Obama wants more power!
 HuffingtonPost.com (excerpts):  Washington - Seeking more power to shrink the government, President Barack Obama on Friday suggested smashing six economic agencies into one, an election year idea intended to halt bureaucratic nightmares and force Republicans to back him on one of their own favorite issues.  "The government we have is not the government we need," Obama told business owners he'd gathered at the White House.  Lawmakers seemed unwilling to at least consider his ideas.  Sounding like a manager of a disorganized company, and looking like one by pointing to slides as he spoke, Obama asked Congress to give him a kind of reorganization power no president has had since Ronald Reagan.  It would guarantee Obama a vote, within 90 days, of any idea he offers to consolidate agencies, provided it saves money and cuts the government.  His first potential target: merging six major trade and commerce agencies into a one-stop-shopping department for American business.  The Commerce Department would be among those that would cease to exist.  Attacking senseless duplication across the executive branch he runs, "Obama said, 'Why is it okay for our government?  It's not.  It has to change.'"  Politically, Obama is seeking advantage on the turf often owned by Republicans: smaller government.  He is attempting to directly counter Republican arguments that he has presided over the kind of regulation, spending and debt that can undermine the economy - a dominant theme of this year's debate and one often cited by his potential reelection rival, Republican Mitt Romney.  Obama said he would use his expanded authority to recommend the collapsing of other agencies across the government, not just in the business field, without getting specific.

Republicans skeptically pointed to Obama's past promises, as the size of the nation's debt keeps growing.  Indeed, Obama promised more plans to shrink things, if given more power! 

Commentary:  Given the manner in which Obama has bypassed Congress, to the point of illegally making "recess appointments" when Congress is not in recess at all, and going to war in Libya without Congress approval, in violation of the War Powers Act, it seems he could have accomplished a lot more for the good of this nation before now, had he chosen to do so.  This is a campaign ruse if I ever saw one!  He has relentlessly spent this nation into inconceivable debt; he has illegally bypassed Congress to make appointments he knows they do not approve of, and he recently signed into law the National Defense Authorization Act, which gave him dictatorial powers to arrest and hold indefinitely citizens of the United States without a trial!  This man is dangerous and I wouldn't believe a word he says, especially during his campaign.  He promised to end the war in Iraq as soon as he took office, but consider what he actually did.  He kept the war going until about three years into his presidency, then brought the troops home.  905 US troops lost their lives in Iraq since Obama took office.  If he had actually kept his promise, almost a thousand of our young sons and daughters would still be alive!!  According to Political Facts, Obama has broken 57 promises in the last three years!  (See the list: Political Facts)  Congress better watch out, their jobs may be the first ones to go, in order to bring himself into a total dictatorship!  The Word of God says, "Why do you spend money for that which is not bread and labor for that which does not satisfy?  Listen to Me (God) and eat that which is good and let your soul delight itself in fatness" Isaiah 55:2.  "If they obey and serve Him (God), they will spend their days in prosperity and their years in pleasures" Job 36:11.  Obama makes fun of God's Word (see the video on the News Videos page).  Do you think our nation will prosper under his administration?  Think again!