Biden targets Trump's legacy with first-day executive actions

[MSgt]

I dont have a problem with Congress being unable to pass legislation but have a big problem when Presidents by executive order do what Congress refused to do.

That's just it. Congress refuses to do anything. I gave you the infrastructure example. Republicans refused to help Trump, simply because Democrats tried to. The GOP have so little in terms of a policy and agenda that they remain determined only to create a platform of irrational opposition. Tomato paste is a vegetable anybody? The only thing left for a President and the citizen is the Executive Order, which is dangerous in the hands of a person who has no respect for the American ideal. Even Trump could not rely on the GOP to help him because of their BS.

Which was the case frequently with Obama. From memory I cant think of any situation where Trump did the same.

Well, Obama's Executive Orders were the result of moving the country versus freezing it because of an impotent Congress. And you don't have to rely on memory. Historians don't:

Obama: 276 Executive Orders in 8 years.
Trump: 218 Executive Orders in 4 years.

Trump was on his way to catching up to Eisenhower. And given his routine desecration of Constitutional norm and personal attitude about autocracy, he would have probably surpassed.

And Congress is most frequently to blame when they pass legislation giving the President the authority to do so.

Executive Orders are not prohibited by the Constitution, because Article II does not clearly define limits. This is where historical Constitutional norms have always been so important before Trump. Biden must be a character like Washington on this and push norms as de facto law in order to re-establish some respect.

But Congress is to blame because it refuses to work as it is supposed to. Compromise matters. There must be an agreement that a difference of means might still accomplish an agreed upon end.

Dude, we suck because I'm not in charge.

 

[Paradoxical]

Good!

A real uniter. My hero.

 

[TU Curmudgeon]

You know what's refreshing to hear? Former President Trump. Damn those words sound good.

Just for fun, if the correct term for someone who used to be the President of the United States of America and was NOT convicted on a bill of impeachment is "Former President", what is the correct term for someone who used to be the President of the United States of America and who WAS convicted on a bill of impeachment?

Let's start the ball rolling with "Mister".

Given the number of investigations currently ongoing, the possibility of "Inmate" (in this particular case) cannot be totally ruled out.

PS - I wonder where Mr. Trump is going to be living this time next month since he can only stay at Mar-a-Lago longer than one week at a stretch and cannot stay there for more than three, non-consecutive, weeks per year.

 

[MSgt]

I knowwwww. A sign of wanting to "unite" America.

First, moving forward means justice over a national traitor.

Second, acknowledge that blind support for that national traitor led to January 6th.

Third, acknowledge that actually putting America first means undoing and repairing what that national traitor did for four years.


But, you can't figure out how to reconcile your bizarre beliefs with what should come first, so this post was meant for others. "Paradoxical" how one can think he is a patriot while supporting a national traitor.

 

[TU Curmudgeon]

" Cancels the Keystone XL pipeline "

Hooray!

I quite agree. The American petroleum companies who control the Canadian petroleum companies have been very eager to have their Canadian subsidiaries sell Canadian oil. The Keystone XL pipeline was the cheapest and most secure route to to that and those American petroleum interests who were funding the fight against any East-West pipelines in Canada will now have to re-think how they are going to sell that Canadian oil and to whom.

The next cheapest course of action would be to construct a pipeline to Canada's west coast so I rather expect that those Canadian "pipeline protesters" are going to find that a whole lot of their funding has dried up.

Of course, once that oil is delivered to the oceanside, that means that any country that can manage to acquire the use of tankers could possibly buy it, and that would mean a bidding war, and that would mean higher prices at the pumps (to say nothing of higher profits for the American owned subsidiaries of American petroleum companies).

It would also mean that the Canadian petroleum extraction industry was less dependent on the US economy and, by extension, that the Canadian economy was more diversified.

Well, you win some and you lose some.

 

[Paradoxical]

First, moving forward means justice over a national traitor.

Second, acknowledge that blind support for that national traitor led to January 6th.

Third, acknowledge that actually putting America first means undoing and repairing what that national traitor did for four years.


But, you can't figure out how to reconcile your bizarre beliefs with what should come first, so this post was meant for others. "Paradoxical" how one can think he is a patriot while supporting a national traitor.

Did you miss me while I was gone. No one was here to destroy your feeble arguments?

 

[Paradoxical]

I quite agree. The American petroleum companies who control the Canadian petroleum companies have been very eager to have their Canadian subsidiaries sell Canadian oil. The Keystone XL pipeline was the cheapest and most secure route to to that and those American petroleum interests who were funding the fight against any East-West pipelines in Canada will now have to re-think how they are going to sell that Canadian oil and to whom.

The next cheapest course of action would be to construct a pipeline to Canada's west coast so I rather expect that those Canadian "pipeline protesters" are going to find that a whole lot of their funding has dried up.

Of course, once that oil is delivered to the oceanside, that means that any country that can manage to acquire the use of tankers could possibly buy it, and that would mean a bidding war, and that would mean higher prices at the pumps (to say nothing of higher profits for the American owned subsidiaries of American petroleum companies).

It would also mean that the Canadian petroleum extraction industry was less dependent on the US economy and, by extension, that the Canadian economy was more diversified.

Well, you win some and you lose some.

Methinks you like $8.00 a gallon gas. Amirite?

 

[Fishking]

Biden targets Trump's legacy with first-day executive actions

Joe Biden plans to take 17 executive actions in the first hours of his presidency Wednesday, signing a flurry of executive orders, memoranda and directives to agencies implementing his first moves to address the coronavirus pandemic and undo some of Donald Trump's signature policies.

www.cnn.com

Damn, ain't wasting no time trying to undo Trump's damage.

Yeah...Biden is wrong on almost all policies positions. That wasn't were Trump was bad. If undoing Trump's legacy means castrating yourself and handing your balls to China then, yes, Biden will undo Trump's legacy.

 

[TU Curmudgeon]

GIve him a week. two weeks and no one will be dying of the virus, right?

Actually, it won't take that long for the "(American) Conservatives" to start blaming him because "over 450,000 Americans have died from COVID-19". I'd give that about a week and a half for that to happen.

 

[MSgt]

Did you miss me while I was gone. No one was here to destroy your feeble arguments?

Have you ever done that? Has anybody? Aside from people who are smarter than me, I am the smartest person on the planet.

I didn't even know you were gone. Have you been in mourning over Trump's ultimate and inevitable disgrace?

 

[MSgt]

GIve him a week. two weeks and no one will be dying of the virus, right?

Makes no sense.

- Trump clearly exacerbated American Covid deaths by building a non-program around it being just a Democrat hoax. How many conservatives died for Trump because they refused the mask?

- Deaths continued to rise as vaccine distribution shit itself because the government and the states were too busy playing political games due to Trump's inability to be even a simple leader.

- Because nature and science is a real thing, which is unfortunate for conservatives who like their false political fantasies, deaths will continue into at least next week.


See why American conservatives have become an embarrassment to the nation? Just no shame at all, huh?

 

[Rawley]

Actually, it won't take that long for the "(American) Conservatives" to start blaming him because "over 450,000 Americans have died from COVID-19". I'd give that about a week and a half for that to happen.

You blamed Trump we blame Biden . See how that works? Particualrly when he ran his campaign saing he was going to defeat it.

 

[Rawley]

Makes no sense.

- Trump clearly exacerbated American Covid deaths by building a non-program around it being just a Democrat hoax.

Yeah, that vaccine thing he developed in unprecedented time really sucks. You'll be refusing it, of course, right?

 

[MSgt]

Yeah, that vaccine thing he developed in unprecedented time really sucks. You'll be refusing it, of course, right?

Oh, did he sit in a lab and do that? Last I checked, European and American private business did that, while he was making life miserable for health officials, promoting disinfectant injections, and bullying Republican governors to spread the virus with reckless abandonment.

You ****ing lose. Don't challenge me. I tend you use my brain. Cuz...smart and stuff.

 

[Ikari]

We already have job losses, so let's make a lot more? That's really your argument?

Well it's mostly "Trump exploded our unemployment, lets hope for an actual federal response".
lol

 

[GDViking]

If you double the transport costs of Canadian oil, like Biden wants to do, why wouldn't their competitors be happy?

Realistically, moving oil by rail car is not going to be any better for the environment. It's just going to be slower, more expensive, and more dangerous.

We are doing rigbt now and have been for at least a decade at least 75% of all trains running on both sides of the river are oil cars...

 

[TU Curmudgeon]

If you look at the actual information, you would know that is incorrect. The dacl pipeline basically was taking tar sands from canada to get process in texas to sell to china... with all but about 35 jobs in the u.s. effected, and all profits to canada pretty much

Other than the fact that the owners of the "Keystone-XL Pipeline" were actually American (indirectly and directly), and the minor fact that it is pretty difficult for someone who lives in the US to commute to a job in the Alberta Oil Sands area, you are quite correct.

Since those American owned corporations will not be able to sell the Canadian oil to China through Texas ( 15,915 nautical miles) they will have to find another way to sell it to China Vancouver to Shanghai (5,290.47 miles).

Yeah, that vaccine thing he developed in unprecedented time really sucks. You'll be refusing it, of course, right?

Mr. Trump did absolutely nothing whatsoever to fund either the Germans or the Brits who developed the vaccine, nor did any action of his administration make that development any quicker. The only action of Mr. Trump's administration that had any effect on getting the vaccine into the arms of Americans was his ordering the CDC to approve the use of the vaccine WITHOUT the usual safety standards.

Fortunately that gamble paid off.

 

[justabubba]

There’s no impact at all upon their water. The impact upon their land is minimal.

The latest Keystone Pipeline oil leak is almost 10 times worse than initially thought

The latest Keystone Pipeline oil leak is almost 10 times worse than initially thought

The state says that the amount of land impacted by the spill is 10 times more than they initially reported.

www.cnn.com

 

[GDViking]

He going to do more than shut down a pipeline. He’s going to end oil extraction on federal lands. He’s going to eliminate fracking. He’s going to overestimate the oil industry in the name of the global warming hoax. He’s going once again make up dependent on foreign oil.

There should be no drilling on federal lands to begin with...

He's not going to eliminate fraciking but it does need to be better regulated...

And we achieved oil independence under Obama/ Biden so I guess I'm not too concerned...

 

[uptower]

Good to see old fashioned boring politics as usual begin with much needed housekeeping.

 

[Rawley]

Oh, did he sit in a lab and do that? Last I checked, European and American private business did that, while he was making life miserable for health officials, promoting disinfectant injections, and bullying Republican governors to spread the virus with reckless abandonment.

You ****ing lose. Don't challenge me. I tend you use my brain. Cuz...smart and stuff.

I'm sure convinced yourself of that. Good for you. Seriously, good for you.

 

[Rawley]

Mr. Trump did absolutely nothing whatsoever to fund either the Germans or the Brits who developed the vaccine, nor did any action of his administration make that development any quicker. The only action of Mr. Trump's administration that had any effect on getting the vaccine into the arms of Americans was his ordering the CDC to approve the use of the vaccine WITHOUT the usual safety standards.

Fortunately that gamble paid off.

Is that the talking points they've given you? Rather lame.

 

[Lursa]

There are no other jobs out there but to build and maintain an oil pipeline?

How strange, I don't work on a pipeline and manage to survive.

In the debate and some other interviews, Biden has discussed more jobs in infrastructure and jobs in the green energy industries. It's not like he's just blowing off jobs for Americans the way so many seem to imply.

 

[Juks]

That may be the best thing of all.

But these are great too:

--Made Jeff Zients the government’s official Covid-19 response coordinator, reporting to the president. Restored the directorate for global health security and biodefense at the National Security Council, a group that Mr. Trump had disbanded
--Imposed a national mandate requiring masks and physical distancing in all federal buildings, on all federal lands and by all federal employees
--Terminated Mr. Trump’s efforts to leave the World Health Organization, sending Dr. Anthony S. Fauci, the nation’s top infectious disease specialist, to participate in the group’s annual executive board meeting on Thursday.
--Revoked the Trump administration’s plan to exclude noncitizens from the census count
--Bolstered the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program that protects “Dreamers” from deportation
--Repealed Trump's ban on travel to the United States from several predominantly Muslim and African countries
--Directed the State Department to develop ways to address the harm caused to those prevented from coming to the United States because of the ban
--Halted construction on Trump's border wall while his administration examines the legality of the wall’s funding and contracts (Trump had stolen money from the defense department for it)
--Directed federal agencies to conduct reviews looking to eliminate systemic discrimination in their policies and to reverse historic discrimination in safety net and other federal spending. Began a working group examining federal data collection on diversity grounds
--Required the federal government to not discriminate on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity, a policy that reverses action by Mr. Trump’s administration
--Overturned a Trump executive order that had limited the ability of federal government agencies to use diversity and inclusion training.
--Canceled Mr. Trump’s 1776 Commission, which released a report on Monday that historians said distorted the history of slavery in the United States.
--Will rejoin the Paris climate accords
--Rescinded rollbacks to vehicle emissions standards; imposing a moratorium on oil and natural gas leases in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge; revoking the permit for the Keystone XL pipeline; and re-establishing a working group on the social costs of greenhouse gasses
--Extended a federal moratorium on evictions and asked agencies, including the Departments of Agriculture, Veterans Affairs and Housing and Urban Development, to prolong a moratorium on foreclosures on federally guaranteed mortgages. The extensions all run through the end of March.
--Continued a pause on federal student loan interest and principal payments through the end of September
--Mr. Biden also froze all new regulations put in motion by his predecessor to give his administration time to evaluate which ones should move forward — if any.

Jen Psaki, the White House press secretary, said that the executive actions Mr. Biden took on Wednesday would be followed by a steady stream of others almost daily.

And did it in just half a day.....

 

[Juks]

Is that the talking points they've given you? Rather lame.

Well it's the truth... Sometimes the truth is lame.