It’s the law of the land. It’s here to stay.  Get over it.

How many times have we heard or read statements like this by someone in the Obama administration or one of those anchors on MSNBC defending ObamaCare?

Even the president has said so in his own words, yet he continues to rewrite ObamaCare provisions without the approval of Congress.  Yesterday he made a political decision to delay the law’s employer mandate until 2016; his 27^th modification to the act.  The law is whatever he says it is.

The president is legally and constitutionally required to faithfully execute the law, and yet he has unilaterally waived and delayed provisions of the act at will.

But when Republicans in the House voted to delay or repeal the law as it did some 40 times, that was deemed outrageous.  Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid blamed “Tea Party anarchists” for leading the effort.

“In more than two centuries of our nation’s history,” wrote Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX), “there simply is no precedent for the White House wantonly ignoring federal law and asking private companies to do the same.”

I am reminded of an op-ed I wrote late last year about the imperial presidency of Barack Obama. In it I quoted from Jonathan Turley’s Dec. 3, 2013 testimony before the House Committee on the Judiciary.  “President Barack Obama has crossed the constitutional line between discretionary enforcement and defiance of the law,” said Turley, adding, “all citizens – Democratic or Republican or Independent – should consider the inherent danger presented by a president who can unilaterally suspend laws as a matter of presidential license.”

Turley, a George Washington University School of law professor, is a known Democrat, who admitted voting for the president saying, “Personal admiration is no substitute for the constitutional principles at stake in this controversy.”

After citing several instances of the president’s overreaching, he cautioned, “The circumvention of the legislative process not only undermines the authority of this branch but destabilizes the tripartite system as a whole.  If President Obama can achieve the same result of legislation by executive fiat, future presidents could do the same in negating environmental or discrimination or consumer protection laws.”

Turley correctly observed that, “Congress has allowed its core authority to drain into a fourth branch of federal agencies with increasing insularity and independence.”

Charles Krauthammer recently explained Obama’s lawlessness in 50 seconds on Fox News Special Report and Senator Cruz continues to address this issue in his speeches and op-eds.  It’s time for Congress to rise up and reclaim its legislative role.  They must not allow the president to continue to circumvent them.

                                        “How can the president that puts his hand on the Bible

                     and takes the oath to uphold the laws of the United States do this?

                     The truth is he has no such authority.”

                                                                                 Sen. John Cornyn,Texas