Posted on 08/04/2010 7:37:34 AM PDT by Plutarch
The Battle of Obama’s Healthcare is looking to go down in history as a major confrontation between the power of federal government and the self-determination of individual states. And that eternal tension between what used to be called state’s rights and the coercive inclinations of federal authority has been at the heart of the most momentous struggles in national history – not least the civil war which tested the strength of the Union to breaking point.
Barack Obama’s health reforms have been challenged by a startlingly successful rebellion in Missouri. A state ballot referendum on Proposition C which prohibited federal government from requiring people to buy health insurance or from penalising them if they did not, was carried by a majority of 71 per cent. (Making health insurance compulsory is one of the fundamental tenets of Obamacare.) The actual constitutional basis for this challenge may seem technical in British terms: it centres on the point that there should be no federal compulsion forcing people to engage in inter-state commerce (ie buying things across state lines)...
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civil war salute!
Obama suing AZ i call the “Dreaded Scottsdale Decision”..........
civil war salute!
It’s not “over health insurance”,
it’s over the non-producers using the government to force producers to pay for their needs.
Health Insurance is only one aspect of that.
New Democratic slogan:
Obama: Enemy of the States.
NO COMPROMISE!!
I guess the author didn't drink the "it was all about slavery" koolaid.
The revolt against the regime is underway!
Annie, get your gun!
“Obama suing AZ i call the “Dreaded Scottsdale Decision”..........
That deserves at least a level 2 BUMP.
Obamacare. We’re gonna gut it like a fish.
Should be “Patriots prepare for another Revolution against Marxist Regime”
Yup, nullify, defund, repeal. All moot of course if the SCOTUS finds it uncon. Given the enormous public sentiment against FUBOcare, I just don’t see it having a very long life.
Alas, many don’t get the reference..............
It’s a UK source. They didn’t understand back in 1776, so don’t be suprised that they don’t understand now.
The basic issue is that with the Obama Regime picking and choosing which Fed laws/rules to obey or not obey, the States, etc should also choose which Fed laws/rules to obey or not obey.
A lawless Fed regime should be fair and allow States, etc to do the same.
Programmer humor.
Unfortunately it’s not just the obama administration, under Bush the EPA, BATF, Education Dept. and many others were out of control. All of these need to be erased from our great country.
The are showing the other states the way to go!
Do we even need the Feds anymore, now that we see they are unwilling to toss out occupying invaders out of an Arizona park?
The so-called drug “lords” should have their heads put on spikes along the border after we clean our park of their toxic presence.
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