Posted on 03/24/2010 5:05:15 AM PDT by Kaslin
And that is precisely why every single member of Congress who votes yes on Obamacare should be voted out of office the first chance the voters get.
the dirty lil secret is that although this is unprecedented at the fed level, the mandated and punitive forced purchasing of private goods/services has been happening at the county level here for awhile, so i believe that most of the ole reflexive southern dems will embrace the 'good thing' that this crap pushes 'for the little guy'...
glaring example is our garbage service...miss a payment and rumpke letterhead kindly reminds you that if ya dont pay up, itll be turned over to the county clerk and you'll receive a 'garbage summons' and be required to pay fines & court costs on top of yer bill...
you say, 'thats simple, just cancel the service and burn the combustibles and recycle/compost the rest'...
you cant unring that bell...once in, ALWAYS in the service...county ordnance basically says so, as part of being a 'cerified clean' county...
everywhere else ive lived, it was simply a fee lumped into property taxes and 'hidden'...id imagine thatll be the case here eventually...
this will be our eventual single payer 'health care' when the insurance companys cash out and cease to exist...
After the embarrassing display by Obummer toward the Supreme Court in his SOTU address, if I were a member of the SCOTUS, I would be mad as hell at the prez...even if I were a liberal member of that court because he not only insulted the ones voted in the majority decision, he insulted them all!
Obummer should be impeached immediately as he is NOT UPHOLDING AND DEFENDING THE CONSTITUTION, HE IS DESTROYING IT, TRAMPLING IT AND USING IT FOR TOILET PAPER. Since he swore to uphold and defend it, he broke that solemn pledge and should be immediately impeached as soon as the republicnas take over the House in November.
If indeed it is ruled unconstitutional, who will enforce that ruling? Hmmm?
I do think this will ultimately be found unconstitutional, especially if the Administration tries to go in and argue this as arrogantly as they are right now.
Let’s not forget that SCOTUS is the Third branch of the Government, and the Justices understand that fact, and are not about to be bullied. A lot depends on what points are going to be argued, but in short the Cort has never upheld an order like this one, that requires a citizen to buy a product.
Remember, this is almost the exact argument that led to the original Boston Tea Party, as the British Government required the colonists to buy British tea, and pay a British tax upon it. That is why we have specific protections against acts exactly like that in the Constitution.
The only person I have heard so far put up any argument about this is Gibbs; and the Press Secretary is not the guy who will be arguing this in Court. I’m not out of hope for a resolution on this, and I am confident that SCOTUS sees this bill in an entirely different light than Premier Hussein and Comrade Peloski do.
Pelosi Galore and 0b0z0 with their noses in the air remind us of the facists, who ruled Italy until the Italians with a sense of decency had enough of the evil/vile fascists.
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