Posted on 06/29/2012 9:49:46 AM PDT by Rufus2007
On “The Matt Murphy Show” on 100 WAPI in Birmingham, Ala. on Friday, Alabama Sen. Jeff Sessions, the ranking Republican on the Senate Budget Committee, said that repealing Obamacare in the wake of yesterday’s Supreme Court decision will be easier now that it has been declared constitutional under Congress’ powers of taxation.
Given that the decision has converted the law into a budget issue, Session said he now subscribes to the belief that the Senate will be able to repeal Obamacare with a simple 51 votes, instead of the 60 normally required to overcome a filibuster.
“I believe a simple majority in the Senate with a strong president who leads and some of the abilities we have on budget reconciliation dealing with debt and taxes — I believe could be passed with a simple majority,” Sessions said. “I believe in effect, this legislation can be killed and we need to start over. We need to look at what we need to do to make health care more competitive and less expensive.”
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Since it was passed under reconciliation, repealing it under the same rules seems like a no-brainer.
I think Sen. Sessions has a valid point here. If I recall correctly, there was a dispute over whether 0bamacare budgeting for 2012 could be altered by act of Congress, and everyone said “no” because is WAS budget reconcilliation or whatever that is.
So, if it is a budget matter, the repeal should not be subject to fillibuster.
My main concern is with Romney’s statement of “repeal and replace.” The concern is that the GOP legislators will fall for the democrat gambit “no repeal until we decide on what to replace it with.” You know that’s how the game will be played. If the GOP falls for that, there will never be a repeal.
Given the size of the loophole Roberts defined in the Constitution through which this Obamacare fiasco could be found to be “constitutional”, no problem with anything ever again being ruled as unconstitutional. The gates are probably down for good now.
All the findings now will be for “legal” or “illegal”. Right and wrong or any moral concept at all have become moot, and case law shall rule from now on.
SCOTUS may not have made itself irrelevant, but they sure painted the institution into a corner.
Its going to be a major gonad test if we get a pubbie prez, house and senate. They will have no excuses and the artillery fire from the commies will be heavy.
Neither Barack Obama, nor Mitt Romney will be a strong POTUS, and the GOP is, still, divided among: conservatives, RINOS, establishment Republicans, elitist Republicans, and Libertarian Republicans.
Nice.
A republican president
A republican senate
A republican house
All we’d need would be the will...
Exactly. Not as easy as an outright SCOTUS ban now, which I would have preferred, but probably more effective in the long run (see next point).
does the SCOTUS have to take this up again in 3-4 years to determine if the repeal will be constitutional?
I think this SCOTUS decision eliminates any future constitutional issue. Even the appellate Courts will have to deem a repeal as 'Constitutional' since it is defined as a legislative tax rather than a constitutional question. The question won't even get to SCOTUS again.
Let’s assume GOP takes the Senate and the White House, while retaining the House. Romney works with Senate and House, gets the monstrosity repealed in a few days, then take a guess what might happen 4 years later....or eventually.......Dems retake control again.........the ugly monster is put right back on the books again. Sorry, but we are beyond the ballot box for any LASTING solutions. Yeah, I’ll vote but I have no pretentions about a serious solution coming via the ballot box.
In the meantime we should have fun with this ruling.
Tax everyone over 18 that does not have a personal firearm. Excepting active duty military. Money goes to debt principal and then is apportioned to the State Militias.
Tax everyone over 16 who does not own a internal combustion, highway capable vehicle. Money goes to highway maintenance fund.
Tax everyone over 18 who does have a hunting and/or fishing license. Money goes to national parks and wilderness areas.
See the possibilities?
Not a single Republican voted for Obamacare and Romney is on record multiple times saying he will repeal. So all we need to do is elect Romney and a couple of extra R senators and it's gone.
Yes, and therefore if any of the justices will have left the court by the time it comes up for review, the judicial outlook (or, as I prefer to regard it, the integrity) of the new appointments to the court will be critically important.
No because it was determined it was a tax.
To dream the impossible dream...
Zero and his minions will push the “it’s not a tax” line so any attempt to repeal it would need 60 votes in the Senate instead of a simple majority.
Tax everyone who doesn’t own a car. The libs in NYC will love that one. ; )
it ain’t gonna happen “Those nasty republicans - NOW they’re coming for your healthcare!”
SCOTUS has pretty much endorsed an institutionalized slave state enforced by the IRS. The government must be severely limited now in it’s ability to tax us and on what to spend our monies on. This is going to take much more than an election to resolve. They will not give up their new and unlimited power over us easily.
Forget Congress! What we need are governors of conservative states to stand up to the feds. We have been duped into thinking changing who is in charge in D.C. will make all the difference, but things have gotten worse no matter which party was in charge.
Nullify now! Threaten to secede, if necessary. Until the states are willing to fight for us, we will continue to be victimized by the federal government.
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