because 'but for Mr. Romney' they would not exist.
Posted on 07/11/2012 5:51:29 AM PDT by JOHN W K
The House is getting ready to vote today on repealing Obamacare. See House debate on health care repeal: Boss Hogg or Groundhog Day
``That's why we've voted over 30 times to repeal it, defund it, replace it. And we are resolved to have this law go away and we're gonna do everything we can to stop it," House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, told reporters Tuesday.``
I am absolutely astonished that the House leadership would take up a bill to repeal Obamacare, knowing it will go nowhere in the Senate, while it has yet to exercise its authority to call upon Justice Roberts to give testimony that will disclose the specific tax __ a duty, impost, excise, or direct tax __, which Roberts suggests may be levied upon a citizen of Florida, or any State in the Union, for not purchasing health insurance approved by Obama.
Keep in mind that it is well within Congress’ powers to summon witnesses, and to compel them to attend and to testify in order to assist committees in preparing legislation see Mc-Grain v. Daugherty (1927)
It should also be noted this power has been used in the past when the House Un-American Activities Committee issued a subpoena for the appearance of United States Supreme Court Justice Tom C. Clark. Additionally, Judge Louis Goodman was likewise subpoenaed.
How is Congress to impose the Obama mandate tax without knowing which tax may be resorted to? How is Congress, or a regulatory agency to enforce the Obama mandate tax if Justice Roberts has not identified which constitutionally authorized tax is to be used?
It is also quite astonishing that the Republican House leadership has not called upon Justice Roberts to give testimony to disclose the power beneath Art. I, § 8, cl.1 which must exist and be resorted to in conjunction with laying and collecting the Obama mandate tax. Justice Roberts has been kind enough to confirm the individual mandate cannot be sustained under Congress’ power to “regulate commerce“, one of Congress‘ enumerated functions subjoined to Art. I, § 8, cl.1, (see clause 3). But he seems to have kept a big secret to himself and has not revealed which power may be resorted to beneath Art. I, § 8, cl.1 for which Congress may lay and collect Obama’s mandate taxe, and this information is likewise vital to Congress in preparing Obamacare legislation.
Why is the Republican House leadership derelict in obtaining this information from Justice Roberts who perhaps is the best qualified witness which can be summoned to testify before Congress, and more interested in a useless bill to repeal Obamacare which has a definite death sentence in the Senate? Why does the Republican Party leadership allow Obamacare to move forward without knowing the constitutional provisions Justice Roberts has been delinquent in pointing to?
JWK
The big winners under the Obama/Roberts’ mandate tax are thieves and parasites ___ all others pay cash!
farcical
Did everyone hear Mr. Romney’s vibrant speech on this
last night and this morning?
This is the MOST IMPORTANT vote this month, and
Mr. Romney was all over it — pitching for conservatism,
and against statism, and against socialized medicine.
Mr. Romney’s speech will go down into eternity on this
as he made the case against ObamaCARE for Americans.
Thank you, Mr. Romney for speaking up loudly and now.
Got a link? Idle chatter otherwise.
Surely you mean all this rhetorically, don't you?
When is the last time a Justice testifie before Congress.
If the House of Representatives were restrained from considering only that legislation which was predicted to meet with the approval of the Senate, there would be no reason to have a House of Representatives and/or a Senate. The House of Representatives and its members have a duty and obligation to represent the interests of the voters they represent. The Senate fails to represent the voters at the present time because the rotating six year terms of office retard a more timely representation of the voters interests.
The House of REpresentatives and members of the Senate favoring repeal of Obamacare (ACA) could possibly secure repeal of Obamacare (ACA) using the same backdoor deeming used to supposedly pass Obamacare in the first place, because Chief Justice Roberts deemed it to be a tax subject to such rules.
Faint hearts and faint minds do not win struggles.
The House of Representatives and members of the Senate favoring repeal of Obamacare (ACA) could possibly secure repeal of Obamacare (ACA) using the same backdoor deeming used to supposedly pass Obamacare in the first place, because Chief Justice Roberts deemed it to be a tax subject to such rules.
Faint hearts and faint minds do not win struggles.
I am not sure there is a Consititutional bases for requiring the CJOSCOTUS to be summed in the US House other than for an Impeachment. Remember, the Senate votes to confirm judges not the House.
Doing this would no doubt trigger a very convoluted Separation of Powers battle. Frankly we don’t need the
distraction.
JWK
They are not “liberals”. They are conniving Marxist parasites who use the cloak of government force to steal the property which labor, business and investors have worked to create .
That was a /s post wasn’t it?
LLS
Keep your hands off my health care!!!
Keep your hands off my health care!!!
JWK
Federal Health care by consent of the governed (Article 5) our amendment process --- tyranny by a majority vote in Congress or a Supreme Court’s majority vote!
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As I suspected... you threw me there for a minute. I even ran outside to check for flying swine! :-)
LLS
http://clerk.house.gov/floorsummary/floor.aspx
They won't even get going until noon?
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