Obama’s Chief of Staff Promises ‘Audacious Executive Action’ in Final Year

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White House chief of staff Denis McDonough pushed back against the notion his president is played out in the wake of his last State of the Union address, promising “audacious executive action” in Barack Obama’s final year in office. During a breakfast with reporters in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday, McDonough responded to the observation that the president’s final speech before Congress lacked the usual pledge to “go it alone” if lawmakers failed to act. Coupled with the feeble executive actions on gun control announced earlier this month, had President Obama rethought the utility of acting unilaterally on issues important to the White House?

“We’ll do audacious executive action over the course of the rest of the year, I’m confident of that,” said McDonough, explaining that President Obama’s decision not to outline specific executive actions was more about a commitment to process than a lack of willpower.

White House chief of staff Denis McDonough pushed back against the notion his president is played out in the wake of his last State of the Union address, promising “audacious executive action” in Barack Obama’s final year in office. During a breakfast with reporters in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday, McDonough responded to the observation that the president’s final speech before Congress lacked the usual pledge to “go it alone” if lawmakers failed to act. Coupled with the feeble executive actions on gun control announced earlier this month, had President Obama rethought the utility of acting unilaterally on issues important to the White House? “We’ll do audacious executive action over the course of the rest of the year, I’m confident of that,” said McDonough, explaining that President Obama’s decision not to outline specific executive actions was more about a commitment to process than a lack of willpower.


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 Obama’s Chief of Staff Promises ‘Audacious Executive Action’ in Final Year
By Brendan Bordelon — January 13, 2016

White House chief of staff Denis McDonough pushed back against the notion his president is played out in the wake of his last State of the Union address, promising “audacious executive action” in Barack Obama’s final year in office.

During a breakfast with reporters in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday, McDonough responded to the observation that the president’s final speech before Congress lacked the usual pledge to “go it alone” if lawmakers failed to act. Coupled with the feeble executive actions on gun control announced earlier this month, had President Obama rethought the utility of acting unilaterally on issues important to the White House?

“We’ll do audacious executive action over the course of the rest of the year, I’m confident of that,” said McDonough, explaining that President Obama’s decision not to outline specific executive actions was more about a commitment to process than a lack of willpower.


“Process is your friend, but process also dictates what you can do,” McDonough said. “And we do want to make sure that the executive actions we undertake are not left hanging out there, subject to Congress undoing them.”

In addition to gun control, the White House has expressed interest in further unilateral actions on immigration reform, and in working around Congress to close the prison in Guantanamo Bay. But McDonough said the White House is considering executive action on any and all issues, and that the main question President Obama plans to ask himself is “Why not?”

“And so that’s the spirit through which we’ll approach this last year,” McDonough said.

[HAPPY2BME]

THE POWER OF THE EXECUTIVE ORDER

[massadvj]

One problem OPapaDoc.  Or should I say OPapaLameDuck.  Whatever executive actions you take will be the law of the land for less than a year.  Big effing deal.  Truth is you no longer matter and you stopped mattering once the congress went GOP 5 years ago.

No president, not even Carter, has done his party more harm than you.  And the big blow is about to land when the GOP wins back the WH and gets to appoint justices to replace the aging socialists on the bench.

So keep it up.  The more you and Bill Clinton are in the public view the better it will be for us.

[240B]

Well, that could not be any more clear. He essentially outed Obama by saying in no uncertain terms that Obama is going to do what ever the hell he wants to. Obama is planning a "stop me if you can" challenge to Congress.

That 'Why not?' statement is over the top. Obama is thinking, I got away with it before, why not keep doing it? Congress has emboldened him to behave in a dictatorial fashion. He doesn't think Congress has the will or the power to check him.

And, unfortunately, he may be right.

[HAPPY2BME]

The more you and Bill Clinton are in the public view the better it will be for us.

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I said in Nov, 2012 that even a PLACEBO could easily beat Barack Obama.

The GOP put up Mitt Romney.

Mitt Romney lost.

[massadvj]

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I said in Nov, 2012 that even a PLACEBO could easily beat Barack Obama.

The GOP put up Mitt Romney.

Mitt Romney lost.

Well then you were wrong because Mitt Romney was a placebo.

[Scottftlc]

If Obama does this, he simply makes it more likely that the Democrat candidate - particularly if it's Hillary - won't win.

[massadvj]

If Obama does this, he simply makes it more likely that the Democrat candidate - particularly if it's Hillary - won't win.

Exactly.  This is purely cheap Alinsky-inspired community organizer agitation, which is all he knows.