Posted on 10/08/2013 3:02:56 PM PDT by Tailgunner Joe
On CNN Tuesday afternoon, Wolf Blitzer challenged Rep. Paul Broun (R-GA) to defend his comments that House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) will face “rebellion” if he compromises on government shutdown. “You obviously hate Obamacare,” the CNN anchor said to the congressman at one point during their tense exchange.
After Broun explained his belief that the Affordable Care Act (known colloquially as “Obamacare”) will “destroy jobs, budgets, and the quality of health care” in America, Blitzer pressed: “But you know it’s the law of the land. It was passed by the House and Senate and signed into law by the president. The Supreme Court approved it saying it was constitutional. The president was reelected by 5 million votes so it is the law of the land right now.”
“It’s the flaw of the land in actuality,” Broun shot back.
Later on, after Broun further asserted his anti-Obamacare stance, Blitzer interrupted to quote the congressman’s own words in the National Review: “You said ‘America is going to be destroyed by Obamacare so whatever deal is put together must at least reschedule the implementation of Obamacare. This law is going to destroy America, and everything in America, and we need to stop it.’”
“Do you still stand by all of those pretty extreme words?” the CNN host asked.
Broun reiterated his belief that Congress must defend the healthcare law, but Blitzer was seemingly unsatisfied: “I know you hate it, but I just want to be precise,” the anchor said, “America is going to be destroyed, you say, by Obamacare. America? This United States of America is going to be destroyed if this law is fully implemented? Is that what I hear you say?”
“It’s already destroying jobs!” Broun said.
“I know you say it’s destroying jobs, but you’re not saying America,” a frustrated Blitzer interjected. “The United States of America, this country of ours will be destroyed by Obamacare. That’s what you were quoted here as saying. I want to give you a chance to revise and amend, if you’d like to.”
Finally, Broun addressed the specific comments: “Well, it’s going to take us off the edge economically. It’s going to destroy our economy and it’s going to push us into a total economic collapse of America. And that’s exactly what I mean by it’s going to destroy America.”
So? The People ALSO elected a House full of Republicans to obstruct it. This also doesn't mean that it can never be repealed, either. Quite the contrary, it's exactly what the House was elected to do. Stuff it, Blitz.
So is the Second Amendment. Do you support that on the same grounds, Wolf?
It’s what FOLLOWS Obozocare that worries many of us.
The fight over Obamacare is about stopping the unvetted, unqualified, narcissistic megalomaniacal former community organizer and tyrant in the White House from bringing about his “transformation of America”. That phrase was and is code among his dumbed down and/or uninformed supporters for creating a despotic Marxist redistributionist Utopia. That it has failed everywhere it has been attempted and left misery and death in its wake is of no concern to them. The magic Obama can make it finally work.
One element that may puzzle some of you is why more of the wealthy captains of industry and capitalists – who ostensibly have the most to lose – haven’t spoken out in opposition.
Two reasons (there may be more):
1. They believe they will be princes in the new order, their lives of wealth and ease little affected by the distress inflicted on the us down here, the mass of the great unwashed. They really should restudy the histories of those who collaborated with other tyrants who, once in firm control, dispatched those who had the resources and intellect to topple the new “king” once the inclination to do so took hold of them.
2. During the Cold War, the head of Citibank, one Walter Wriston, was asked why his New York based organization continued to provide financing to the tyrants running the Soviet Union and the slave states the USSR dominated. He replied that it made little difference to him what sort of government these nations had and his only concern was “Can they pay their bills?”
The WWII era Norwegians applied a real world name of real world fellow Norwegian for those folks: Quisling.
Another interaction... this time with Andrea Mitchell. Priceless!
Only his brain cells.
Obviously, Blitzer hasn’t gone to the website & found out how much Obamacare will cost him & his family.
Jim Crow was the law of the land once upon a time too.
That didn’t make it right.
The problem these libs have is they know they’re losing this battle. They think more face time will help. I hope the GOP continues to hold the line. The democrats are domestic terrorists and we need to treat them as such.
A Fox News national poll asks voters to imagine being a lawmaker and having to cast an up-or-down vote on raising the debt ceiling: 37 percent would vote in favor of it, while 58 percent would vote against it.
Most Republicans (78 percent) and a majority of independents (57 percent) would vote against raising the limit. So would almost all Tea Partiers (88 percent).
Even Democrats, by a 48-42 percent margin, are more likely to say spending cuts must accompany an increase in the debt limit.
By wide margins Republicans (77-11 percent) and independents (65-26 percent) would require cuts in government spending before agreeing to raise the debt ceiling.
“Wolf, the only reason that I accepted this interview was that I saw you die on Jeopardy and when they said you were still alive... I had to come see for myself”!
Law of the land?
Supreme Court handed down the Dredd-Scott Decision too.
So Blacks are property...by Supreme Court edit.
Law of the land, right?
Supreme Court is never a bunch of political hacks that are there as payoff for “services rendered”?
(in which case, why isn’t Monica Lewinsky a Supreme Court justice...she certainly is owed for “services rendered”?)
Any focus on the failures of ObamaCare web sites is misplaced. Even if signups when smoothly and 100% got their coverage, the system itself is corrupt, economically disastrous and morally corrosive. It is the most grave threat to the very meaning of being “American” since the passage of the Federal Reserve Act, the income tax and the Great Society.
But don’t take it from me. Put socialism in another context, on another continent, with a different people, and see its effect on them.
Václav Havel was a playwright, essayist and a poet. He was also the last President of Czechoslovakia before it was broken up into the Czeck Republic and Slovaka.
He lived under suffocating socialism. He found it to have a horribly corrosive effect on humanity. In his famous essay, Power of the Powerless, he wrote:
“...[it] touches people at every step, but it does so with its ideological gloves on. This is why life in the system is so thoroughly permeated with hypocrisy and lies: government by bureaucracy is called popular government; the working class is enslaved in the name of the work ing class; the
complete degradation of the individual is presented as his ultimate liberation; depriving people of information is called making it available; the use of power to manipulate is called the public control of power, and the arbitrary abuse of power is called observing the legal code; the
repression of culture is called its development; the expansion of imperial influence is presented as support for the oppressed; the lack of free expression becomes the highest form of freedom; farcical elections become
the highest form of democracy; banning independent thought becomes the most scientific of world views; military occupation becomes fraternal assistance. Because the regime is captive to its own lies, it must falsify everything.
It falsifies the past. It falsifies the present, and it falsifies the future. It falsifies statistics. It pretends not to possess an omnipotent and unprincipled police apparatus. It pretends to respect human rights. It
pretends to persecute no one. It pretends to fear nothing. It pretends to pretend nothing.
“Individuals need not believe all these mystifications, but they must behave as though they did, or they must at least tolerate them in silence, or get along well with those who work with them. For this reason, however, theyvmust live within a lie. They need not accept the lie. It is enough for them to have accepted their life with it and in it. For by this very fact,individuals confirm the system, fulfill the system, make the system, are the system.”
from:
http://bit.ly/4bqmRu
Women shouldn’t vote... law of the land, right?
Oh yeah, dump out that beer... law of the land!
Blitzer must have calluses on his knees and lips by now.
“The president was reelected by 5 million votes”
Non-sequitur.
The president was reelected by 5 million votes so it is the law of the land right now.”
Well, that seals it!! The President is now Legislator-in-Chief, rewriting at his discretion laws enacted by the legislative branch.
And the Congress of Sheep idly observes and acquiesces.
We let this crap get by and next they will be handing us our weekly allotment of healthy food that they want us to eat and then our salaries and savings to pay for it all.
When they start talking how it is the “law of the land”, I wish more people would respond how it was passed in the dead of night over Christmas simply to rush this defective bill through before a replacement Senator took his seat.
In other words, a bad bill was snuck through without proper vetting simply to get a political advantage. I guess all’s fair in politics, but no, it’s not a properly debated bill.
Elections have consequences.
Yeah, and I get the exact same line from libs at work.... All drinking the same Kool-Aid, obviously.
Yeah, and then I remind them that 61 million people voted against him, which tends to shut them up.
Nita Lowry is clueless.
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