Rick Perry Failed Govt 101: Claims Executive Orders Can Repeal Laws Passed By Congress

[Tx4obama]

Rick Perry Failed Govt 101: Claims Executive Orders Can Repeal Laws Passed By Congress

Rick Perry repeatedly insisted that the president has the authority to block the implementation of the Affordable Care Act, during Mike Huckabee’s Presidential Forum on Saturday night, despite a recent Government Accountability Office report finding to the contrary. “The executive order obviously gives you that authority,” a Perry repeated four different times to Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli, who quizzed Perry on the executive branch’s authority to eliminate a law dually passed by Congress:

CUCCINELLI: You said if elected you would issue a executive order to bloke the implementation of the federal health care law. What is your authority to unilaterally invalidate a law passed by Congress and signed by the president?

PERRY: Well, obviously an executive order. ...

CUCCINELLI: As a president, it sounds like your’e ready to simply use an executive order to void this law or large parts of it that you don’t agree with.

PERRY: Absolutely. And I think…

SNIP

Rest of article here: http://thinkprogress.org/health/2011/12/03/381485/rick-perry-failed-govt-101-claims-executive-orders-can-repeal-laws-passed-by-congress/

[hobbit709]

1. The perfect description of Perry

"If brains were elastic Rick Perry wouldn't have enough to make suspenders for a parakeet." -- Mo Dowd, paraphrasing Raymond Chandler

Thanks to PDittie for posting this in the TX forum

[yellowcanine]

2. Pretty funny that Cuccinelli is schooling Perry on the law.....

When he doesn't have such a great grasp of it himself.

[Historic NY]

4. +1

[JoePhilly]

3. He's not a smart man ...

and I'm pretty sure that he does not know what love is.

[Gman]

5. Dumb ass

that's about all you can say. He's a dumb ass.

[grantcart]

6. Was that SNIP the host cutting the cord to Perry's mic?

[Tx4obama]

7. LOL :)

That's funny.

p.s. I'm sure you know but (for the folks that don't) the 'snip' was me cutting the article short so that I wouldn't break DU rules by posting too much of it :)

[A Simple Game]

8. Didn't Bush teach him anything?

You have to use a signing statement.

Bush did it all the time.