Israel Matzav

King Barack should implement law on 'Jerusalem, Israel'

You will recall that my friend Ari Zivotofsky has a court case going trying to get the US State Department to refer to his son Menachem's birthplace as "Jerusalem, Israel" on his US passport. The issue in the case is the State Department's refusal to list young Menachem's birthplace as "Jerusalem, Israel" despite an act of Congress decreeing that it should be so listed if the parents so choose.

Now, hold that thought and consider this from Mark Steyn with respect to Obamacare:

Jonah yesterday, apropos ObamaCare and the postponement of the employer mandate, said we were now living under an “arbitrary system” in which “the political arm of the White House gets to decide what laws are going to be enforced and which ones aren’t“.

I made a similar point guest-hosting for Rush last Friday, noting that this was one of the indictments against George III in the Declaration of Independence:

He has forbidden his Governors to pass Laws of immediate and pressing importance, unless suspended in their operation till his Assent should be obtained; and when so suspended, he has utterly neglected to attend to them.

When legislatures pass laws but the head of state decides which ones he’ll implement and which he won’t, that is a monarchy – and not a constitutional but an absolute one.

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President Obama has developed a habit of “dispensing with and suspending” all manner of laws from health care to immigration. If he gets to choose which laws he’ll enforce, do we get to choose which laws we follow?

From health care to immigration to Jerusalem, Mark? I think so. 

Labels: Barack Hussein Obama, illegal immigration, Jerusalem is the capital of Israel, Menachem Binyamin Zivotofsky, Obamacare, State Department obsession with Israel, US State Department

posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 11:14 PM