Posted on 09/22/2013 11:14:02 AM PDT by lowbridge
CNN's Brooke Baldwin had some stunningly ignorant analysis on Thursday about the opposition to ObamaCare in Congress.
"Congress passes a law, in this case ObamaCare, and then some of its members turn around and essentially try to sabotage it. Again, I repeat, it's a law. Certainly not the way the Founding Fathers maybe drew this thing up," she argued.
First of all, not a single Republican voted for ObamaCare in 2010, and many current Republicans opposing the law's funding were elected several months after ObamaCare passed, so no Republican voted for ObamaCare and now is trying to "sabotage" it.
Secondly, the opponents of ObamaCare are using their constitutional power to vote against funding of the law that is opposed by a majority of Americans, quite within the boundaries of how the Founding Fathers "drew this thing up."
Regardless, Baldwin targeted Republicans in Congress who "seem ready and willing to shut down ObamaCare, and if not, shut down the federal government." She seemed unaware of Democrats like Harry Reid who risk a shutdown by refusing to even negotiate over a bill that defunds the law.
This isn't the first time Baldwin's been obnoxious to opponents of the law. Hours after the Supreme Court voted to uphold most of ObamaCare as constitutional, Baldwin asked Sen. Roy Blunt (R-Mo.) if he was a "sore loser" for continuing to oppose the law.
Back in 2007, then-Senator Barack Obama voted against a bill funding soldiers in Iraq after he had said he wasn't "interested in playing chicken with the troops." He explained that he opposed the funding because no timetable was set for an end to the war.
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So was the Stamp Act.
So was DOMA.
What’s their point?
The 2nd Amendment is the law, doesn’t stop the libs from trying to abolish it constantly
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Oh, but they would approve of not enforcing laws if Holder and King Barry don’t like those laws.
The Founders would not have opposed the British taxation laws because ‘they were laws’. lol
What good is a law if you don’t enforce it fully!!!!
How are they supposed to fund something that’s not the law? This idiot is saying the HOR has now power. Geeesh
Good article. To the point, thorough and precise.
Obama openly disregarded parts of ObamaCare (5 at last count). That makes this an invalid law in my book and open season to TOTALY disobey it.
B/S. Nothing follows.
Liberals have always had a great respect for the law.
Pfffft...
Nice shot
So was throwing tea overboard into the Boston Harbour.
How about unenforced illegal immigration laws?
The Boston Tea party was also as illegal as their being taxed without representation was legal.
I am increasingly forced to observe that the key difference between liberals and conservatives is that liberals feel oppressed by nature(the laws of God) whereas conservatives feel only oppressed by Government(the acts of men) usually at the behest of ‘liberals’.
Our founders felt oppressed as Conservative do today, where as pretty much nobody felt the liberal concept of oppression was even sane.
So are the Immigration and Nationality statutes.
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