The Newspaper Owned By Amazon's CEO Calls Obama 'Worse Than Nixon.'

[onehandle]

Your Amazon dollars are not only destroying American jobs, they are going into the pocket of George Will:
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President Obama’s increasingly grandiose claims for presidential power are inversely proportional to his shriveling presidency. Desperation fuels arrogance as, barely 200 days into the 1,462 days of his second term, his pantry of excuses for failure is bare, his domestic agenda is nonexistent and his foreign policy of empty rhetorical deadlines and red lines is floundering. And at last week’s news conference he offered inconvenience as a justification for illegality.

Explaining his decision to unilaterally rewrite the Affordable Care Act (ACA), he said: “I didn’t simply choose to” ignore the statutory requirement for beginning in 2014 the employer mandate to provide employees with health care. No, “this was in consultation with businesses.”

He continued: “In a normal political environment, it would have been easier for me to simply call up the speaker and say, you know what, this is a tweak that doesn’t go to the essence of the law. . . . It looks like there may be some better ways to do this, let’s make a technical change to the law. That would be the normal thing that I would prefer to do. But we’re not in a normal atmosphere around here when it comes to Obamacare. We did have the executive authority to do so, and we did so.”

Serving as props in the scripted charade of White House news conferences, journalists did not ask the pertinent question: “Where does the Constitution confer upon presidents the ‘executive authority’ to ignore the separation of powers by revising laws?” The question could have elicited an Obama rarity: brevity. Because there is no such authority.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/george-will-obamas-unconstitutional-steps-worse-than-nixons/2013/08/14/e0bd6cb2-044a-11e3-9259-e2aafe5a5f84_story.html

[msanthrope]

1. Oh, it's George Will, let him blither on and when you want to distract him, murmur something

about Alex Rodriquez and the lost grandeur of the game of baseball.....

[dionysus]

2. waiting for DUers rushing to agree with george will in 3..2...1...

[msanthrope]

4. When ODS finds one agreeing with George Will about Nixon, one needs to hope that the ACA

will cover cranial/rectal detachment surgery.

[jmowreader]

13. Surgery is not needed

On page 1369 of Obamacare: Crowbars used to treat ACA-induced craniorectal inversion syndrome are available with no copay upon presentation of your Obamacare card at any hardware store.

[David Krout]

3. So...if the Amazon CEO had not bought the WaPo, George Will would not have written what he wrote?

Sometimes I don't understand the logic used by some people.

[onehandle]

5. Yes. That's exactly what I said. You nailed it. You have me, sir.

Libertarian Jeff Bezos' ownership created George Will from thin air was clearly my meaning.

[HangOnKids]

8. Bazinga!

Critical thinking is a lost art.

[frylock]

10. Bezos has donated $16,000 to United States Democrats, $2,000 to United States Republicans

In July 2012, Bezos and his wife personally donated $2.5 million to pass a same-sex marriage referendum in Washington. According to Newsmeat.com, a web site that documents political donations made by "the powerful, rich, and famous" since 1977 (and donations higher than $200), Bezos has donated $16,000 to United States Democrats, $2,000 to United States Republicans, and $55,000 to special interests as of September 6, 2012.

[msanthrope]

6. That would be sarcasm. As in, the WaPo has gone so "liberal" media since Amazon

bought it that George Will is comparing Obama to Nixon, freely and without editorial restraint.

[jmowreader]

14. You're exactly right

When George Will turned this in six weeks ago with big empty spaces in it so the editor could insert the Obama Atrocity of the Week, he wanted to compare Obama to Nixon but the old owner wanted him to compare Obama to Idi Amin.

Now that Bezos is the new sheriff, George Will can be the writer he's longed to be.

[HardTimes99]

7. I'm no big supporter of Obama but, lest anyone forget, Nixon ordered the

CIA to obstruct a duly-authorized FBI investigation. Nothing, ABSOLUTELY NOTHING!, Obama has done (or not done) rises to anywhere near that level of perfidy, of high crimes and misdemeanors.

Jesus H. Christ, that the WaPo has allowed such ahistorical drivel to be published.

[midnight]

9. I disagree, I think George was worse than Nixon....

The Bill of Rights — RIP?

The Bush administration has been utterly hostile to the entire Bill of Rights. I did not focus on it, but one can quickly realize that Bush has violated all the principles of the Bill of Rights in regard to the Iraq War alone. Iraqis have been censored, disarmed, occupied, searched, hassled, regulated by curfew, severely and arbitrarily beaten and punished, tortured, humiliated, and generally abused by a foreign government that respects no limits on its power and regards Iraqis as if they have no impermeable rights at all. This is not to say that Saddam respected anyone’s rights, but it speaks to the lunacy of the U.S. government brutally instituting a constitution abroad when it has no regard for the constitutional safeguards against any of its own actions.

During wartime, the Bill of Rights and its corresponding liberties tend to suffer extraordinary abuse. Bush prides himself as a "war president," and so it should come as no surprise when he treats his foreign and domestic subjects accordingly.

Although, as I’ve said before, some previous presidents may have been as bad or even worse, we must still have a clear understanding and appreciation for how much George Bush and the present government are undermining the principles that made America so special. The first Ten Amendments of the Constitution provide a blueprint for an incredibly free society. Perhaps Bush, who has a phobia against reading anything aside from what his advisors give him, should break with personal custom for at least half an hour and read the Bill of Rights.

http://www.lewrockwell.com/2004/05/anthony-gregory/bushs-war-on-the-bill-of-rights/

[FSogol]

11. Laughably inaccurate headline. George Will hates Obama, you hate all competitors to Apple

Who knew?

[Pretzel_Warrior]

12. Jeff Bezos does not have ownership quite yet, does he?

that's what I thought. making crap up.

[BumRushDaShow]

15. Uh... George Will, not the newspaper

or Editorial Board.

The same George Will who slammed the House GOP.

“The fact is the president has the power, particularly when supported as this one is by the mainstream media, to set the narrative,” Will said. “The narrative will be that the Republicans have chosen simply to cause chaos. It’s a bad idea…You cannot govern this country from one-half of one of our three branches of government. Can’t be done.”

[Rex]

16. George Will is a third rate hack.

Is he trying for another 15 minutes of fame?

[tblue]

17. Maybe he bought it to change it

I would do something like that that if I could afford it.