President Obama is going out of his way to pee in the pool
before the new owners can jump in.
The
president is doing everything possible to make things more difficult for
President-elect Trump to enact his agenda. He is setting records for the number
of criminals whose sentences he’s commuting, and for the number of illegal
immigrants his administration is allowing into the country. Moreover, he
recently decreed that hundreds of
millions of acres of federally owned land in the Arctic and Atlantic Oceans
are off limits to oil and gas exploration and drilling.
He also recently announced that a
once-mandatory program for registering immigrant men from predominately Muslim
countries, which he previously suspended, has been formally scrapped. The National Security Entry-Exit Registration
System (NSEERS), launched after 9/11, required men from Middle Eastern
countries- and North Korea- to register with the federal government upon their
arrival in the U.S. The process also included fingerprinting and photographs,
as well as a requirement to notify the government of any address changes. Why
would we want to know who’s here from Syria or Libya for example? Or where they
might be? They’re probably just hanging around Christmas markets right now,
anyway.
Back to
the clemency issue for a moment: On December 19th alone, the president granted clemency to 231 felons, the highest number of clemencies
granted in a single day in the history of the nation. Since he took office,
Obama has commuted the sentences of 1,176 individuals, 395 of whom were serving
life sentences. His recent one day
total of 231 is more than some presidents have totaled in their entire time in
the White House. In addition, he has pardoned
another 148 people.
And now
we learn of a new report alleging that a recent congressional investigation
“has determined that the Obama administration fired a top scientist and
intimidated staff at the Department of Energy in order to further its climate
change agenda,” according to the Washington Free Beacon and other news outlets.
The report further claims that the
administration ordered top officials to obstruct Congress in order to
forward this agenda. The chair of the House Committee on Science, Space, and
Technology, Rep. Lamar Smith (R. Texas), issued the report which also
illustrates how senior administration officials retaliated against a leading
scientist and plotted ways to block a
congressional inquiry regarding research into the impact of radiation. The
dismissed DOE scientist was pink-slipped for “being too forthright with
lawmakers,” according to the Beacon’s article. Can’t have that!
“Instead
of providing the type of scientific information needed by Congress to legislate
effectively, senior departmental officials sought to hide information, lobbied
against legislation, and retaliated against a scientist for being forthcoming,”
Smith said in a statement.
The
investigation concluded that “DoE placed its own priorities to further the
president’s Climate Action Plan before its constitutional obligations to be
candid with Congress,” states the report, which went on to say, “The committee
further concludes that DoE’s disregard for separation of powers is not limited
to a small group of employees, but rather is an institutional problem that must
be corrected by overhauling its management practices with respect to its
relationship with the Congress.”
Drain
the swamp! (And the pool).
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