President Obama signs executive order allowing control over all US resources

[sofa king]

34. My guess:

It is an Executive Order, and since this President isn't G.W. Bush, we can probably safely assume that President Obama is not conferring some new power upon himself through an inexpertly written EO crafted by whatever hung-over Patrick Henry intern was in charge that day.

In fact, I know for sure there are no new powers being claimed here because for years now I've been writing about how President Obama can and possibly has been using these very powers to push Congress around behind closed doors:

http://journals.democraticunderground.com/sofa%20king/100

The key is that the powers were authorized by Congress in the Bush years, the legislation was terribly written, it was incompetently executed by a criminal cabal looking to use the power primarily as a way to politically manipulate the electorate through fear, and previous executive orders issued during the Bush years were quite likely flawed because of those Patrick Henry kids mentioned above. The "state of emergency" clause is also highly important, because the U.S. has quietly operated in such a state for most of the 20th Century and all of this one.

I suspect therefore that this EO is merely a re-write of previous EOs, adjusted to reflect changes in the bureaucracy and to correct any (likely numerous) errors from previous implementations.

If I am also correct that the President is getting what he wants in negotiations by threatening to drop the Dictator Obama shoe, this serves as a timely reminder to the oil industry that if they continue mucking about, the President can and will take over the business, whenever the hell he damned well pleases.

All thanks to the Republican-controlled Congress of the Bush years.