Among the objections to Obamacare, one that has not gotten as
much attention as it should is the president’s power to waive the
law for any company, union, or other enterprise he chooses.
The 14th Amendment to the Constitution provides for “equal
protection of the laws” for all Americans. To have a law that can
cost an organization millions of dollars a year either apply or not
apply, depending on the whim or political interest of the President
of the United States, is to make a mockery of the rule of law.
How secure is any freedom when there is this kind of arbitrary
power in the hands of one man?
What does your right of freedom of speech mean if saying
something that irritates the Obama administration means that you or
your business has to pay huge amounts of money and get hit with all
sorts of red tape under ObamaCare that your competitor is exempted
from, because your competitor either kept quiet or praised the
Obama administration or donated to its reelection campaign?
Arbitrary Obamacare waivers are bad enough by themselves. They
are truly ominous as part of a more general practice of this
administration to create arbitrary powers that permit them to walk
roughshod over the basic rights of the American people.
The checks and balances of the Constitution have been evaded
time and time again by the Obama administration, undermining the
fundamental right of the people to determine the laws that govern
them, through their elected representatives.
You do not have a self-governing people when huge laws are
passed too fast for the public to even know what is in them.
You do not have a self-governing people when “czars” are created
by Executive Orders, so that individuals wielding vast powers equal
to, or greater than, the powers of Cabinet members do not have to
be vetted and confirmed by the people’s elected representatives in
the Senate, as Cabinet members must be.
You do not have a self-governing people when decisions to take
military action are referred to the United Nations and the Arab
League, but not to the Congress of the United States, elected by
the American people, whose blood and treasure are squandered.
You do not have a self-governing people when a so-called
“consumer protection” agency is created to be financed by the
unelected officials of the Federal Reserve System, which can create
its own money out of thin air, instead of being financed by
appropriations voted by elected members of Congress who have to
justify their priorities and trade-offs to the taxpaying
public.
You do not have a self-governing people when laws passed by the
Congress, signed by previous Presidents, and approved by the
federal courts, can have the current President waive whatever
sections he does not like, and refuse to enforce those sections,
despite his oath to see that the laws are faithfully executed.
Barack Obama, for example, has refused to carry out sections of
the immigration laws that he does not like, unilaterally creating
de facto amnesty for those illegal immigrants he has chosen to be
exempt from the law. The issue is not — repeat, NOT — the wisdom
or justice of this President’s immigration policy, but the seizing
of arbitrary powers not granted to any President by the
Constitution of the United States.
You do not have a self-governing people if President Obama
succeeds in having international treaties under United Nations
auspices govern the way Americans live their lives, whether with
gun control laws or other laws.
Obama’s “citizen of the world” mindset was revealed back in
2008, when he said “We can’t drive our SUVs and eat as much as we
want and keep our homes on 72 degrees at all times … and then
just expect that every other country is going to say okay.”
The desire to circumvent the will of the American people was
revealed even more ominously when Barack Obama said to Russian
President Medvedev — when he thought the microphone was off —
that, after he is reelected and need never face the voters again,
he can be more “flexible” with the Russians about missile
defense.
There are other signs of Obama’s contempt for American
Constitutional democracy, but these should be more than enough.
Dare we risk how far he will go when he never has to face the
voters again, and can appoint Supreme Court justices who can rubber
stamp his power grabs? Will this still be America in 2016?
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