Posted on 06/29/2012 8:28:12 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
[ That would mean that in addition to holding the House and Mitt Romney defeating Obama in the race for the White House, Republicans would have to take the senate and by a filibuster-proof majority. This is because for many major pieces of legislation, a simple majority vote no longer suffices for passage in the senate]
the Senate will repeal it through reconciliation. The SAME DAMN WAY IT WAS PASSED! Afterall, it is a TAX BILL! 51 Senate votes gets it done!
I doubt the tree of liberty will ever be fed again.
Mandate this, he said (scene redacted for small children that might be scared).
I don't remember the founders giving that power to any part of federal gooberment.
We just gotta get rid of it. It's like the teenage son you have to send to a recruiter.
We don't need a federal government. At all.
/johnny
/johnny
What could anyone do about it? Also, Romney through HIS HHS Secretary could WAIVE all United States Citizens, but then maybe require illegal aliens to pay the "penalty tax"
Romney should be primaried if not repealed in full.
From what I read of the opinion, Justices Ginsburg and Sotomayor were the only two who felt that the commerce clause empowered the individual mandate.
The media has two sets or rules, one set to apply to Democrats and the other set to stick it to Republicans with.
I think the question we all need to be asking is:
“Where is my free health care, Mr. Obama?”
I went to the doctor and paid $2,000 this afternoon.
The question is:
“Where is my free health care?”
The army of drones that thinks this will work should ask:
“Where is my free health care?”
I am confident pubbies will take the prez, keep the house, and take the senate. That will easily be enough to repeal boneheadcare via recon, but will they have the cojones to do it against the heavy artillery fire from the msm?
In order for this to work, (obviously) Obama must lose. A veto-proof majority is impossible, and by 2017 the people will be too hooked on the goodies that no politician will dare repeal it. I hate Willard, but this is our only shot.
Jefferson also said that "The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground."
So the natural direction of government is tyranny, and living free and individual liberty is so low of a priority among the public that it is never even mentioned. People fight for the method they can surrender liberty to the government.
You are right about how the "tree of liberty" will never be refreshed again, not enough people want to live free.
"DEPENDANCE" is the new war cry of the general public.
I agree with the content of this article. The difficulty to repeal is overwhelming. However, it will energize the conservative base and maybe, just maybe in a period of time, conservatives will learn how to reach out and inform the great masses of another alternative. If not . . . Welcome to Socialist Republic of Divided States!
A tax bill cannot be filibustered. And every liberal on the Court has now affirmed this to be a tax bill. And even if it doesn’t get repealed right away, it as a tax will be subjected to a myriad of legal challenges such as equal protection in application, forcing one to pay someone else’s tax, etc.
The ball is now in the Republicans' court. They've already scheduled a repeal vote on July 11. Once before the Democrat-controlled Senate was able to scotch the effort by threat of filibuster. Had the mandate stood as mandate they could do so again. But now that it's a tax, it can be passed by a simple majority.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2900927/posts
Repeal the 17th Amendment, first.
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