Mornin' Grip :2wave: .....Tell me do you think this plays in with your piece? Understanding that political blowback and all. Its all starting to catch up with him. Do you think he should have bragged about the Power of his pen and phone?
Executive Overreach Blowback.....
From President Obama's unilateral re-write of education law, to his many Obamacare delays, a growing chorus of conservatives, and recently even some liberals, have been decrying Obama's abuse of executive power.
Up until now, most of Obama's liberal allies have either stayed silent or supported these actions. But now that it is becoming increasingly clear that Obama will get nothing done in Congress,
these same liberal allies are asking Obama to abuse his executive power even further.
Take BuzzFeed's Jacob Fischler has a story out today on union frustration over Obamacare.
In other words,
if Obama can delay the employer mandate,
refuse to enforce minimum health insurance requirements,
and functionally repeal the individual mandate entirely,
then why can't they fix labor's Obamacare Cadillac Tax problem too?
Obama is facing the exact same dilemma on immigration. After failing to pass amnesty legislation in his first year in office, as promised,
he did manage to regain Latino support in June 2012 by unilaterally creating a limited mini-amnesty (the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program) without Congress.
There has been a shift within the Hispanic media,”
Jorge Ramos, the influential Univision anchor who has been called the “Walter Cronkite of Hispanic media,” told me. “If you read the editorial pages in the most important Spanish language newspapers,
you notice immediately how the conversation has changed from attacking Republicans to attacking Obama.”
Obama's unilateral legislating is coming back to haunt him.
Obama desperately needs Latinos and union members to show up at the polls this November,
but the only way Obama can make them happy is by further shredding the Constitution's separation of powers doctrine.....snip~
Executive Overreach Blowback - Conn Carroll
Personally I hope that if Democrats are secure enough in their belief that Obama has done no wrong then they will pass this through. After all, it would show that they are not just trying to protect their own and that they think they are on firm footing. Of course the flip side to that is that if they don't pass it then it will show that they are not on firm footing and think that maybe Obama did indeed violate the laws.
