Ulysses S. Grant believed that the best way to insure the repeal of a bad law was to vigorously enforce it. Barack Obama seems to believe that the best way to keep a bad law on the books is to delay the implementation of it. His decision to delay the implementation of the employer mandate sections of the Affordable Care Act make sense only if you accept the premise that the law is so flawed that it would be disastrous to put it into effect, and therefore it needs to be amended or repealed.