Another day, another lawless, unconstitutional, dictatorial ObamaCare delay:
The administration Monday delayed another part of ObamaCare, saying medium-size businesses won't face a tax penalty until 2016 for not providing workers with health insurance coverage, refueling Republican criticism that President Barack Obama's signature healthcare law is a "train wreck" and "jobs killer."Not to be snarky or impolite or anything, but does anybody remember what the Patient Predation and Unaffordable Care-Less Act originally said? At one time it was a perfectly flat plane (as the commissar shall determine) and now, thanks to King Hussein, its a gigantic piece of origami.
A gigantic piece of origami that managed to put Tea Partiers and "establishmentarians" on the same page for a change. Now THAT's an accomplishment.
So's House Majority Leader Eric Cantor's tweet:
You know last week's CBO revelation that ObamaCare would destroy an additional 2.5 million jobs over the next several years? You know the Dems' feeble, pathetic, yet brazen attempts to spin this admission as some sort of twisted Emancipation Proclamation? So much for that propaganda angle. This latest royal decree isn't a proffered cure for the O-Care affliction, but, as the Treasury Commissariat put it, "a little more time [for medium sized businesses] to adjust to providing coverage."
In practice it's intended as an electoral two-fer: take heat off of the dozen or so vulnerable Donk senators up for re-election this November and nominally improve the jobs crisis in the run-up to the 2016 election (if O allows it). It will accomplish neither, especially the latter:
Brian Haile, senior vice president for Health Care Policy at Jackson Hewitt, told the Washington Post the final rule "may seem like an obscure accounting matter, but it gets to the heart of whether and how employers hire new workers – and whether these workers will have the opportunity to transition from part-time to full-time or seasonal to permanent employment."
And the incentive of this rule change at best does not make employers more likely to expand hiring, and at worst, well, you get the picture. The reason? Uncertainty. Businesses have to plan, and in order to make coherent, even semi-reliable plans, businesses have to have some idea of the conditions in which that plan will unfold. ObamaCare, obviously, has a huge impact on said conditions. But if ObamaCare itself is constantly and capriciously being changed and tweaked and flipped and flopped at presidential whim, completely outside of any legal legislative context, that makes it impossible to know what conditions will be like in a year, two years, five years, etc., and therefore impossible to plan. Think much hiring is going to be taking place in that kind of environment?
Still, there is a method to this madness. Charles Krauthammer identified it thusly:
On Fox News Channel's "Special Report," columnist Charles Krauthammer said "the administration is trying to promote that it's a timing issue, and we've got to ease them into this, is a farce. It's the substance of it."
In the end, he said, the mandate will have to be canceled altogether because it will increase joblessness.
Krauthammer also called Obama's constant changes to Obamacare "lawlessly" changing the rules, more akin to what goes on in a banana republic. "It's now reached the point where it's so endemic that nobody even notices or complains," he said. [emphasis added]
It's of a piece with Red Barry's brand of prevarication. Don't do it well, but do it to death. Lie so much and so often that Da Peepul grow numb to it, shrug their rounded shoulders, and tune out. Same thing with his imperial usurpations. Just keep doing it and doing it and doing it until we're so overwhelmed by it that banana republicanism becomes The New Normal.
This is why I'm now convinced that Barack Obama must be impeached. No, there's no chance that he'd actually be removed from office by the Senate, even in the next Congress when Republicans will control it. But, much as when Bill Clinton was called to account, it's a matter of principle. The One does not have the legal or constitutional authority to do things like this. Article I, Section 1 does not say, "All legislative Powers herein granted shall be vested in a President of the United States". He has broken his Oath by contemptuously eviscerating the very Constitution that he swore to uphold. If that isn't a political crime - or "high crime and misdemeanor" if you prefer - then I don't know what is.
If nothing else, it would - possibly - shine light on the dictator's lawlessness and, perhaps, educate the populace on what a constitutional federal republic is supposed to look like and how it's supposed to work.
Sure, whereas the Left shrieked, "It's all about sex!" the last time, this time they'd snarl "racism!" But they do that anyway. If we're going to go out anyway, why not do so in a blaze of righteousness?
True, O would be less likely to cut us rule change breaks after this. But hey, that's the cost of doing business, right?
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