Crosscheck wrote:
Displaced Fan wrote:
But you know, Obama is Hitler.
No one called Obama Hitler and some of the first news sources drawing attention to this EO were from the left, not the right....notable HuffPo
Funny it's hotair trying to calm the storm.
Still, I'm not convinced.
The powers enumerated in the order are indeed fucking scary.
the Obama is Hitler comment is towards the "fucking peice of shit" posts in this thread, not towards the initial article sources.
As far as hotair, those are just two articles out there talking about the realities of this instead of making a mountain out of a mole hill. There are other agencies covering the same news.
This is a restructuring of an existing EO that has been around since my grandfather was a baby. It has been re-written and tweaked by loads of presidents. The "power" that is outlined in it goes to heads of various agencies, not the President:
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Section 201, taken out of context, could potentially lead someone to assume the order allows for executive control of all U.S. resources. However, it actually delegates power to the secretaries of agriculture; energy; health and human services; transportation; defense; and commerce to "allocate materials, services and facilities as deemed necessary or appropriate to promote the national defense." In other words, those Cabinet officials must prioritize government contracts involving certain resources -- items named include energy sources, medicines and food resources -- that may be necessary to promote the national defense.