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ObamaCare Survives - Electing Romney Just Became Imperative
Townhall.com ^ | June 30, 2012 | Bob Beauprez

Posted on 06/30/2012 8:36:03 AM PDT by Kaslin

The Supreme Court did not save us from ourselves, at least not entirely. That is still up to us, the people.

When the American people elected Barack Obama and large Democrat majorities, the die was cast. ObamaCare was coming. Popular or not, constitutional or not, affordable or not, it didn't matter. They were going to pass it, and then the rest of us could find out what they put in it.

After the Democrats shoved the 2700 pages of ObamaCare down our throats -- and we did find out how expensive, controlling, and coercive the legislation was -- a majority of Americans wanted the Supreme Court to toss it aside as unconstitutional.

In a 5-4 decision, the Court did not deem it a legal overreach by the Democrats. While I would have agreed with the minority (Scalia, Alito, Thomas, Kennedy), I respect the decision.

For those of us who originally disagreed with ObamaCare and now disagree with the majority opinion of the SCOTUS, the challenge remains the same as it would have been had the Court ruled otherwise. We need to elect Mitt Romney and House and Senate majorities that will repeal ObamaCare and replace it with free-market, pro-liberty solutions.

In a very real way, the Court just put the responsibility back on the voters to re-establish government of, by, and for the people. In the end, we get the government – and policies that go with it – that we deserve. So, who will we elect as our representative leaders in November? The importance of this election – already historic – just grew even greater.

As the nation absorbs and deciphers the SCOTUS ruling on ObamaCare, we thought our readers would find the following excerpts from NRO's analysis insightful.  Included is a link to the entire editorial. 

Chief Justice Roberts’s Folly

Posted June 28, 2012, 2:00PM-ET

National Review Online

By The Editors 

…Rarely has the maxim that the power to tax is the power to destroy been so apt, a portion of liberty being the direct object in this case.

What the Court has done is not so much to declare the mandate constitutional as to declare that it is not a mandate at all, any more than the mortgage-interest deduction in the tax code is a mandate to buy a house. Congress would almost surely have been within its constitutional powers to tax the uninsured more than the insured. Very few people doubt that it could, for example, create a tax credit for the purchase of insurance, which would have precisely that effect. But Obamacare, as written, does more than that. The law repeatedly speaks in terms of a “requirement” to buy insurance, it says that individuals “shall” buy it, and it levies a “penalty” on those who refuse. As the conservative dissent points out, these are the hallmarks of a “regulatory penalty, not a tax.”…

It now falls to the Republicans, and especially to Mitt Romney, to make the case for the repeal of the law and for its replacement by something better than either it or the health-care policies that preceded it…Opponents should take heart: The law remains unpopular. Let the president and his partisans ring their bells today, and let us work to make sure that they are wringing their hands come November.  Read more.



TOPICS: Business/Economy; Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Editorial; Front Page News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2012issues; abortion; conservativesfrobama; deathpanels; elections; iwontvoteforromney; obama; obamacare; obamunism; romney; romney4bothsides; romney4mandates; romney4statism; romneywas1st; scotus; taxes; zerocare
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To: xzins
Without even considering the Republicans, we know that 41 votes is insurmountable given the Senate filibuster rules.

Deathcare was passed by the reconciliation process, which needs 51 votes. It can be repealed through the same process.

Unfortunately, all we have is the shape-shifting Romney's word that he'll repeal the legislation his policies helped draft.

21 posted on 06/30/2012 9:28:40 AM PDT by Colonel_Flagg (Conservatism is not a matter of convenience.)
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To: BrewingFrog

Go tell it to the Republican Party.


22 posted on 06/30/2012 9:29:10 AM PDT by sport
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To: Colonel_Flagg

Anything can be filibustered.


23 posted on 06/30/2012 9:34:26 AM PDT by xzins (Retired Army Chaplain and Proud of It! Those who truly support our troops pray for their victory!)
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To: Kaslin

Maybe we’re wrong to assume ObamaCare can’t be repealed until Mitt Romney is elected.

If the mandate is a tax, it’s repeal would have to be initiated in the House, where Republicans have a strong majority. And, since it’s a tax, a simple majority in the Senate would be sufficient to repeal it since 60-vote majorities are not required to enact tax-related measures.

Although Democrats have a slight majority in the Senate, Democratic Senators running for re-election this year would be under extreme pressure to vote for the mandate’s repeal, in order to avoid suffering the fate of their former colleagues whose 2009 pro-ObamaCare votes caused them to be defeated in landslide numbers in 2010. It’s not unlikely that four or five Democratic Senators who want to keep their jobs would vote with the pro-repeal Republicans. And that would do it.

John Boehner already has a repeal vote scheduled for the House in about a week. Things will get very interesting, and our side has a respectable chance of winning.


24 posted on 06/30/2012 9:41:22 AM PDT by Bluestocking
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To: meyer

Thank you for your well thought out and reasonable response.


25 posted on 06/30/2012 9:41:47 AM PDT by sport
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To: Diogenesis

26 posted on 06/30/2012 9:42:59 AM PDT by Kaslin (Acronym for OBAMA: One Big Ass Mistake America)
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To: Kaslin

wow.

just wow.

We need to overturn Obama care so badly, we want to elect the man who gave Massachusetts ROMNEY CARE and made it illegal to not have insurance

by electing the man whose halth care plan was the blueprint for Obama care, we will do away with Obama care

Electing the creator of the lightbulb to keep the cave dark is not logical

God Help us!


27 posted on 06/30/2012 9:46:30 AM PDT by RaceBannon (I wont vote for a gay marriage marxist gun grabber, or vote for Obama, either)
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To: sport

Hey, sport, got a better suggestion?


28 posted on 06/30/2012 9:46:42 AM PDT by Logical me
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To: the invisib1e hand

God is displaying a very warped sense of humor, sending us Romney to defeat OblamoDeathWarrants. Why couldn’t He have sent us Ronald Reagan II?


29 posted on 06/30/2012 9:54:17 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: ProtectOurFreedom
Why couldn’t He have sent us Ronald Reagan II?

because we're a nation that makes people rich by grinding 1 million unborn babies a year into mincemeat and flushing them down the toilet.

If you were God, what would you do?

30 posted on 06/30/2012 9:57:07 AM PDT by the invisib1e hand (they have no god but caesar)
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To: xzins

Reconciliation bills cannot be filibustered because their time of debate is limited by the Congressional Budget Act.

http://www.brookings.edu/research/articles/2009/04/20-budget-mann

http://www.brookings.edu/research/opinions/2010/01/25-reconciliation-binder


31 posted on 06/30/2012 10:01:28 AM PDT by Colonel_Flagg (Conservatism is not a matter of convenience.)
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To: Kaslin

The article is 100% correct: it is imperative that we elect Romney, not just to overturn obamacare, but to appoint justices.

If Obama gets to appoint more justices to high courts, including the Supreme Court, freedom is DEAD.


32 posted on 06/30/2012 10:01:39 AM PDT by Innovative (None are so blind that will not see.)
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To: altura
To: Kaslin

It’s been imperative to elect Romney for a long time.

I kept waiting for Obama to do the One More Thing that would convince some of the holdouts here that we have to get rid of him.

One More Things kept happening but they clung to their imaginary lifeboat.

Maybe this is finally it.

Let’s hope so.

Sorry, ain't gonna happen.

First of all, they HATE Mittens with a passion, probably, I'm guessing, cuz many are frustrated "Paul-Bots," who are still "grieving" over their loss

Secondly, they have an IRRATIONAL (why I don't know and NONE has seen fit to try and explain why?) FEAR and HATRED for Mormons.

Moreover, they are living in "Delusional-ville" whereby they think that (provided we take back the Senate and hold the House)--and IN SPITE OF THE DOZEN OR SO RINO'S in the Senate--the Republi-Tards will "Keep Dear Leader in Check,".....

....then in 2016, we can find/nominate a 100% Conservative, dontcha know?

And LAST BUT NOT LEAST, being "REAL" Christians (as opposed to us "Make Believe" ones) they are STANDING ON "PRINCIPLES!"

Of course, they REFUSE to even consider that the way things are going, we will probably NOT have an United States of America as we know it in 2016.

33 posted on 06/30/2012 10:02:00 AM PDT by Conservative Vermont Vet
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To: HerrBlucher

It was a dopey decision. First Roberts ruled that the penalty wasn’t a tax, then he ruled that it was. And he played Twister to come to the conclusion that it was a tax.


34 posted on 06/30/2012 10:03:21 AM PDT by popdonnelly (The first priority is get Obama out of the White House.)
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To: sport

Yes, indeed, we will be sooooo much better off with Obama getting a second term, is that your point?!


35 posted on 06/30/2012 10:03:45 AM PDT by Innovative (None are so blind that will not see.)
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To: the invisib1e hand

You like four more years of Obama?


36 posted on 06/30/2012 10:04:49 AM PDT by popdonnelly (The first priority is get Obama out of the White House.)
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To: popdonnelly
You like four more years of Obama?

you like heroin instead of crack?

37 posted on 06/30/2012 10:06:49 AM PDT by the invisib1e hand (they have no god but caesar)
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To: Conservative Vermont Vet

It’s salami slicing tactics. The Communists did it in Hungary and Czechoslovakia to seize power as well.

Conservatives are too sore because they can’t magically resolve every issue in one election, meanwhile the leftists keep building their statist nightmare brick by brick.

They didn’t build the welfare state in 4 years, and it sure as hell isn’t going to be undone in one administration. That’s the truth.


38 posted on 06/30/2012 10:07:29 AM PDT by Shadow44
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To: RaceBannon

While we’re waiting for God to help us, we have to help ourselves by voting for the only guy who can beat him.


39 posted on 06/30/2012 10:07:47 AM PDT by popdonnelly (The first priority is get Obama out of the White House.)
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To: RaceBannon

You play the hand you are dealt.

Conservatives couldn’t unite behind one candidate, so we ended up with Romney.

Right now the ONLY choice is Obama or Romney.

Any conservative should consider that a vote not cast, or cast for a third party candidate may be THE vote that helps Obama get reelected. Just remember the Bush v Gore election — 500 votes made the difference!


40 posted on 06/30/2012 10:09:19 AM PDT by Innovative (None are so blind that will not see.)
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