Obama: 'The law I passed is here to stay'

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19. And yet he didn't pass it.

Couldn't so much as cast a single vote in either house of Congress, much less constitute a majority in each house all by himself.

He may have lobbied for it. But lobbying doesn't constitute passing it.

He signed it into law. But that's also not passing it.

Words have meaning. In this case, let's assume that the Constitutional law professor and former practicing attorney simply misspoke when he essentially claimed that Congress is a mere extension of the executive. Anybody can make a speech error and there's no point contorting yourself to say that the speech error isn't a speech error in order to claim somebody's infallible.