And as Stanford Law School Professor Michael McConnell wrote back in July, the Office of Legal Counsel for the Justice Department “has always insisted that the president has no authority, as one such memo put it in 1990, to ‘refuse to enforce a statute he opposes for policy reasons.’” This is an open and shut case. If the U.S. Congress still had a shred of respect for the Constitution, they would immediately demand that Obama enforce the law as written. If Obama refused, they should immediately impeach him. We are a country that is run by the rule of law, and just because Obama’s new law completely screws up one-sixth of the economy does not mean that he can unilaterally change it. In our system, Congress makes the laws and the president enforces them. If we allow any president to unilaterally change laws whenever he does not like them, then that puts us dangerously close to having a dictator in the White House.
Yes, Obamacare is an absolute nightmare of a law.
Yes, people should be allowed to keep their current health insurance plans. And Obama should actually be trying to keep his original promise by encouraging Congress to allow people to keep their current health insurance plans permanently.
But if Obama is going to follow the Constitution, then any changes to Obamacare must go through Congress.
He simply does not possess the power to unilaterally change a law by himself.
Does the Constitution matter in America anymore?
Apparently not.
Read more......
http://www.conservativeactionalerts.com/2013/11/by-unilaterally-changing-obamacare-obama-is-making-a-mockery-of-the-constitution/
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