“Legal scholars have questioned whether the Constitution permits President Obama to categorically suspend valid laws based on political or administrative convenience.” … Maybe Congress is dysfunctional because any political capital they spend on legislation may come to naught if the President [Obama] can select which laws he will or will not enforce. ========= By Brian Callanan The Obama administration is in... Read more
Archive for the ‘ObamaCare’ Category
A Legal Poison Pill for ObamaCare
January 14 | Posted by mrossol | Obama, ObamaCare, US ConstitutionObama’s Magnitsky Walkback
January 6 | Posted by mrossol | ObamaCare, US ConstitutionI’ve asked before: Is Obama “faithfully executing” the laws of the United States or isn’t he? =========== A year ago President Obama signed the Magnitsky Act, an historic human-rights bill aimed at Russian abuses. [As far as I understand, this is the law of the land.] The Administration has now marked the anniversary by flouting the law and reneging on its promise... Read more
Suing Over ObamaCare Exemptions for Congress
January 6 | Posted by mrossol | ObamaCareWill be interesting to see how far this effort is able to go. At face value, it certainly seems to make sense. ========== By RON JOHNSON Jan. 5, 2014 6:06 p.m. ET On Monday, Jan. 6, I am filing suit in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin to make Congress live by the letter of the health-care law it imposed... Read more
Obama Repeals ObamaCare
December 29 | Posted by mrossol | ObamaCareChange has come…. Ruling by executive fiat. ============ It seems Nancy Pelosi was wrong when she said “we have to pass” ObamaCare to “find out what’s in it.” No one may ever know because the White House keeps treating the Affordable Care Act’s text as a mere suggestion subject to day-to-day revision. Its latest political retrofit is the most brazen: President Obama... Read more
What to Do When ObamaCare Unravels
December 25 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Health, ObamaCareShort on details – maybe not the author’s objective. But worth the read. ============= By John H. Cochrane Dec. 25, 2013 3:51 p.m. ET The unraveling of the Affordable Care Act presents a historic opportunity for change. Its proponents call it “settled law,” but as Prohibition taught us, not even a constitutional amendment is settled law—if it is dysfunctional enough, and if... Read more
National Lampoon’s ObamaCare Vacation
December 20 | Posted by mrossol | ObamaCareWhen you’ve never done anything but organize communities, this is what you get. ============ President Obama has responded to the ObamaCare debacle by bringing in Beltway liberal mastermind John Podesta as a senior West Wing hand, and he promptly announced his arrival by likening House Republicans to “a cult worthy of Jonestown” in an interview with Politico. The states running their... Read more
