"
| You Just Can't Make This Stuff
Up |
Monday, February 10, 2014
–
Election year politics can sometimes bring
about strange results. Without seeking Congressional approval, President Obama
has yet again delayed part of Obamacare’s employer mandate, one of the law’s
major provisions. By manipulating its implementation, the Administration is now
unilaterally exempting employers with less than 100 employees from the employer
mandate until 2016. President Obama is essentially admitting that Obamacare,
his signature health care law, is a house of cards in a slow state of
collapse.
This act by the Administration to delay a
provision of Obamacare without Congressional approval is another example of
presidential overreach. To borrow from a June 2012 Politico story
entitled "Obama’s Policy Strategy: Ignore Laws" -
"'The President is using executive power to do
things Congress has refused to do, and that does fit a disturbing pattern of
expansion of executive power under President Obama,' said Jonathan Turley, a
constitutional law scholar at George Washington University Law School, known for
his support of progressive causes as well as his ire at Obama for not
prosecuting Bush officials in connection with alleged torture of terror
suspects.
"'In many ways, President Obama has fulfilled
the dream of an imperial presidency that Richard Nixon strived for. On
everything from [DOMA] to the gaming laws, this is a President who is now
functioning as a super legislator. He is effectively negating parts of the
criminal code because he disagrees with them. That does go beyond the
pale.'"
And folks, you just can’t make this stuff
up!"
No comments:
Post a Comment