The bill wouldn’t even pass the Democrat-majority led Senate, yet Obama may issue another executive order to force it anyway:

THE HILL – Senate Republicans recently blocked cybersecurity legislation, but the issue might not be dead after all.

The White House hasn’t ruled out issuing an executive order to strengthen the nation’s defenses against cyber attacks if Congress refuses to act.

“In the wake of Congressional inaction and Republican stall tactics, unfortunately, we will continue to be hamstrung by outdated and inadequate statutory authorities that the legislation would have fixed,” White House Press Secretary Jay Carney said in an emailed response to whether the president is considering a cybersecurity order.

“Moving forward, the President is determined to do absolutely everything we can to better protect our nation against today’s cyber threats and we will do that,” Carney said.

But Senate Republicans, led by Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.), worried the bill would burden businesses with unnecessary and ineffective regulations.

The bill’s sponsors watered down the regulatory provisions, replacing the security mandates with voluntary incentives, but that wasn’t enough to win over Republicans. The bill mustered 52 votes in the Senate, well short of the 60 needed to overcome a filibuster.

If Obama issues an order on cybersecurity, it wouldn’t be the first time that his administration has resorted to executive action to bypass Congress.

Obama uses the slogan “we can’t wait” to argue that some issues are too important to be allowed to stall in Congress.

If I had to guess, Obama will probably wait until after the election to create this executive order considering that internet security gets a lot of attention by a lot of people.




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hbnolikeee
hbnolikeee

You have to ignore it! There are 99 days to summon the troops. Stay focused. Don't get misdirected.

kong1967
kong1967

Why don't we just ban Congress and the Senate? Obama doesn't need them, so what good are they?

King Obama.

Nukeman60
Nukeman60

I like Obama's slogan, "we can't wait" - for November.

AlabamaPatriot2
AlabamaPatriot2

To date, King Barry has signed over 975 EO's. GWB in 8 years signed 280.

An open disdain for Congress, perhaps? Or just an open disdain for us commoners.

kong1967
kong1967

Complete disdain for anything American. Our system, our Constitution, our laws, our freedoms....you name it, he hates it.

p m
p m

It would be good to think that if he did this now during recess, it would be his last ever run around the people's representatives. Think he'll gamble on the odds against impeachment? Given the reps lousy record, probably.

pdxlady
pdxlady

This is a bit off topic, but still about the internet. Lately I am having so much trouble loading these websites, like RS. My computer has become soooo slow and there are so many cookies added. I clear my temp. files cashe often, and have scrubbed with malware & spyware along with my Norton Internet Security.

Is anyone else having these proplems? I have been thinking for some time that all of our activity on the web is being monitored. Is it possible to live without Google and gmail? If any of you all have done this what have you done?

Thanks!

graywolf4life
graywolf4life

This is a way to control information, most of which he does not want you to know. This move will probably effect the very web site we are viewing right now. Call you congress members and ask for stark measures if this occurs.....

anyonebutbarry2012
anyonebutbarry2012

can not wait till nov to try and get this loser out of office. worse admin ever, imo

pdxlady
pdxlady

I just pray that we will be able to pry him out.

Nukeman60
Nukeman60

I have a large crowbar and a sledge hammer. Oh, yeah - we can pry him out.

pdxlady
pdxlady

I love it! I'll help :D

tvlgds
tvlgds

This guy uses the Constitution to wipe his backside. He believes he has absolute power.

Beausthebest
Beausthebest

Every time I see his arrogant mug with his nose in the air I want to knock that swollen head right off his shoulders! Hitler wannabe.

p m
p m

Adblock+ has a useful trick to block such images, which I use whenever I see him. Just right-click on animage and choose the option at the bottom. The only ones not blocked are the demonic ones here at RS, that remind us of what evil that POS represents.

Those are relished!

Army_Pilot1967
Army_Pilot1967

obama has done more end-runs than any football player you can name!!!!!!!

Theconservativechic
Theconservativechic

Romney better wipe that ---- eating grin off that arrogant face of his this November. Better yet, the American people MUST vote so that

Romney can do just that.

Freempg
Freempg

Even with the presidency, both houses of congress, the RINOs will act like choirboys, do everything by the book to prove how good they are, accomplishing nothing but maintaining the status quo. We need a Republican administration as lawless as this Chicago thugocracy to employ all means necessary to return us to a constitutional republic -- then we can go by the book, rather, the Consitution, again.

sDee
sDee

Whoever leads the return to the rule of law must follow the original intent of Constitution, or we have simply replaced one crime family with one that we like better.

Joe
Joe

No doubt - He thinks he's the KING!

AND

Is in your face about it

I hope the Republicans have a plan to CONVICT him after he's OUT!

http://images.sodahead.com/polls/002854405/1944638029_Obama_in_jail_answer_1_xlarge.jpeg

Freempg
Freempg

Would that it were so, Joe. We all know that it won't be. Obama will be paling around and yucking it up with the Clintons and the Bushes, living happily ever after, garnering huge speaking fees from our enemies to disclose our secrets.

Joe
Joe

I was just hoping - that's all

Just hoping!

Laurel
Laurel

Of course he is. That is what dictators do.

Whitewolf2009
Whitewolf2009

His move is NOT about Internet Security and all about Suppression of Free Speech! The Internet and websites like this fine one are now the only place you can get the TRUTH and FACTS that give the lie to the Liberal spin doctors in the MSM. Control the message, control the people. I'm sure Goebbels said some such thing... Or Stalin... Whichever, you get my point.

mark1955
mark1955

I believe this is the infamous,"Internet Kill Switch" Bill. It would give Obama the power to shut down the internet for up to four month's in the case of emergency.Then he would have to go back to congress every 4 month's to ask for permission. Geez,what could go wrong with that? sarc. This Bill is essential for Obama,or any other would be Dictator,in order to consolidate power. I fully expect him to sign this and i fully expect the repubs to do nothing other than faux protests,as i believe the repub establishment is mostly onboard Obama's agenda and the repubs want to censor the internet also,because we are finding out too much about their collaboration with the dems.

I believe the vote against the bill,is nothing,but pre-planned election year theatre. The vote is strictly to give the repubs and some so-called 'Blue Dog' dems,political cover,as they know Obama will sign it in to law any ways.

badbadlibs
badbadlibs

Goebbels, Stalin....they're models for the bo administration, so no doubt you're right.

badbadlibs
badbadlibs

There's one word that can sum up bo's presidency: LAWLESS!

Whitewolf2009
Whitewolf2009

Megadeth (US Metal Band) a long time ago covered a Sex Pistol song and changed the name a little. It was called "Anarachy in the USA." I bet it's NObama's favorite song.

With the State of the Nation.... Until Romney wins... We better hope for the best, but prepare for the worst.

sDee
sDee

Hussein Obama, and the unfathomable evil of the powers that prop such a man up, must stop the internet at all costs. The truth must be obscured.

The "press" as we knew it has now censured itself. Freedom of the press now lives only on the internet - with citizen journalists and citizens who choose to seek the truth. I think of this each and every time I click on a site like TRS. Our freedom is fragile.

p m
p m

That adds to the poignancy of RS's Breitbart article, too.

WordsFailMe
WordsFailMe

The only thing on the side of freedom is the millions of inet users who never had to deal with discipline in any form.

If he does does this thing, I predict that there will be: "The WHINE herd 'round the world."

sDee
sDee

That is if they figure it out before it is too late. Google worries me the most- nearly all web pages we hit on a Google search, are initially returned from copies on their servers. Cool technology but imagine the power they have. No wonder Google's founders' moto was "Do no evil".

p m
p m

Yes, that was a joke. 0zero just wants the same control over the internet that his muzzie friends in the ME exert. China, too.

badbadlibs
badbadlibs

I have a sil who is a liberal democrat from the word go....I'll never forget a couple of years into President Bush's presidency how she walked past me and said to the air...ha ha..."we're losing our freedoms everyday with this president".

Where are all the protests now???

The left are hypocrites of such a high order, there's no defining them anymore.

sDee
sDee

The power of propaganda. My son lamented something like your story last night. He cannot believe all his friends who so greatly distrusted the government under Bush, have now all gone melancholy and docile as far worse than anything they ever saw or imagined under Bush, happens with regularity under a lawless regime.

WordsFailMe
WordsFailMe

Maybe another landmark illegal act by the criminal Obama will drive the heartbroken twenteen'se out of their pajamas and into the voting booth.

badbadlibs
badbadlibs

Sadly, that's why the left gets away with the evil they love.

Whitewolf2009
Whitewolf2009

How true! Where's Cindy Sheehan(sp?) and her bunch of code pink losers now that NObama is killing more terrorists with drones than Bush did? Where's he bemoaning him keeping Camp Gitmo open? Nowhere! That's where! Their "outrage" was manufactured and politically based! I have ZERO respect for such people! They make hypocrisy an art form!

Whitewolf2009
Whitewolf2009

It's not the Obama Presidency or eve the Obama REGIME... It's the Obama DICTATORSHIP! Do it HIS way or he's do an end run around Congress and just go ahead and impose his dictates upon We The People. The False King NObama needs to be impeached!

WordsFailMe
WordsFailMe

He needs to be arrested the morning of Nov 7.

tx_gold
tx_gold

If anyone thinks this s.o.b. won't have to be removed forcibly from the WH if Romney if elected, they are delusional!

proudhispanicconservative
proudhispanicconservative

If there is one segment of the government that I believe is the military.I believe the military won't hesitate to have him removed.

sDee
sDee

Hussein Obama is s post turtle......prepped and primed for what he was set upon the White House post to complete. He has accomplished most of the damage, planted most of the seeds of destruction, he was put there for.

What concerns me more than continued usurpation, are those with the power, influence and money to pull this off such a deception...they could not have placed all their bets of this out of control marxist. They may go quiet, but will not go away quietly into the night.

The fight has just begun. I will trust no one until they have been through the fire.

marketcomp
marketcomp

I believe that too, tx_gold! I have said that all along that anyone who would use a fake birth certificate to get elected will do absolutely anything to get re-elected.

pdxlady
pdxlady

Not only that, but why would anyone completely seal up their past, unless they had something to hide? He has spent millions to seal every possible record about his entire life. Only the narrative that has been presented to us has been allowed.

pdxlady
pdxlady

Thanks Nuke! I'll just keep being me then :)

Nukeman60
Nukeman60

By all means, don't stop being 'preachy'. We all need it.

pdxlady
pdxlady

Thanks mc, I don't mean to be all preachy...Yes, I'm grateful that we do have sites like RS; and you also, enjoy your day! :D

marketcomp
marketcomp

I get'cha, pdxlady! We are all so frustrated but at least we have this outlet. I wish you well!

pdxlady
pdxlady

Sorry, I don't "put this on the Lord." God is in all and over all things. The lawlessness could only happen because for now, Satan is the god of this world. And he knows his time is short.

However, even Satan is under God's rule, and without the Lord allowing this evilness to continue it would not. The Lord has a purpose...for all men to be saved and come to the full knowledge of the truth. We are living in the age of Grace, however, in the Lord's time, this Grace will be removed.

marketcomp
marketcomp

Well I would not put this on the Lord. I would say that satan is encouraging this type of lawlessness. To me, God is associated with good contrastly satan associated with evil and bad.

pdxlady
pdxlady

The Lord is allowing this lawlessness, “the mystery of iniquity” to continue to give everyone the opportunity to turn from the delusion and “love the Truth that they may be saved.” (paraphrased)

2 Thessalonians 2 1-12

marketcomp
marketcomp

Excellent point, pdxlady! I just shutter to think what the story would be if Romney's or any republican had gone to this extent to hide, alter, or just lie about every single aspect of their life. This man is an imposter or plant and he along with David Axil Rod, Valerie Jarret, the wife Michelle Obama, and the democratic party should be thrown in jail for this fraud and burden put upon the American people and the country. I don't just believe this because I despise Obama's presence, I absolutely loathe Bill Clinton that rapist, but because this man is DESTROYING this country from within and that means the demise of our society and country as we know it and it could not happen without the media and the democrat party.