{"id":8325,"date":"2013-11-29T18:35:56","date_gmt":"2013-11-29T18:35:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2013\/11\/29\/an-outbreak-of-lawlessness-obama-as-dictator\/"},"modified":"2013-11-29T18:35:56","modified_gmt":"2013-11-29T18:35:56","slug":"an-outbreak-of-lawlessness-obama-as-dictator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2013\/11\/29\/an-outbreak-of-lawlessness-obama-as-dictator\/","title":{"rendered":"An Outbreak of Lawlessness: Obama as Dictator"},"content":{"rendered":"

Krauthammer nails it<\/a> once again.  Excerpt:<\/span><\/p>\n

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What distinguishes an institution from a flash mob is that its rules endure. They can be changed, of course. But only by significant supermajorities<\/a>. That\u2019s why constitutional changes require two-thirds of both houses plus three-quarters of the states. If we could make constitutional changes by majority vote, there would be no Constitution.<\/span><\/p>\n

As of today, the Senate effectively has no rules. Congratulations, Harry Reid. Finally, something you will be remembered for.<\/span><\/p>\n

Barack Obama may be remembered for something similar. His violation of the proper limits of executive power has become breathtaking. It\u2019s not just making recess appointments when the Senate is in session<\/a>. It\u2019s not just unilaterally imposing a law Congress had refused to pass \u2014 the Dream Act \u2014 by brazenly suspending large sections<\/a> of the immigration laws.<\/span><\/p>\n

We\u2019ve now reached a point where a flailing president, desperate to deflect the opprobrium heaped upon him for the false promise<\/a> that you could keep your health plan if you wanted to, calls a hasty news conference<\/a> urging both insurers and the states to reinstate millions of such plans<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

Except that he is asking them to break the law. His own law. Under Obamacare, no insurer may issue a policy after 2013 that does not meet the law\u2019s minimum coverage requirements. These plans were canceled because they do not. <\/span><\/p>\n

The law remains unchanged. The regulations governing that law remain unchanged. Nothing is changed except for a president proposing to unilaterally change his own law from the White House press room.<\/span><\/p>\n

That\u2019s banana republic stuff, except that there the dictator proclaims from the presidential balcony.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Krauthammer nails it once again.  Excerpt: What distinguishes an institution from a flash mob is that its rules endure. They can be changed, of course. But only by significant supermajorities. That\u2019s why constitutional changes require two-thirds of both houses plus three-quarters of the states. If we could make constitutional changes by majority vote, there would … Continue reading “An Outbreak of Lawlessness: Obama as Dictator”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[180],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8325","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-decline-of-the-west"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8325","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8325"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8325\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}