Pelosi Compares Obama’s Use of Executive Actions To Lincoln Freeing The Slaves…

Published: Wednesday, 29 January 2014 21:11

When comparing our "Imperial President" to a former President, a better choice would have been Democrat President FDR, who issued an Executive Order that forcibly transferred Japanese-Americans and German-Americans to internment camps during World War II or Democrat President Harry Truman, who issued an order to seize and nationalize all steel mills in America, during a labor strike in 1952.  
Nancy Pelosi applauded President Obama for taking action to raise the minimum wage of federal contractors, citing the Emancipation Proclamation as a precedent for such executive action. Even though she would have preferred to see the raise come through legislatively, she said it was “fine” for the president to bypass Congress because he had “exhausted” other options. [...]
Mentioning Abraham Lincoln’s executive order to free the slaves during the Civil War, Pelosi said there are times where such actions are appropriate. ”There are many things that happened over time that wouldn’t have ever happened waiting for Congress,” she said, referring to the Emancipation Proclamation.
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