Posted on 12/26/2013 3:56:21 PM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
The 2,000 pages of Obamacare, which no one even read, were simply an authorization for Obama and Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius to do anything required.
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Page 1,429. Paragraph 15. 4th sentence: "President Obama can change anything in here whenever he feels like it".
AuschwitzCare or DachauCare
No. But without enforcement by congress or the judiciary Obama can do whatever he damned well pleases.
It's crucial to depose Harry Reid, and if the Senate filibuster rule can be changed, so can the idea of the President "deserving" to have his many many judicial and cabinet appointees confirmed as a "courtesy" to the Office...how's THAT working out so far? Ha!
Wilson was pretty bad and the maybe the first fascist Dem prez, but he had nothing on FDR as far as adding gov. programs and trying to subvert the constitution. I have read Jonah Goldberg’s “Liberal Fascism” which every conservative should read. And every lib as well.
Wilson was pretty bad and the maybe the first fascist Dem prez, but he had nothing on FDR as far as adding gov. programs and trying to subvert the constitution. I have read Jonah Goldberg’s “Liberal Fascism” which every conservative should read. And every lib as well.
Short answer: Yes. Longer answer: Because, by the statute, all of the decisions in creating the regulations belong to Sebilius. Extension: Like every other law.
I would agree that FDR did more long-term damage than Wilson managed to do (by a stroke of luck), but Wilson despised the Constitution and saw it as a barrier to “progress.”
These types of laws have been found constitutional since the 1930s, and if we are ever going to get our liberties restored, there's going to have to be a revolution, because the 3 existing branches are fine with the status quo.
Well-stated, sir. Exactly.
Absolutely correct. Nobody put guns to the legislature’s heads to make them pass this kind of law, a President’s to sign it and to pass muster with SCOTUS. They’re dying to do it so they push off the dirty work of oppressing the populace on the faceless bureaucrats.
It’s as natural as the sun rising in the East.
Perhaps, it could be challenged as unconstitutional “as administered.”
Yes but wasn’t CK one of those who criticized Cruz for what has been the most significant challenge to ACA - the defunding?
Charles, we’re waiting for your better solution to overturn this!
Do not forget how close Cruz was - if he had GOP leaders and pundits like CK behind him.
The law is FULL FULL FULL of “the Secretary may decide/determine” language. This was pointed out as a huge danger early on.
We should begin referring to it as the “Intolerable Act.” I recall reading about some other laws called that not so long ago that led to some unpleasantness.
It was obviously voter fraud. But the republicans, just like in 1960 with Kennedy, let them get away with it. I’m afraid they’ve got the vote fraud machine so fine tuned now that they KNOW they’ll never lose. That’s the only explanation for Reid and Pelosi are so confident. And I believe they really are.
Well, that’s a “creative” end run.
IIRC, in the past the USSC has upheld the bureaucrat determination arrangement if it can be shown that the Congress could have reasonably intended what the bureaucrat does. However giving carte blanche to a bureaucrat is new. It would be worth a challenge. IMHO.
Krauthammer hit the Jackpot on this one.
The 2,000 pages of Obamacare, which no one even read, were simply an authorization for Obama and Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius to do anything required.
That is exactly what it did.
If they had read it they still would not have known what was in it.
Perhaps this sets a precedent for a future [Republican] president to waive the whole thing and make it go away.
I agree! I believe that is exactly whats happening!
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