Posted on 04/08/2012 6:00:52 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
Last week, President Barack Obama laid down a marker to the Supreme Court: Invalidate the health care law, and the court itself will become an issue in the election.
It’s impossible to make any sense of this. Overturning a statute is “unprecedented”? Obama supposedly taught constitutional law, yet there he was, speaking as if he’d never heard of judicial review — practiced by American courts for more than two centuries — while pretending that a bill that barely escaped a Senate filibuster and passed the House by a mere seven votes had drawn a “strong” majority.
The next day, he acknowledged the power of the court to invalidate a statute, but in an odd way the whole episode seemed to fit with his tooth-fairy energy policy, with all its non-existent green jobs and now-bankrupt solar companies. The man seems to waft in and out of reality at will.
In the last couple of weeks the tone from the left has become desperate. From the beginning, supporters of Obamacare assumed they had the law on their side. Don’t worry, the personal mandate is well within the power of Congress — proper regulation of interstate commerce and all that.
But the Supreme Court didn’t get the memo and the stern treatment of the government’s case came as a shock.
Obamacare seems a dead end, entitlement liberalism’s “bridge too far” — a flawed attempt to impose central planning on an enormously complicated economic sector. If it’s not invalidated by the court or repealed by Congress, the law will collapse of its own weight, brought down by its exorbitant cost and persistent unpopularity. Here’s hoping the court lets Congress have a do-over.
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Nor me. “Congress” should not have anther shot at robing us of our right to choose what goods & services we provide for ourselves.
Life is about choices, our individual choices not choices forced upon us by a group of arrogant men 1000 miles away. Take away our choices in life even if it is just a foolish attempt to remove the consequences of bad choices is to take away the essence of our life.
Men must be free to rise and fall by the merit of their own choices! That is what freedom is when you get down to it.
Obama does not simply wish to destroy what little is left of our Republic, he wants to completely turn it into a socialist empire of socialist slaves.
If you think it wise to in anyway by direct or indirect actions to aid him to stay in power longer that is your choice. But consider the army your letting him build, an army we will one day have to face and defeat for our freedom.
You apparently took my comment to say I might vote for Obama. There is no way in hell I would ever do that. To get Barack Obama out of the White House, I will vote for the GOP nominee even if it ends up being Forrest Gump. I was telling another Freeper what his choices were if he didn’t want to vote for Romney. Because, we may as well get used to it; RINO-Rom will be the nominee.
Problem is finding enough of those kind of voters.
Well, I’m certainly not going to hold my nose and vote for Mitt, so I guess I’ll stay home.
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Whatever.
I would, however, encourage you to consider going to vote and vote in the down-ballot races. If we can take back the Senate and hold the House, we can stop Obozo’s Socialist Agenda.
Sorry, you just never know....I grew up with people like that, let’s just say the government is their friend.
I will certainly do so.
We should get a do-over on electing the doofuses that occupy Congress and the White House.
I think we should give inventors “do-overs” for inventing perpetual motion machines for energy generation.
Both concepts have equal prospects for success.
I stand corrected.
Although i must reiterate my point that who win’s the presidency is of little signicant to our long term goals. The presidency cannot and will not seriously help us.
The Federal executive perhaps more than all Federal departments is an office that must be constrained externally to have any real lasting impact upon the centralization of power so nessary for the leftist agenda.
The best thing any man can do in the presidency is to act incompletely as to give more of our countrymen a reason to help us resist and constrain his office. I’m not sure Mitt can do that as well as Obama, but Mitts other virtues might be worthy of the trade. In either case the contest for that office itself matters little to our ultimate objective.
Our real Goal henges upon State’s rights activist control of our State Leglsators & governorship. It is from that position that power Must be retaken from Washington as it is from that position that it must be held and that position where power can be checked by the individual(vote by foot). that is the aklees heel of Socialist/collectivist plots, ultimately they must be able to enslave the entire population by dividing them into minority’s to be conquered.
If a minority can simply leave, he cannot be conquered, his labor cannot be so easily taken for “the common good” as the leftist politicians define it.
While our State’s taxing powers are in general legally less limited than Washington’s. Practically they are limited by competition with each other for what amounts to the productive individual. The John Galt’s of our world. That competition, as in the private sector, is our greatest natural defense of our liberty.
We must focus all our efforts upon restoring it, all other objectives are secondary, because without that defense mechanistic of competition we have and will continue to lose the war for our freedom.
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