Obamacare Is Dead and Here's Why [Obamacare Ongoing Thread]

Town Hall ^ | 1-26-10 | Robert A. Levy

[JustPiper]

As the Massachusetts blame game unfolds, the president’s unpopular health bill leads the list. But the substantive provisions of the bill were just part of the problem. Perhaps more important, voters were appalled by how the deal unfolded.

Consider the pre-election giveaway to the labor unions. Negotiators agreed to exempt union contracts until 2018 from the tax on so-called Cadillac health-insurance plans. That backroom bargain not only outraged the voters, it also violated the Fifth Amendment to the Constitution, requiring the federal government to extend equal protection of the laws to all U.S. persons. Of course, not all voters understood the constitutional nuances, but they sensed that something was very wrong; and they reacted.

I have been disturbed by the socialists for years, ever since I learned many members of Congress 'openly' joined the DSA (Democratic Socialists of America). Several years ago, the names were published on the DSA site. (since removed of course) Please post any info you have, many of you have been on this issue for many years, & if we can store it all on one thread, we have our FreeRepublic Warehouse on the enemies of the state. How DO we combat this, when it's coming at us from every angle? When the people have been asleep for decades. Please post anything you have found or accumulated. Also choose a dictator these people follow, of particular interest,those in D.C. who have been quoted with their adulation of one.

Communism- Marxism-Leninism-Stalinism-Trotskyism-Maoism- Hoxhaism-Hoxhaism-Titoism ETC

[MestaMachine]

Steny looks like death warmed over. Lying thru his teeth. how do these people sleep. Seriously. How can anyone so damned dishonest ever enjoy peace? No conscience. No soul.

[MestaMachine]

"The evil that men do lives after them, and is oft interred with their bones."...along with their careers.....

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New on Drudge:

Senate Fight Starts: GOP Says Parliamentarian Will Kill Fix-Its Bill...

[JustPiper]

Breaking: “Fix” Bill May Not Advance In Senate

Senate Democrats Refuse Bi-partisan Meeting With Parliamentarian Until After House Votes

Breaking: “Fix” Bill May Not Advance In Senate

http://republican.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=Blogs.View&Blog_Id=6b53ad02-2d4b-4134-a08d-7c439defd83b

[AuntB]

About that march in DC right now for AMNESTY. Did the tea partiers get any encouragment??

"President Obama sought to reassure those at the rally with a video message presented on giant screens at the National Mall. The president said he was committed to working with Congress this year on a comprehensive bill to fix a “broken immigration system.”

WASHINGTON (AP) — Frustrated with the pace of action to overhaul the country’s immigration system, thousands of demonstrators descended on the nation’s capital Sunday, waving American flags and holding homemade signs in English and Spanish. http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/wire/sns-ap-us-immigration-march,0,6717332.story

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Wanna see something strange?
Look at the shadows on the ground where these creatures are walking. Light like points and arrows. Pitchforks maybe.

[JustPiper]

Deal just stated on floor when he becomes Gov, GA will become the 38th state to sue! He urged ALL states to do it, one state that won't:

Alaska NOT having It! Alaska state House rejects call to send anti-health care reform message to Congress

[JustPiper]

God’s army will pay them a call!

[JustPiper]

Enemy of the State alert

[JustPiper]

GOP Says Parliamentarian Will Kill Fix-Its Bill...

Best news look below the post under yours -g-

[JustPiper]

Oh yah he’s getting snarky now

[JustPiper]

Our leaders in Washington have betrayed the will of We The People, and our Constitution. So now we must “Vote Them Out”

We launch the “Tea Party Express: Just Vote Them Out” tour in 6 days and will be launching campaigns to defeat these Members of Congress one-by-one, along with hundreds of thousands of supporters at our tea party rallies along the way.

[JustPiper]

Absolutely & there’s no GAP around Pill!

I have a eastern philosophy belief

You can’t have a shadow if you don’t have a soul, their shadow is a collective blob LOOK!

[JustPiper]

Isn’t Sensenbrenner a constituional lawyer, he’s nailin’ it!
Thank him!

[JustPiper]

citing a case, & saying what BO did for Stupak HAS NO CONSTITUTIONAL LAW!

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[JustPiper]

WE NEED THIS BEAUTIFUL ANGEL

[JustPiper]

WHB, Paul stating that James nailed it! Can we pray Stupak’s group shift & turn against Stupak?! Language changes, added, would then need another vote, new vote in the Senate! This loophole from Sensenbrenner may be our saving grace

Paul said blah blah on their stories

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http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/blogs/beltway-confidential/Support-surging-already-for-Stupaks-re-election-opponent—88776112.html

Support surges for Stupak’s re-election opponent after abortion funding deal with White House
By: Mark Tapscott
Editorial Page Editor
03/21/10

U.S. Rep. Bart Stupak, left, D-Menominee, meets with Elin Richardson, of Rapids City, Mich., after a town hall meeting in Tawas City, Mich., Monday, March 8, 2010. Within minutes after Stupak agreed to support Obamacare Sunday, however, support surged on Facebook for Dr. Dan Benishek, his likely November opponent.

Looks like Rep. Bart Stupak is already seeing the pushback from constituents to his decision to back Obamacare because President Obama promised to issue a meaningless Executive Order concerning federal funding of abortion.

Glenn Reynolds at Instapundit just posted this from a reader:

STUPAK FOLDS.

Meanwhile, reader Lisa Schell writes:

Watch the momentum on Stupak’s opponent’s facebook page. Dr. Dan Benishek is running against Stupak in Michigan. Check out the velocity of his growth since Stupak announced: Benishek for Congress.

His membership is currently growing at a rate of about 20 new members every 30-60 seconds and incoming comments are fast and furious. People are begging him to set up his donation site so that they can start a money bomb.

Like the protester said yesterday, if you vote yes on the bill, we’ll vote no on you in November.

Posted at 5:33 pm by Glenn Reynolds.

As you can see here, the Benishek campaign is a work in progress. And Benishek’s wall on Facebook is clearly getting a surge.

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Questions about the Stupak deal
By: Michael Barone
Senior Political Analyst
03/21/10 6:05 PM EDT

Why did Bart Stupak agree to a deal which supposedly restricts abortion funding by an executive order, when it’s obvious, as Yuval Levin points out, that an executive order can’t trump a law and the Senate bill clearly authorizes abortion funding? The reason, I suspect, is that aside from the abortion language Stupak really wants this bill to pass and recognized that it wasn’t going to if he didn’t make the deal. On the Energy and Commerce Committee Stupak has been a protege and ally of his Michigan colleague John Dingell. Dingell is the longest-serving member of the House, and every year he files a bill providing for nationalized health care, which was supported by his father, who preceded him in the House and served from 1933 until his death in 1955, after which the current Mr. Dingell was elected to succeed him. In his remarks Stupak took care to thank Dingell, even though he was ousted as Energy and Commerce Chairman by Henry Waxman with the support of Speaker Nancy Pelosi.

Why did the Obama administration and the Democratic leadership make the deal with Stupak? Because they feared they didn’t have the 216 votes to pass the bill without him. And they know that, as Debby Wasserman-Schultz stated, an executive order cannot override an act of Congress. Wasserman-Schultz is an astute member of the Democratic leadership and can be counted on to calm down the feminist left members who could expected to be furious at any abortion ban. You can be sure such assurances have been given behind the scenes.

How many votes does Stupak bring with him? We won’t know for sure until the roll call. But it’s interesting that in his announcement only one other member spoke, Marcy Kaptur, who had already indicated she would support the bill.

http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/blogs/beltway-confidential/Questions-about-the-Stupak-deal-88776617.html#ixzz0irCSXlbP
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