Newt Gingrich actually said...

If we can't delay Alzheimer's by 5 or 6 years, you know, we are going to go bankrupt.

It's not the president's right to dictate with the newly elected Congress that has repudiated his policies in the election.

The constitution doesn't say the president should obey the law until he gets frustrated.

Every time it's been done in the past it has.