Bachmann: Obama 'Not A King' So We'll Sue Him For Executive Actions

[DonViejo]

DYLAN SCOTT – JANUARY 29, 2014, 2:41 PM EST

Rep. Michele Bachmann chastised President Obama for his monarchical ambitions after his State of the Union address Tuesday night and warned that House conservatives were preparing to sue the president if he went too far in exercising his executive power.

“He’s the president of the United States. He’s not a king,” Bachmann said following Obama's speech, the Daily Caller reported. “He may think he’s a king, he may declare himself king, but that’s not what he is under our Constitution.”

Bachmann foreshadowed pending litigation if Obama proceeded with the numerous executive actions that he announced during the address.

"If he wants to move forward with this unilateral activity, he better be prepared for the lawsuit that the United States Congress will bring to him," she said, and the National Journal reported that other GOP lawmakers, including Rep. Steve King (R-IA) also voiced support for legal action.

-more:
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/bachman-obam-sotu-lawsuit

[Deep13]

1. If he were a king, Buchanan would be in prison by now. nt

[bigdarryl]

17. Or worst which I wont go there

[Botany]

2. M. Bachmann; " ....but that’s not what he is under our Constitution."

God forbid if the chief executive of the United States of America would
take some executive actions.

[VanillaRhapsody]

3. bring it Dim Bulb Bachmann!

I sure would like to see how you plan to take Executive Order away from the Presidency....please proceed Ms Bachmann.

[Paladin]

4. Go for it, Crazy Eyes.

Let's see you make the argument that a power given to and utilized by every President from George Washington onward should be denied to our current President...who happens to be black. Happy landings.....

[Politicalboi]

5. STFU Michele

Doesn't she have her own investigations in campaign money?

[Aldo Leopold]

6. Go to prison already, you dimwit.

Almost makes me ashamed to have been educated in Minnesota. Almost.

[boguspotus]

21. It's so weird that Bachmann is from MN:

I live in Mpls and my congress person is Keith Ellison - who is great - and the total opposite of Bachman. Plus we have Franken and Amy Klobuchar. No matter how liberal, most places still have a nutjob contingent.

[Aldo Leopold]

23. I went to the University of Minnesota and can personally attest

to the superior educational resources in that state!



(I think Bachmann must have gone to school in Iowa or something.)

[boguspotus]

24. Yeah, it's a great school. My wife went there and works their now.

I'm a transplant from W. Wisconsin - I went to MooU - UW River Falls. Always loved MN.

[Gothmog]

7. I am sad that Bachmann somehow became a member of a bar association

I am not sure how she passed the bar exam. I am sure that President Obama is not worried about any lawsuit brought by Bachmann.

[Thor_MN]

12. See post #2

[modrepub]

8. Make Sure You Track How Much $

these do-nothings rack up in attorney fees suing the executive. Pass some bills you lame **ses, and not just ones that have no chance in the Senate or another round of repealing ACA.

[workinclasszero]

9. Republican presidents have done TONS of EO's!

Ronald Reagan/Executive orders

http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Author:Ronald_Reagan/Executive_orders

George Herbert Walker Bush/Executive orders

http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Author:George_Herbert_Walker_Bush/Executive_orders

George W. Bush/Executive orders (2001–2009)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_federal_executive_orders_13198%E2%80%9313488

When are these lying hypocrite repigs gonna condemn their god Rayguns for his EO's? And Daddy Bush and sons EO's?

Not a damn peep out of teabag loonies like Bachmann when repig presidents whip out their pen!

[bigdarryl]

18. But they were WHITE!! the black man can't do that

[CBHagman]

31. 1987 headline: "Reagan to Use Executive Orders to Bypass Congress"

Throw that one around and watch your Fox News-watching friends' heads explode!

[url]http://articles.latimes.com/1987-08-21/news/mn-2317_1_executive-order[/url]

Reagan to Use Executive Orders to Bypass Congress

With 17 months of his presidency remaining, Ronald Reagan will bank on executive orders and judicial action to implement social policies that he cannot persuade Congress to enact, Gary L. Bauer, the President's chief domestic policy adviser, declared Thursday.

Bauer, the feisty attorney Reagan named to push his social issue agenda, said the President may accomplish some of his goals in such areas as abortion and pornography through a series of executive orders and by his appointment of conservative judges to the federal judiciary, including his nomination of Judge Robert H. Bork to the Supreme Court.

"With a hostile Congress that doesn't show much sign of coming toward us on some of these issues, it behooves us to take the initiative when we can take it," Bauer said.

There are a number of things "the President can unilaterally do," Bauer said, as evidenced by the plan Reagan announced three weeks ago to curb federal funding for organizations and groups that support abortion.

[Rozlee]

10. And to think this bubble head was on the House Intelligence Committee.

My WTF meter went into the red zone when I read that.

[Whisp]

11. I thought that asshole was in jail.

[Jamaal510]

13. .

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[Thor_MN]

14. Hey Batshit? Where was this when GW was signing more EOs?

And issuing "signing statements" nullifying passed bills?

[trublu992]

15. God, have any of these dumbass republicans read te constitution

that's what gives him the executive order power!

[area51]

16. Aaaaaaaaand, psycho Michele,

you were really concerned when Geo. W. Bush did this, right?

[Delphinus]

19. My god,

George W. Bush upended Congress with his Executive Orders! Why the double-standard? Where was she then, when WE were calling for someone to listen about Bush?

[Arkana]

20. You're damn lucky he's not, Crazy Eyes,

or he'd have thrown you in the dungeon by now.

[mac56]

22. I've lived in her district. I now live 20 miles away from it.

The Minnesota Loon.

Nothing but a rodeo clown.

[libdem4life]

25. Why do we debate this? Why do we defend and put up with this crap?

Below is all anyone needs to hear. Why can't the Democrats just pound away at this...forget cowering and man/woman up. He's got a long way to go to catch up to Shrub.

Ronald Reagan 381
George Bush 166
William J. Clinton 364
George W. Bush 291
Barack Obama 168

[Half-Century Man]

26. How about the citizens of the United States

Sue the House of Representatives for the expenses incurred by tax payers by trying to repeal the ACA 40+ times.

[kestrel91316]

27. She's right, you know. It says right there in the US Constitution that

only white presidents are permitted to issue executive orders.

[think]

28. Bachmann puts the batshit

In crazy.....

[gordianot]

29. All from the soon to be unemployed maybe too crazy for Fox News but I doubt that also.

[juajen]

30. Can't cure stupid!

[Loaded Liberal Dem]

32. What? Obama? A King?

Well, then, OFF WITH HER HEAD! (Hey, it's not like she uses it!)