“How can a U.S. president, who took an oath to enforce the laws faithfully, gut one of them merely because he disagrees with it? “
Simple: He is following the law and we demand that he follow his convictions too.
I hope that Trump will do more than this. I don’t like the idea that while Congress does set the law, the President can give them guidelines on how hard or soft to enforce that law. I’m pissed when obama told the Feds to “go easy” on the illegal immigrants, and I don’t like it that Trump is using that same logic in this case.
But yes - it is legal, and turn-about is fair play I guess. And the reasoning is sound.
There are some other aspects to dismantle obamacare that I would be more inline with. I think their were two executive orders that obama signed to fix obamacare so it would work. Real easy for Trump to make an EO and get rid of those two EO’s. And some district court made a ruling against some key point in obamacare - but obama counter sued and that ruling is still in the works to get ruled by the Supreme court. But in the meantime the district ruling doesn’t take effect. Trump, with his pen, could make that countersuit disappear, and the district ruling would take effect. All three of them wouldn’t “end” obamacare, but they would cripple it so badly that it would collapse on itself.
I’m guessing Trump will get around to it. And he knows that it will be gone soon enough, so hence this EO. It hasn’t even been a week yet! Geez - a politician that so far is doing what he said he would do. And as we saw from his campaign - when does the guy sleep!?
As I see it, Trump’s convictions are to follow the law, in accordance with the Constitution. Whereas, Obloviators convictions, such as they were, was to ignore any laws he didn’t like (DOMA, for openers) and the Constitution be damned.