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Remember when Democrats, including a certain senator named Barack Obama, used to scream that President George W. Bush was abusing his executive powers?
Those were the good old days!
Since becoming president, Obama has turned the abuse of executive power into a high art form – especially since Republicans took control of the House of Representatives and rendered him incapable of getting the most extreme elements of his left-wing agenda through Congress.
Obama is especially brazen in his use of executive orders, and most astonishingly, he makes no bones about the fact that he does so – telling a gathering in Las Vegas last October, “We can’t wait for an increasingly dysfunctional Congress to do its job. Where they won’t act, I will.”
In Obamaspeak, “dysfunctional” is a euphemism for “won’t give me everything I want.” So what are the big emergencies that require Obama to act on his own without congressional approval? Here are nine of the most egregious examples:
Herman Cain, my favorite of the candidates this year, wrote this list of Obama's most egregious abuses of power.
Herman Cain, my favorite of the candidates this year, wrote this list of Obama's most egregious abuses of power.
Herman Cain? You’ve got to be kidding.
And how long has Cain been a Federal judge? In what case has any Federal judge ruled Obama engaged in ‘abuse of power’?
Obama is a lying, inept asshole who has disgraced the Office.
ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ Pubcrappe! Especially after Booosh, the champ, and your ridiculous Supremes...
You guys are kinda creepy with this Obama derangement syndrome. You can get professional help. I bet Obamacare would even pay for it. I know Scott Brown uses Obamacare. Probably Rick Santorum too.
That's because the law requires health plans to cover individuals, such as adult children, that they did not cover in the past; it bars health plans from putting lifetime and annual dollar limits on benefits; and it requires plans to provide preventive care services -- including contraceptives in a few months' time -- at no out-of-pocket cost to the enrollee, Edward Fensholt told the House Subcommittee on Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions. "These mandates have increased our clients' health plan costs 2 to 3 percent on average to this point," he said. And he said the costs will escalate further when new rules -- such as reductions in waiting periods and the automatic enrollment requirement -- take effect in 2014.
Fensholt is a senior vice president of Lockton Companies, LLC, an insurance brokerage and consulting firm that provides employee-benefits expertise to 2,500 mostly middle-market employers. In addition to the Affordable Care Acts coverage mandates, Fensholt said a "great frustration" for his clients is the law's "many additional administrative burdens." Under federal law right now, Fensholt said, a simple group health-care plan is required to supply up to 50 separate notices, disclosures and reports to enrollees or to the federal government -- often more than once. He noted that the Affordable Care Act added more than a dozen of those notices, disclosures and reports.
Fensholt gave several examples: Under the Affordable Care Act, health plans must provide a "four-page, double-sided summary of plan coverage in a very hard-wired format at specific times, not only to enrollees but to individuals who are merely eligible for coverage. And plans face fines of up to $1,000 per violation of this requirement," he said.
And starting in 2014, the law will require "significant and frequent reporting by employers," including what specific medical coverage the employer offers; a roster of employees who are eligible and enrolled in the company's health plan and whether those employees are full-time or part-time; the cost of the employer's health insurance offerings, and the employer's and employees' respective shares of that cost; and how many months of the year an employee and each of his enrolled dependents were covered by a company-sponsored plan. "Our clients are already drowning under the cost of provi ding robust health insurance to employees," Fensholt said. "Rather than tossing employers a lifeline, the Affordable Care Act is in many ways an anchor -- albeit a well-intentioned one -- by piling on additional costs and burdens."
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2008 Bush Derangement Syndrome.You guys are kinda creepy with this Obama derangement syndrome.
...the IRS has been mailing letters to Tea Party chapters around the country demanding identification of all their volunteers and donors. This is outrageous. Even if there was an issue with their tax status, the IRS would have no reason to demand information like this. It’s pure and simple political harassment.
Tea Party leaders say they were particularly offended by demands that they name donors and volunteers, which is required by law...
Attackwatch can't keep up with the un-American BULLSHYTTE of the Pub Propaganda Machine. A disgrace and a world laughingstock/horror.
