How Obama Wins

Townhall.com ^ | February 27, 2013 | Ben Shapiro

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Ben Shapiro: "President Obama has only had two major policy victories during his tenure: the stimulus package and Obamacare."

The reason that I ignore so-called "conservative" commentators like Obama guard dog Fx News and Ben Shapiro is the following. Regarding Obama's so-called "policy victory" with Obamacare, all that the Supreme Court's green light for Obamacare proved is that the Supreme Court is just as corrupt as the legislative and executive branches of the federal government are.

This is evidenced by the following excerpts from Supreme Court opinions, previously posted in related threads, where justices who actually respected the Constituton had previously clarified that Congress has no constitutional authority to tax and spend for public healthcare purposes.

"State inspection laws, health laws, and laws for regulating the internal commerce of a State, and those which respect turnpike roads, ferries, &c. are not within the power granted to Congress (emphases added)." --Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.

"Congress is not empowered to tax for those purposes which are within the exclusive province of the States." --Chief Justice Marshall, Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.

Justice Barbour later expanded on the "health laws" excerpt above as evidenced by the following excerpt.

"Inspection laws, quarantine laws, health laws of every description (emphasis added), as well as laws for regulating the internal commerce of a state and those which respect turnpike roads, ferries, &c., are component parts of this mass." --Justice Barbour, New York v. Miln, 1837.

And a decade before Constitution-ignoring socialist President FDR declared war on Constitution-respecting justices, the Supreme Court had again clarified that Congress has no business sticking its big nose into intrastate medical practice.

“Direct control of medical practice in the states is obviously beyond the power of Congress.” –Linder v. United States, 1925.

So I'm not buying Mr. Shapiro's remark about constitutionally indefensible federal Obamacare being a victory for Obama.