Mediaite.com:
Former GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney harped on Hillary Clinton
on Friday, further criticizing the foreign policy she and the Obama
administration pursued during her time as secretary of state.
"The Obama-Biden-Hillary Clinton foreign policy is a monumental bust," Romney told about 300 of his top donors, according to The Washington Post's Philip Rucker.
The donors were gathered, along with potential presidential candidates, at Romney's "ideas summit" in Park City, Utah.
Romney
took a number of punches at Clinton during his speech on foreign policy
and domestic issues, saying the United States is worse off after her
tenure as secretary of state leading the U.S. diplomatic corps.
"Secretary Clinton actually presented Russia's foreign minister with a large plastic button labeled reset," he said, according to Rucker. Romney added that she was "gushing with smiles" as she did so.
On Thursday, Romney told Fox News, "There’s almost not a place in the world that’s better off because of her leadership in the State Department."
Romney
also responded to Clinton's remarks in regard to the exchange of five
Taliban detainees for Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl's release.
In an interview on NBC News
this week, Clinton said, "These five guys are not a threat to the
United States. They are a threat to the safety and security of
Afghanistan and Pakistan."
Romney told Fox News,
"Well, that may be one of the most clueless responses I have heard in a
long time because of course you don’t throw our allies under the bus."
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Townhall.com:
Barack Obama's tenure in the White House has been one of the low points
in the history of our republic. It may seem melodramatic to compare the
damage Barack Obama is doing to 9/11, Pearl Harbor, and the White House
being burned during the war of 1812, but in a sense he's worse than any
of those calamities because he's a purely self-inflicted wound. It's
not a sneak attack from the Japanese laying us low this time; it's the
man our nation willingly chose to lead us not once, but twice.
It's bad enough that Barack Obama is not qualified or competent to
handle a job like the presidency, as his performance has proven again
and again. Not only has he ridden the economy so deep into the ground
that the percentage of Americans not working is at a 36 year high,
he's piled on so much debt in such a short period that the destruction
of our economy via bankruptcy and/or runaway inflation may be inevitable
at this point.
Worse yet, Barack Obama has taken the position that he can rewrite any
law he chooses, any way he chooses, for any reason he chooses. In other
words, although Obama is not a dictator, he IS CLAIMING THE RIGHT TO
EXERCISE DICTATORIAL POWERS for himself. This is extraordinarily
dangerous to our republic. As Congressman Trey Gowdy has pointed out, if
Obama claims he has the power to change Obamacare or illegal
immigration law at his whim, why couldn't he do the same with election
law? In other words, Obama has no more right to give illegal aliens work
permits or delay congressionally mandated parts of Obamacare than he
does to ban handguns by decree or reduce the number of electoral votes
in Republican leaning states. That's why it's so incredibly dangerous to
allow Obama to be "above the law." It's because the abuses committed
tomorrow by Obama or even future Presidents are likely to build upon the
ones that we're allowing to go unchallenged today.
The best way to check Barack Obama's power would be to impeach him.
Despite the fact that Obama is much more deserving of impeachment than
Clinton (perjury) or Andrew Johnson (who violated the Tenure of Office
Act), it's unlikely that Obama will be impeached. Unfortunately, even if
Republicans take back the Senate in 2014, there won't be enough votes
in the upper chamber to get rid of Barack Obama. That's tragic, because
for the good of the country, Barack Obama deserves to be driven from
office in disgrace.
1) For Illegally Changing Obamacare: It doesn't matter
if the Affordable Care Act is called "Obamacare;" Barack Obama doesn't
have the authority to unilaterally change the law. Changes to the law
have to be made by Congress and then signed into law by the President. Barack Obama has broken the law repeatedly
by making at least 23 unilateral changes to the law. Saying, "The
Republicans won't work with us," or more disturbingly, "It's politically
convenient," is not an excuse for overriding the Constitution of the
United States.
2) Engaging In An Illegal War In Libya: While the
President is the Commander-in-Chief, the Constitution gives Congress the
ability to declare war. In the modern era, that has just meant an
authorization of force from Congress, which Obama did not pursue.
Additionally, we've tended to give Presidents the benefit of the doubt
when American lives are at stake. However, in Libya, Obama didn't seek
the permission of Congress and we had no national security interest in
Libya. In other words, Obama's real justification for bombing that
country and overthrowing its government was that HE FELT LIKE IT. Using
the exact same precedent, the next President could bomb Mexico or Cuba
without Congressional authorization. Incidentally, bombing either of
those nations would probably make more sense than bombing Libya,
although that's not saying much since our intervention there has been a
complete disaster.
3) Lying To Sell Obamacare To The American People:
When Barack Obama told the public if they liked their plan, they could
keep their plan, he was lying. When he told Americans if they liked
their doctor, they could keep their doctor, he knew it wasn't so. When
he told Americans Obamacare would cut costs by $2,500 for the average
family, he was deliberately misleading the public. For a President of
the United States to PERSONALLY spend months telling deliberate
falsehoods to the American people in order to convince them to support
something as massive as a government takeover of the health care system
is beyond the pale. If the willful lies Barack Obama told to sell
Obamacare don't merit impeachment, then there are no lies that a
President could tell to the American people big enough to merit
impeachment.
4) Violating Immigration Law And Illegally Implementing The DREAM ACT: Simply put, Barack Obama has ceased to enforce most immigration law. As Senator Jeff Sessions has noted, “at least 99.92% of illegal immigrants and visa overstays without known crimes on their records did not face removal.”
In other words, we've already stopped deporting anyone other than SOME
hardcore criminals and gang members. Additionally, when the DREAM ACT
didn't make it through Congress, Obama simply implemented it ANYWAY. Not
only is he explicitly telling illegal aliens they can stay in the
United States, he's illegally giving them work permits that he has zero
right to offer. Even if Congress is too split on the issue to unify and
put a stop to what Obama's doing, that doesn't change the fact that it’s
flatly illegal. If this is allowed to stand, tell me ANY LAW on the
books that the President is obligated to enforce?
5) Releasing 5 Taliban Terrorists In Exchange For Deserter Bowe Bergdahl:
Barack Obama was legally required to alert Congress 30 days before he
released terrorists from Gitmo. Not only did he fail to do so, but more
seriously he released five high level terrorists who he knew were likely
to help kill Americans in the future. One of the terrorists has ALREADY SAID he intends to go back to Afghanistan to fight America.
Barack Obama spent a lot of time bragging about getting Bin Laden, but
he just released five Bin Ladens back into the world and a lot of
Americans who didn't desert their country are likely to die because of
it.
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