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White House Crafting Executive Orders With Lobbyists Behind Closed Doors
President Obama might be on vacation (well, except for his photo op back at the White House this week) but that doesn’t mean his power grab is on hold. According to the New York Times, White House staffers have been busy working with lobbyists behind closed doors crafting executive orders.
Since then, the process of drafting what will likely be the only significant immigration changes of his presidency — and his most consequential use of executive power — has been conducted almost entirely behind closed doors, where lobbyists and interest groups invited to the White House are making their case out of public view.
Mr. Obama’s increasingly expansive appetite for the use of unilateral action on issues including immigration, tax policy and gay rights has emboldened activists and businesses to flock to the administration with their policy wish lists. It also has opened the president, already facing charges of executive overreach, to criticism that he is presiding over opaque policy-making, with the potential to reward political backers at the expense of other interests, including some on the losing side who are threatening to sue. (Read More)
The article goes on to note that this summer there have been more than 20 “listening sessions” on immigration, but the White House won’t disclose what was discussed because the sessions were private. As if the people have no right know what’s going on in the White House, which belongs to us. Senator Jeff Sessions summed it up perfectly when he said “It is chilling to consider now that these groups, frustrated in their aims by our constitutional system of government, are plotting with the Obama administration to collect their spoils through executive fiat.” It is chilling.
Source: http://lonelyconservative.com/2014/08/white-house-crafting-executive-orders-with-lobbyists-behind-closed-doors/
