Obama's audacity

Neo-neocon notes that Obama is unique among our presidents for his imagination and audacity. Even though Congress specified that beginning January 1, 2014 the Obamacare provision requiring businesses employing over 50 people to have to sign up or pay tax penalties would be the law of the land.

It doesn’t take a great deal of insight to see why Obama might want to do this: the law is highly unpopular in general, and that particular portion of it is especially complex and will create trouble for businesses. An election is coming up in 2014, one in which Obama would like to get more power to do whatever he wants, because right now only the pesky House stands in his way.

I don’t think this sort of changing of an act of Congress by fiat is something previous presidents have done, because they lacked the imagination and sheer audacity of this president. He figures why not do whatever he wants? Who’s to stop him? Congress? It’s to laugh.

Just as the original Obamacare bill delayed the pain until after the 2012 election, and timed the cost so that the CBO was forced to score it favorably and misleadingly, this newest ploy is supposed to fool the American people in 2014 in order to keep that election from being a debacle for the Democrats.

The American people proved themselves stupid enough not to get (or care about) what was happening in 2012. Will they be any smarter in 2014?