From Karl Rove’s piece about Obamacare in the Wall Street Journal:
. . . in June, the administration and an allied nonprofit, Enroll America, described how hundreds of thousands of community organizers will sign up seven million uninsured people for health coverage, once registration for subsidized insurance starts Oct. 1.
Then on July 2, the administration dropped a bombshell, delaying the employer mandate for a year.
Even Democrats were taken aback. Iowa Sen. Tom Harkin, one of the law’s authors, was quoted in the New York Times saying, “This was the law. How can they change the law?”
It’s almost a Fox Butterfield moment — how can the administration send its shock troops out to give away “health care” and then disrupt the mechanism that in part is supposed to pay for it? — a contradiction that isn’t a contradiction when you stop to think about it. Or, to put it another way, for the Cloward-Obama administration, bankrupting the system’s not a bug, it’s a feature.
But back to Senator Harkin’s question: “How can they change the law?” Easy, senator: Because there’s no one to stop them. Now, what are you and your congressional colleagues going to do about it? Besides nothing, I mean.