President Obama’s
increasingly grandiose claims for presidential power are inversely proportional
to his shriveling presidency. Desperation fuels arrogance as, barely 200 days
into the 1,462 days of his second term, his pantry of excuses for failure is bare, his domestic agenda is nonexistent and his foreign policy of empty rhetorical deadlines
and red lines is floundering. And at last week’s news conference he offered
inconvenience as a justification for illegality.
Explaining his
decision to unilaterally rewrite the Affordable Care Act
(ACA), he said: “I didn’t simply choose to” ignore the statutory requirement
for beginning in 2014 the employer mandate to provide employees with health
care. No, “this was in consultation with businesses”….. “In a normal political
environment, it would have been easier for me to simply call up the speaker and
say, you know what, this is a tweak that doesn’t go to the essence of the law.
. . ., let’s make a technical change to the law.
That would be the normal thing that I would prefer to do. But we’re not in a normal atmosphere around
here when it comes to Obamacare. We
did have the executive authority to do so, and we did so.”…….journalists
did not ask the pertinent question: “Where does the Constitution confer upon presidents the ‘executive authority’
to ignore the separation of powers by revising laws?” The question could have
elicited an Obama rarity: brevity. Because there is no such authority.........To Read More......
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