Posted on 03/06/2014 7:16:58 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
The House of Representatives passed legislation Wednesday afternoon to make the fine/tax for violating Obamacares individual mandate $0 for this year, and it did so by the wide margin of 90 votes (250 to 160). Thats 83 more than the 7-vote margin (219 to 212) by which Obamacare passed the House four Marches ago. Moreover, 27 Democrats voted for todays legislation27 more than the number of Republicans who voted for Obamacare when it passed. In all, 223 Republicans voted for todays bill, while only onePaul Broun of Georgiavoted against it. Heres the member-by-member tally for the vote.
Earlier today, the Obama White House released a 3-paragraph statement on the legislation, noting that Obamacare helps millions of Americans stay on their parents plans until age 26which, of course, has nothing to do with the individual mandate or the fine/tax for violating itand saying that if President Obama were presented with the legislation, he would veto it.
Given the wide margin by which the legislation passed the House, along with the significant level of bipartisan support with which it passed, perhaps the Senate will actually take a vote, pass the bill, and give Obama that chance. That would provide a welcome reminder to the American people of the extent to which Obamas centerpiece legislation relies upon coercion.
But it also relies on lawlessnessa fact that is becoming more apparent by the day. Within hours of threatening to veto this legislative change to Obamacare, Obama announced that he is again making an executive change to Obamacare, in plain defiance of the legislative text, the rule of law, and the constitutional separation of powers. No wonder left-leaning constitutional scholar Jonathan Turley says that we are at a constitutional tipping point and that Congress must act to stop this presidents dangerous, destabilizing aggregation of power.
Is that the $0 bill with Obama on it?
Agreed, for sure. I’ve been saying just that here since 2008. They are out to destroy every facet of what has made the U.S. unique and great. Obama said he’d fundamentally change the U.S. and by golly he has. The highest values for Manchurian Candidate Barack Obama are reigniting black on white racism, Hispanic and Black dependency on government, the worship of the retarded development that manifests itself as homosexuality, along with a vile brew of Islamic Jihad, Muslim Brotherhood, C.A.I.R. and the Marxism and anarchy of Bill Ayers and his band of murderous, self-centered, self-worshipping brats.
The media know that academe has become increasingly insane and has thrown scientific method and free inquiry down the drain, but it does not benefit the media to say so. They are afraid they’ll lose their jobs, just as non-tenured academics will if they don’t toe the Obama line. Crazy thing is that if Obama gets any more renegade, the media darlings will all lose their jobs.
This “Great Experiment” probably failed around the 1930s. How you can sit there with a straight face and suggest that there’s anything sacred about millions of pages of Federal statutes that even lawyers and Federal judges can’t even understand clearly is beyond me.
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