.......hey you know under these auspices, a rep president can say hey I aint defending obama care, enforcing its precepts as legislated by congress etc....
he wants to have to every which way to Sunday, which is not surprising;
just recently-
Last month, then-White House press secretary Robert Gibbs said that “we can’t declare the law unconstitutional…The President believes, as you said, that this is a law that should not exist and should be repealed. But we, at the same time, have to represent the viewpoint of the defendant.” Gibbs said that “given the current makeup of the Congress,” having DOMA repealed would be :inordinately challenging,”
President Obama Instructs Justice Department to Stop Defending Defense of Marriage Act calls Clinton-Signed Law "Unconstitutional" - Political Punch
and he says it best----
Krauthammer;
Look, I can understand the president struggling, that's the word he used, with the wisdom of gay marriage, with the propriety, with its social effects, but to struggle over the constitutionality of it? This is after two years of defending the constitutionality, all of a sudden he wakes up on a Wednesday and decides that all of his arguments are now invalid -- color me skeptical on this one.
I think what is going on here is you've got a president who's got a listless base on the left, he's running for re-election, this is a nice way to throw a bone to shore up part of his constituency.
And second, here's a president who is all of a sudden out of nowhere, bringing up what the mainstream media likes to call a 'wedge issue, ' a divisive issue, out of nowhere, at a time when he's being attacked for his lack of action, his passivity on the debt issue, for his passivity, lack of action on the Middle East on fire, for his lack of leadership on the debt, all of a sudden he comes up with a social issue on which the Clinton administration had found something of a federal compromise.
It allows each state to be laboratory of democracy, work it out on its own. The key provision of the defense of marriage act is that states are not required to recognize gay marriage of other states so it doesn't federalize it. And that is a good compromise in a large country that is not united on this issue and allows each state to go its own way.
And all of a sudden he's saying I woke up this morning and I can't defend it even though his government is required to actually continue to enforce it. It makes no sense at all.
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Obama Changes His Public Position on Gay Marriage - FoxNews.com
a wag the dog moment to I think...hes getting hammered on several fronts sooooo, old Russian proverb;" what to do when you are in a crisis? Create another crisis...."
