Ace
Ace of Spades HQ
2/4/2013
Our media has collectively decided Obama’s too awesome to be bound by mere paper law.
Senate Republicans are sending a letter Monday to the White House budget office arguing that President Obama’s nominee to be treasury secretary, Jacob “Jack” Lew, was complicit in breaking a Medicare budget law.The letter comes the same day that Mr. Obama officially missed another deadline in the budget law by failing to submit his blueprint on the first Monday in February. The president has only met that deadline once in his tenure.
On the Medicare funding issue, federal law requires that if the program’s funding becomes imbalanced, its trustees are required to issue a warning, and the president is required to send Congress a plan to repair the finances.
Then-President George W. Bush did just that during his time in the White House, but Mr. Obama has never filed the submission…
The rest of the post is about Ace’s insomnia and cell phone alarm. You can read at Ace of Spades HQ
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