Posted on 11/15/2013 2:57:08 PM PST by neverdem
It is a condition of my admission to this great land that I am not allowed to foment the overthrow of the United States government. Oh, I signed it airily enough, but youd be surprised, as the years go by, how often the urge to foment starts to rise in ones gullet. Fortunately, at least as far as constitutional government goes, the president of the United States is doing a grand job of overthrowing it all by himself.
On Thursday, he passed a new law at a press conference. George III never did that. But, having ordered Americas insurance companies to comply with Obamacare, the president announced that he is now ordering them not to comply with Obamacare. The legislative branch (as its still quaintly known) passed a law purporting to grandfather your existing health plan. The regulatory bureaucracy then interpreted the law so as to un-grandfather your health plan. So His Most Excellent Majesty has commanded that your health plan be de-un-grandfathered. That seems likely to work. The insurance industry had three years to prepare for the introduction of Obamacare. Now the King has given them six weeks to de-introduce Obamacare.
I wonder if he has the legal authority to do this, mused former Vermont governor Howard Dean. But hes obviously some kind of right-wing wacko. Later that day, anxious to help him out, Congress offered to pass a law allowing people to keep their health plans. The same president who had unilaterally commanded that people be allowed to keep their health plans indignantly threatened to veto any such law to that effect: It only counts if he does it geddit? As his court eunuchs at the Associated Press obligingly put it: Obama Will Allow Old Plans. Its Barrys world; we just live in it...
(Excerpt) Read more at nationalreview.com ...
Just did the same as you!
LOL!
This is Steyn at his best...and he sounds a bit ticked, like everyone else...love it!
We really do need to start "blaming the one(s) who hired them" ("them" being the deadbeats that head up the cabinets/agencies who write the rules and regulations and set the policies that define and enforce the President's "vision" for us "folks" out here in America)...
The President is the hirer-in-chief, and the Senators confirming the appointments are also to blame. Hold them accountable! They say they are...let's see!
Read the whole thing one of Steyn's best.
Steyn is a genius. God help us!
Always brilliant, but, this is beyond that.
As usual, Steyn rules...
Hmmmmm......Well if he’s that smart——maybe we could lure him and her to a “Fundraiser (they love those)——then we change the locks on the WH doors so that they can’t get back in. ROTFLOL.
We are soooooooo screwed.
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