Showing posts with label obama. Show all posts
Showing posts with label obama. Show all posts

Tuesday, April 19, 2011

Legislative implications for "Birther" scenerio

(disclaimer: I'm agnostic on the question of Obama's place of birth, and I am neither a lawyer nor a constitutional scholar - I just got to thinking after reading about Louisiana HB 561)

So what happens to all the legislation that Obama has signed into law if it is somehow discovered that he's not eligible to serve as President of the United States?  While I think it would be impossible to undo it and all the effects of it, I don't think that would even be necessary, because according to Article I, section 7, clause 2 of the U.S. Constitution:
"..If any Bill shall not be returned by the President within ten Days (Sundays excepted) after it shall have been presented to him, the Same shall be a Law, in like Manner as if he had signed it..."
So it seems to me that even if he is illegitimate, the laws he has signed would remain in effect, having not been vetoed after a 10 day period.  I suppose there could be some argument as to whether the bill had actually been "presented" to the President.

I suppose his many executive orders might be "undone" but given the effect of one of his first executive orders closing down GITMO....

What I think would be more interesting is what about any bills that were vetoed by him.  Since all of his acts would be invalid, seems to me that those bills might actually be legitimate laws.

Thursday, December 2, 2010

Bipartisanship for our lifetime...

So I heard Representative Eric Cantor (Virginia) state earlier this week his intention to repeal Obamacare and replace it with Cantorcare, which, apparently, means that only the "popular" provisions, i.e. requiring insurance companies to provide coverage to people with pre-existing conditions AND requiring companies that provide insurance to children to cover those children to the age of 26.

I don't know if Cantor thinks he can compromise with Obama, and that maybe this will be a way to get a less-bad law in place of the current one, but this current batch of Democrats have proven time and again that they do not honor their commitments.  And if they do succeed, then their fingerprints will be on the destruction of our health care and health insurance markets.  Consider:
  • Insurance for pre-existing conditions is not insurance, it is welfare.  Insurance is when you pay into a common risk pool to cover future (unknown) risks.  If it's something you already have, then it's not a risk, it is a reality, and to have someone else pay for your reality is welfare, not insurance.
  • Children to the age of 26.  So what is already happening here is companies are beginning to refuse to offer policies on children.  Nevermind the classification of a 26 year old person as a child, but in our current nanny-state country, that somehow seems to fit.

The real problem here is that they are not "forcing" insurance companies to do squat, they are "prohibiting" me from entering into agreements with those companies under terms outside of what they "deem" acceptable.  Who are those idiots to decide for me?

I will never support any Democrat because of what they have collectively done to my country these past 4 years that they've controlled Congress.  For the Republicans to repeal the abominable restrictions on my freedom in Obamacare I expect and demand.  But for them to replace it with their own version will force me to refuse to support them either.  Ever.  Might not be a bad thing for me to give up my interest in politics.

to paraphrase Orwell, "The voters outside looked from democrat to republican, and from republican to democrat, and from democrat to republican again; but already it was impossible to say which was which."

Monday, October 18, 2010

"blind faith in the market"

Sayeth Barak Obama (peace be upon him):
The basic idea is that if we put our blind faith in the market and we let corporations do whatever they want and we leave everybody else to fend for themselves, then America somehow automatically is going to grow and prosper.
I'd like to respond to this sentiment of our President:
His basic idea is that if we put our blind faith in the government and we let the politicians and bureaucrats do whatever they want and we leave everybody else to fend for themselves, then America somehow automatically is going to grow and prosper.
Given that more Americans are organized in corporations than in government bureaucracies, even the moral fallacy of being for the "greater good" being defined as benefiting the most people fails to support His radical views.  On the practical front, I challenge anyone to find a place on this planet where a centrally planned (i.e. government run) economy has ever lead to prolonged prosperity for the citizens of that nation.