But It’s a Law!

There is a certain talking point of Democrats and their groupies in the mainstream media of late, which I find bewildering. This critique runs something like this: “The Affordable Care act is a law! You know… It was like, signed and stuff, and Congress voted on it. So how can Republicans try to defund it?”

Let’s look deeper into this claim. Beneath its insanity lurks a surprisingly brazen hypocrisy. The idea seems to be that any time Congress passes a law that is signed by the President, any attempt to delay or eliminate its harmful effects is out of bounds. What would become of our republic if every-time a massively intrusive and remarkably unpopular law was about to go into effect, one of the parties tried to stop it? Yea, you’re right, Mr. Reid. That would be….Wait a minute… Wouldn’t that be a good thing?

Obviously, the Left disagrees that it will have harmful effects, but that isn’t really the issue. They are claiming that the Republicans are not only ideologically mistaken but also somehow breaking the rules. Alright, let’s give the Democrats the benefit of the doubt and assume they would never attempt to obstruct a law they disagreed with if it had been passed by Congress and signed by the President. What exactly is unfair about trying to prevent or delay the implementation of a law you believe to be extremely dangerous to the good of the country?

If a law was somehow passed which mandated that you regularly slap your grandmother, would it be wrong to stop it through any legal means available? Let’s say the slapping squads are about to head out and your only means of stopping them is to cancel the check that pays for the gas to fill their trucks. In what way are you endangering the republic by failing to fund the law?

Now, back to the whole benefit of the doubt thing. I seem to remember some party that tried to defund a certain war in the Middle East back in 2007. They sure must have been out of line! It would be even worse if many of them voted in a bipartisan consensus to start that war in the first place. As it turns out, that is exactly what happened, so pardon me, Mr. Reid, if I don’t take your talking point too seriously.