Rand Paul Face Plants On Fox News By Not Knowing What The President Actually Does

[babylonsister]

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Rand Paul Face Plants On Fox News By Not Knowing What The President Actually Does

By: Jason Easley
Aug. 13th, 2013


Sen. Rand Paul tried to convince America that Obama is committing a crime, but instead he fell flat on his face and showed the world that he doesn’t know what the president actually does.

Video from Fox News @ link~

Sen. Paul was trying to build the case that it is illegal for President Obama to delay parts of the ACA when his intellectual choo-choo went off the tracks. Paul said, “The way our country works is that legislation is written by Congress, passed by your representatives, the president doesn’t get to write legislation, and it’s illegal and unconstitutional for him to change legislation himself.”

Rand Paul doesn’t understand what the role of the president is. The Executive Branch is in charge of implementing the law. The whole problem with Sen. Paul’s argument is that he referred to the ACA as legislation, but it isn’t legislation. The Affordable Care Act is the law, and Executive Branch has been constitutionally given the power to implement the law. These sorts of delays in implementation are common. Both Democratic and Republican administrations have used them.

The Supreme Court has found that it is constitutional for the Executive Branch to delay the implementation of a law, “As held by former Chief Justice William Rehnquist in a leading case on this subject, Heckler v. Chaney, courts must respect an agency’s presumptively superior grasp of “the many variables involved in the proper ordering of its priorities.” Chief Justice Rehnquist suggested that courts could lose their deference to Executive Branch judgment if an “agency has consciously and expressly adopted a general policy that is so extreme as to amount to an abdication of its statutory responsibilities.” The Obama Administration has not and is not about to abdicate its responsibility to implement the statute on whose success his historical legacy will most centrally depend.”

This means that Rand Paul exhibited not only an ignorance of the constitution, but I think the Kentucky senator doesn’t know what the Executive Branch actually does. The president doesn’t write or change legislation. He implements the law. The law is not legislation. The Executive Branch can’t rewrite it. How can President Obama be both breaking the law, and rewriting legislation at the same time on the ACA? The ACA can’t be both legislation and a law, so which is it? As soon as President Obama signed it, the ACA was a law.

Rand Paul’s ignorance of the how the government that he is supposed to be serving in works is astounding. Rand Paul wants to be president. He will be running for the Republican nomination in 2016, and lots of Republicans will probably vote for him.

Paul symbolizes the ignorance of a political opposition that is completely clueless about how their government operates. Anybody who stands with Rand should be forced to wear an I’m With Stupid t-shirt.

[Scootaloo]

1. Maybe he can tag-team with Sarah "President of the Senate!" Palin

[Politicalboi]

5. What does a VP do anyway?

But she passed the "beauty contest" and that's enough for the males of the GOP. Too stupid to look up the job she was accepting. That's how low they've gone. You need no qualifications at all unless of coarse your a Democrat. Only then, it matters.

[kardonb]

13. RP

not Rand Paul , but RANT Paul .

[90-percent]

16. also

Don't forget the President of the Navy

http://www.robriggle.com/photos/326129


=jim

[truebluegreen]

18. Or work for her in the Dept. of Law...

[Summer Hathaway]

2. To be fair

there are millions of Americans who don't have a clue about how the US government works.

They are called "Republicans".

[FSogol]

3. +100. So true. n/t

[winterpark]

33. To be fairer....the whole world isn't gonna know what he said because the real world doesn't

watch fox nuz.

[greatauntoftriplets]

4. And this man wants to be president???

[Historic NY]

38. What did you expect he had to form his own... Ophthalmology Board.

Except the American Board of Ophthalmology, the board that certifies ophthalmologists, says he isn’t one.

Rand Paul, however, likes to tell people he is “board-certified.” Though he isn’t board-certified by the American Board of Ophthalmology, he is certified by the National Board of Ophthalmology. That latter “group” though is an organization led by Rand Paul.


Read more at http://wonkette.com/416013/is-rand-paul-a-board-certified-opthamologist#dQ84oLBdikOFO3JA.99

[livetohike]

6. He doesn't know what is in the Constitution either.

Like father like son.

[Turbineguy]

7. For his base, that's no problem.

Because if he's President and he has no clue, he'll disband the government. Corporations will fall in line with market forces. If the pedophile that runs a daycare center molests your child, you'll send the child elsewhere for care! That's how market forces work. Rapists who run for-profit homeless shelters will remind women why they became homeless in the first place. They like fresh air! Financial predators who steal your entire retirement will only do so once!

[indepat]

8. This evening, CNN's Erin Burnett gave this highly ignoramus partisan hack several minutes to spout

his insanity. Way to go, Erin.

[Link Speed]

10. In the teevee biz, it is the Producers who make the decision

not some talking head such as Erin Burnett.

She simply regurgitates the questions provided by staff.

[Blue Idaho]

9. I don't think he'd recognize the truth if it bit him on the ass.

Rand is just a typical republican. Just like Uncle Ronnie - all they know how to do is look right in the camera's lens and lie their asses off.

[JohnnyLib2]

11. "Any publicity is good publicity."

--In the world of Rand.

[freshwest]

12. Rand Paul doesn't live in the same space time continuum as the rest of us. He wants us to FOAD.

That's gonna leave a mark. But don't stop now, Rand. And we're not going away. We'll be smiting your lying, whiny ass from Here to Eternity.

[LongTomH]

14. When I started reading "Rand Paul faces plants......" I had an image of Rand Paul debating a.....

......house plant......and losing!

[Initech]

17. He probably would lose a debate to a house plant!

[Iliyah]

15. I heard him talk about "class" in the USA

face palm

[mindwalker_i]

19. This whole article presupposes

that knowing how government work, or caring, has anything to do with how Republicans work.

[gulliver]

20. He could also be playing on the ignorance of the Fox News audience.

Playing dumb and being dumb are the life's blood of Republicanism.

[Marie Marie]

21. Why should we expect him to know how the government works?

He doesn't believe in government. A true Libertarian a-hole. What scares me is that there are too many other Libertarian a-holes that worship him.

[struggle4progress]

22. He's an anti-government ideologue in a time of Republican obstructionism

Ignorance has nothing to do with this one way or the other: he'd make glib anti-administration jibes under most circumstances, and he's especially fast and loose with the facts right now because the Republicans' current game is Pizz-on-Obama

[HardTimes99]

23. You're actually giving ideologues a bad name by elevating a demagogue and

charlatan like Paul into their hallowed ranks.

Like most demagogues and charlatans, Paul stands for nothing more than the raw exercise of power, devoid of ideas, morality and ethics and reliant solely upon the base emotions of his followers.

[DainBramaged]

24. Rand Paul Face Plants

[alp227]

25. "Anybody who stands with Rand should be forced to wear an I’m With Stupid t-shirt."

Sadly, including Medea Benjamin?

[dionysus]

28. medea haz a sad;

[SidDithers]

32. Doh, I should have read the thread...

Sid

[cui bono]

26. I'm not saying Rand Paul is a smart cookie but...

this OP only makes sense if you think these goons believe what they say. I believe they don't and they say these things to get their stupid, ignorant base riled up. Now you're going to hear Paul and Fox' minions repeating this over and over again. And they'll believe it to be true.

Republicons will say whatever they like as long as it gets them to their end game. They're not necessarily eve hypocrites since they don't believe what they are saying, they are intentionally lying to manipulate their base and the general public, and to create a false narrative in the media.

[1StrongBlackMan]

39. Actually, it doesn't matter what paul believes ...

He said the words “(President) Obama”, “illegal” and “Unconstitutional” … the rest of the words don’t matter to the fox audience.

[cui bono]

44. Exactly. n/t

[BumRushDaShow]

27. AynRand Paul got his degree from Pep Boys

Manny, Moe, and Jack approved!

[mountain grammy]

29. Preaching to his choir.

[Javaman]

30. he should just go ahead and put a tomato plant on the back of his head due to the face

that his face is just about in the dirt all the time.

[SidDithers]

31. Code Pink's favourite...

Sid

[Scurrilous]

34. K & R

[marble falls]

35. Is he hitting on the ol' bong? Huffing Nitrous? What? This is the Constitution "expert" of the....

conservative Congress? Just cause he says it and believes it don't make it so.

[mrmpa]

36. This is how I used to explain it................

to my US Government students in high school

1. The legislature branch passes law
2. The executive branch enforces the law
3. The judicial branch interprets the law

[Botany]

41. "The judicial branch interprets the law"

It was upheld by the SCOTUS so it aka Obamacare or the Affordable Care Act, is
THE LAW OF LAND.

I don't know if Paul is stuck on stupid or if he and the other republicans know that
the A.C.A. will work and will be popular so they must try to stop it.

[mrmpa]

42. I should have further stated..........

the Judicial Branch interprets the law & judges it constitutional or not.

[Cha]

37. Rand Paul should pay more attention to how the government actually

works than trying to trash it. Otherwise he just ends up looking stupid.

Anyone who does stand with rand is stupid.

[Coyotl]

40. DU trolls do a better job of bashing Obama than Rand Paul

Kidding. We all know there are no trolls on DU, just diverse opinions

[Spitfire of ATJ]

43. Don'tcha know Obama is spose to step and fetch it?