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Originally posted by: DonDiegoQuote
Originally posted by: forkushV
Okay, lets see if I got this right.
1. DonDiego says that the employer mandate is HORRIBLE.
2. DonDiego says that delaying the employer mandate is HORRIBLE - because Constitution.
DonDiego should refrain from stating this opinion as a fact, since he was so, so wrong about the constitutionality of Obamacare last time out.
i. This is what happens when someone with a different opinion tells others what someone's opinion is. He misstates it, intentionally.
DonDiego explicitly did not say anything is "HORRIBLE".
ii. DonDiego still believes Obamacare itself is Unconstitutional; he opines the the Court's decision was too limited to the "tax question". He was most careful to never predict the Court's opinion.
DonDiego is not forbidden to hold the hope that it may yet fail a court test. Even President Roosevelt's
National Recovery Act which authorized the Government to administer privately owned resources and factories was ruled Unconstitutional eventually.
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Originally posted by: Chilcoot
I agree that it's troubling whenever a President, in executing the laws that Congress passes, does so in a manner that seems inconsistent with the law.
Having said that, and as a person who can still recall how bound to Congress' will the Cheney Administration was, I do recognize that our Presidents have always used some leeway in putting Congress' intentions into effect.
The Obama Administration seems both cautious and smart to me. If they're varying from the law, you can be sure they're doing it in a way that they think is legal.
If Republicans truly hate President Obama's decision today to delay aspects of the ACA's employer mandate for a year, they should sue him and force him to impose the mandate. Which of course would be awesome.
i. DonDiego agrees the President's execution of Obamacare seems inconsistent with the Law.
ii.a. There was no Cheney Administration; stating there was is false and informs the reader more about the poster's bias than about reality.
Nonetheless, DonDiego supposes the answer to the Zen koan "If all your friends jumped off a bridge then would you too?" posed to him by his Mother on more than one occasion applies to all prior administrations' behavior.
ii.b. DonDiego opines "leeway" does not include changing dates explicitly included in the Law pertaining to implementation.
iii. DonDiego is not sure the Obama Administration believes it is behaving legally; saying he can be sure does not make it so.
iv. DonDiego concurs that interested parties should sue the President for failing to execute the Law. For the record, . . . again, . . . DonDiego does not act out of hate.
