The President Who Would Be King
From the WSJ, the President is a "do as he wants" not "do as the laws say" kind of guy. He's been busy rewriting Obamacare to suit himself:
"ObamaCare" is useful shorthand for the Affordable Care Act not least because the law increasingly means whatever President Obama says it does on any given day. His latest lawless rewrite arrived on Monday as the White House decided to delay the law's employer mandate for another year and in some cases maybe forever.ObamaCare requires businesses with 50 or more workers to offer health insurance to their workers or pay a penalty, but last summer the Treasury offered a year-long delay until 2015 despite having no statutory authorization. Like the individual mandate, the employer decree is central to ObamaCare's claim of universal coverage, but employers said the new labor costs--and the onerous reporting and tax-enforcement rules--would damage job creation and the economy.
Liberals insisted that such arguments were false if not beneath contempt, but then all of a sudden the White House implicitly endorsed the other side. Now the new delay arrives amid a furious debate about jobs after a damning Congressional Budget Office report last week, only this time with liberals celebrating ObamaCare's supposed benefits to the job market.
Well, which is it? Either ObamaCare is ushering in a worker's paradise, in which case by the White House's own logic exempting businesses from its ministrations is harming employees. Or else the mandate really is leading business to cut back on hiring, hours and shifting workers to part-time as the evidence in the real economy suggests.
Meanwhile, Obamacare is screwing over people like me who don't work for a company or get their healthcare through it. William Kristol and Jeffrey H. Anderson ask at The Weekly Standard:
Why should millions of Americans who get insurance through their employer get a tax break, while millions who buy it on their own through the individual market do not?
Yes, it's 21st century healthcare, designed for 1952. Thanks so much, Obama!
"Nothing" has been objectively evaluated in the last five years. Every single policy is all spin.
This is what you get with a charismatic cult in charge of the government. It is "Caligula light," without all the public executions, and other blood sports the Romans enjoyed.
If they could just find away to get rid of those pesky elections, Obama would not have to keep pushing implementation back.
Isab at February 11, 2014 6:42 AM
Looks like there's gonna be something else for Obaba to be considering:
http://www.nbcnews.com/news/mideast/huge-anti-american-crowds-mark-iran-revolution-n27091
From the article:
"Chants of “Death to Israel” and “Down with the U.S.” reverberated and groups of young people approached NBC News’ crew to deliver their message of anger and distrust.
"I have a message for Mr. Obama: My option on the table is the destruction of Israel, be sure of that," 22-year-old student Jamshid said during the events marking the 1979 toppling of Shah Reza Pahlavi, a close U.S. ally.
"I have a message from the people of Iran to Mr. Obama and [Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin] Netanyahu -- we are ready for big war," another young man told NBC News."
Swell.
Flynne at February 11, 2014 6:56 AM
Nah, Emperor TehWon just styles himself as a latter day Humpty Dumpty:
I R A Darth Aggie at February 11, 2014 6:58 AM
"Chants of “Death to Israel” and “Down with the U.S.”
Hey, they're starting to like us. It used to be Death to the Great Satan, so that's an improvement...
I R A Darth Aggie at February 11, 2014 7:00 AM
Amy Alkon
http://www.advicegoddess.com/archives/2014/02/11/the_president_w_1.html#comment-4251838">comment from I R A Darth AggieNaw -- we're just not all that great anymore.
Amy Alkon at February 11, 2014 7:37 AM
The ACA passes "constitutional" muster by the admin arguing it was a tax before the supreme court.
According to that same constitution direct taxes can not be levied against some citizens while others are given politically granted exemptions.
Why cant people now sue on the grounds that the government is violating the equal protections clause?
lujlp at February 11, 2014 12:31 PM
I'm usually not too bad of a redneck, but; I don't want any subsidy, I'm not voting for them, and I'm making a bet that I die before they get me on their f*****g list.
Canvasback at February 11, 2014 6:01 PM
lujlp: Because GW Bush's gift to the socialists, John Roberts, ruled that the penalty was an _indirect_ tax.
markm at February 16, 2014 6:07 AM
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