The President Apologizes……Again!!!

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Feb 232012
 

I am so sick of Barack Obama’s constant apologizing for this country. Come to think of it, I am also sick and tired of his bowing down to almost every world leader he comes across. The President is an embarrassment to the US with all of his kowtowing. This is the United States of America, we bow to no one. So….Enough already.

This time the apology comes as word gets out about the accidental burning of a couple of Quarans. The Qurans in question were already written in by the Gitmo detainees in a violation of Islamic law. And, according to Islamic law, the Qurans as supposed to be destroyed by burning them. Again, the Quurans were burned by accident, but by accident the US followed Islamic Law. So why is Obama apologizing. All he is doing is giving the radical Islamists more ammunition in which to attack US interests.

With my children, I learned a long time ago to pick my battles, because you as a parent can not win every one of them. Obama seems like he is taking this same idea to the extreme. His first knee jerk reaction to any possible crisis (even before there is one) is to apologize for the US. Note to the President: Quit Apologizing and LEAD.

 Posted by at 5:02 pm

Obama’s Solution to the Individual Mandate in ObamaCare–Earn Less Money

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Jun 032011
 

One of the best definitions I have ever heard defining freedom defined it this way, “…being allowed the opportunity to be responsible for your own actions.” The Sixth Circuit Court is hearing oral arguments on Obamacare this week. Fortunately the judges have expressed skepticism over the Solicitor General’s arguments concerning the legality of the individual mandates in the controversial healthcare law. Apparently, Neal Kumar Katyal, the acting Solicitor General, believes that there is no mandate in Obamacare since we could opt out of having to pay for health coverage by earning less money.

President Obama’s solicitor general, defending the national health care law on Wednesday, told a federal appeals court that Americans who didn’t like the individual mandate could always avoid it by choosing to earn less money.

Katyal also stated that the government could regulate people’s actions because they ‘engage in commerce” like a business when they buy products. The Obama administration is really reaching with this one. The Court also expressed skepticism concerning the limits on Congressional power.

Katyal also tried to used the ‘necessary and proper’ clause to justify the individual mandate in the healthcare law under the Commerce part of the Constitution. This is the old standby when nothing else the Obama administration throws out there will stick to the wall. It is a last gasp measure of desperation when someone who is losing the argument.

The Court expressed real skepticism on where this will lead if Congress has the power to force people to buy a product.

The problem with the “health care is unique” argument – and this is me talking – is that it just creates an opening for future Congresses to regulate all sorts of things by either a) arguing that a particular market is also special or b) finding a way to tie a given regulation to health care.

The way the Sixth Circuit Court is questioning the administration’s representative’s shows their case is not doing so well, thank goodness. This is not freedom.

 Posted by at 2:48 pm
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