OBAMA: 'I Can Do Whatever I Want'...

◼ MAKING IT UP AS HE GOES: EMPLOYER MANDATE DELAYED AGAIN - LOUISE RADNOFSKY and THEO FRANCIS /Wall St. Journal ◼ Via Drudge

Most employers won't face a fine next year if they fail to offer workers health insurance, the Obama administration said Monday, in the latest big delay of the health-law rollout.

◼ Obama Rewrites Obamacare - Wall St. Journal

Another day, another lawless exemption, once again for business.

◼ BOEHNER: Exempts Corporations, Not Families

“Once again, the president is giving a break to corporations while individuals and families are still stuck under the mandates of his health care law. And, once again, the president is rewriting law on a whim. If the administration doesn’t believe employers can manage the burden of the law, how can struggling families be expected to? This continued manipulation by the president breeds confusion and erodes Americans’ confidence in him and his health care law. We need fairness for all, with relief from ObamaCare for every American.”

◼ Directly Violates Text of Affordable Care Act - CNS News

President Barack Obama’s Treasury Department issued a new regulation today that for the second time directly violates the plain and unambiguous text of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act by allowing some businesses to avoid the law’s Dec. 31, 2013 deadline to provide health insurance coverage to their employees.

Initially, on July 2, 2013, the administration unilaterally delayed the deadline for the employer mandate until 2015. Now, the administration is unilaterally delaying it for some businesses until 2016....

In sum, the law says that employers with “at least 50 full-time employees” must provide “minimum essential coverage” in the “months beginning after December 31, 2013” or pay a fine. The new declaration from the Obama administration’s Treasury Department says this part of the law no longer applies. It says employers with between 50 and 99 employees need not provide coverage until 2016 and larger employers need only provide coverage to 70 percent of their employees next year.

◼ Krauthammer: 'This is stuff you do in banana republic' - The Right Scoop VIDEO FROM FOX

◼ CBO Backtracks on Controversial Predictions - National Journal
◼ FIT: Gym members forced to pay new tax - FOX NY
◼ 'Avalanche' of Regs Still to Come: 28 paperwork rules will cost $1.4 billion a year to comply with - Washington Free Beacon



◼ OBAMA: 'I Can Do Whatever I Want' - Weekly Standard

BUT WAIT! THERES'S MORE!

◼ Shock: Hidden In WH Employer Mandate Deal – Employers Not Allowed To Fire Anyone (Video) - Nice Deb

On Monday night’s Kelly File, Megyn Kelly covered the ObamaCare Employer Mandate delay, focusing “on one little nugget” that was “found under a mountain of new regulations” which stipulates that in order to be eligible for this latest this gift from the White House, “the employer may not reduce the size of its workforce or its overall hours of service of its employees.”

“Basically”, she continued, “what the government is telling employers is that you will not fire a single person. You will not lay off a single person – if you want to take advantage of our gift. ...