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Obama's Unilateral Presidency Crashes Into the Constitution

By Liz Peek June 17, 2015 6:15 AM

Bam! That's the sound of President Obama smacking head first into our nation's system of checks and balances. It turns out that you actually can't run the country all by yourself, even if you're the smartest fellow in the room. That's proving quite a shock to our legacy-hungry commander in chief, who is responding to various setbacks with increasing indignation and hauteur. But, never, ever, moderation.

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Mr. Obama has pursued an ambitious agenda since he entered the White House, increasingly acting alone. Ever since he won passage of Obamacare in 2010 through an odious series of back-room favors, and then got burned looking for a "Grand Bargain" on the budget with House Speaker John Boehner, he has eschewed the normal horse-trading with Congress and chosen to govern instead through executive actions and regulations.

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Just as his favored military option is clean-hands drone attacks, he has kept his dealings with Congress sanitary, at arm's length. That fastidious approach now threatens his second-term program. Not only is Congress balking, but also the Supreme Court could block several of Mr. Obama's cherished programs. He has only himself to blame.

On the griddle currently is the president's Trans Pacific Trade pact, which Democrats in Congress oppose. Members of his own party snubbed President Obama's humiliating last-ditch overtures -- a rare visit to Congress and schmoozing Nancy Pelosi at a baseball game. According to The Atlantic, he promised goodies galore – rides on Air force One, Oval Office visits and campaign help for those willing to vote for his bill. He hoped to counter AFL-CIO head Richard Trumka's reported threats that Big Labor will mount primary challenges against those who back the trade measure.

The offers – and the jawboning -- from the increasingly lame duck president flopped. Representative Peter Defazio from Oregon told reporters, "The President tried to both guilt people and impugn their integrity. I was insulted." Another House Democrat, according to CNN, said Obama "was fine until he turned at the end and became indignant and alienated some folks." Republicans were not shocked; Obama has impugned their integrity as well as their honesty and patriotism repeatedly over the past seven years.

The TPP is essential to Obama's foreign policy legacy. Elsewhere, his adventures overseas have been disastrous. The president has created a power vacuum in which Russia and China are increasingly belligerent, and ISIS spreads its influence unchecked. So, the famous pivot to Asia is all that's left – and that hangs by the thread of the TPP.

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Meanwhile, the courts may squash other portions of his vaunted legacy. The Supreme Court will rule shortly on the fate of Obamacare; this time the Roberts Court may pull the plug on the program. In response, President Obama is indignant, and he is once again being dishonest about Obamacare. (See "lie of the year"2013: "If you like your healthcare plan, you can keep it.")

In recent days, Obama has rebuked the Court for taking up King v. Burwell, and suggested that the challenge to state-provided subsidies is but one more GOP-led partisan assault on his signature healthcare program. He claims the language of the law is simply a goof; that it was always expected that everyone would be eligible for subsidized health insurance, whether or not their state had set up its own exchange.

Mr. Obama has one small problem: Jonathan Gruber. The MIT economist and architect of Obamacare – he who so memorably claimed the law would never have passed but for the stupidity of American voters – at a conference in 2012 said this: "What's important to remember politically about this is if you're a state and you don't set up an exchange, that means your citizens don't get their tax credits."

Denying subsidies to those living in states that failed to set up their own exchanges was integral to the Affordable Care Act. It was the stick, and the carrot. But, it failed, because opposition to Obamacare was intense, and many state legislatures chose to not to participate. They recognized that the cost of setting up the exchange would be high, and that their citizens generally opposed the giant overturn of our healthcare industry. Those 37 states that did not set up their own exchanges were lawfully rejecting the president's healthcare program – a law passed with not one Republican vote.

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President Obama's large-scale executive action on immigration is also threatened by the courts. At the end of last month, the federal Fifth Circuit Court upheld an injunction from a judge in Texas that put the program on hold. As a result, Obama's plan to protect millions here illegally from deportation cannot be implemented. Twenty-six states have sued to overturn the program, claiming it had not been enacted legally; this initiative could remain mired in the courts for some time.

Meanwhile, the Supreme Court is deciding the fate of an impending 2012 Environmental Protection Agency rule that for the first time requires power plants to reduce emissions of mercury and other pollutants. The case hinges on whether the EPA's estimate of $9.6 billion in annual costs emanating from the regulation is, as required under the Clean Air Act, "appropriate and necessary." A negative ruling would set back Mr. Obama's environmental program, which has largely relied on EPA regulations rather than laws established by Congress.

The founders of our country understood that too much power in the hands of the executive branch was unwise. In the past seven years we have seen that they were correct. President Obama has backed one major measure after another that Americans dislike; unlike most of his predecessors, Mr. Obama has never moderated his positions to reflect the country's opposition. Thankfully, we have checks and balances on the president's authority provided through Congress and our court system. President Obama's real legacy may well be reaffirming the wisdom of those constitutional restraints.

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Re: Authorities arrest 243 people in $712 million Medicare fraud : BY MEGAN CASSELLA

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Authorities arrest 243 people in $712 million Medicare fraud : BY MEGAN CASSELLA

The U.S. Department of Justice said on Thursday that 243 people have been arrested across the country, charged with submitting fake billing for Medicare, a government healthcare program, that totaled $712 million.

Attorney General Loretta Lynch described the arrests as the largest criminal health care fraud takedown in the history of the Justice Department.

Those arrested included 46 doctors, nurses and other licensed medical professionals. The charges are based on a variety of alleged fraud schemes, the government said, including submitting claims to Medicare and Medicaid, the healthcare program for low-income individuals, for treatments that were medically unnecessary and often never provided.

The nationwide sweep, led by the Medicare Fraud Strike Force and the U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, involved about 900 law enforcement officials. It's the largest both in terms of the number of those charged and the amount of money lost.

Many of the arrests were in Florida, long an epicenter of Medicare fraud. In Miami, 73 defendants were charged with offenses involving approximately $263 million in false billings.

One mental health facility there billed close to $64 million for psychotherapy sessions that were nothing more than moving patients to different locations, Lynch said in a press conference.

Other cities involved include Houston, Dallas and McAllen, Texas; Los Angeles; Detroit; Tampa; Brooklyn, New York; and New Orleans.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            One case in Michigan involved a doctor who prescribed unnecessary narcotics in exchange for patients' identification information, which was used to generate false billings. Patients then became deeply addicted to the prescription narcotics and were bound to the scheme as long as they wanted to keep their access to the drugs.

"In the days ahead, the Department of Justice will continue our focus on preventing wrongdoing and prosecuting those whose criminal activity drives up medical costs and jeopardizes a system that our citizens trust with their lives," Lynch said.                 http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/06/18/us-usa-medicare-idUSKBN0OY22E20150618

Re: Al Sharpton On His Way to Promote Racial Unrest After SC Shooting at Black Church : By Colleen Conley

I too was shocked that people were murdered as they were attending a prayer meeting but hey guess what..I'm NOT on my way to SC to create unrest and rally people to protest.  This is what the man does......creates chaos and then walks away.  Why aren't people figuring this fraud out yet?   Ick Ick Ick.

The truth about SodaHead .com part 2

Part two of a series:
Polling website / social network SodaHead .com kicked of ALL it's users without notice..
Since I had a real conflict about how right-wing oriented and bigoted the website was managed I decide do make this video series , are they Frauds ? You decide
Were the Sodahead polls were rigged in the advantage of the Conservative Christian Right?
Were Polls by Users trolled manipulated with fake accounts ..
Critics were silenced and deactivated ?
In other words, time to publish the truth and show the real Sodahead .com
are they Frauds ? You decide

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Al Sharpton On His Way to Promote Racial Unrest After SC Shooting at Black Church : By Colleen Conley

On Thursday, Al Sharpton issued a press release indicating his intention to travel to the Emanuel AME Church in Charleston, SC after a shooting rampage that left 9 people dead.

The historically black church was hosting a Bible study group when a gunman opened fire, killing 3 men and 6 women. He let one woman go to "tell the world what happened." A five year old girl also survived by playing dead.

The shooting has been labeled as a hate crime, and the suspect, Dylann Roof, has been apprehended.

In a statement Sharpton said:

"I am shocked and outraged about the killing of nine innocent people at Emanuel AME Church in Charleston, South Carolina. What has our society come to when people in a prayer meeting in the sacred halls of a church can be shot in what is deemed a possible hate crime?
"The Pastor of the church, Reverend Clementa Pinckney, worked closely with our National Action Network Chapter leader and our Vice President of Religious Affairs, Rev. Nelson Rivers. It is chilling to me that just over two months ago while I was in North Charleston over the police shooting of Walter Scott, I'm reminded that Rev. Pinckney was among the clergy who stood with me at that occasion and now he has fallen victim to senseless violence.
"We must do what we can to apprehend the killer and we must support the families involved in this tragedy. Demagoguery, increasing tension, and talk of violence will only make a mockery of what we face."       http://www.tpnn.com/2015/06/18/al-sharpton-on-his-way-to-promote-racial-unrest-after-sc-shooting-at-black-church/

Press Release on Charleston Church Shootings

The Daily Rant Statement on Charleston Church Shooting

June 18th, 2015
For immediate release

The Daily Rant (TDR) would like to express our most sincere condolences to the surviving family members, friends, loved ones and the community of Charleston, S.C. – as they mourn and struggle to make sense of the heinous murders that took place early this morning at Emmanuel AME Church.

We offer prayers to God for the sense of pain and loss being experienced.

That said, TDR demonstrably condemns the race mongers specifically Obama, Al Sharpton, the mainstream media and all others who would seek to foment racial acrimony in the aftermath of this horrific and unconscionable act of violence.

To portray this as defining of greater condemnation than the mass shootings at Columbine, Colorado, Connecticut, Arizona, Pennsylvania, ad nauseum is to unambiguously disregard the lives of white children and adults who died at the hands of equally evil, deranged young men.

There are no words to describe the shock and pain that the Charleston community is experiencing at this moment. Nor are there words that can address the reawakened feelings of dread and loss experienced by the families, loved ones and communities of those who live in states where similar mass shootings have taken place.

Please join TDR in calling upon Obama, politicians, the media, and those well-known race mongers to show respect to the community of Charleston and to example the propriety that should be consistent with the positions they hold to behave with respect and not the baneful self-serving racial acrimony that has become synonymous with them and their kind.

Mychal Massie
Editor, The Daily Rant         http://mychal-massie.com/premium/?inf_contact_key=97ed03fc006271b5f06f4a92ed9b4735bfa55aa1b89030f40716d361db2770cb