On the recordJuly 19, 2013
I wish that our President had the same respect for our Constitution that our Founding Fathers had, but he doesn't. He simply doesn't; for far too many of his political decisions are made with little regard for the sacred document that has guided our Nation for more than 200 years. Several weeks ago, the President announced that he is not going to enforce certain provisions of ObamaCare. Now, whether it is a good policy or bad policy is not the point. The point is the President does not have the authority to make such a decision. The President is constitutionally bound to enforce the laws of the land. How would my Democratic friends feel if Mitt Romney had been elected and in his first day in office he had decided that he was going to pick and choose which parts of ObamaCare he was going to enforce? Or what if he decided that the capital gains tax was a drag on the economy and he was no longer going to enforce that law? The President's willingness to pick and choose which laws he will enforce is dangerous and demeaning to our democracy. It's demeaning to the very idea of an elected form of government. We have a President, not a King. I hope the President will remember his constitutional oath. ____________________
