Posted on 12/14/2010 7:45:34 PM PST by jazusamo
The man who put the first dent in the president's health care law, Virginia Attorney General Kenneth T. Cuccinelli II, is a newcomer to the national stage, but he's long been a crusader against the expansion of federal powers - winning his share of friends and foes along the way.
Mr. Cuccinelli, a Republican, says anybody who has followed his political career - including eight years in the state Senate - shouldn't be surprised that he's challenging the health care act, as well as the Environmental Protection Agency,against which he is also leading the charge in a potentially groundbreaking lawsuit.
"There is no question I'm one of the people on point fighting against government overreach when they get outside their legal boundaries, and they seem to be very inclined to come up very close to them and sometimes cross those lines," he said. "The EPA has done it, the Congress and the president have done it."
A virtual unknown outside Virginia before this week, Mr. Cuccinelli rounded out a strong Republican ticket that swept into office last year, with Robert F. McDonnell grabbing most of the attention for winning the governor's mansion and Bill Bolling securing a second term as lieutenant governor.
Mr. Cuccinelli now is being showered with kudos and criticism after a federal judge in Virginia on Monday struck down key parts of the health care law that passed Congress in 2009.
"I'm on dartboards all over the country," he said proudly.
In the ruling, Judge Henry Hudson said that forcing all Americans to buy health insurance "exceeds the constitutional boundaries of congressional power."
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Hooray for Virginia! She, once again, is producing Patriots! It’s been a looong 235 years!!!
Pray for more like him who are fed up with the anti-Americanism and corruption of the radical leftist DemoRats.
Cuccinelli is a patriot, exactly the kind of person we need to beat back the fascists in DC.
Now let’s wait for the FR gloom and doom parade to march in and tell us all is lost and it’s time to raise the white flag.
AMEN! We need many more like him.
Ken C would make a great President.
"Never before in our history has the federal government ordered Americans to buy a product under the guise of regulating commerce. Imagine if this bill were that in order to protect our communities and homeland security, every American had to buy a gun. Can you imagine the reaction across the country to that?"
That sound you hear is the hammer hitting the nail on the head.
Did he ever hit the nail on the head! Thanks for posting.
Right there with you. I'm irked every time I read one of those hope-less comments. The Tea Party, for one, showed us we have plenty of "conservative heroes" in America.
‘...FR gloom and doom parade...
Right there with you. I’m irked every time I read one of those hope-less comments. The Tea Party, for one, showed us we have plenty of “conservative heroes” in America.’
You mean like that “New” “NO Name” party that want us to look at Obmama and say see he is governing from the “center”. Yea right, Obaman is governing from the center of the far left social progressives.
Yes, he would make a good president. Now, watch the left wing try to destroy him. It’s already started - I heard one liberal loon on Fox call him “extreme right-wing”.
“...I heard one liberal loon on Fox call him “extreme right-wing”....”
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Well, to the radical left, ANYONE who supports core American values, the Constitution, the law, national defense, and individual freedoms -— is EXTREME RIGHT WING.
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