Line-Item Veto
Ben Sasse is the president of the Cornhusker Kickback state’s Midland University, and The Weekly Standard’s hope for the U.S. Senate. When President Obama deleted the employer mandate from the Affordable Care Act for one year Sasse said, “The president has just given himself the line-item veto, well after he had signed the bill into law.” … “Apparently Obamacare is a living, breathing document designed to grow and change with the desires of the president.”
The president, who insists he is not a king, later ruled to retain the individual mandate on the honor system.
Update: Actually, Justice John Paul Stevens says you don’t have a line item veto. From Michael McConnell in the WSJ:
“There is no provision in the Constitution that authorizes the president to enact, to amend, or to repeal statutes.”
Egyptian Coup Cartoon
Happy 4th of July
The text in the first panel is from the Declaration of Independence which is read aloud every 4th of July at the National Archives. This year Hillsdale College is promoting readings all over the country.
That’s a good thing because a multitude of new offices have been erected under HHS to enforce Obamacare. Not only that, swarms of IRS agents are coming to harass our people and eat out the their substance under the Orwellian named “Affordable Care Act”.
The young and healthy, who helped sweep Obama into office, are being forced to buy insurance they don’t need in order to bring down costs for the old and sick. Here’s an actual notice from an insurance broker to a young person I know:
NFL Gangster Style
John Facenda was known as The Voice of God. He was famous for his over-the-top NFL Film productions glorifying the manly ideal of the players. Now pro athletes glorify themselves as gangsters and rappers. At least that’s how Jason Whitlock sees it at Fox Sports. He says, “… popular culture has installed Tony Soprano as America’s most celebrated and revered icon above Joe Montana”.
The Wall Street Journal says that on a psychological profile Aaron Hernandez scored a perfect 10 on focus and a 1 on social maturity.
Gay Marriage Goes Viral
Supreme Court swingman, Justice Anthony Kennedy, wrote the majority opinion overturning the Defense of Marriage Act. After writing that the issue of gay marriage should be left to the states he described its opponents as bigots. Here’s Rich Lowry in Politico:
The majority held that DOMA inflicts an “injury and indignity” on gay couples so severe that it denies “an essential part of the liberty protected by the Fifth Amendment.” It is motivated by a “‘bare congressional desire to harm a politically unpopular group.’” There is, in short, nothing to be said for it or the point of view of its supporters. Period. Full stop.
Those bigots would include Bill Clinton, who signed DOMA into law (but, newly enlightened, is glad to see it go), Barack Obama (until he changed his mind “the day before yesterday”), “342 members of the House, and 85 Senators”. Actually, most members of the human race were on board with the bigots until millions changed their minds – the day before yesterday .
