Liberty Minute October 21 2013

After Congress enacted Obamacare, a legal challenge was filed that wound up before the Supreme Court. In his ruling upholding Obamacare, Chief Justice John Roberts effectively re-wrote the legislation by defining the individual mandate as a tax, rather than a penalty.

The Supreme Court has no constitutional authority to modify legislation, yet Obamacare partisans didn?t object to that usurpation of Congressional authority.

Last July, Barack Obama issued an executive decree waiving employer mandates under the Obamacare measure until 2015 ? that is, until after the mid-term congressional elections. Obama blithely said that this was ?a tweak that doesn?t go to the essence of the law,? but the Constitution does not give the president the authority to modify legislation.

This was an impeachable usurpation of power ? yet Obamacare partisans did not object to Obama?s unabashed defiance of a law he had signed.

The recently ended budget impasse was supposedly provoked by congressional Republicans who wanted to delay full implementation of Obamacare. The House of Representatives, unlike the president or Supreme Court, has plenary authority to modify or defund Obamacare. This time, however, the president?s partisans are calling for the House Republican leadership to be arrested for seditious treason.

This demand splendidly illustrates the truth of the axiom: Scratch a ?progressive,? find a fascist.

Let us take back the liberty wherewith Christ has made us free.