[DaemonSeid]

Originally Posted by Low C Sharp

Yeah, what does the federal government have to do with equal protection? A brief history lesson: this kind of federal rule is the reason there are no longer black hospitals and white hospitals receiving public money in this country. There were, of course, before the federal government intervened.

If you look back, most of the liberals who were upset with W over his domestic executive orders were upset about their CONTENT, not the existence of executive orders. Changing the policies of a domestic agency following a change of administration is a snoozefest -- it happens all the time, with and without explicit action from the president. Most of the time, the president just puts in an agency chief who knows what the president's policy choices are, and they are put into action. Doing it by executive order is basically a way to accomplish the same goal in a way that gets more press. Whoop de do, the president wants to make sure he gets press coverage.

I assume, of course, that everyone who thinks that the policies under which the federal government funds hospital treatment aren't the business of the federal government was screaming bloody murder when CONGRESS CALLED ITSELF BACK INTO SESSION to overrule a medical decision made by Terri Schiavo's next of kin. Right?

Let's not forget about this case which is partially why Obama made this decision in the first place.