Posted on 12/03/2012 11:24:59 AM PST by WilliamIII
Obamacare supporters rejoiced in June when the Supreme Court ruled the U.S. could use its taxing authority to mandate that most people buy health insurance.
But their celebrations may have been a bit premature.
The Affordable Care Act faces other legal hurdles—including a challenge that only could have been made after the Supreme Court’s ruling.
The right-leaning Pacific Legal Foundation amended its challenge to the ACA after the Supreme Court upheld the insurance mandate under Congress’ taxing powers.
The group's challenge turns on the Origination Clause in the U.S. Constitution, which requires that bills for raising revenue start in the House of Representatives.
Problem is, the group argues, Obamacare started in the Senate.
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I remember reading on FR that benedict roberts has a problem with his 2 adopted kids - being ILLEGAL - tsk - as from where ? ireland ? hmm via WHERE ?
Private adoption, Latin America via Ireland. Anglo looking kids so I’d guess Argentina, maybe.
The DC Madam didn't believe they did. The DC Madam's appointments secretary didn't. Vince Foster didn't. Mary Pinchot Meyer didn't. Marilyn Monroe didn't. But maybe General Patraeus knew it did.
“In other words, it’s not the job of the Court to save us from the wrongheadedness of those whom we elect to Congress.”
I respectfully disagree, and point to the fact that the Court has ruled on the merits of various legislation multiple times in the past. The SCOTUS is the last bastion between ourselves and a total destruction of our way of life. It is at that point, and Roberts chose to sit on his hands, while the majority of conservatives, even including Kennedy this time, voted that it was unconstitutional. So one rogue Supreme did us in and paved the way for our country becoming a socialist regime. Don’t point to Roberts as being a bastion of conservatism. He’s not, he was a rogue allegedly conservative judge, and he has done extreme damage to our country. You have swallowed, it appears, the justification others are giving Roberts to cover his usurpation of the constitution. I don’t. A legal tax my derriere, especially as the Obama regime went out of its way to say it wasn’t one. To me Roberts is a Benedict Arnold.
“In other words, it’s not the job of the Court to save us from the wrongheadedness of those whom we elect to Congress.”
I respectfully disagree, and point to the fact that the Court has ruled on the merits of various legislation multiple times in the past. The SCOTUS is the last bastion between ourselves and a total destruction of our way of life. It is at that point, and Roberts chose to sit on his hands, while the majority of conservatives, even including Kennedy this time, voted that it was unconstitutional. So one rogue Supreme did us in and paved the way for our country becoming a socialist regime. Don’t point to Roberts as being a bastion of conservatism. He’s not, he was a rogue allegedly conservative judge, and he has done extreme damage to our country. You have swallowed, it appears, the justification others are giving Roberts to cover his usurpation of the constitution. I don’t. A legal tax my derriere, especially as the Obama regime went out of its way to say it wasn’t one. To me Roberts is a Benedict Arnold.
Assuming for the sake of argument you're exactly correct. Makes one wonder just why in the hell Boehner and the Republican House aren't forcing this back into the courts on procedural grounds.
Oops, that's right, Boehner said day after the election that Obamacare is the "law of the land" didn't he?
In my view, that only goes to prove that Obamacare is less about Democrats vs. Republican's, and more about Government controlling every aspect of our lives. The R's and D's are nothing more than red herrings to take our eyes off the fact that this rotten to the core Government of ours is obsessed with having power over our daily lives. The "politics" is just a ruse ... "bread and circuses" for the masses.
That post is a keeper. Well done.
Something of the sort must have gone on; I find it difficult to credit that all the uproar and Supreme Court hearing would not have unearthed the simple failure to initiate in the House as specified. Only now it is suddenly an issue???
Something of the sort must have gone on; I find it difficult to credit that all the uproar and Supreme Court hearing would not have unearthed the simple failure to initiate in the House as specified. Only now it is suddenly an issue???
Constitution...we don’t need no stinkin’ constitution!
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