Posted on 03/17/2015 7:08:42 AM PDT by PROCON
CHICAGO — IT is time to talk about President Obama’s contingency plan for health care. The Supreme Court heard oral arguments earlier this month in King v. Burwell, a case challenging the provision of tax credits on federal insurance exchanges. While the legal issues are dry lawyers’ fare — how to interpret several interconnected phrases of the Affordable Care Act — the practical stakes are high. The government estimates that millions of Americans will be left without affordable health insurance if it loses.
While the administration may well prevail, it has expressed remarkable pessimism about its options if it does lose. The secretary of health and human services, Sylvia Mathews Burwell, wrote to Congress last month about the administration’s lack of a contingency plan: “We know of no administrative actions that could, and therefore we have no plans that would, undo the massive damage to our health care system that would be caused by an adverse decision.”
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Mark Levin is 1000% right that the Obama Admin is a “Catch me if you can” Administration.
> Yeah, he doesn’t really fit the bill. The antichrist’s activities are focused on Jerusalem, not America.
Working with Soros to destroy Jerusalem by removing Netanyhu from power and enabling their enemies to get a nuclear weapon is not being ficused on Jerusalem? Didn’t the Sanhedrin and the Jewish people fail to see who Jesus was? I’m just sayin’
First of all, the writer is an Assistant Professor of Law at the same university that Obama was a part-time adjunct (and a bastion of liberal hegemony). The NY Times is a mouthpiece of the administration. What are the odds that this Professor is just acting as a voice for some hair-brained idea coming out of the Obama/Jarrett/Pelosi triumvirate?
Second, and of outmost importance, if as the author states the lawsuit, and its result, only applies to the individual plaintiffs, then surely he would then agree that his hypothesis would lead to the result that Roe V. Wade only applies to “Ms. Roe”, Loving v. Virginia only applied to Mr and Mrs Loving, and the infamous Brown v. Board of Education only applied to the 20 children who were the initial petitioners.
Thus.....no more abortions, interracial marriage is illegal, and blacks have to go back to their own “separate-but-equal” schools.
“Working with Soros to destroy Jerusalem by removing Netanyhu from power and enabling their enemies to get a nuclear weapon is not being ficused on Jerusalem?”
Not in the way that the Bible describes, no.
As FReepers consider the following material, please bear in mind that the ill-conceived 17th Amendment is arguably always at the “scene of the accident” with respect to lawless Obama's exercising of constitutional nonexistent federal government powers and activist justices likewise ripping the Constitution to shreds.
More specifically, regardless that the corrupt media, including Obama guard dog Fx News, wants everybody to believe that the Oval Office is the most powerful office in the land, the legislative branch is actually the most constitutionally powerful branch of the federal government. This is evidenced by Congress’s power to impeach bad-apple federal government “leaders” out of office (1.3.6), Congress also having the power to override presidential vetoes (1.7.2).
The reason that Congress is not doing its job to police federal government corruption is because the Senate does not have the required constitutional supermajority of votes to either kick somebody impeached by the House out of office, or to override presidential vetoes.
But if state lawmakers hadn’t ratified the 17th Amendment, foolishly giving up the voices of the state legislatures in Congress, then a conservative-controlled Senate might have had enough votes to give the boot to Obama and Constitution-ignoring activist justices by now. But the reality is that patriots have been asleep at the wheel with respect to responding to federal government corruption, and consequently too slow to build a conservate Senate majority necessary to clean up the Oval Office and the Supreme Court.
The 17th Amendment is arguably the real problem with respect to the corrupt federal government and needs to be repealed.
“Impeachment, followed by full repeal of OZEROCare is the only option. But that won’t happen because the GOPe will not do it.”
Impeach and then go nuclear in the Senate.
“the founders never considered the possibility that the person holding the job of president would be so brazen about their disregard for the Constitution.”
I would differ with you there. The founders certainly did consider the possibility and as a result they gave us a couple of remedies. One is Article 5, the other is the 2nd Ammendment.
The key is if we as a people are willing to execute our Duty and Responsiblity!
“I think they never realized we would be so polarized that members of the president’s party would not vote against him for ANY reason.....”
Really? You are questioning if the founders had realized that such staunch divisions could exist? After they were so polarized as to actually take up arms to overthrow their government?
They did take up arms to over throw their government... but it is also true that they had no representation in their government. I’m not sure they suspected that a president might subvert the constitution, clearly subvert the constitution, and that members of his own party would be so tied to re-election funding that they would vote lockstep and barrel with him, no matter what he did. I do not think they anticipated the billions of dollars it would take to win an election and the extreme power the money and the corrupt press would have on the process.
They did take up arms to over throw their government... but it is also true that they had no representation in their government. I’m not sure they suspected that a president might subvert the constitution, clearly subvert the constitution, and that members of his own party would be so tied to re-election funding that they would vote lockstep and barrel with him, no matter what he did. I do not think they anticipated the billions of dollars it would take to win an election and the extreme power the money and the corrupt press would have on the process.
I also don’t think they anticipated that congress would be writing 2,000 page bills and passing them without even reading them. Passing them just because the leader of their party put pressure on them to do so. And more importantly, that the voting public would be so polarized that they would continue to elect these jerks anyway.
Certainly they could not have foreseen all eventualities, however they were prescient in giving us multiple remedies to address tyranny. The question truly is related to the citizenry’s willingness to perform their duties to remedy the issue.
The frightening thing is that Obama is not the Antichrist. The real Antichrist will be far more intelligent, far more energetic, and just as evil. The real Antichrist will be far worse.
well they just had their first successful brain transplant. Maybe Soros will have his brain trnaplanted into a youthful Hitler look alike and adopt another name with like say 6 letters each...
Of course they did.
What they did not allow for was a Congress that would so thoroughly abdicate all of their responsibilities.
What they did not allow for was a Congress that would so thoroughly abdicate all of their responsibilities.
True, but there is a "reset button."
The government no longer fears the people.
5.56mm
I think if they knew how screwed up this was going to get they would not have adopted the Constitution
They only adopted the Constitution with the promise of the passage of the 12 Ammendments by congress. It took a few years, but they did pass and were given to the States for Ratification.
The Constitution is not the reason that things are screwed up today. The cause is the actual extra-constitutional activities by our government and the acceptance of such things by the citizenry.
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