Krauthammer: Obama can't pass laws -- so he rewrites the rules (governing by regulation)

New York Daily News ^ | Friday, December 31st 2010 | Charles Krauthammer

[presidio9]

Most people don't remember Obamacare's notorious Section 1233, mandating government payments for end-of-life counseling. It aroused so much anxiety as a possible first slippery step on the road to state-mandated late-life rationing that the Senate never included it in the final health care law.

[Hotlanta Mike]

{Just wait, Charles will come out next week lauding Obama for some type of perceived brilliance, while at the same time dissing Palin.”}

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The Return of Obama Gravitas

http://www.americanthinker.com/2010/12/the_return_of_obama_gravitas.html

[Nachum]

Well well. Charles is ‘back on the reservation’. Writes a piece to satisfy the viral right wingers. He can only get away with a few ‘comeback kid’ pieces before he jeopardizes his gig at Fox.

[redpoll]

You are right. God help us.

[livius]

I honestly think he’s making the Bush mistake: crediting his enemies with honor.

He should know better by now. But Bush never learned either.

[Kent C]

“I honestly think he’s making the Bush mistake: crediting his enemies with honor.

He should know better by now. But Bush never learned either.”

Well... back to the current article. You derailed it and I bit :-) Like you said earlier “...seems he’s had an awakening!”

And this article is evidence of that. People are still stinging from his and Rove’s comments about a few of the “tea party” candidates.

And this is the passage that allows him to separate out from the others:

“Now as always, Obama’s heart lies left. **For those fooled into thinking otherwise** by the new Obama of Dec. 22, his administration’s defiantly liberal regulatory moves - on the environment, energy and health care - should disabuse even the most beguiled.”

IOW, regardless of what I may have said ‘I wasn’t fooled...’ So he’s scrambling a bit. I’m more than willing to give him the benefit of the doubt - while still recalling that he did take the invite to ‘the dinner’ :-)

[Kent C]

“The Return of Obama Gravitas

http://www.americanthinker.com/2010/12/the_return_of_obama_gravitas.html";

I expect Brooks, Frum, Noonan to pick up on this but not Krauthammer.. nor many in the ‘Clinton camp’ - some of them are more _done_ with him than the so called ‘conservative consultants’.

[GBA]

You could be right. CK is either hot or cold with his comments and it's hard to guess which CK will show up, the old political hack or current, more conservative version.

He has been raised up a notch on the Fox News panel discussions and I wondered if he is losing some edginess due to the work load.

Or is it that someone signs his paychecks and perhaps buys some of CK's objectivity or directs it to some degree?

[reasonisfaith]

Krauthammer should have paid attention to Palin when she warned us about death panels.

But no, at the time he wanted everyone to believe the “no death panels” propaganda.

Krauthammer is a leftist.

[presidio9]

Well thank You Mr. Krauthammer for stating the Obvious,all of which the Tea Partiers which you despise have been Saying since Before the election.

It is possible to disagree with some idiotic core Tea Party principles ("Sara Palin for President," for example) without hating the Tea Party or failing to recognize its overall utility to the Conservative cause.

BTW, that's DOCTOR Krauthammer to you. Dr. Krauthammer is an ally not a brother conservative. He once wrote put words into Walter Mondale's mouth, for crying out loud.

[ballplayer]

Well as For DR. Krauthammer thats fine,But he will denigrate Sarah Palin but Praise a Black A-hole who never ran a Lemonade Stand and Is destroying the Country. I will take the Idiot Sarah Palin any day

[presidio9]

Well as For DR. Krauthammer thats fine,But he will denigrate Sarah Palin but Praise a Black A-hole who never ran a Lemonade Stand and Is destroying the Country. I will take the Idiot Sarah Palin any day

Again, you are missing the point that Dr. Krauthammer has never once in his life identified himself as a Conservative. He is an extremely intelligent man with exceptional political instincts, a generally conservative disposition, and several notable libertarian holdovers. \ Notably he is moderately pro choice on abortion - interestingly, despite being a paraplegic and a medical doctor, he opposes government funding of stem cell research. All of this being the case, he presents himself weekly in the New York Daily News -perhaps the most apologetically liberal paper in the United States. He recognizes that he won't change a lot of minds (or keep his paycheck for long) with a nonstop series of "Bush Was Right/Obama Is A Socialist" columns. You've done this yourself in your life occasionally, whether you realize it or not. When arguing with a liberal, must occasionally concede points that you disagree with in order to keep the dialog engaged. And if you haven't, I suspect that you live in a cave with no visitors.

Now that we've finished that business, can you please give me one legitimate reason why Sara Palin would be a good choice to be leader of the free world? And, while you're at it, tell everybody reading this just what exactly President Obama's race has to do with his qualifications or job performance? That sort of thing has no business on FR.

[presidio9]

Well as For DR. Krauthammer thats fine,But he will denigrate Sarah Palin but Praise a Black A-hole who never ran a Lemonade Stand and Is destroying the Country. I will take the Idiot Sarah Palin any day

Along with Ann Coulter (who I assume you also hate) I like Sara Palin just fine doing what she's doing right now (stirring up red state conservatives and pissing off blue state liberals). Like Coulter, Krauthammer, Limbaugh, and just about any other intelligent conservative I can think of, I stop liking her whenever it starts to look like she might abandon her current occupation (such as it is) and resume her career in politics. You can argue about this until you turn blue and the the fact will remain that she can never win a Republican primary in a blue state like NY, California or Massachusetts. She has a chance in a purple state like Florida or Pennsylvania, but only if liberals show up to vote for her like conservatives did for Hillary Clinton in "Operation Chaos." Therefore, she has almost zero chance of winning a Republican nomination. I know, I know, the primary system is broken in this sense. Why should delegates even count from states that are guaranteed to go to Obama in the general election, right? But it won't get fixed in the next two years.

This brings us to my (and Ann's and Rush's, and the good Doctor's) problem with Palin: If she's serious about running for president, it will have to be as an independent Tea Party candidate. The only thing this will accomplish will be to hand a second term to Obama.

[dforest]

Krauthammer swoons at Obama’s scripted speeches.

I don’t think he particulary swoons at his job of leader.

[windsorknot]

Krauthammer is right; Obama has usurped legislative authority, and undermines Constitutional provisions for the separation of power among the three branches of government. Obama is a tyrant, and Republicans should not be sidetracked by overtures of “civility”.