tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3046628493283608233.post9139658251380670797..comments2023-10-29T05:29:58.599-04:00Comments on Right-Side-of-Lowell: Non-MandatesUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3046628493283608233.post-21485673423214587522014-03-16T15:44:16.943-04:002014-03-16T15:44:16.943-04:00What I have been reading suggests that the Adminis...What I have been reading suggests that the Administration has been playing high, wide, and handsome within the PP&ACA, and some times outside it.<br /><br />Now the President and his Political Appointees are widening their reach for writing Federal Rules in response to not getting the Federal Laws they desire.<br /><br />And Senator Dianne Feinstein's fight with the CIA says there are larger issues. And I am with DiFi on this one, Jon Stewart notwithstanding.<br /><br />Regards — CliffC R Kriegerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10563658418464959198noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3046628493283608233.post-47285775399020214802014-03-12T18:11:27.853-04:002014-03-12T18:11:27.853-04:00"Congress, the co-equal Legislative Branch, h..."Congress, the co-equal Legislative Branch, has surrendered much of legislating to the Executive Branch and its bureaucrats. "<br /><br />I'd straight-up disagree with this. Especially in the case of the ACA. Obama made it a creature of the legislature because that's the only way he could do it. In ceding control (while driving momentum, granted), he ended up giving a ridiculous number of stopping points to the process in the endless subcommittee compromises that individuals insisted on, regardless of how the general body felt in aggregate and especially regardless of how the executive felt. It was sausage making in the worst sense. If the executive had actual power in law-making the product would be decidedly different than what we got. When a party is united and controls both the branches and controls its internal dissenters, perhaps stuff can happen at the behest of the executive, but in such cases it must really be understood that it's more the wish of the party than the executive (even if the party essentially cedes to the wishes of the executive since the executive gets de facto leader status in the party.)<br /><br />The ceding from the legislature is really on national security and war powers and it's a very old fact now. Mr. Lynnehttp://www.leftinlowell.comnoreply@blogger.com