It was as if everyone finally noticed the emperor had no clothes

LAWMAKER SHREDS OBAMA'S 'IMPERIAL PRESIDENCY'

'This is one of the reasons this country separated from King George'

It began July 3, the day after the administration decided to delay enforcing the Obamacare employer mandate for a year, when Rep. Steve King, R-Iowa, pointed out the move was strictly illegal.

“He has no constitutional authority to simply waive the law … only Congress can do so,” King said.

A few days passed quietly. Then suddenly, many seemed to notice the significance of what King had said.

• On July 8, Michael McConnell, a former judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit and director of the Constitutional Law Center at Stanford Law School, wrote an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal titled “Obama Suspends the Law.”

“The administration has yet to offer a legal justification for last week’s suspension of the employer mandate,” and “the president’s unilateral suspension of statutes may have the most disturbing long-term effects,” he wrote.

• On July 10, Fox News commentator Charles Krauthammer appeared on “The O’Reilly Factor” and called the president’s move unconstitutional.

“The Constitution says the executive has to faithfully execute the laws and here it is faithfully ignoring a law it doesn’t like in the same way it wantonly passed the DREAM Act unilaterally — an act that the Congress had rejected. It is absolutely lawless in the things it does.” he said.

• On July 11, Rep. Scott Garrett, R-N.J., introduced a resolution accusing Obama of violating the Constitution by postponing the employer mandate.

• On July 13, National Review columnist and former Justice Department attorney Andrew McCarthy penned an article tiled “Obama’s Rule by Decree.”

Referring to the postponement of the employer mandate, McCarthy wrote, “For this president, laws are not binding expressions of the popular will, but trifling recommendations to be ignored when expedient.”

“The executive order — formerly an intra-branch efficiency device designed to organize the exercise of the president’s constitutional powers and the enforcement of Congress’ laws — has effectively become legislation, the president substituting his edicts for our laws,” adding, “That is not the rule of law. It is how a dictatorship works.”

• And on July 14, GOP leaders announced the House will vote to delay the individual mandate of the health care law, reasoning it is unfair to delay only the employer mandate.

“The White House may believe it can unilaterally delay implementation of Obamacare’s employer mandate, but only Congress can change the law,” said Rep. Tim Griffin, R-Ark., sponsor of one of two bills.

The employee mandate requires businesses with fewer than 50 workers to provide insurance or pay penalties, beginning in 2014. Presidential adviser Valerie Jarrett said the administration delayed implementation to create a “smarter system.” Critics say Obama postponed the unpopular and costly provision so it wouldn’t affect the 2014 elections.

To dig deeper into the issue, WND spoke with the lawmaker who lit the fuse on the controversy. King said this isn’t the first time this

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