On Oil, No Backsies!
by Kevin D. Williams
National Review Online
December 22, 2016
http://www.nationalreview.com/article/443269/
President Obama decocts a presidential power.
Barack Obama, utilizing the hitherto unknown "No-Backsies!" provision of Article II, has unilaterally declared an "indefinite" ban on oil exploration in certain parts of the Atlantic and Arctic.
The president is relying on a novel - and imaginary, and dishonest - interpretation of the 1953 Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act, which he says empowers him to make, by unilateral executive fiat, new drilling rules that cannot be undone by any successor president. Legally speaking this is, as Professor Patrick Parenteau of Vermont Law School wryly put it, "uncharted waters."
The New York Times, acknowledging that President Obama is interpreting his powers in a way that is not obviously legal and is at the very least at odds with prior practice, concedes: "The declaration's fate will almost certainly be decided by the federal courts." ...
Got that clo, sweetheart ... even your butt-buddies at The New York Slimes readily acknowledge that lil' Barry does not have the ability, from his firmly ensconced place in the kindergarten sandbox, to declare
anything "permanent" by virtue of his flimsy, petulant executive orders. clo, you and yours reek of pathetic, infantile desperation, baby.
Have a nice day!
The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer. It has never yet melted. ~ D.H. Lawrence
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