Lieberman: Obama Use Executive Order to Address Gun Issue

"...if the President can do something now by executive order, God bless him."  --Joe Lieberman

Hey Joe--you as an elder statesman should understand that America is a Constitutional Republic and not a dictatorship.  We are not to be ruled by executive fiat.  If this is truly how you feel, then it is Congressional leadership such as yourself that has historically ceded too much power to the Executive Branch.

You have been in Congress how long and you think that the President should just issue an executive order when an issue arises...an executive order that may infringe on the liberties of the American citizen as prescribed by our Constitution?

Your first thought, to create a Congressional commission to see if something needs to be done, is a good one.  Go with that.  This national issue needs to be seriously debated by the representatives of the people, and not solved by a knee-jerk reaction from the executive branch.


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Obama Administration Refuses Request for Help on the Border

Cross Posted from The Lonely Conservative

This is incredible, and really demonstrates a lot about President Obama’s priorities.

Mexican drug cartels have displaced the mafia as the “number one organized crime threat” in the United States, Sen. Joe Lieberman said Monday as his Senate committee heard testimony in Phoenix on border violence.

Lieberman, an independent Democrat from Connecticut, and Sen. John McCain, a Republican on Lieberman’s panel, told FOX News that the United States needs to step up the fight against the drug cartels. The two senators were in Arizona, McCain’s home state, to hear from local officials on their advice for dealing with the drug-fueled violence many fear is spilling across the border.

“This is literally a war,” said Lieberman, chairman of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee. “They’re fighting for the turf.”

Drug cartels, made up of illegal aliens, fighting for turf on American soil! And
what does the Obama administration do about it?

But Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer said the Department of Defense has effectively denied her request to send 250 additional National Guard troops to the Arizona-Mexico border to help authorities battle immigrant and drug smuggling and related violence.

The governor told Lieberman’s committee meeting Monday that she was disappointed with the denial of her request to bring the number of troops at her state’s southern boundary up to 400. One hundred fifty troops are already there as part of a long-standing border assistance program.

The Bush administration sent thousands of Guard troops to the border to perform support duties so that federal border authorities would be freed up to focus on border security. Bush’s buildup began in 2006 and ended last year.

We have a federal government that’s reaching it’s tentacles into almost every aspect of American life. They want to be everywhere and do everything, except for where they’re actually needed! In that case it looks like you’re on your own.