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According to the Administration, they are not fixing anything until after it gets implemented. Which is not a real smart thing to do.
Actually in a system where you are not sure of where the problems will come with costs that is exactly what you do. You put it into effect and you hammer out the details. Expecting perfection from the start is a BS tactic that the reps use because they do not want anything at all. Was the original constitution perfect when they put it in place? hell no, that is an absurd goal.
What is burning me up about this is they are still allowing the President (any President, not just this one) to change portions of the law without Congressional approval. To me, that is a violation of the Constitutional powers of the President.
Actually the president does have powers to decide how to implement the law. That is just you being wrong about what a president does.
And why I say that...
During the Bush years, he was lambasted for going through the secretive FISA courts to wire tap peoples phones. We the people complained and the politicians gave it lip service so they seemed like they cared, but did nothing. Now we have a President that is collecting every single phone call and e-mail from every single American in the country...and now there is not even lip service against it.
This is a whole different issue, and I agree those laws are unconstitutional and should not be in place. If the republicans in congress took obama to task over the activities of the NSA I would be all for it. They would get cheers from me for doing it. They are not going to do it because they want those powers too, and that is why I take the position they are all enemies. Still you could eliminate Obamacare and your problem still exists. Hell, if Boehner said end the patriot and espionage act or else he will not fund the government I would consider voting for the man for president as a good thing. But he didn't do that. No one made a grand stand against the patriot act. Even when they could have put it in there no one came forward to do it. So please do not tell me there are heroes in either party in that fight.
You give one President an inch to bend the law the next one will take a mile shattering the law while those that represent us do nothing.
Yeah, I have been saying that since Bush made the patriot act. I do not want obama to have that power and anyone who stood up to stop that would get immediate respect from me. Sarah Bachman could stand up and demand that and i would have to re-evaluate my position on her a good distance. That is one of those things I would actually vote for a pro-life, anti gay marriage candidate for.
Consolidation of power under one branch while the others do nothing to stop it, some actually encouraging it.
The president has always had the power to enforce the laws. It is the purpose of the branch.