Posted by
Roxanna M. on Monday, February 07, 2011 11:05:52 AM
It's been said that the fish stinks from the head down. That's certainly true in this administration: it stinks from Obama down.
* On April 6, 2010, the U. S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia said that the FCC does not have authority to enforce internet neutrality.
On December 21, 2010, the FCC officially adopted net neutrality rules.
The three individuals at the FCC wh9 voted this way are now in contempt of court.
* In May 2010, Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar issued a moratorium in response to the BP oil spill.
On June 22, 2010, the U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Louisiana, struck down that moratorium saying that Mr. himalazar had acted "arbitrarily," "capriciously," "heavy-handed," and "overbearing." Mr. Salazar did himself no favors when it was shown that he had, in seeking the moratorium, altered a report from experts.
On July 12, 2010, Mr. Salazar issued a new moratorium and said on September 30, 2010, that it will stay in place until he feels "comfortable we have significantly reduced the risks" of drilling.
In October 2010, Mr. Salazar claimed that the moratorium had been lifted. However, no permits have been issued, effectively continuing the moratorium.
On February 2, 2011, Judge Martin Feldman of the aforementioned court found Mr. Salazar in civil contempt, saying: "Such dismissive conduct, viewed in tandem with the reimposition of a second blanket and substantively identical moratorium and in light of the national importance of this case, provide this Court with clear and convincing evidence of the government's contempt of this Court's preliminary injunction Order. To the extent the plaintiffs' motion asserts civil contempt based on the government's determined disregard of this Court's Order of preliminary injunction, it is GRANTED."
* On January 31, 2011, Judge Roger Vinson of the U.S. District Court, Northern District of Florida, ruled in a lawsuit filed by 26 states against the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services, that Obamacare was unconstitutional. Unless he issues a stay pending review by the U.S. Supreme Court - which he should not do - that ruling is binding on those 26 states and neither they nor Kathleen Sebelius can enforce any provision of Obamacare in those states. (Whether the ruling is binding on the entire United States is a subject of debate.)
Will Ms. Sebelius, egged on by the likes of Richard Durbin (D-IL), ignore that order and proceed? If so, then she will be the third member of this administration in contempt of a court order.
To date, we have heard of no corrective action by Obama regarding the errant FCC and Department of the Interior. Nor have we heard anything from his lapdogs in the mainstream media demanding action. You can bet your bottom dollar we would be if this was happening in a Republican administration.
Kind of ironic that the media, grounded in the First Amendment right to freedom of speech, stands so squarely behind a man who seems determined to make end runs around the very Constitution that gives them that freedom at every opportunity.