Posted on 09/24/2013 2:28:07 PM PDT by Jim Robinson
It is quite clear that the deceptively-named “Affordable Care Act” (aka Obamacare), was NOT supported by “We the People” when it was crammed down our throats three years ago so we could “see what’s in it”. Its popularity has plummeted since then as we’ve found out. Support has dwindled in recent months among the middle and lower classes whose very jobs are threatened by it as employers cut work hours to avoid it, and traditional Democratic “bases” like unions realize they’ve been deceived. Even arch-O’supporter Warren Buffet is now on record against it.
One response by the administration—arguably illegal—is to grant “waivers” to Friends of Obama. Waivers are rapidly becoming the new version of a “tax loophole” for politically connected companies. If one business gets a waiver and its competitor does not, it is cronyism in its worst form, similar to the way targeted tax breaks use the power of Washington to punish the productive in protecting the politically connected.
In a development only beltway bandits can appreciate, we are now hearing of even some conservatives (we thought) who are wavering themselves on whether Congress can or even should defund the ACA.
Fortunately, the Founders answered these questions over 200 years ago. In Federalist #58, James Madison addressed the very issue of steering the government through financial restrictions or “the power over the purse”. The issue was and is whether the smaller population states (in the Senate) and a possibly tyrannical Executive could essentially override the true will of the people’s House of Representatives. Does this sound familiar? He explained, after discussing many other checks on the other two branches that,
"…Admitting, however, that they should all be insufficient to subdue the unjust policy of the smaller States, or their predominant influence in the councils of the Senate, a constitutional and infallible resource still remains with the larger States, by which they will be able at all times to accomplish their just purposes. The House of Representatives cannot only refuse, but they alone can propose, the supplies requisite for the support of government. They, in a word, hold the purse -- that powerful instrument by which we behold, in the history of the British Constitution, an infant and humble representation of the people gradually enlarging the sphere of its activity and importance, and finally reducing, as far as it seems to have wished, all the overgrown prerogatives of the other branches of the government. This power over the purse may, in fact, be regarded as the most complete and effectual weapon with which any constitution can arm the immediate representatives of the people, for obtaining a redress of every grievance, and for carrying into effect every just and salutary measure…" [bold emphasis added]
This seems especially appropriate on Constitution Day when the "big government" Senators and House Members don't seem to think the House can or should defund Obamacide.
- See more at: http://texasgopvote.com/issues/stop-big-government/house-has-responsibility-defund-obamacide-005869#sthash.zTnzMlah.dpuf
Yup. It’s hard to reconcile the fact that Obama is a Marxist/fascist, but that’s the truth. Actually, a hard core communist with an Islamofascist streak. His mammy and pappy were communist. The Kenyan village of his father was communist. His mentors were communist. His dreams are communist. Any way you cut it, he’s a wannabe bloodthirsty totalitarian dictator in the mold of Lenin, Stalin, Hitler, Mussolini, Mao, Pol Pot, Saddam Hussein, etc. If he ever takes full power, you can bet the purges, gulags, re-education camps, gas chambers and killing fields won’t be far behind.
Yup.
We abolished Prohibition so I am sure we can (and should) abolish Obamacare. Ignore the fear-mongers.
“If he ever takes full power, you can bet the purges, gulags, re-education camps, gas chambers and killing fields won’t be far behind.”
Bet your last dollar that the gulags, re-education camps, gas chambers and killing fields and those who try to run them will be in our gun sights. Semper fi, buddy.
Let’s start that conversation by acknowledging we aren’t going to deport 12 million illegal immigrants... bringing these workers out of the shadows and into being taxpaying members of society. Imagine 12 million people who are already here coming out of the shadows to become new taxpayers.12 million more people assimilating into society. 12 million more people being productive contributors. [but he’s not in favor of amnesty, snicker, definition of is is]
...by softening its edge on some volatile social issues and altering its image as the party always seemingly "eager to go to war... We do need to expand the party and grow the party and that does mean that we don't always all agree on every issue" ... the party needs to become more welcoming to individuals who disagree with basic Republican doctrine on emotional social issues such as gay marriage... "We're going to have to be a little hands off on some of these issues ... and get people into the party," Paul said.
didn't Buffett say those reports were not true?
bump
right on the nose
His heart is not in this, he does not really want to defund Obamacare, he is just being "bullied" by Ted Cruz and the TEA Party mobsters. heheheheh
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