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Enough Is Enough! How Many
Imperial Proclamations Must Barack Obama Make Before Congress Moves To
Stop His Unlawful And Unconstitutional Usurpations Of Power?
Emboldened and bold as brass, Barack Obama has proclaimed that the United States will now move to be
"normalizing" relations with the repressive and totalitarian Castro Regime in Cuba.
Of course, the fact that Obama has no legal authority to move forward with such an imperial proclamation isn't deterring him.
But here's the icing on the cake. To add insult to injury, as we
watch the occupant of the White House continue to assert dictatorial
authority, far too many pundits and politicians in Washington are
content to simply
"debate" the wisdom of this "change in U.S. policy."
Well... we're not content. We still live in the United States of America and in the United States of America, we
DO NOT DEBATE DICTATORIAL EDICTS... we squash them, and it's time that our so-called leaders in Congress get that message... loud and clear.
Use the hyperlink below to send your urgent Blast Faxes to each and
every Member of the Republican Leadership in the United States Senate
and the United States House of Representatives. Or alternatively, send
your urgent Blast Faxes to each and every Republican Member of the U.S.
Senate and the U.S. House of Representatives.
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Is Barack Obama Violating The Law?
These days, the above would almost seem to be a rhetorical question, but
according to Representative Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-FL), Obama's actions
"may be in direct violation of Helms-Burton..." Ros-Lehtinen goes on to say that
"this unilateral action by the President
without Congressional consultation is in violation of the following U.S.
laws: Cuban Liberty and Democratic Solidarity (LIBERTAD) Act of 1996,
Cuban Democracy Act of 1992, and the Trading with the Enemy Act."
Since legislators these days are just too busy to actually read
legislation, we decided to save most of them the trouble. Here's just
one (repeat... one) of the pertinent sections of the Helms-Burton act
that Barack Obama is violating:
SEC. 204. TERMINATION OF THE ECONOMIC EMBARGO OF
CUBA.
(a) Presidential Actions. Upon submitting a determination to the
appropriate congressional committees under section 203(c)(1) that a
transition government in Cuba is in power, the President, after
consultation with the Congress, is authorized to take steps to suspend
the economic embargo of Cuba and to suspend the right of action created
in section 302 with respect to actions thereafter filed against the
Cuban Government, to the extent that such steps contribute to a stable
foundation for a democratically elected government in Cuba. |
There it is... in black and white for everyone to read.
Is there a "transitional government" in place in Cuba? Did Barack Obama engage in
"consultation with Congress" BEFORE he determined that the embargo must be lifted? Did he make
ANY demands on the Castro Regime that would
"contribute to a stable foundation for a democratically elected government" in Cuba?
The answer to all of those questions is a resounding
"NO!"
After engaging in clandestine and secret 18-month negotiations
with the dictator of Cuba, Barack Obama decided that he was fully
empowered to UNILATERALLY move to normalize relations with the Castro
regime in exchange for seemingly NOTHING, and furthermore, he's under
the delusion that Congress is under some obligation to get with the
program, or else.
Should Barack Obama be above the law? The answer to that question should be obvious.
What
is not known is whether or not Congress has the guts to state the
obvious and stop Barack Obama from implementing his radical and lawless
agenda. Or, more important, whether or not patriotic Americans like you
will continue to stand up when the occupant of the White House violates
the law and force that issue before our self-proclaimed leaders in
Congress.
Use the hyperlink below to send your urgent Blast Faxes to each and
every Member of the Republican Leadership in the United States Senate
and the United States House of Representatives. Or alternatively, send
your urgent Blast Faxes to each and every Republican Member of the U.S.
Senate and the U.S. House of Representatives.
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Is Obama Flipping You The Bird?
Those aren't our words. Those are the words of former RNC Chairman Michael Steele:
"I think this is the president is basically
throwing the bird up in the air to pretty much everybody in this town
and saying, you know, what..."
And Steele wasn’t even being critical… he was stating his belief about Barack Obama's mindset, which is:
Damn Congress and the American people, I'm just going to do this stuff on my own!
And here’s what others are saying:
According to the liberal Washington Post: "[A]
flood of U.S. tourists and business investment that will allow the
regime to maintain its totalitarian system indefinitely. Mr. Obama may
claim that he has dismantled a 50-year-old failed policy; what he has
really done is give a 50-year-old failed regime a new lease on life."
Senator Ted Cruz says: "We have seen how
previous Obama administration attempts at rapprochement with rogue
regimes like Russia and Iran have worked out, with our influence
diminished and our enemies emboldened. Now they are revisiting this same
disastrous policy with the Castros, blind to the fact that they are
being played by brutal dictators whose only goal is maintaining power.
And if history be our guide, the Castros will exploit that power to
undermine America and oppress the Cuban people."
Senator Marco Rubio says: "Cuba, like Syria,
Iran, and Sudan, remains a state sponsor of terrorism... Appeasing the
Castro brothers will only cause other tyrants from Caracas to Tehran to
Pyongyang to see that they can take advantage of President Obama’s
naiveté..."
Even John Boehner was motivated to feign indignation: "Relations
with the Castro regime should not be revisited, let alone normalized,
until the Cuban people enjoy freedom – and not one second sooner. There
is no 'new course' here, only another in a long line of mindless
concessions to a dictatorship that brutalizes its people and schemes
with our enemies."
And Mike Gonzalez, a senior fellow at The Heritage Foundation, not only outlines the problem, but gives voice to the solution:
"Obama obviously has decided to act on his
own because he faced little opposition from Congress when he overreached
his authority... Congress needs to act now, or Obama simply will move
on to the many other items on his bucket list. Congress must make it
abundantly clear to Obama that he does not have the authority to lift
the embargo on Cuba on his own. Doing so would break U.S. law, namely
the Helms-Burton Act."
Barack Obama
is not our King... he is not our dictator and it's high time that
Congress explain the preceding to him, in no uncertain terms.
Use the hyperlink below to send your urgent Blast Faxes to each and
every Member of the Republican Leadership in the United States Senate
and the United States House of Representatives. Or alternatively, send
your urgent Blast Faxes to each and every Republican Member of the U.S.
Senate and the U.S. House of Representatives.
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