Urged on by a reader, I'm going to highlight something which was buried in my previous post and doesn't seem to be getting much attention.
It's from Nothing But Squid Ink, Ed Haislmaier and Jennifer A. Marshall's analysis of Obama's bogus "accommodation." I'm no lawyer, but the part about putting the mandate "into federal law" yesterday afternoon seems pretty clear:
Despite what President Obama said at his White House press conference, the actual regulations make permanent the “interim final regulations” issued August 3, 2011 — the ones that sparked the furor in the first place.Bold emphasis is mine.
Prefaced by 17 pages of the kind of rhetorical squid ink that President Obama defensively deployed at his press conference, the words that have the force of law appear on pages 18 to 20. That’s where the actual amendments to the Code of Federal Regulations are made by three departments — Treasury, Labor, and Health and Human Services — that Congress previously granted joint oversight of employer health plans.
The bottom line is this: “Accordingly, the amendment to the interim final rule with comment period amending 45 CFR 147.130(a)(1)(iv) which was published in the Federal Register at 76 FR 46621-46626 on August 3, 2011, is adopted as a final rule without change.” [Emphasis added.]
Translation: The Obama administration Friday afternoon put into federal law the very regulation that drew objections from almost 200 Catholic bishops, some 50 religiously affiliated colleges and universities, 65 North American bishops of Orthodox churches, numerous other Jewish, Evangelical and Lutheran leaders, and even some liberals — and without changing so much as a comma.
From this point forward, any changes to this regulation have to go through the formal regulatory process all over again. [. . .]
Thus, instead of delaying final regulations until they could be revised to reflect the prospective changes President Obama outlined Friday, the administration went ahead and locked into regulation its original position, accompanied by a (non-binding) promise to revisit the issue.
Kinda makes Obama's protestations of "accommodation" look even more like a fraud and a lie than they already did. Pass it on. And while you're at it, pass this on, too: There are no exemptions for individuals, either.
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Update 2/14/12:
Just to be clear, the August rule was finalized on the same day the President announced his "compromise." Via The Becket Fund's Hannah Smith:
It is especially telling that the details of this fake ‘compromise’ will likely not be announced until after the election.And, frankly, the president isn't legally obligated to make a compromise at all if he chooses not to. The two promises added to the rule last week, one to hold off on enforcement for a year, and another to add the "compromise" rule, aren't legally binding.
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Thanks to Doug Ross for the link.
Thanks also to Camp of the Saints for same.
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Keep it up, you POS, Obama. At the rate he is going....there won't be any group outside of the far left whose back he hasn't stuck a knife into.
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ReplyDeleteWe lost the argument a long time ago over whether or not the government has the power to regulate your healthcare. What are seeing now is the accelerated final push from an administration so far Left that even FDR would blush at its arrogance and tyrannical positions.
ReplyDeleteI'll be working on a post today, trying to link the mantra to the belief system to the execution. Some of this I am beginning to understand deals with the radical belief that the earth is pure and we are a virus that is destroying it. I heard that several times over the last few years and dismissed it as insanity. But, if a person believes our existence is a disease the earth suffers, than any reduction in the number of virus is a victory.
Further, the "State" recognizes it survival is fundamentally linked to our servitude. Every time I see the level of micromanagement desired by the State, I am reminded of two popular movie villains, SKYNET of the Terminator movies and the human battery using Matrix. Both were represented as unrelenting artificial intelligence which recognized humans as both a resource and a threat depending on the amount of resistance offered. Total control was the only way they thought they could survive alongside humans. In a sense, our Federal government has become a living creature with its own self preservation built in it and of paramount importance.
It will crush or ignore resistance from the citizenry. In my opinion, there is no out here. Conservatives could seize control of the government, but the bureaucracy lives for itself and politicians live for their control and power. People like McCain would give lip service but push for the status quo behind the curtains.
The Church is the current target, the Second Amendment is next. After that, it won't matter at all because we'll be batteries.
We've seen this before. Steyn points out the historical relationship between state and religion. The type of person we see in Obama and his ilk this world has dealt with since the beginning of humanity. Sometimes we drive the offender away. Most times, the offender drives the society into deeper servitude. Once won, the State rarely gives up ground without revolution. As Steyn points out, no matter how abusive it was in its establishment, the King is still a head of a church.
And that is how it works.
We lost the argument a long time ago over whether or not the government has the power to regulate your healthcare. What are seeing now is the accelerated final push from an administration so far Left that even FDR would blush at its arrogance and tyrannical positions.
ReplyDeleteI'll be working on a post today, trying to link the mantra to the belief system to the execution. Some of this I am beginning to understand deals with the radical belief that the earth is pure and we are a virus that is destroying it. I heard that several times over the last few years and dismissed it as insanity. But, if a person believes our existence is a disease the earth suffers, than any reduction in the number of virus is a victory.
Further, the "State" recognizes it survival is fundamentally linked to our servitude. Every time I see the level of micromanagement desired by the State, I am reminded of two popular movie villains, SKYNET of the Terminator movies and the human battery using Matrix. Both were represented as unrelenting artificial intelligence which recognized humans as both a resource and a threat depending on the amount of resistance offered. Total control was the only way they thought they could survive alongside humans. In a sense, our Federal government has become a living creature with its own self preservation built in it and of paramount importance.
It will crush or ignore resistance from the citizenry. In my opinion, there is no out here. Conservatives could seize control of the government, but the bureaucracy lives for itself and politicians live for their control and power. People like McCain would give lip service but push for the status quo behind the curtains.
The Church is the current target, the Second Amendment is next. After that, it won't matter at all because we'll be batteries.
We've seen this before. Steyn points out the historical relationship between state and religion. The type of person we see in Obama and his ilk this world has dealt with since the beginning of humanity. Sometimes we drive the offender away. Most times, the offender drives the society into deeper servitude. Once won, the State rarely gives up ground without revolution. As Steyn points out, no matter how abusive it was in its establishment, the King is still a head of a church.
And that is how it works.
This post was very enlightening - thanks Jill.
ReplyDeleteObama is a Tyrant.
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