Obama must be so jealous:

YAHOO NEWS – Egypt’s Islamist president unilaterally decreed greater authorities for himself Thursday and effectively neutralized a judicial system that had emerged as a key opponent by declaring that the courts are barred from challenging his decisions.

Riding high on U.S. and international praise for mediating a Gaza cease-fire, Mohammed Morsi put himself above oversight and gave protection to the Islamist-led assembly writing a new constitution from a looming threat of dissolution by court order.

But the move is likely to fuel growing public anger that he and his Muslim Brotherhood are seizing too much power.

In what was interpreted by rights activists as a de facto declaration of emergency law, one of Morsi’s decrees gave him the power to take “due measures and steps” to deal with any “threat” to the revolution, national unity and safety or anything that obstructs the work of state institutions.

Morsi framed his decisions as necessary to protect the revolution that toppled Hosni Mubarak nearly two years ago and to cement the nation’s transition to democratic rule. Many activists, including opponents of the Brotherhood, criticize the judiciary as packed with judges and prosecutors sympathetic to Mubarak. Brotherhood supporters accuse the courts of trying to block their agenda.

Liberal politicians immediately criticized the decrees as dictatorial and destined to divide a nation already reeling from months of turmoil following Mubarak’s ouster. Some said they exceeded the powers once enjoyed by Mubarak.

“Morsi today usurped all state powers & appointed himself Egypt’s new pharaoh,” pro-reform leader Mohamed ElBaradei wrote on Twitter. “A major blow to the revolution that could have dire consequences.”

Morsi’s ‘temporary’ decree will be just like our ‘temporary’ gas taxes. They never go away. He will find that he always needs them to ‘protect the revolution’ that brought him to power.




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warpmine
warpmine

It's the same with every revolution the left as the ideas of it never seem to be what the people are thinking.

mikeinidaho
mikeinidaho

I love it! Those idiots got just what they deserve! One tyrant overthrown for another.

All hail King Setti the XIV, or whatever, new pharoah of Egypt.

(Obama will be VERY jealous, you are correct!)

Suzyqpie
Suzyqpie

The next event that I expect to be reported will be the disappearance or incarceration of Mo ElBaradei. Along with a number of the "students" who were in Tahrir Sq yesterday. As the number of disappeared increases, the tribe will be subdued. And the path will be clear for the new dictator to resume the work of the old dictator.

repubboy
repubboy

Hey Can you spell MUBARAK !!!!!!!! good job O.. another one of your homies.. seem dictators attract each other !

PAWatcher
PAWatcher

I saw obama's ears perk up when he heard "emergency power grab, sweeping powers." All from a little ole speech in Cairo years ago? If it worked in Cairo.......

hongryhawg
hongryhawg

You can be sure the pretender's handlers are taking notes and rubbing their hands together.

JacksonPearson
JacksonPearson

Worse off, this Islamic dictator will be giving Obama ideas.

PAWatcher
PAWatcher

Jackson, would the obama's be obligated to follow sharia law if implemented? Michelle and daughters would be wearing what color burques to show off their chic style? Would they cost $6,800 dollars each, like michelle's blouses cost now or would that be against sharia law. And the obamas would be assured their girls would not be "burdened with a baby" out of wedlock, right?

tinlizzieowner
tinlizzieowner

His girls would be getting a different kind of 'stoned' than he was.

kong1967
kong1967

Ushered in by Hillary and Obama. They are praising this guy and blindly believing they have cleared way for a democracy.

Complete freaking morons. There won't be another election, you stupid idiots.

Worst freaking President and staff in American history.

PAWatcher
PAWatcher

Wait kong, they are scouring youtube for the film that caused all this..........I think they said something about the Marx brother's "Duck Soup" dictator.

Give them time they are going to arrest someone in Mexico for Fast and Furious and Benghazi for murdering US citizens and of course the film makers will go straight to jail. They are doin all they know how to do in the name of justice, ask holder, issa and bohner. sarc

kong1967
kong1967

Lol, now I know why they pal around with Hollywood. Gotta get the intricates of movie making to catch the bad guys....the film makers. It's all Obama undercover.

Dan Klapp
Dan Klapp

So Egypt how's that democratically elected gov't working out for you? New boss same as the old boss!

kong1967
kong1967

Worse. The old boss was secular and multi religions were tolerated (if I'm not mistaken). That's gone. Additionally, Mubarak was pro west and did not go after Israel (may have even been pro-Israel). Morsi is the opposite.

The worst is yet to come, and it will get worse very quickly I'm afraid. Obama and Hillary supported the removal of Mubarak, so they are responsible for what is to come for being complete freaking morons.

Booker T.
Booker T.

Bravo, Obama! You built it! Pray for the Copts and other peace loving people in Egypt.

tinlizzieowner
tinlizzieowner

I guess now we know what all those phone calls between Morsi and Obama were all about, huh.

;-) ;-)

tinlizzieowner
tinlizzieowner

So what's new about this? Depose Mubarak so the new Islamic leader can become the next dictator. Happens all the time.

kong1967
kong1967

They toppled a pro-west, pro-Israel secular dictator to put in a radical Islamist....and Obama and Hillary have the nerve to call it democracy. This regime will be far worse and far more oppressive than Mubarak. Give credit to the idiots Obama and Hillary. So so so stupid.

tinlizzieowner
tinlizzieowner

They were so pro 'Arab Spring'. Well, the Arabs are springing, aren't they. ;-) ;-)

kong1967
kong1967

Lol, you are very knowledgable about the differences, as I am not.

tinlizzieowner
tinlizzieowner

Yup, that's what I'm getting at. The Sunni tend to have Autocratic Dictators, the Shia tend to have Theocratic Dictators or a Monarchy but Islam is the state, in either case. There is nothing 'neutral' or 'secular' about it. Nor is there anything 'secular' about Atheism.

kong1967
kong1967

I suppose you're right. Saddam was a Sunni and Sunni's controlled everything, so I'd imagine that can't be considered secular. He did not impose Sharia Law, however, and women had more rights in Iraq than they have now. I was considering him secular because he did not impose Sharia Law and make it a theocracy.

I don't know. A lot of the titles get confusing. :)

tinlizzieowner
tinlizzieowner

But that's just it Kong, you can't get any farther away from 'secular' than Islam.

"A secular state is a concept of secularism, whereby a state or country purports to be officially neutral in matters of religion, supporting neither religion nor irreligion".

(wikipedia)

That's why I used the word 'Autocratic'. An Islamic state may be Sunni or Shia but it will still be an Islamic state with a strong man (Dictator) in charge.

Be real careful with the word 'secularism'. Liberals, especially atheists, love to bandy that word about but few understand that it means freedom OF religion, as well as freedom FROM religion, in terms of government.

kong1967
kong1967

I call it a secular dictatorship instead of If an Islamic Autocracy (for Saddam,etc.). In any case, you are right. Islam does not tolerate other factions and democracy never makes it into the same sentence with islam. Once Sharia Law is implemented, that is a theocracy. Libs believe Morsi when he said they will have Sharia Law without a theocracy. What? You can't have one without the other. Sharia IS government (theocracy).

Libs will believe anything. I don't believe there will be any more elections. If there are, they will be rigged and there will only be one possible outcome.

tinlizzieowner
tinlizzieowner

There's no such thing as an Islamic Democracy, Islam is the state.

There are 2 choices. An Islamic Autocracy (Saddam, Gadaffi, Mubarak, Morsi, etc.) or an Islamic Theocracy (Iran, Indonesia, The Sudan, etc.).

kong1967
kong1967

Lol, yep. Additionally, the Arabs are telling Obama and Hillary to jump and they ask "how high?"

James1754
James1754

The on going question is where does the army stand and what will it do. As for Morsi, what is to be expected from a member of the Muslim Brotherhood when he does not get his way?

kong1967
kong1967

Welll, let's see....the Muslim Brotherhood has lied about every single thing up to this point. They weren't even going to put forth a candidate in the election. Then they weren't going to impose Islam or Sharia Law.

Obama and Hillary were either idiots and believed them or they knew all along and joined in on the rise of Islam. I believe Obama knew. Hillary? Eh, she's not too bright so who knows.

Libertyship46
Libertyship46

So let me get this straight. We traded an Egyptian dictator, Mubarak, who was friendly to both the United States AND Israel AND was an arch-enemy to al Qaeda, for another Egyptian dictator, Morsi, that hates the United States, really hates Israel, and supports the terrorists in Gaza as well as al Qaeda (which, by the way, came out of the Muslim Brotherhood, which now has Morsi as its leader). And the American public thought that Clinton and Obama's foreign policy was doing just fine, even AFTER the murders in Benghazi? Well, that's what you get when you have over half the electorate that doesn't really care about what's happening in the world. Just wait until Iran gets a nuclear bomb. Then those same people who voted for Obama are going to say, "Wow, did that really happen?" Um, yes it did, now watch Obama try to "fix" it. Good luck with that.

kong1967
kong1967

The idiot leftists I've talked to believe Iran has a right to nuclear bombs. We have them and Israel has them, so who are we to keep Iran from them? Additionally, they say we are the only ones that have ever used them.

They're completely brain dead. There's a big difference between trusting Russia with nukes and trusting Iran. They won't be a deterrent. They will be used.

Can we just put dunce caps on all liberals and send them up to the Arctic?

Orangeone
Orangeone

I have to ask my dear friend Kong, why are you wasting time in conversation with liberals? And yes, let's send them to the Arctic but can we save the dunce caps to give to the majority members of Congress instead?

kong1967
kong1967

"...why are you wasting time in conversation with liberals?"

Lol, good question. It's fun to argue?

"...can we save the dunce caps to give to the majority members of Congress instead?"

Is there a shortage of dunce caps? I thought maybe it would be good for business. :)

Yazz55
Yazz55

Morsi will become the next "Pharaoh". Just give him a week or two to anoint himself with the title. So, on his next apology tour, he will be obligated to bow down the the new Pharaoh. Poor Obama is only able to be Santa Claus to the obamaphone crowd.

Cindy09
Cindy09

The man of Isaiah 19: 4

I will hand the Egyptians over

to the power of a cruel master,

and a fierce king will rule over them,”

declares the Lord, the Lord Almighty.

Marridge
Marridge

Exactly. Things will get very rough for the Egyptians for a while. Thanks for posting this. People would do well to read up on End Times in the Bible. It has all been prophesied and it is all playing out exactly that way.

Constance
Constance

I know that I have unfortunately become quite the conspiracy theorist lately, which used to be completely out of character for me, but... isn't the timing on this a wee bit strange? Just after Morsi is lauded by our government as being some great peacemaker in the Gaza/Israel situation, he suddenly drops the boom on his own people? Could it possibly be... stay with me here... could it possibly be that our government assured him they would financially support him and stand out of his way in Egypt if in return, he assured that the movement of arms would be halted into Gaza? The timing seems too perfect.

Okay. I shall step down from my conspiracy tower now, and hope I am wrong.

Conniption Fitz
Conniption Fitz

Evil always over-plays its hand...and seeks more and more power. 'Pharoah' Morsi is no exception.

Best news out of this is the MoBro-hood HQ (aka Al Queda/Hamas etc.) has been attacked. Just desserts, eh?

Wolfie
Wolfie

Shortly after this news broke, NObama was found in the Oval office on his back, his feet stamping the floor and shouting and screaming out: "It's SO Unfair! How come HE gets to become a Dictator and I DIDN'T?... I want to be President for LIFE too!! Waaahhhaaaaa!!!"

Moomoo comes in and pulls him up by the Lugears and says: "What did I tell you about talking without a teleprompter? We've over this before! Valarie programs it and you say it, no more no less!"

Orangeone
Orangeone

Wolfie, I simply cannot get up off the floor I'm laughing so hard!

PVG
PVG

Sounds like what's happening here!!

3d81
3d81

I'm still surprised they haven't put the crescent moon ontop of the pyramids yet.

Constance
Constance

It's probably there. We just can't see it yet, because they have to remove the bodies of Coptic Christians and younger Egyptians who wanted true freedom that they piled up there.

colliemum
colliemum

They'll be demolishing them, after they've demolished the sphinxes.

Wolfie
Wolfie

I worry about that too. Culture and history mean nothing to those savages!

colliemum
colliemum

It's worse, actually: they actively hate any signs of former cultures and demolish whenever and wherever they fins it.

The huge Buddha statues, carved into rock, in Northern Afghanistan, were turned into rubble by the Taliban, history, World Cultural heritage notwithstanding.

Some groups in Egypt have already called for dynamiting the Sphinxes. The ancient Egyptian temples would be next on their agenda.

Tourists aren't coming any longer, so why preserve them ...

Barbarians and savages, the lot of them.