Posted on 06/28/2012 11:31:18 AM PDT by rottndog
It did occur to me that the since the precedent has been established that POTUS can simply waive laws, as in Obama's waiving of enforcement of immigration laws, and that Obama himself has granted numerous waivers for Obamacare itself, Romney can do the same thing until Obamacare can be repealed.
Nixing applicability of Obamacare to Massachusetts wouldn’t do squat to Romneycare. Romneycare is state based in a screaming liberal state that has the votes to support it in the state legislature.
sorry...i guess that’s what you were saying all along.
since the mandate is a tax, Romney can simply instruct the IRS department not to enforce it. In fact, why not waive income taxes all together
Waive it for all Americans except Wall Street executives.
Then wait for the lobbyists to show up and get rid of the rest of it. :-)
Dunno, I get the idea that Mitt views Romneycare as Dr. Jekyll and Obamacare as Mr. Hyde.
Not only not that easy, NEVER gonna happen. Oh Romney will promise and promise and promise, but I STILL will not give in to his fear mongering and vote for the wolf into the hen house. WE are here because of RomneyCare. You think for ONE second we won’t be beholden to his brand of Liberalism if elected? Think again. If they elect Obama, we fight. If they elect Romney, we are marginalized and lose.
Santorum 2012
It won’t happen because under President Romney, the DEM will simply say waiving is illegal. What was legal under Obama, will now become illegal under GOP.
That is how it has historically worked. Other presidents have just not funded and put resources towards enforcing laws they said they were not going to enforce.
Legislature = Funding
Executive = Enforcement
Judicial = Constitutionality
Another way of separating the checks and balances.
Legislature passes unconstitutional law. President can say they won’t enforce it, or court says unconstitutional. If court says something constitutional that clearly isn’t, legislative can cut funding for the courts, or impeach/remove justices, and the president can choose not to enforce their ruling. If president does something unconstitutional, legislature can cut funding to exec branch or program/issue that’s unconstitutional, or go to impeachment/removal, court can rule president’s actions unconstitutional.
The other two branches can keep the one or two other branches from going astray. Problem is when all three go unconstitutional. Like today.
Mitt: Yeah, you and what AG and what court will stop me?
Remember, that putting it back before the USSC on the waiveability issue might end up getting Roberts' vote to clobber the whole law this time.
I’ve said this months/years ago, but not one candidate, ever, signed a promise to do so in front of the cameras.
This is a strapping and shackling of people like work animals.
Its a Tax
You think for ONE second we won’t be beholden to his brand of Liberalism if elected?
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Comment makes good sense. We’re way past the point of being a center right country; majority are center left...including our leaders for the last 25yrs.
Romney is not going to win election by riding on Obamacare. Romneycare=Obamacare. And now the Obamacare has been declared constitutional (as a tax), and the Romney position was identical to BO (before the flip flop), Romney will have to find another way to get to BO. Economy is the key... but all economic woes will be blamed on Bush anyway.
So Romney would also be a “blame Bush” type? That is something I did not foresee.
So the father of Obama/Romneycare would exempt Massachusetts from it or not?
Mitt wants Romneycare to come in through the door of state legislation. Mitt does not want a Federal mandate, even in its present guise as a tax.
Besides, what would it mean to “Obamacare” Massachusetts? It would mean snatching the issue out of Massachusetts’ control.
Romneycare was Mitt's crowning achievement and was a part of all the rest of Mitt's lifelong leftism.
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