Posted on 10/25/2009 4:01:31 AM PDT by Scanian
"It ain't over till it's over," said the philosopher Yogi Berra. As every sports fan knows, momentum can change in a hurry. The opponent can make a costly mistake that opens the door, a key play can give your team the edge, or you may simply catch a lucky break that changes the course of the game.
In what has become the defining issue of the moment, President Obama and the Democrats are attempting to paint passage of ObamaCare as inevitable, and survey ratings that many Americans expect some form of ObamaCare to pass. There are many hurdles to be scaled, however, before the Democrats' health care utopia is reached.
Since the President has issued only platitudes and misstatements regarding health care reform, let us begin by defining ObamaCare as any government takeover of health care that passes Congress. The President himself may be the biggest impediment to passage of a bill. The President boxed himself into a corner by saying he wanted a bill from Congress before the August recess. He saturated the airwaves flogging health care and demonizing opposition, with the result that polls are trending down, and Obama is losing his luster.
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At this point I am just wondering how many republicans will vote for it.
Is open, bloody revolution inevitable?
I believe anything that Congress passes at this point will have consequences in 2010 that could well lead to a repeal of the legislation.
Yes..Are they still assuming that Americans have a short memory? If so, they are wrong. That short memory was in place when freedom was attacked only once-in-a-while..Now, it is attacked on a daily basis..That puts us on high alert which is traumatizing to the point where we never stop being vigilent.
Most of whatever bill may be passed probably won’t take effect until after the 2012 election.
Repealing this will be impossible if zero is re-elected.
(CNSNews.com) – House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) said that individual health insurance mandates included in every health reform bill, which require Americans to have insurance, were “like paying taxes.” Hoyer added that Congress has “broad authority” to force Americans to purchase other things as well, so long as it was trying to promote “the general welfare.”
The CBO, however, has stated that a mandate forcing Americans to buy health insurance would be an “unprecedented form of federal action,” and that the “government has never required people to buy any good or service as a condition of lawful residence in the United States.”
At his weekly press briefing, Hoyer was asked where in the Constitution was Congress granted the power to mandate that a person must by a health insurance policy. Hoyer said that, in providing for the general welfare, Congress had “broad authority.” Read more at cnsnews.com ...
MEMO TO STENY The US Constitution was written to restrain the govt.....not empower it to run rampant over the lives of the citizens.
NOTE TO CONSTITUTIONAL "EXPERT" HOYER The 4th Amendment prohibits seizure without warrants: Socialized health care is impossible without seizing private medical records.
LISTEN UP STUPID, ER, I MEAN, STENY POLLING DATA CONFIRMS Pols who support imposing a fee on Americans who don’t sign up for ObamaCare are performing the political equivalent of swallowing a time-release poison capsule.........How ’bout that America? ObamaCare Death Panels working just the opposite way Obama intended.......ridding the country of pols instead of grannies.
ANOTHER GEM FOR THE MARXISTS IN THE WH: "Medicine is the keystone of the arch of the socialist state,” wrote Vladimir Lenin. Once govt gets control of medical care, all the defining, controlling features of socialist govt can be introduced by stealth, one by one.
Unless there are 60 conservative Republicans in the Senate after next year’s election, it won’t matter. Obama will veto any changes.
If Obamacare is to be stopped, the time is now!
No you can stop all government spending shut down the government with 51 votes until Obama agrees to repeal health care. But I do not think they would have the guts to do that
Well folks, it was over on election day. Now what you get is what you get. Enjoy it, hate it, regardless of how you like it, you are going to get it. And by it I don't mean just health care.
Assuming he is re-elected if the Republicans control the House it can be de-funded.
It would be a simple thing to end...
All we would have to do is walk away from it and the federal government. Nothing instituted by men is permanent or inevitable when other men can choose to not participate.
We can be free of them and their chains if we choose to be, and we WILL be free the INSTANT we choose to be.
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