Howard Dean: ObamaCare mandate won’t survive

Hot Air ^ | August 04, 2010 | ED MORRISSEY

[RobinMasters]

Come for the tapdance on ObamaCare, stick around for Howard Dean’s fantasy predictions in the Senate races this November. The clip picks up with Howard Dean discussing the meaning of the Missouri vote that had 71% of the electorate registering their opposition to the ObamaCare mandate to buy health insurance. Not to worry, Dean says, because the mandate was never going to survive anyway — and he notes offhandedly that it’s almost certainly unconstitutional:

[domenad]

If the mandate dies, the legislation will die.

[AU72]

For all those democrat congressmen that drank the Obamacare kool-aid, HAR HAR.

[fish hawk]

You all know what is going on here, right? Dean is jockeying for a run at Obama in 1012 as he knows that Hillary wont have the balls to do it herself. Why else, my common sense tells me, would Dean buck the regime?

[Squawk 8888]

Yet more evidence that BHO’s career will end in the same way that LBJ’s did. Look for an anouncemet early in 2012 that he won’t seek the nomination.

[pgkdan]

bump.

[DoughtyOne]

Obama, Biden, Dean, Pelosi, Reid,... simply amazing.

They are who the left look to for leadership.

Wow...

[RobinMasters]

The Coming Resignation of Barack Obama

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

Once again, when ideology comes into collision with verifiable reality, it’s like a mosquito hitting the windsheild of a locomotive.

Obama is a not particularly intelligent, garden variety, off the rack politician, distinguished only by his biracial ancestory.

[BunnySlippers]

BUMP

[The_Victor]

I'm just an engineer not a lawyer, so I may misunderstand this, but reading the comments over at Hotair, is appears that the democRATs forgot to put a Servability Clause in the healthcare bill. If I've got this right, the lack of a Servability Clause may cause the whole bill to be struck down if any part of it is found unconstitutional.

[badgerlandjim]

Obama is a not particularly intelligent, garden variety, off the rack politician, distinguished only by his biracial ancestory.

And for marrying a Wookie.

[MrB]

Yes, they forgot severability...
Something that is NEVER left out of ANY legislation,
so I was really surprised to see that they’d forgotten it.

However, I look for them to pull some sort of shenanigans,
like “deeming” it severable, etc.

[The_Victor]

Sorry, that should be severability.

Like I said engineer, not lawyer.

[MrB]

Something I’m concerned about though...

These people, Dean included, have their eyes on THE prize - total federal control over whether or not individuals get health care.

So, even if he concedes that the mandate was unconstitutional all along, how do they still get the above goal implemented?

[E. Pluribus Unum]

If the mandate dies, the legislation will die.

Why?

Just because there would be no money for it?

You are obviously not familiar with Planet Obama.

[The_Victor]

However, I look for them to pull some sort of shenanigans, like “deeming” it severable, etc.

Nancy will certainly try to pull a fast one, but the whole thing with "deeming" was that the bill could not be changed in any way otherwise it had to go to conference. It was polly deeming it that screwed the rats in the first place.

[Truth is a Weapon]

Perhaps this is why Michelle is grabbing all of the taxpayer funded travel she can while the gravy train is available. Kind of like a looter scurrying around before the cops show up.

[csuzieque]

Uh...Oh. Look out Howie. Fort Marcy Alert.

[VRW Conspirator]

Yes, they forgot severability...

"We have to pass it to see what's in it" - LOL - seems the Dems undid themselves - but I am waiting for proof.