Posted on 10/20/2013 11:18:25 AM PDT by Kaslin
might better be phrased:
"The public saw the GOP as more culpable because that's what the media told them."
FRANKS: Repealing Obamacare by defending the Constitution
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/sep/26/franks-repealing-obamacare-by-defending-the-consti/
Obamacares Unconstitutional Origins - A. McCarthy
http://www.nationalreview.com/article/360460/obamacares-unconstitutional-origins-andrew-c-mccarthy
(excerpt)
Representative Franks has introduced a resolution (H.R. 153) expressing the sense of the House of Representatives that the Obamacare legislation clearly violated the Origination Clause. The measure is gaining momentum. As it rapidly picks up co-signers, the resolution should materially advance the cases filed against Obamacare, including one to be argued this fall in the D.C. Circuit federal appeals court. After all, if a statute violates the Origination Clause, it is a nullity — invalid from the moment of enactment.
Nevertheless, Republicans should not make the same mistake they made during prior legal challenges to Obamacare. This is not a time for leaders once again to sit idly by with fingers crossed, praying that judges do the heavy lifting for them. The legerdemain that characterized Obamacare’s passage, coupled with its patent lack of constitutional legitimacy, should stiffen the resolve of the House to refuse funding — as it is the House’s prerogative to do.
Once again, the president is not telling the truth about Obamacare. The Supreme Court did not endorse it. The Supreme Court said it could only conceivably be sustained as a tax. It still had to pass the Constitution’s tests for valid taxation. It failed.
Asking if voters saw the GOP as more culpable is an unfair question. The RINOs never let a GOP strategy evolve. Instead, they seem to be saving Obama care because their paymasters have found ways to profit from it.
This is not about getting rod of Obamacare, but the machinery concocting this kind of stuff behind it.
We can run but we cannot hide.
We had a chance to call Obama’s bluff on default and we did not.
Makes sense.
Thank you for referencing that article Kaslin. Please bear in mind that the following critique is directed at Townhall.com in general and not you.
I gave up with Townhall.com a long time ago. This is because some of its commentators are “conservative” celebrities who have kept their mouths shut about the federal government’s constitutionally limited powers.
Regarding ways to defund Obamacare, since we cannot wait for the Townhall crowd to acknowledge the federal government’s constitutionally limited powers, here is one more way to defund Obamacare which i have mentioned in related posts.
If patriots can rouse themselves to elect a non-RINO 2/3 conservative majority to each house of Congress in the 2014 elections, and I don’t know if that’s possible in this election cycle, then Congress will have the power to do the following. Congress will have the constitutonal authority, under Clause 2 of Section 7 of Article I, to override presidential vetoes. This means that Congress will be able to repeal / defund Obamacare without Obama’s signature.
And because the public is mostly stupid.
What really gripes me is pundits like Bill O’Reilly who can’t say enough about how bad Obamacare is and how much “it’s going to hurt the folks”. But then turn right around and eviscerate Ted Cruz, who is trying to do something about it!
The issue of course is “strategery”. They don’t like Cruz’s approach and think the wiser heads like Rove, Jeb, McLame, and Lindy have a better idea.
So that’s the real battle. Obamacare is important but in many ways it’s just the symbol for the greater battle that’s being fought over control of the GOP.
What O’Reilly et al could do that might help is to lay off Cruz, and let the players on the field decide the outcome. No help needed from the cheering section.
The Nazi’s in the pic look like misfits. I’m guessing this group were Hitler’s useful idiots in the early years and met some sort of ill fated demise as Hitler assumed full power. Ernst Röhm comes to mind.
The useful idiots that voted obama in the second time are meeting their demise via obamacare and who knows what else the obama regime has in the works.
Unfortunately socialism does it’s best to spread misery to all and we will be suffering right along side his useful idiots.
I have nothing further to discuss with anyone on that subject.
5. all the youths who thought they were going to get a free ride on Obamacare just refuse to participate.
5. Get rid of Boehner.
It violates the 14th.
HAHAHA!
"...It was an immediate, flat-out, unequivocal no.”
very thoughtful article.
obamacare is way more complicated than anyone can imagine.
Fast & Furious, IRS, Benghazi, Libya, Syria, the border, amnesty for illegal invaders, Americorps.
Every one of these actions were impeachable and criminal and all the Republicans do is bluster and make noise while the GOPe leadership curl up in the fetal position and suck their thumbs.
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