Posted on 03/08/2011 9:04:12 PM PST by SonsOfLibertyII
PORTLAND, Maine - Feds Tuesday granted Maine a waiver of a key provision in President Barack Obama's health care overhaul, citing the likelihood that enforcement could destabilize the state's market for insurance.
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Too bad Wilson, Roosevelt and LBJ weren’t as incompetent as Obama and his congressional stooges.
If 0bama is incompetent, I’d hate to see how he’d be doing if he were competent. 0bama and his minions know >exactly< what they’re doing. People need to wake up to that fact.
14th Amendment equal protection clause; I believe that
prohibits these shenanigans.
So much for Zer0 the constitutional law teacher.
As Sonny Corleone said to brother Michael,”did you go to college to become stupid?”
Remember back when President Bush told us that he didn't have to follow or enforce the law, and with all the talk about "unitary executive theory," many FReepers cheered the idea and flamed those who warned, "But what about when Hillary's in power?"
Oh, those heady days, when Democrats could never get power again, according to many.
Now, here we are, reaping what has been sown for so long. And President Obama is worse than Hillary Clinton.
Sort of ... "That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness."
;-)
Didn’t Obiwan just sya the admin. is going to appeal the judge in Florida’s decision? I can’t imagine he will fight all that’s out there opposing this...but it will likely all go to the Supreme Court.
The Parrot is dead.
No, they just voted for their Republlcan Governor LePage and he publically told Obama he can kiss his a**.
I guess there was a final favor owed to Olympia Snowe.
“The first states who should have to keep it are the ones who elected people who voted for it!”
I live in Nevada...we have Reid...he is only elected because California has invaded the state like a horde of locusts, and blue-ified it (at least in Vegas, and a little bit in Reno as well). Yes, my state elected Reid who was instrumental in it’s passage, but why should I suffer even more because California has ruined our once great state. Although, I expect Nevada to get a waiver soon anyway.
Be careful what you wish for, however. It is well known that Texas is booming. I’m sure your own California locust horde invasion is well underway, and it will only be accelerating as California crumbles.
Wasn't that from Maine? Isn't that appropriate to this Snowjob?
Its exactly how prostitution works.
“Whatever happened to “equal protection under the law”?”
I heard that was some kind of saying in a place called the United States of somewhere—I can’t think were this place is or called. Used to be a country ruled by as a constitutional republic—I think.
“Three local chapters of the Service Employees International Union (SEIU)—whose political action committee spent $27 million supporting Barack Obama in the 2008 presidential election—have received temporary waivers from a provision in the Obamacare law. The three SEIU chapters include the Local 25 in Obama’s hometown of Chicago. nation.foxnews.com”
Maybe if SEIU hadn’t pissed away $27 million, they wouldn’t need a waiver.
I agree 1000% - he knows exactly what he's doing. I can not understand why anyone gives him the excuse that he's merely incompetent - the truth is far worse. That's like saying some horrendous murderer (some in history come to mind but I won't use labels) were misguided bumbling ignorant fools and not what they really were...insane evil destroyers.
WHO THE HELL (F***) IS THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT TO GRANT ANY STATE PERMISSION!!! WHEN HAS THIS EVER BEEN CONSTITUTIONAL?
“Remember back when President Bush told us that he didn’t have to follow or enforce the law, and with all the talk about “unitary executive theory,” many FReepers cheered the idea and flamed those who warned, “But what about when Hillary’s in power?” “
That likely is a concern in the future and in other cases with this nutjob. I even question whether he’ll be able to hand over the White House keys if he loses in 2012. But in this case, he’s carrying out the law just as written - he can grant waivers all he wants, for any reason. In a sense, little different than being able to impose taxes by fiat on his perceived ‘enemies’.
They had to - because the judge forced them to. Thank god for patriotic and strict constructionist judges. Otherwise, we would have already been Greece plus plus!!
Bingo! Bingo! Bingo! Bingo! Bingo!
No, you are NOT the only one wondering about it.
Waivers are CORRUPTION. They are not just violations of the constitution, but SIMPLE CORRUPTION. Communist style.
An effort to keep it afloat...
“Sponsored by Sens. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.), Scott Brown (R-Mass.), and Mary Landrieu (D-La.), the bill is called the Empowering States to Innovate Act. It would give states a waiver to pursue their own health care plans — as long as those plans provide equally comprehensive, affordable insurance coverage to at least as many residents as the Affordable Care Act provides. And these plans would have to do so while insuring that they would not add to the federal deficit, according to a White House press release.”
I believe that Obama is desperately trying to shift it back to the states. I believe that he will encourage the states adopt the public option, too.
That’s the only way he can win.
I know that Wyden has “suggested” that Oregon opt out.
Maine spent a total of $8.6 billion on health care.
That has to be an all time record paid for a Snowejob.
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