“Do you approve or disapprove of President Obama bypassing - TopicsExpress

“Do you approve or disapprove of President Obama bypassing Congress and acting on his own to make policies by issuing executive orders, choosing not to enforce laws he disagrees with, and delaying some controversial provisions of other laws?” Fox got the result it wanted by presenting Republican talking points as fact – a 58% majority of respondents said they disapprove of the president’s actions – but in reality, Obama is not ignoring laws he disagrees with. It led to this question: “Do you think President Obama exceeded his authority under the Constitution when he changed the health care law on his own by executive order?” Again, that’s the GOP argument, to the point that it seems Republican operatives literally wrote the poll for Fox, but all Obama did was delay the implementation of an ACA provision that wasn’t ready – a provision Republicans didn’t want to see implemented anyway. . Bush did the same thing with Medicare Part D and no one gave a darn