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If Congress Won’t, Obama Will Anyway
Exclusive: Andrea Shea King reveals power grab disguised as ‘cybersecurity’
The time is near at hand which must determine whether Americans are to be free men or slaves. – George Washington
It doesn’t seem to matter to President Barack Obama what the U.S. Senate or House of Representatives do. Whatever they vote for or against, he ignores the will of the people if it does not fit his agenda. If our representatives vote “no” to defeat a bill, Obama and his administration subvert it with an executive order or newly minted federal regulations.
Case in point: last week’s Senate vote to prevent cloture, to advance the debate on the ironically named “Cybersecurity Act” (which effectively ensured its demise). The Cybersecurity Act of 2012, was proposed by Sens. Joe Lieberman, I-Conn., and Susan Collins, R-Maine, and was believed to be a “parting retirement gift” to the outgoing Senator from Connecticut.
Longtime Capitol Hill insider and retired Secretary to the U.S. Senate Elizabeth Letchworth stated on my radio program last Wednesday night – 49 minutes into the program – that Democrat Senate leaders were eager to bring the measure to a vote as a kind of “gold watch” gift for Lieberman, even though they suspected there weren’t enough votes to pass, because it gave them and the president cover to say the Republicans were stonewalling and preventing the government from protecting our national cyber security.
Letchworth said, “I can hear [Obama's] press conference now: ‘I had to do it because the Senate refused to address all these vital cyber security issues. I had to do this because the Senate Republicans – naming names maybe, maybe calling out who voted no – refused to protect our nation from cyber security that is such a threat to our nation, to our water supply, to our air supply.”
But not to worry. No doubt Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., knew that tucked inside a drawer in the Oval Office resides an Executive Order drafted last October and awaiting Obama’s signature that will trigger the elements of the Cybersecurity Act, with or without congressional approval, giving several federal agencies untold powers to regulate businesses.
