Posted on 08/21/2011 9:10:52 PM PDT by upchuck
Looking toward to a not-so-distant future where Rick Perry could occupy the Oval Office, candidate Perry had this to say when speaking last week in South Carolina-
"If I'm so fortunate to be elected the president of the United States, on Day One, when I walk into the Oval Office, there will be an executive order on that desk that eliminates as much of ObamaCare that I can have done with an executive order."
What should disturb you about this vision of the future is not so much that a President Perry would try to bring Obamacare to an end as that is to be expected from any GOP contender.What should give you pause is that, in a Perry White House, our 45th president would begin his term by signing an executive order that would be, for all real purposes, a blank page.
Talk about an inauspicious beginning as representative of what I fear we might continue to expect from a President Perry.
Like it or not, there is virtually nothing a president can do by executive order to overturn this legislation passed by the Congress and signed into law by the current President.
While a future Congress could, theoretically, bring the Accountable Care Act to an end, and while the Supreme Court may yet destroy part or all of the law before Perry needs to make good on a promise that he cannot possibly keep, the simple fact is that there is really no impact on the law that might result from such an executive order.
Perry is not the first GOP candidate to attempt to bamboozle his audience with such nonsense. Michele Bachmann has promised to single-handedly take down the law right after she gets gas prices down under $2.00 a gallon.
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Yeah. Who does he think he is. Barack Obama?
I would appoint an HHS Secretary who hates Obamacare as much as I do, and given the broad powers Obamacare gives to the HHS Secretary, that would pretty much stop any implementation in its tracks, until Congress can repeal the thing.
Yeah. Well. I guess we'll find out what's in it after he signs it.
Ha haaa! Cha-ching!
I actually liked what Perry said about health care. His speeches are very articulate.
On healthcare Gov. Rick Perry believes that "the best way for the federal government to improve healthcare is to stimulate job creation so more Americans are covered by employer-sponsored health plans. Creating jobs will also reduce the strain on public safety net programs like Medicaid, saving taxpayer dollars."
If elected, he promised to repeal Obamacare calling it "a misguided, unconstitutional and unsustainable government takeover of our health care that will undermine patient quality, increase red tape and send costs skyrocketing for taxpayers, patients and healthcare providers."
I really wish the other candidates will get more specific as to what they will do like Rick Perry and Herman Cain have done.
Amen, bro. Who was that idiot GOP candidate a while back who bamboozled his audience into believing he would lower the sea levels?
Oh. Wait.
Yahoo News is a left-wing rag.
Might just s^^ck to be Obama and the Libs at some point.
All that and a scary picture too. AP are real professionals.
President Perry. Yeah. I like the sound of that. Say it again, Felix....errrr....I mean Rick.
Meanwhile...Obama issues Exec order for amnesty...
Nothing to see here....move along...
I’m not sure that I like his new look that much either (see pictures in article).
It should start out with he disclaimer that the entirety of the article is based on the supposition that 1) competition doesn’t lower prices or increase quality, and 2) presidential EOs are limited solely to one certain type of Obamacare waiver.
Then, given that these are accepted implicitly and for all cases, let’s talk about healthcare...
Liberalthink: it’s not just denial, it’s a way of life.
An old, now forgotten, political saying: “never give yourself a power you do not want in the hands of the other side.”
It’s a political feint.
We need Perry in the executive and we need a new Senate.
Perry isn’t stupid.
He is just picking at Obamas Achilles heel
Just think how much deeper the seas would be if there were no sponges living there!
Well, he could take a page out of the Obama playbook, announce that he thinks the law is unconstitutional, and stop defending it in court — let the democrats pay to defend it, like the republicans are having to pay to defend DOMA.
I don’t like that idea, but at least with Obamacare, it was passed recently, is clearly unconstitutional, and only democrats voted for it, so making them pay to defend it would be fair play. DOMA was passed with strong democrat support and signed by a democratic president.
It is also clear that the executive branch was given broad powers to implement the law, and those could be used to stop it. He could also issue an EO to stop implementation until the court cases are finished — then the democrats would have to sue to overturn that position, which would be reasonable.
There may be other parts of the bill that also granted the executive power over how the law is implemented.
But clearly the next step is to repeal the thing through congress.
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