Barack Obama is a trend setter when it comes to governing. King Pen and Phone didn’t need a stinking congress to pass his agenda and apparently neither does Roy Cooper of North Carolina. The newly sworn-in governor has mistaken his oath ceremony for a coronation. His majesty recently declared he is more than willing to sign an executive order to expand Medicaid without permission from our elected representatives. Progressives believe that whole republican form of government thing guaranteed in the U.S. Constitution is just words on a living and breathing document.
Cooper, a Democrat, said
in a news conference following his talk that the law impinges on “the core
executive authority of the governor to accept federal funds to look out for the
health of the people.”
The issue could end up
in court, but Cooper said he would rather avoid a dispute. He said he hopes
that legislators “will be receptive or at least let us do it without trying to
stop us.
I’m sorry, but the core
executive authority of the governor is to enforce the laws. The General Assembly is responsible for
introducing and passing legislation and that includes the means of raising revenue, not the governor. I believe we had a revolution based on the premise of “No taxation without representation.”
Thankfully, our state’s
elected representatives aren’t like those spineless creatures in Washington D.C.
“Just days into his term
as governor, Roy Cooper already intends to violate his oath of office with a
brazenly illegal attempt to force a massive, budget-busting Obamacare expansion
on North Carolina taxpayers,” Berger said in a statement.
“Cooper is three strikes
and out on his attempt to break state law: he does not have the authority to
unilaterally expand Obamacare, his administration cannot take steps to increase
Medicaid eligibility and our Constitution does not allow him to spend billions
of state tax dollars we don’t have to expand Obamacare without legislative
approval.”
Two Republican leaders
in the state House, Speaker Tim Moore of Kings Mountain and Majority Leader
John Bell of Goldsboro, issued a statement equating Medicaid expansion to a tax
increase.
“Gov. Cooper proposed
raising taxes on North Carolinians today, just over 72 hours into office,” the
statement said. “Fortunately, Gov. Cooper lacks the authority to implement his
proposed plan and cannot unilaterally raise taxes on the people of North
Carolina.”
I have news for Governor
Roy Cooper, you’re not Barack Obama and the state of North Carolina isn’t
Washington D.C. If you think you can
violate our Constitution and act like a Venezuelan dictator, you’ve got another
think coming. As a matter of fact, I do
believe an egregious overreach such as that is grounds for impeachment and the
republicans in the General Assembly have the balls to do it.
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