Mona Charen had a characteristically great column Tuesday about President Obama’s illegal welfare policy. The president purports to be unbound by federal welfare law, which imposes work requirements on welfare recipients. The Washington Times reports that
“such activities as motivational reading, housework, weight loss, and
journaling” will now qualify for exemption from work requirements.
There is nothing new about this sort of thing. As Mona points out,
“It’s old news that Obama has contempt for the rule of law. He’s
declined to ‘take care that the laws be faithfully executed’ on many
subjects: immigration, the Defense of Marriage Act, labor laws, and
environmental rules, among others.”To take yet another example, Congressman Steve King of Iowa observes that Obama has serially flouted the federal law that requires the president to submit a plan to address Medicare’s fiscal health if, as long ago happened, the program’s trustee issues an insolvency warning. The president does not even deem himself obliged to follow the health-care law he famously championed, imperiously issuing numerous “waivers” to excuse non-compliance. He asserts executive privilege frivolously to stonewall Congress’s investigation of his Justice Department’s Fast and Furious program. In addition, he flouts the Constitution’s requirement that Congress actually be in recess before a president can make recess appointments.
Read more: http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/309765/obama-flouts-rule-law-andrew-c-mccarthy
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