With a Single Word

There's an awful lot wrong with this announcement.  Let's just focus on one thing, shall we?  Say, one single sentence:

Obama will require insurance companies to cover the costs of birth control for employees of religiously affiliated organizations, including hospitals and schools, officials said.

In fact, let's narrow the focus even further.  There's one word that's really, really wrong here, and it's pretty significant.

It is, in fact, the first word in the sentence.

Obama.

As in "Obama will require..."

You know what?  I don't care what Obama will require.  Obama isn't a legislator.  Obama doesn't make the laws, regardless of what the idiot MSM likes to think, or wants you to think.

He's the president of the United States.  Reach back to your high school civics class.  Do you remember who the PotUS is, what that job means?

It means he's the chief executive.  His job is the execution of federal law.

He does not get to decide what the law will be.

Except that our wonderful so-called legislators were unable, in 1300+ pages, to actually define what the law is regarding this so-called health care reform.

So... before he can implement and enforce the law, the president has to define what the law is.

I do not believe that that was an oversight.

It was intentional, because it gets us to that hideous phrase, "Obama will require..."

Not "Congress".  Not "The White House".  Not even "Health and Human Services".

Obama.

What do you call someone who both makes and enforces the law?

There's an old Latin term for it.

In modern usage, the term "dictator" is generally used to describe a leader who holds and/or abuses an extraordinary amount of personal power, especially the power to make laws without effective restraint by a legislative assembly. Dictatorships are often characterized by some of the following traits: suspension of elections and of civil liberties; proclamation of a state of emergency; rule by decree; repression of political opponents without abiding by rule of law procedures; these include single-party state, and cult of personality.

Let's sum it up...

• Personal power?  Check.
• Power to make laws without effective restraint?  Check.
• Suspension of civil liberties?  Check.
• Rule by decree?  Check.
• Repression of political opponents?  Check.
• Failure to abide by rule of law procedures?  Check.
• Cult of personality?  Check.

All that's missing from that list is a proclamation of a state of emergency, and suspension of elections.

Of course, the chances of either one one of those happening, let alone both, are... well.

What was that quote about a good crisis, again?  Ah, yes: