US heads for civil war over health insurance

The Telegraph ^ | August 4, 2010 | Janet Daley

[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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[Psalm 144]

HealthControl is not about health, it is about control.

The left has shrieked for decades that the government had no business in the bedroom, but they stridently endorse government in the medicine cabinet.

May they all be judged, and soon, as they deserve.

[Psalm 144]

All moot of course if the SCOTUS finds it uncon.
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Which they might, but I would not count on that. Since 1803, the judiciary has typically favored autocracy.

[Psalm 144]

Do we even need the Feds anymore, now that we see they are unwilling to toss out occupying invaders out of an Arizona park?

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At this point, they are merely a collection racket and parallel welfare program to burden the productive.

[Joe 6-pack]

"Obama suing AZ i call the “Dreaded Scottsdale Decision”.........."

LOL...I've been calling SB1070 "the card check opposed by democrats."

[Psalm 144]

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.

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Agreed. We have had bad policy for generations, and most of it has worked against individual liberty.

[Dead Corpse]

My rant was general and not specifically aimed at anyone in particular.

I just feel the term is getting over used and when it really does come time to choose up sides, form up ranks, and march on the Enemy fortifications, it will have lost all real meaning.

[cowboyusa]

Yep, the Fed. Gov. is in breach of contract. The states are bound to stay in the Union, but not bound to obey a Fed. Gov. that has breached the Constitution. The Constitutional Government of the United States must be restored.