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Krauthammer: These ObamaCare changes are getting so endemic, “nobody even complains” anymore
Hotair ^ | 02/10/2014 | Erika Johnsen

Posted on 02/10/2014 7:24:28 PM PST by SeekAndFind

They have a whole heap of regulations still left to write (at least $1.4 billion in annual compliance costs’ worth, by one estimate), but the employer mandate was part of the actual text of the law. Where is it written that they can just make at-will changes ad infinitum? Watch it at RCP:

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Generally speaking, you get past the next election by changing your policies, by announcing new initiatives, but not by wantonly changing the law, lawlessly. I mean, this is stuff that you do in a banana republic. It’s as if the law is simply a blackboard on which Obama writes any number he wants, any delay he wants and any provision. It’s now reached a point where it is so endemic that nobody even notices or complains. I think if the complaints had started with the first arbitrary changes, and these are are not adjustments or transitions. These are political decisions to minimize the impact leading up to an election, and it’s changing the law in a way that you are not allowed to do. … It’s not incompetence. Willful breaking of the constitutional order — where in the Constitution is the president allowed to alter a law 27 times after it’s been passed?

And besides the utter lawlessness of the whole thing, there’s still the question of the tangible price of the White House’s non-legislative mood swings: After the Obama administration’s initial employer-mandate suspension through 2015 that they made back in July, the CBO estimated that it would add an additional $12 billion onto the total cost of ObamaCare because employers wouldn’t be paying penalties (i.e., taxes) on not insuring people, while more people would likely need to seek subsidized insurance through the exchanges because their employers wouldn’t be required to offer it yet. Won’t delaying the employer mandate again add at least ten billion or so more onto the total ObamaCare price tag? Especially if the Obama administration does decide to go through with the rumored (and, incidentally, also lawless) three-year extension of the “if you like your plan, you can keep it” fix for the cancelled plans in the individual market, doesn’t that all increase the likelihood of major “risk corridor” bailouts and/or the law’s fiscal implosion? What is going on?!


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: abortion; deathpanels; krauthammer; obamacare; zerocare
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1 posted on 02/10/2014 7:24:28 PM PST by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

Obama will make changes so he can stay on after 2016


2 posted on 02/10/2014 7:25:48 PM PST by molson209 (Hillary Clinton)
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To: SeekAndFind
Where is it written that they can just make at-will changes ad infinitum?

Why, in the Book of Obama, of course.

Does Krauty ever bring up the culpability of the GOP-e in all this mess? LOL, didn't think so.

3 posted on 02/10/2014 7:29:51 PM PST by workerbee (The President of the United States is DOMESTIC ENEMY #1!)
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To: molson209

http://cache.trustedpartner.com/docs/library/NationalBlackRepublicanAssociation2009/PDFs/NBRA%20Washington%20Times%20Impeach%20Ad.pdf


4 posted on 02/10/2014 7:30:47 PM PST by Kackikat
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To: SeekAndFind

Another aspect to fiat law changes to consider: the sheer size of the law.

When a law is thousands of pages, and gives license to tens of thousands of pages of new regulations and references to other legislation, tweaks to the implementation then becomes almost necessary to get anywhere. In effect, when there is a flooding of law, the executive must get creative to implement, while the lawmakers get complacent to and condone encroachment on legislative power.


5 posted on 02/10/2014 7:34:26 PM PST by C210N (When people fear government there is tyranny; when government fears people there is liberty)
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To: SeekAndFind

EVERYONE is afraid to say anything about Soetoro’s lawlessness because they know everybody will call them a “rasis”. Even their own mother.


6 posted on 02/10/2014 7:34:27 PM PST by FlingWingFlyer (ObamaCare. The "global warming" of healthcare plans.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Directory of Representatives
http://www.house.gov/representatives/

Senators
http://www.senate.gov/general/contact_information/senators_cfm.cfm

Let’s contact and ask for them to help the NBRA.


7 posted on 02/10/2014 7:37:28 PM PST by Kackikat
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To: FlingWingFlyer

Who protects a country when the President is Insane ?


8 posted on 02/10/2014 7:38:22 PM PST by molson209 (Hillary Clinton)
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To: SeekAndFind

ObamaCare is only a means to an end, a mere weigh station on the path to Single-Payer, that’s why they really don’t care about it. They’ve already accomplished what they’ve wanted.


9 posted on 02/10/2014 7:38:47 PM PST by dfwgator
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To: SeekAndFind

This is Obama’s 27 th Constitutional violation of the ACA Law with no punishment meted out by the weak, crybaby coward: GOP-E Speaker Boehner.


10 posted on 02/10/2014 7:39:22 PM PST by Graewoulf (Democrats' Obamacare Socialist Health Insur. Tax violates U.S. Constitution AND Anti-Trust Law.)
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"That's the good thing as a President, I can do whatever I want."- Barack Hussein Obama, 02-10-14.

That my FRiends is what is known as abuse of power.

11 posted on 02/10/2014 7:42:12 PM PST by FlingWingFlyer (ObamaCare. The "global warming" of healthcare plans.)
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To: C210N
Which is why there should be an amendment (COS!) to limit the length of any new law to no longer than the Constitution (what is it, all of 14 pages? 16 pages?).


12 posted on 02/10/2014 7:42:56 PM PST by C210N (When people fear government there is tyranny; when government fears people there is liberty)
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To: molson209

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3065714/posts

Let’s help the NBRA


13 posted on 02/10/2014 7:43:15 PM PST by Kackikat
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To: FlingWingFlyer

If Obama is the way he is because he is black then I pray to God we never have another one in the Whitehouse.

Personally I think he is a uber liberal Communist sympathizing Muslim.


14 posted on 02/10/2014 7:43:19 PM PST by Delta 21 (If you like your freedom, you can keep your freedom. Period.)
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To: SeekAndFind

It seems to be the ACA has been altered from its original legally approved by the Democrat Congress, signed by the Democrat President that it’s current legality is now questionable.

All good American’s should now become as Hippies, and “question authority”.


15 posted on 02/10/2014 7:43:39 PM PST by rockinqsranch (Dems, Libs, Socialists, call 'em what you will. They ALL have fairies livin' in their trees.)
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To: C210N

Bingo!


16 posted on 02/10/2014 7:43:40 PM PST by BenLurkin (This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both.)
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To: Delta 21

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3065714/posts

Let’s help the NBRA, and write our Congress...link is on several threads.


17 posted on 02/10/2014 7:44:21 PM PST by Kackikat
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To: Delta 21

I AGREE WITH YOUR THOUGHTS ENTIRELY!!!!!


18 posted on 02/10/2014 7:46:30 PM PST by Kit cat (OBummer must go)
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To: SeekAndFind

If Obama can change the law unilaterally, the House can, too. The House can do it legally, though, by simply denying it funding. If only Boehner had Ted Cruz’s brains and balls.


19 posted on 02/10/2014 7:46:42 PM PST by Defiant (Let the Tea Party win, and we will declare peace on the American people and go home.)
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To: FlingWingFlyer

Yup. It is time for us FReepers to shift up into second gear and pressure our sorry House RINOs to boot out Boehner by April 15, 2014!


20 posted on 02/10/2014 7:47:55 PM PST by Graewoulf (Democrats' Obamacare Socialist Health Insur. Tax violates U.S. Constitution AND Anti-Trust Law.)
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