{"id":21329,"date":"2013-12-27T09:34:44","date_gmt":"2013-12-27T14:34:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=21329"},"modified":"2013-12-27T09:34:44","modified_gmt":"2013-12-27T14:34:44","slug":"does-the-u-s-constitution-still-matter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=21329","title":{"rendered":"Does The U. S. Constitution Still Matter?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Monday, <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Forbes\" href=\"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"homepage\">Forbes Magazine<\/a> posted an article about entitled, &#8220;<a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Barack Obama\" href=\"http:\/\/www.rottentomatoes.com\/celebrity\/barack_obama\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"rottentomatoes\">President Obama&#8217;s<\/a> <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Top 40\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Top_40\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">Top 10<\/a> Constitutional Violations of 2013.&#8221; Most of these violations have to do with <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Patient_Protection_and_Affordable_Care_Act\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">ObamaCare<\/a>, but there are a few that do not that are interesting.<\/p>\n<p>The article lists the top 10:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>1. Delay of Obamacare\u2019s out-of-pocket caps.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>2. Delay of Obamacare\u2019s <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Health insurance mandate\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Health_insurance_mandate\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">employer mandate<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>3. Delay of Obamacare\u2019s insurance requirements.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>4. Exemption of Congress from Obamacare<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>5. Expansion of the employer mandate penalty through <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Internal Revenue Service\" href=\"http:\/\/www.irs.gov\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"homepage\">IRS<\/a> regulation.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>6. Political profiling by the IRS.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>7. Outlandish <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Supreme Court of the United States\" href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?ll=38.8907083333,-77.0043444444&amp;spn=0.01,0.01&amp;q=38.8907083333,-77.0043444444 (Supreme%20Court%20of%20the%20United%20States)&amp;t=h\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"geolocation\">Supreme Court<\/a> arguments.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>8. Recess appointments.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>9. Assault on free speech and due process on college campuses.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>10. Mini-DREAM Act.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Please follow the link above to read the details of each item. The two items that are most disturbing to me are the misuse of the IRS for political purposes and the <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Recess appointment\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Recess_appointment\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">recess appointments<\/a> made while Congress was technically in session. The <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Presidency of Barack Obama\" href=\"http:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"homepage\">Obama Administration<\/a> has shown by its actions that it has little respect for the <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"United States Constitution\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/United_States_Constitution\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">U.S. Constitution<\/a> as the basis for our government. I will be very happy when this crew is voted out of office.<\/p>\n<div class=\"zemanta-pixie\" style=\"margin-top: 10px; height: 15px;\"><a class=\"zemanta-pixie-a\" title=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" href=\"http:\/\/www.zemanta.com\/?px\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" style=\"border: none; float: right;\" alt=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" src=\"http:\/\/img.zemanta.com\/zemified_h.png?x-id=770054f7-f22a-409c-9d02-7b63fc5cc56d\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Monday, Forbes Magazine posted an article about entitled, &#8220;President Obama&#8217;s Top 10 Constitutional Violations of 2013.&#8221; Most of these violations have to do with ObamaCare, but there are a few that do not that are interesting. The article lists &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=21329\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[97,284,562,7,134,274,933,1501],"class_list":["post-21329","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-barack-obama","tag-internal-revenue-service","tag-obama","tag-obamacare","tag-patient-protection-and-affordable-care-act","tag-supreme-court","tag-supreme-court-of-the-united-states","tag-united-states-constitution"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21329","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21329"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21329\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21332,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21329\/revisions\/21332"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}