The Obama administration cannot simply declare those mandates suspended on their own, as they have attempted to do over the past few weeks, no more than they can stall on Yucca Mountain indefinitely. The Department of Health and Human Services can only ignore these statutes, according to Aiken County, if the President finds them to be unconstitutional. That would be a neat trick, considering that the Obama administration fought for years to establish the constitutionality of the mandates. Otherwise, as the appeals court states, the executive branch has to work with the legislative branch to amend statutes with which they prefer not to comply, or follow the law.
Yes.
Next question?
What law? POS totalitarians can FORCE you to do something and they can do anything they want. What law?
FUBO
FUCONgress
FUUSSC
To me, it’s too bad that courts will rule against the POTUS arbitrarily delaying tax laws like Obamacare.
I’ve never heard of a better national issue than a presidential candidate promising to delay the income tax for 4 years.
If politics is all about addition (what you can GIVE people) then the ability to give them ALL their tax money back is the ultimate winner.
The writer thinks he knows what he is talking about, but does not.
The court has no enforcement capability ant the
treacherous tyrants will merely ignore the ruling.
There is no recourse against them.
Until a death factor is introduced into the law enforcement equation, laws will continue to be ignored
Speaking of Obamacare, I find it ironic that the GOP House is struggling over whether to defund Obamacare. The fact is, Obama (through executive Fiat) has already defunded Obamacare by delaying all the income generating mandates. Obama is serving the desert, but not the vegetables. What the GOP really should be debating is funding it in spite of all the income generating mandates being delayed for a year. Why spokespeople for the House can’t seem to get this message out is beyong frustrating. Say it ith me: OBAMA HAS ALREADT DEFUNDED OBAMACARE—by Obama himself!!
My strategy going forward would be to agree to raise the debt ceiling on condition that 1) Obamacare is implemented as written and according to law (sorry—it is the law) or 2) The entire law is delayed for one year via an act of Congress and a Presidential signature. This would force Obama to either embrace the entire law with all of its pain or reject the entire law for one year and admit it’s a mess. If he refuses to do either, the debt ceiling doesn’t get increased...which will be on Obama.
duh
Yes, it is just another day at the White House killing the Constitution.
Did Obama Flout the Law by Delaying Obamacare?
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Did he also flout the law by refusing to implement DOMA?
Time for the LIBERTY AMENDMENTS!
PJ, I heard Jamie Dupree opine last week that Congress gives bureaucrats powers to implement through regulation, or not implement parts of laws the Congress has passed. (One more reason to rein-in bureaucrazies). Of course this is what I would have expected Dupree to say since he disguises himself as non-partisan when in fact I can see through the veneer as easily as the rest of you.
This administration chose to ignore DOMA, chose to ignore the Congressional requests for documents regarding Bengazi, Fast & Furious, and on, and on. Is it lawlessness if we refuse to abide the edicts of this Administration and it’s ancillary bureaucracies?