Obama selectively enforces laws-- ignores others

[AFTiger 282]

If Obama can unilaterally delay ObamaCare’s employer mandate, why wouldn’t he delay new border security measures too?

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In what even the New York Times is describing as a “significant setback for President Obama’s signature domestic initiative,” the Treasury Department announced Tuesday that it would be delaying implementation of Obamacare’s employer mandate for an entire year.

The sounds of a weak recovery

“As we implement this law, we have and will continue to make changes as needed,” Senior Advisor to the President Valerie Jarrett explained in a separate White House blog post. “In our ongoing discussions with businesses, we have heard that you need the time to get this right. We are listening

What businesses are telling the White House is that Obamacare’s employer mandate is a job killer. No, it might not force companies to fire existing employees, but the $3,000 fine for every employee not offered health insurance by companies with over 50 employees hampered job creation in two ways: 1) it creates a strong incentive for companies with more than 50 employees to use more part-time employees instead of full-time employees; and 2) it creates a strong incentive for companies with less than 50 employees not to grow above that level.

The Obamacare bait and switch

The reality is that liberals always knew the employer mandate was terrible job-killing public policy, but they included it in the bill because it was essential to getting a good Congressional Budget Office score. Here is how Ezra Klein explained the role of the employer mandate back in 2009, “The overarching lesson of these CBO reports is simple: You can’t do health-care reform — at least not this kind of health-care reform — without an employer mandate.”

But now that Obamacare is law, liberals no longer need to fool Americans into thinking we can expand health insurance to almost 40 million Americans without adding to the deficit. The employer mandate has outlived its usefulness, which is why that very same Ezra Klein is now calling for a repeal of the very same employer mandate that he once said was “the key” to Obamacare.

The amnesty bait and switch

The exact same playbook is being deployed by liberals, and pro-amnesty Republicans, to pass amnesty. Just like the employer mandate was essential to getting a CBO score that said Obamacare would not add to the debt, E-Verify is now essential for convincing Americans that the Schumer-Rubio bill will, in Sen. Chuck Schumer’s words, make illegal immigration “a thing of the past.”

But, like Obamacare and the employer mandate, once the 11 million illegal immigrants currently in the country get amnesty, E-Verify will have outlived its usefulness. Businesses already complain at the existing voluntary E-Verify system, and those complaints will only get louder as a new E-Verify system becomes mandatory.

Does anyone, anywhere, believe Obama would not delay implementation of E-Verify too?

Conservatives who do not trust Obama to enforce perfectly good law – whether it is No Child Left Behind, the War Powers Act, our current immigration laws, etc. – should not trust him to enforce whatever security measures are part of any immigration deal. There is no reason to believe that amnesty would not be every bit the train wreck that Obamacare already is.

From The Washington Examiner

[AURaptor 1,137]

The most lawless President in our time. Maybe ever.

[AUloggerhead 2,356]

The most lawless President in our time. Maybe ever.

But ... He took an oath to defend and support the Constitution. For some, mouthing the words in that oath is good enough.

[AURaptor 1,137]

He told us he was going to " fundamentally change this country ". He's not all that concerned with upholding its constitution.

[japantiger 4,077]

He told us he was going to " fundamentally change this country ". He's not all that concerned with upholding its constitution.

Bingo...read his own words...I will paraphrase here..."the only thing wrong with the Constitution is it outlines the things the government can't do to you"...or the only thing wrong with the Constitution is, well, the Constitution.

[AURaptor 1,137]

He told us he was going to " fundamentally change this country ". He's not all that concerned with upholding its constitution.

Bingo...read his own words...I will paraphrase here..."the only thing wrong with the Constitution is it outlines the things the government can't do to you"...or the only thing wrong with the Constitution is, well, the Constitution.

Irony of ironies, as he uttered the word 'liberty' for probably the first time as President in his July 4th message to the country.

[Auburn85 434]

Wonder why he couldn't stop sequester or delay it like he's doing the mandate here?

[japantiger 4,077]

He told us he was going to " fundamentally change this country ". He's not all that concerned with upholding its constitution.

Bingo...read his own words...I will paraphrase here..."the only thing wrong with the Constitution is it outlines the things the government can't do to you"...or the only thing wrong with the Constitution is, well, the Constitution.

Irony of ironies, as he uttered the word 'liberty' for probably the first time as President in his July 4th message to the country.

Yes, he claimed we should live the ideals of the Declaration of Independence. I wonder if he's ever really read it....especially this part in the 2nd paragraph: "That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, — That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness."

[AURaptor 1,137]

CaesarObamus loves to ignore laws which don't appeal to him. Whether it's immigration, or implementing his own healthcare law. When we stop being a nation of laws, and become a nation of men instead, we've become a banana republic.

[AFTiger 282]

Not hearing from the Obots on this board.