When is a Law, Not a Law? When Obama Says So

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Obama should be Impeached AND his comrades in arms administration should be run out on a rail for not following the rules of the law which THEY took an oath to PROTECT..people need to wake up and hold this man accountable

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Published on Wednesday, July 10, 2013
Tags:Alan Caruba|Conservative Politics|Obama Care


By Alan Caruba

Alan Caruba
Column by Alan Caruba

New Jersey --(Ammoland.com)- Obamacare has been showing signs of being so unenforceable, so expensive, and so utterly stupid that Obama’s administration has had to engage in all manner of patently illegal waivers and delays to maintain theirs lies about it.

In the words of the late Chinese Communist dictator, Mao Zedong, Obamacare has been “a great leap forward” to reform healthcare in America. In China, the Great Leap killed an estimated forty million people between 1958 and 1961.


There is no way of knowing how many Obamacare would kill when (and if) it is fully implemented.

Presidents are not allowed to decide what part of what laws —or any laws— they do not want to enforce. Michael W. McConnell, a professor of law and director of the Constitutional Law Center at Stanford Law School and a senior fellow at the Hoover Foundation, recently noted that “Article II, Section 3, of the Constitution states that the president ‘shall take care that the laws be faithfully executed.’ This is a duty, not a discretionary power. While the president does have substantial discretion about how to enforce a law, he has no discretion about whether to do so.”

In Clinton v. City of New York, 1998, Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens wrote that “There is no provision in the Constitution that authorizes the president to enact, to amend, or to repeal statutes.” MConnell cites this, saying “The employer mandate in the Affordable Care Act contains no provision allowing the president to suspend, delay or repeal it.”

Bearing in mind that Obamacare essentially authorizes the government to seize control of one sixth of the nation’s economy, not to mention intrusively getting between a physician and his patient, it is such a legislative monstrosity, so poorly conceived and written, that it has been subject to a series of desperate efforts by the Obama administration to “fix” what is essentially unfixable.

Obamacare’s effect on the economy has already been felt, slowing hiring, moving fulltime employees to part-time status, causing the cost of premiums to skyrocket, and contributing to 54 months of economic stagnation. It has become a political liability to Democrats who will run for office in the 2014 midterm elections.

Just slightly more than half the States refused to set up the “exchanges” in which individuals would select their insurance plans. This has forced the federal government to set up their own and that is not going well. In April the administration announced that workers will not be able to choose plans from different health insurers in the small business exchanges next year.

The IRS announced it would implement the law’s tax credits, subsidies, and taxes in states with federal exchanges even though the Act “clearly, repeatedly, consistently, and intentionally prohibits the IRS from doing so,” according to Michael Cannon of the Cato Institute. “The IRS has literally asserted the authority to tax, borrow, and spend more than $1 trillion contrary to the express will of Congress” citing Section 4980H of the Act that requires it begin after December 31, 2013.

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Another fine example of this is:
Law requires Obama administration to cut off Egyptian aid
$1.5 billion in U.S. foreign aid slated for Egypt is up for grabs.
Section 508 of the decades-old Foreign Assistance Act stipulates that “none of the funds appropriated or otherwise made available pursuant to this Act shall be obligated or expended to finance directly any assistance to any country whose duly elected head of government is deposed by a military coup or decree.”
A clause in the 2011 omnibus bill strengthens the provision, excluding from American aid any nation experiencing a “coup d’etat or decree in which the military plays a decisive role.”
Does the Obama Administration follow the law or ignore it? What will he do?

Committee Reports - 105th Congress (1997-1998) - House Report 105-825
Will Obama follow the law.... Not a chance in hell, For the Republicans another chance to bring Obama up for Impeachment, but again this shows that the Dem and the Republicans are just the flip side of the same coin. The $1.5 billion in U.S. foreign aid to Egypt will continue to flow unimpeded.
 
And, say-hey, and don't forget, letting the DREAM Act folk stay here by Imperial Decree, contrary to US Law, when Congress refused to pass the DREAM Act.
 
again, conservatives lie.


WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. lawmakers will begin to vote as soon as next week on legislation that could continue aid to Egypt even if the Obama administration determines that the ouster of elected President Mohamed Mursi was a military coup, lawmakers and aides said on Thursday.

The United States currently sends $1.3 billion in military aid and $250 million in economic aid to Egypt each year, but the military coup label would cut off the flow under a U.S. law dating to the 1980s.

As a result, the White House and State Department have so far refused to characterize Mursi's ouster as a coup, with administration officials often resorting to verbal gymnastics to avoid using the word.

Republican U.S. Representative Kay Granger, chairwoman of the House of Representatives subcommittee in charge of the aid, said her panel was considering allowing more flexibility, such as language that would allow the aid to continue if doing so were deemed to be in the U.S. national security interest.

The law as currently written bans the administration from waiving the restriction, even if the administration judges it to be important for national security.

"There is not a waiver (provision) in the coup legislation," Granger told Reuters in an interview. "That could be changed, however, if the Congress says we are going to allow a waiver."

U.S. lawmakers may ease 'coup' ban on aid to Egypt
 
There are so many reasons to impeach this SOB that it's a mystery as to what Congress is waiting for. Maybe tge 2014 elections when the dimwits are driven back under their rocks.
 
When it's 3,000 pages long and has a stack of regulations tacked on to it ten feet high. The health care law is smoke and mirrors and it looks like it backfired big time.
 
Americans have to stop, think and decide whether Barack Hussein Obama II has honored the Oath Of Office that he has taken on at least two occasions.

The Oath of the presidency:
“I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will faithfully execute the Office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my Ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States.”

Is and has Obama lived up to the to his oath of Office? You decide.
You cannot pick and choose the laws you want to enforce. They must all be enforced.
 
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Reagan and Bush sr did it, so what makes you think only Oblama is the bad guy?

Did what?
WTF are you Bush-whacking about.

It's a little late to impeach Bush, numbskull.
You had plenty of opportunities when he was POTUS.
My own mom had an "Impeach Bush" bumper sticker.

Now....how about addressing the topic of the OP, rather than your ever-fucking-constant deflection?
 
Another fine example of this is:
Law requires Obama administration to cut off Egyptian aid
$1.5 billion in U.S. foreign aid slated for Egypt is up for grabs.
Section 508 of the decades-old Foreign Assistance Act stipulates that “none of the funds appropriated or otherwise made available pursuant to this Act shall be obligated or expended to finance directly any assistance to any country whose duly elected head of government is deposed by a military coup or decree.”
A clause in the 2011 omnibus bill strengthens the provision, excluding from American aid any nation experiencing a “coup d’etat or decree in which the military plays a decisive role.”
Does the Obama Administration follow the law or ignore it? What will he do?

Committee Reports - 105th Congress (1997-1998) - House Report 105-825
Will Obama follow the law.... Not a chance in hell, For the Republicans another chance to bring Obama up for Impeachment, but again this shows that the Dem and the Republicans are just the flip side of the same coin. The $1.5 billion in U.S. foreign aid to Egypt will continue to flow unimpeded.

This is what I thought the topic was about when I saw the title

:cool:
 
The way a president executes the law is not an impeachable offense, you idiots.

To be impeached a president has to be guilty of "high crimes and misdemeanors."

Even the stupid columnist who wrote the stupid column doesn't claim Obama should be impeached.
 
Reagan and Bush sr did it, so what makes you think only Oblama is the bad guy?

They did it too! :eusa_hand:

You LOLberals need to admit you have no ground to stand on over conservatives. You're just as bad, if not worse. And the part that really makes it disgusting is that you actually claim to be, while putting down conservatives.

Pathetic.
 
Mao commented on Obamacare?

Dayum..this Obamacare thing must be GREAT if it can raise the dead.

No wonder conservatives think Obama is a "messiah".

:lol:
 
Reagan and Bush sr did it, so what makes you think only Oblama is the bad guy?

They did it too! :eusa_hand:

You LOLberals need to admit you have no ground to stand on over conservatives. You're just as bad, if not worse. And the part that really makes it disgusting is that you actually claim to be, while putting down conservatives.

Pathetic.

:lol:

So if Obama doesn't break from past policy he's bad?

And if he does, he's a radical, which is bad?

Which is it bub?
 
Reagan and Bush sr did it, so what makes you think only Oblama is the bad guy?

They did it too! :eusa_hand:

You LOLberals need to admit you have no ground to stand on over conservatives. You're just as bad, if not worse. And the part that really makes it disgusting is that you actually claim to be, while putting down conservatives.

Pathetic.

:lol:

So if Obama doesn't break from past policy he's bad?

And if he does, he's a radical, which is bad?

Which is it bub?

You tell me. You whine about republicans, then when your team does it, you excuse it by saying "they did it too!" as your justification. If you dont mind when your team does it, dont fucking bitch about the "other" team doing it as though you are some more principled. That's a lie. You're not.

Both sides in the partisan world of pathetic are guilty. Just own it. Cheer for it. But for fucks sake be consistent. I know thats hard when you stand for nothing, but at least try it.
 
The way a president executes the law is not an impeachable offense, you idiots.

To be impeached a president has to be guilty of "high crimes and misdemeanors."

Even the stupid columnist who wrote the stupid column doesn't claim Obama should be impeached.

LOl, well golly gee, none of us here knew that , I'm sure..
ok, you're so damn smart... how about the people get pitchforks and run him out?
 

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