Barack Obama's increasingly grandiose claims for presidential power are inversely proportional to his shriveling presidency.
Desperation fuels arrogance
as, barely 200 days into the 1,462 days of his second term, his pantry of
excuses for failure is bare, his domestic agenda is nonexistent and his foreign
policy of empty rhetorical deadlines and redlines is floundering. And at last
week's news conference he offered inconvenience as a justification for
illegality.
Explaining his decision to
unilaterally rewrite the Affordable Care Act, he said: "I didn't simply
choose to" ignore the statutory requirement for beginning in 2014 the
employer mandate to provide employees with healthcare. No, "this was in
consultation with businesses."
He continued: "In a
normal political environment, it would have been easier for me to simply call
up the speaker and say, you know what, this is a tweak that doesn't go to the
essence of the law . . . it looks like there may be some better ways to do
this, let's make a technical change to the law. That would be the normal thing
that I would prefer to do. But we're not in a normal atmosphere around here
when it comes to Obamacare. We did have the executive authority to do so, and
we did so."
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