I rarely refer to Barack Obama as president of the United States, because he didn’t act like one. This man treated the office as though it were a quasi-dictatorship. His greatest achievement was shoving executive orders down our throats, or using his legion of bureaucrats to pass mountains of rules and regulations. His administration laughed at the Constitution. Now we’re having the last laugh.
President Trump is making an historical correction by getting rid of Obama’s “agreements” and mandates that don’t have the force of law. Paris Climate Agreement, gone! Iranian Nuclear Agreement, gone! Cuban policy, gone! EPA rules and regulations, gone! DACA, gone! The only thing remaining is Obamacare and that was gutted.
If you want an example on how Obama ruled this country just take a look at Obamacare. Here is an excerpt from an article published in the National Review:
Even when implementing laws Congress had passed, Obama and his allies relied on coercing participation through mandates. And when it became inconvenient, they began arbitrarily implementing parts of laws. Administrative discretion became administrative abuse. When the president decided the Obamacare’s employer mandate was politically inconvenient, for example, he simply skipped it for expediency.
The Constitution doesn’t say, “No Money shall be drawn from the Treasury, but in Consequence of Appropriations made by Law unless liberals tell us it’s super important.” Yet shortly after the passage of the Affordable Care Act, the Obama administration realized it would need more subsidies and asked for an appropriation from Congress.
When Congress, then teeming with politicians elected on the promise of overturning Obamacare, refused, then–Treasury Secretary Jack Lew ordered the administration to begin making “cost-sharing reduction” payments anyway, without any public legal justification. Obama created a $7 billion per year appropriation for insurance companies participating in the supposedly self-sufficient and competitive state health care exchanges. Not a single liberal pundit that I know of concerned himself with this norm breaking.
Barack Obama’s legacy will be his contempt for our republic, the people and the rule of law. May we never see the likes of him, again.
Source:
https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/05/the-obama-legacy-deserves-to-be-destroyed/
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2017/11/08/trump-cracks-down-u-s-business-and-travel-cuba/843419001/
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