focus NOW on making sure constitutional conservatives flock into their respective local Party committee meetings. Focus on getting all empty seats filled, then alert the media and the incumbent. THAT will get their attention.

        The incumbents could care less about protests. They only care about whether the protesters are actually going to organize to get out the vote against them in the primary and general elections.

        Fill up all the Republican vacant precinct committeemen slots in the incumbents’ districts and they will take notice.

        Here’s how to do it:

        Thank you.

        ColdWarrior

        • http://www.coloradans4palin.com bjwilson83

          Yes, the official party establishment machinery is important to control, but that is not where all of the power lies. The power lies with the people who vote in GOP primaries. As we saw with Tea Party, those who did not listen to the protesters who swarmed Town Halls were booted out of office. The current crop of legislators will be more likely to pay attention when the people have concerns.

          • http://www.nighttwister.com NightTwister
          • http://www.theprecinctproject.wordpress.com ColdWarrior

            Exactly.

            What is the best evidence we conservatives can show the incumbents that we have the power to increase the number of GOP primary voters who might vote for the other, more conservative, challenger?

            That you’ve organized to do precinct walks to ask voters whether they’ve registered or might like to change their party affiliation?

            That you’ve organized to do Get Out The Vote before the primary for the best conservative candidates?

            I submit that the best way to send that message to the incumbents, and then to actually perform those things, is by uniting inside the Republican Party at the precinct level as precinct committeemen.

            Holding mass rallies is one thing. Actually organizing inside a political party to do the nuts-and-bolts of GOTV is another. I submit the former ought to be used to steer conservatives into the latter.

            If you have a better strategy, I’m all ears.

            Thank you.

            ColdWarrior

          • http://www.coloradans4palin.com bjwilson83

            Currently though, PCs aren’t expected to do much, at least in CO. We were told at caucus that it was no big deal, maybe 2 meetings a year. PCs should be told that they are expected to organize their neighborhood and at the very least, contact all Republicans in their precinct to make sure they vote.

  • bobmontgomery

    ….a conspiracy in re the unequal or non-enforcement of the voting Rights Act, If Obama can fire an Inspector General who is investigating O’s good friend (was it on a Saturday night?), et cetera, if such blatant and basic acts of corruption and violation of oaths of office are not immediately and vociferously addressed by the GOP leadership, then what’s a few agency rulings and departmental “findings” among friends?

  • http://www.coloradans4palin.com bjwilson83

    Let’s have our own “Day of Departure” for the Obama admin.

  • http://www.conservative-outlooks.com ladyimpactohio
  • E Pluribus Unum

    Until federal officials and employees start getting charged with crimes and put in handcuffs, they’re not going to even slow down.

  • pamela1631

    which come to mind, but then I’m a bit peckish at the moment.

    And the handcuffs…some might think you were wanting an interesting evening depending on who you showed.

    My Dad use to say there are reasonable people and then there are unreasonable people. The unreasonable people needed a trip behind the barn to address their moral short comings.

    Lots of moral short comings of late, more than normal to my way of thinking. Is there a moral turpitude clause in any of the hiring paperwork for government officials?

  • Tbone

    Is there any Republican leader in Congress with a pair?

    I swear, I am beginning to believe the Beltway Republicans must be OK with all this.