Posted on 12/03/2014 4:26:51 AM PST by sheikdetailfeather
On Thanksgiving eve, the Obama administration dumped reams of mind-numbing ObamaCare regulations into the Federal Register — including yet more unilateral rewrites of the Affordable Care Act.
Dropping the rules as most Americans were busy preparing for the holiday made a mockery (again) of President Obama’s promise to have “the most transparent administration in history.” The stunt has even worked to keep most of the media from reporting on the rules.
Yet the changes these regulations make in the health-care law are substantial.
For one, the president is redefining what health plans are “adequate” for larger employers (100-plus workers) to offer under the Affordable Care Act. He’s also “asking” insurers to pay for new benefits — while warning that, if they don’t, they may be forced to.
Under the Constitution, Obama lacks any authority to make such changes to the health law, or any law. Only Congress has that power. But he’s doing it, and not for the first time.
The president has made two dozen changes to his health law by executive fiat, from delaying the employer mandate to allowing people to keep health plans that don’t meet ObamaCare standards.
In fact, the House of Representatives is suing him (after Obama explicitly challenged it to do so) for making changes without Congress’ OK.
(Excerpt) Read more at betsymccaughey.com ...
The King’s Word Shall Be The Whole Of The Law.
Why write the law?? Can’t the government just “do stuff”? [/s]
Why not? It's not like he any opposition.
Democrats have no respect for the law or the constitution.
As Bill Clinton enabler and apologist Paul Begala famously said:
“Stroke of the pen. Law of the Land. Kinda cool.”
This is a joke, right?
The EXEMPT make this worse as they go along,
because THEY, their staffs, their families and MOslems
(their supporters and allies) are EXEMPT, too.
Key observation. There are endless pontifications and writings stating that Obama cannot do what he is doing. The base fact is that he can do anything unless he is stopped. Every day he moves closer to a totalitarian dictatorship and the obsequiousness of the GOP leadership is further enabling him.
Mark Levin calls out Boehner and McConnell on his show last night for the lies they told the American people to get re-elected. He said they never did plan to repeal Obamacare or stop Obama’s amnesty. The first hour of his show explains why they don’t stop Obama and are complicit in his destruction of our country.
http://www.stationcaster.com/player_skinned.php?s=2591&c=10771&f=3694943
Checks And Balances-—The Constitutional Structure For Limited And Balanced Government
The Constitution was devised with an ingenious and intricate built-in system of checks and balances to guard the people’s liberty against combinations of government power. It structured the Executive, Legislative, and Judiciary separate and wholly independent as to function, but coordinated for proper operation, with safeguards to prevent usurpations of power. Only by balancing each against the other two could freedom be preserved, said John Adams.
Another writer of the day summarized clearly the reasons for such checks and balances:
•”If the LEGISLATIVE and JUDICIAL powers are united, the MAKER of the law will also INTERPRET it (constitutionality).
•Should the EXECUTIVE and LEGISLATIVE powers be united... the EXECUTIVE power would make itself absolu te, and the government end in tyranny.
•Should the EXECUTIVE and JUDICIAL powers be united, the subject (citizen) would then have no permanent security of his person or property.
“INDEED, the dependence of any of these powers upon either of the others ... has so often been productive of such calamities... that the page of history seems to be one continued tale of human wretchedness.” (Theophilus Parsons, ESSEX RESULTS)
What were some of these checks and balances believed so important to individual liberty? Several are listed below:
•HOUSE (peoples representatives) is a check on SENATE - no statute becomes law without its approval.
•SENATE is a check on HOUSE - no statute becomes law without its approval. (Prior to 17th Amendment, SENATE was appointed by State legislatures as a protection for states’ rights - another check the Founders provided.)
•EXECUTIVE (President) can restrain both HOUSE and SENATE by using Veto Power.
•LEGISLATIVE (Congress - Senate & House) has a check on EXECUTIVE by being able to pass, with 2/3 majority, a bill over President’s veto.
•LEGISLATIVE has further check on EXECUTIVE through power of discrimination in appropriation of funds for operation of EXECUTIVE.
•EXECUTIVE (President) must have approval of SENATE in filling important posts in EXECUTIVE BRANCH.
•EXECUTIVE (President) must have approval of SENATE before treaties with foreign nations can be effective.
•LEGISLATIVE (Congress) can conduct investigations of EXECUTIVE to see if funds are properly expended and laws enforced.
•EXECUTIVE has further check on members of LEGISLATIVE (Congress) in using discretionary powers in decisions regarding establishment of military bases, building & improvement of navigable rivers, dams, interstate highways, etc., in districts of those members.
•JUDICIARY is check on LEGISLATIVE through its authority to review all laws and determine their constitutionality.
•LEGISLATIVE (Congress) has restraining power over JUDICIARY, with constitutional authority to restrict extent of its jurisdiction.
•LEGISLATIVE has power to impeach members of JUDICIARY guilty of treason, high crimes, or misdemeanors.
•EXECUTIVE (President) is check on JUDICIARY by having power to nominate new judges.
•LEGISLATIVE (Senate) is check on EXECUTIVE and JUDICIARY having power to approve/disapprove nominations of judges.
•LEGISLATIVE is check on JUDICIARY - having control of appropriations for operation of federal court system.
•LEGISLATIVE (Peoples Representatives) is check on both EXECUTIVE and J U DICIARY through power to initiate amendments to Constitution subject to approval by 3/4 of the States.
•LEGISLATIVE (Senate) has power to impeach EXECUTIVE (President) with concurrence of 2/3, of members.
•The PEOPLE, through their State representatives, may restrain the power of the federal LEGISLATURE if 3/4 of the States do not ratify proposed Constitutional Amendments.
•LEGISLATIVE, by Joint Resolution, can terminate certain powers granted to EXECUTIVE (President) (such as war powers) without his consent.
•It is the PEOPLE who have final check on both LEGISLATIVE and EXECUTIVE when they vote on their Representatives every 2 years, their Senators every 6 years, and their President every 4 years. Through those selections, they also influence the potential makeup of the JUDICIARY.
It is up to each generation to see that the integrity of the Constitutional structure for a free society is maintained by carefully preserving the system of checks and balances essential to limited and balanced government. “To preserve them (is) as necessary as to institute them,” said George Washington.
Footnote: Our Ageless Constitution, W. David Stedman & La Vaughn G. Lewis, Editors (Asheboro, NC, W. David Stedman Associates, 1987) Part III: ISBN 0-937047-01-5
Every Democrat is a thug. Most Republican leaders are pansies.
Betsy McCaughey; Former Republican. Former Democrat. Former Liberal party. Currently a Republican. As long as it is convenient.
Even so, Betsy McCaughey probably knows more about the A D A than anyone. She read the whole damn bill even before, San Fran Nan told us it was not necessary. In my opinion, she is THE expert.
She told Mark Levin one night that Michael F. Cannon with the Cato Institute is the one to follow on all the legal challenges to Obamacare. I follow him on Twitter.
“He said they never did plan to repeal Obamacare or stop Obama’s amnesty.”
It’s because their corporate backers love it. Like amnesty.
Please delete Post 16, I posted to the wrong thread.
The only upside to this is that all the scuttlebutt has it that Obama’s overreach is making John Roberts increasingly queasy about his vote to save the program last time.
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