{"id":2632,"date":"2013-07-15T14:42:34","date_gmt":"2013-07-15T14:42:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/highplainsblogger.wordpress.com\/?p=2632"},"modified":"2013-07-15T14:42:34","modified_gmt":"2013-07-15T14:42:34","slug":"criminal-charges-come-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=2632","title":{"rendered":"Criminal charges? Come on!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p>The breadth and depth of\u00a0the hatred that President Obama&#8217;s political foes have for him simply takes my breath away.<\/p>\n<p>U.S. Rep. Tom Marino, R-Fla., is the latest congressional right-winger to launch a loony attack on the president. He wants Congress to explore filing criminal charges against Obama for delaying the implementation of the Affordable Care Act, which I thought would have <em>pleased<\/em> ACA critics.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2013\/07\/12\/tom-marino-obama-_n_3588114.html?ncid=txtlnkushpmg00000037\">http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2013\/07\/12\/tom-marino-obama-_n_3588114.html?ncid=txtlnkushpmg00000037<\/a><\/p>\n<p>To borrow a phrase from the late John Belushi: But no&#8211;o-o-o-o-o!<\/p>\n<p>Marino thinks Obama broke the law and wants to look for something &#8212; anything to hang around the president&#8217;s neck.<\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;s also saving some of his ammo for Attorney General Eric Holder, who he says should be prosecuted for not following the law.<\/p>\n<p>Obama delayed the ACA&#8217;s employer mandate provision to give some &#8220;transition relief&#8221; to companies. When he announced the delay, I thought it might quell some of the anger from those on the right who think the mandate is some nefarious form of &#8220;socialized medicine.&#8221; It didn&#8217;t.<\/p>\n<p>Marino thinks the president skirted the law and, by golly, he needs to face the music.<\/p>\n<p>This nonsense is beginning to drive me just a bit batty. While he&#8217;s at it, Marino ought to see about prosecuting Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts &#8212; a G.W. Bush appointee &#8212; for casting the key court vote in 2012\u00a0that determined that &#8220;Obamacare&#8221; is in fact legal.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The breadth and depth of\u00a0the hatred that President Obama&#8217;s political foes have for him simply takes my breath away. U.S. Rep. Tom Marino, R-Fla., is the latest congressional right-winger to launch a loony attack on the president. He wants Congress to explore filing criminal charges against Obama for delaying the implementation of the Affordable Care &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=2632\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Criminal charges? Come on!<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2632","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2632","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2632"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2632\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}