Posted on 02/11/2014 9:17:59 AM PST by AngelesCrestHighway
Krauthammer says that delaying the employer mandate simply to ease political pain before an election is the kind of stuff they do in banana republics:
But generally speaking you get past the next election by changing your policies, by announcing new initiatives, but not by wantonly changing the law lawlessly. This is stuff you do in a banana republic. Its as if the law is simply a blackboard on which Obama writes any number he wants, any delay he wants, and any provision.
Its 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 its changing the law in a way that you are not allowed to do.
Too bad the US doesn’t produce bananas.
And, too bad we’re no longer a republic - we couldn’t “keep it”.
Obama does it because he knows 99% of the media won’t call him on it, and the GOP isn’t going to hold him accountable either.
Was it Beckel that took such great offense at the “banana republic” comment?
I just heard a clip on Rush.
“it’s an incredibly complex piece of legislation” was the justification for all the ad hoc, extra-constitutional manipulation.
In a sane world, that would be definitive evidence that the government shouldn’t be doing it in the first place. It’s too complex for the government to do. Period.
The Democrats have initiated and the Republicans have acquiesced, probably joyfully, in the New Venezuelan United States of America.
We are a republic. We’re a banana republic. We don’t need no bananas.
When do we get to the part of the story where the people rise up and remove the dictator?
Perhaps we should change that to "food stamp republic"? We grow lots of those here!
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