With a complicit media enabling him by failing to ask tough questions, Will observes that Obama’s presidency is marked by a “pantry of excuses for failure,” a “nonexistent domestic agenda,” a “foreign policy of empty rhetorical deadlines and red lines,” and, most recently on display, an offering of “inconvenience as a justification for illegality.” Will was referring to Obama’s news conference last week, in which he explained his decision to unilaterally amend a law – his signature health reform law – with the statement, “I didn’t simply choose to” delay the employer mandate “on my own,” but in “consultation with businesses around the country... concerned about the operational details of changing their HR operations.” According to Obama, as Will observes, there were some “better ways” to “tweak” the law, but due to a situation that the president described as “not in a normal atmosphere around here when it comes to ObamaCare,” it was apparently okay to say, “We did have the executive authority to do so, and we did so.” Will notes, of course, that not one journalist asked, “Where does the Constitution confer upon presidents the ‘executive authority’ to ignore the separation of powers by revising laws?” The correct answer is “Nowhere.”
Posted on: Sun, 18 Aug 2013 14:58:25 +0000
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