Wills anything unusual about the delay of the deadline and implementation of a complex and comprehensive law are, you know, deliberately sticking their heads in the santd or willfully ignorant about past precedent. Welcome to the journal editorial report. That was White House Press secretary jay carney wednesday defending the obama administrations decision not to enforce a key part of the Affordable Care act. Some say that in defiance of the law. The administration claims it has the Legal Authority to delay the employer mandate until 2014 and insist it is rest of obama care is still on track. But gop leaders called on president obama this week to extend the same break to American Families and delay the individual mandate as well. If it were up to the president to give american businesses an exemption from the health laws mandates or without giving the same break to individuals and families across the country . Hell, no, it isnt. Joining the panel this week, wall street journal lump mist and Deputy EditorBrett Stephens. Editorial member joe rago and washington columnist, kim strausses. Another charming aside from jay carney, about tom harkin who democrat and runs the dash. Explain that. Tom harkin. Tom harkin who runs the Senate Health care committee, democrat, who wrote the employer mandate coming out and saying i dont think they have the authority to do this. This is probably illegal. He was attacking anybody who said they didnt have the authority to do it. I read the statute. Doesnt look like they have the authority. Says plainly it should start on december 31. It says it shall. Black letter law. The problem with the Affordable Care act is that every piece of the bill is designed to solve allegedly problem created by another part of the bill. If you delay the employer mandate it has all kinds of consequences throughout the rest of the lets zero in on this verification. Refusal to the enforce the verification. If you apply for it they will not check your income to see if you qualify until somehow later. They may get around to it. What are the implications of that . I think it will lead to a lot of fraud. They are just trying to get people to cram in here and even if they are not eligible for the cities. If you look at Something Like the earned income tax credit, about 21 to 25 of those payments are made to people who dont actually qualify for them legally if you are looking at the Affordable Care act thats 250 billion problem. If it is on that scale of if it was the same fraud. Kim, so whats the motive here, political motive here for the administration to do this wave these verification rules . They want to get as many people in the system and hooked on these subsidies as they can. They think thats whats going to build support for the law. That combined with pushing off this employer mandate which was incredibly unpopular passed the next years election, they are hoping again to get everybody in that they can while also pushing off some of the harder and more controversial aspects of this. Really afraid in particular that young people who dont sometimes think they need insurance wont sign up for the exchanges that will administer the law because if if they dont sign up will wont be enough Young Healthy people to finance the older and sicker people and you could end up with the exchanges really not being affordable or collapsing. They should be worried about this. There are astonishing americans. There are one in four available for medicaid which is Free Health Care and do not take the trouble to bother to enroll. Okay. You have under the age of 30, people under the age of 30, one in three dont even take Employer Provided Health care. They turn it down. Because they dont think they need insurance. And so now you are talking about asking them to sign up for incredibly complicated system and that could cost them a great amount of money and how you do that, thats what has the administration worried. How do you think republicans should respond to this . They say next week they will hold the vote to give the administration the Legal Authority and they say it is illegal but make it legal to extend the employer delay the employer mandate. They will have to delay the individual mandate, too. Yes. Is that the right strategy . Lets make a deal with the president and keep delays and delaying the various mandates as long as they can. Hopefully pass the 2016 president ial election but should be negotiating for things like the medical device tax. Thats mine, look, there is a view within the Republican Party that the worse the better. Not in this one. Will is power to the democratic argument the more people then role in exchange it is more popular the law is going to sxwk gain that kind of political you would like to see this extended out if it is as long as possible. Delayed as long as sxos the more the delay less likely it takes republicans should be saying why should we talk about a oneyear extension in the employer mandate . Because that creates all kinds of uncertainties for business. Lets delay it for five years to give the administration all the time it needs to make sure it has the architecture in place. Alternative argument is, look, if you help obama care you actually give the administration the power to do what it wants to delay, then you are making it that much more likely that americans will respond and favor it. Well, paul, you are right that there is a significant segment of the Republican Party who is opposed to any kind of fix but this is a fairly new position. If you remember very early in the in 2010, congress repealed something called the 1099 business recording requirements which were a huge burden on corporate america. And we have gotten rid of the class act which was an unaffordable entitlement designed to explode. For longterm insurance. The idea that we cant fix this, i think they should really be going for tangible improvements in the law. Getting rid of the medical device acts, some of the insurance tax thats will just passed on to consumers, i think they can they cant repeal it but they can make by holding the vote they will pull democrats on the spot and force them to vote which is its own form of accountability. When we come back, muted response from environmentalists after an oil train derails. All but wiping out a canadian town. Could the catastrophe boost chances for the Keystone Pipeline . W alka seltzer fruit chews. They work fast on heartburn and taste awesome. These are good. Told ya im feeling better already. 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Basic point is if you are going to move oil over many thousands of miles, theres going to be there are going to be environmental safety hazards. No matter how you do it. Some safety hazards are greater than than others. This town, 20 miles from the main lo maine border, lacmegantic, a catastrophe. Now, we are going to have an investigation looking at what kind of fail usuure led to it. There will be failures one kind or another that lead to these kind of spills. We had a 24fold increase in last 4 1 2 years of the amount of oil thats being shipped by rail from places like alberta or north dakota to the coast and so naturally the number of environmental spills, oil spills, is rising. What about the argument that environmentalist was say you know what, we just shouldnt develop the tar sands, oil sands in canada because you are bogey to have if it is not going to be pipeline leaks, it is going to be rail car derailments for transporting the oil by ship. And that has its own problems. Just dont develop that oil at all. Too dangerous. Actually, paul, i think whats unfortunate in the keystone case is that you and i and the keystone people were thinking that if only we could address these risks of leaks, this would satisfy the environmentalists. What you find out is thats really not their issue at all. And the director for the International Program at the National ResourcesDefense Council said last week that the question to the administration is not whether crude should be shipped by pipeline or rail. The question is whether we will deepen our reliance on dirty fuels of the past. Any kind of oil is dirty. Yeah. They want what you refer to as Clean Energy Solutions of the future. And we know all about those solution. Are pipelines safer than rail cars . Yes. Lets put it the table. There is no perfectly safe way to transport energy. There is month perfectly Safe Energy Source to begin with. On windmills kill birds. Tens of thousands. Miles per hour gallon basis, pipelines are more than wise as safe. Subject to half as many leaks as rails. You know, not only that but what is interesting is that the newer pipelines, for example, keystone, which is you know will be 20 years newer than, say the pipeline that had a big leak in michigan have amazing innovations in them where they can detect the tiniest kinds of leaks and shut off really quite good. And president obama talks about improving our infratrustructure. The older the pipeline the more the risk and thats actually what hes inviting by not allowing keystone. Lets get in here on the politics. What do you think about this . The other issue here, though, is environmentalists tend to focus on environmental risk of these different way transporting oil. There is the human risk which is what we saw evidence in canada this week. The reality is that train tracks are designed to go through population centers. Pipelines by contrast dont tend to be that. When you have leaks or spills, you are not putting humans at such huge risk as you are as when you are transporting masses amounts of combustible fuel through population centers. Where people can die. Is this going to have any influence, kim, on president obamas decision, do you think . I think we are beyond knowing what is influencing president obamas decision here. He gave this speech on climate a few weeks back and he seemed to lay out a new standard saying that, you know, keystone added to the climate change, fuzzy standard because of the way you can measure things like that, and interest didnt really give any further indication of which way hes going. He seems to be put thing off as long as he can. I will admit i have been foolish optimist on keystone thinking. The best of the president thinking he would approve and it you folks have been more skeptical. Not only that, kim knows this also, that the Keystone Pipeline is a huge fundraiser for the president and for environmental groups. That, i think, will answer your question. Environmentalists treat keystone as a kind of religious toto. We are having two separate conversations. She thub talking about what is the safest, most environmentally sound way to move crude because that crude will be moved. All right. When we come back, first it was Anthony Weiner. Now Eliot Spitzer attempt his own political comeback. Is there something in the new york water . Do these politicians deserving a Second Chance. For the opportunities ahead . Who can show them how to build on your success, but not rely on it. Who can focus on making your legacy last for generations to come . That someone is a Morgan Stanley financial advisor. And were ready to work for you. To get our adt Security System. And one really big reason the house next door. Our neighbors house was broken into. 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Wall street Journal Editorial Board member Dorothy Robinowitz joins with us more. These come because americans have long had this tendency to fall into fits of virtue. Everybody gets a Second Chance. The most memorable thing that happened this week as Anthony Weiner in debate with a congressman, Senior Citizen center, and he was attacked and then the attacker said to the audience, of course he lied about the sexting, at which point all of these elderly people were about to choke him. They thought they would die. Nothing long before mentioning his past would be called mccarthyism. Am i inferring that you dont think that they deserve a Second Chance . Well well, lets say dash i dont th interesting to watch this display. The point is it does tell so much more about the electorate to know they have been driven off into virtue and giving someone a Second Chance. It says a lot about narcissism. You know, the thing that bothers me the most about this is that it is not clear to me that any of them deserve redemption. The process, as we catholics know, is that there has to be contrition and will has to be an acceptance of what you did. You know, spitser er spitzer i never did anything wrong. Never had anything against anything. He was all fine. Right. We know he lied in the 1990s about his campaign financing. 2007, his staff went after joe bru bruno. Republican opponent. Leaked stuff. Yeah. Investigation. He denied that. With the wall street problem, i mean here, really went after the scalps of the powerful people on wall street. Then he used the press to basically try them rather than doing it properly through the attorney general channels. When you were covering the new york, you had some personal experience dealing with mr. Spitzer. What kind of a political personality do you think he is . Well, he is a bit thugish. Have you seen it in the people from john whitehead. You know, very respected former Goldman Sachs chairman. Right. E