Posted on 01/31/2011 2:48:41 PM PST by Kaslin
In ruling against President Obama‘s health care law, federal Judge Roger Vinson used Mr. Obama‘s own position from the 2008 campaign against him, arguing that there are other ways to tackle health care short of requiring every American to purchase insurance.
“I note that in 2008, then-Senator Obama supported a health care reform proposal that did not include an individual mandate because he was at that time strongly opposed to the idea, stating that ‘if a mandate was the solution, we can try that to solve homelessness by mandating everybody to buy a house,’” Judge Vinson wrote in a footnote toward the end of the 78-page ruling Monday.
Judge Vinson, a federal judge in the northern district of Florida, struck down the entire health care law as unconstitutional on Monday, though he is allowing the Obama administration to continue to implement and enforce it while the government appeals his ruling.
The footnote was attached to the most critical part of Judge Vinson‘s ruling, in which he said the “principal dispute” in the case was not whether Congress has the power to tackle health care, but whether it has the power to compel the purchase of insurance.
Judge Vinson used Mr. Obama‘s campaign words from an interview with CNN to show that there are other options that could fall within the Constitution — including then-candidate Obama‘s plan.
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President Palin’s latest Supreme Court nominee, Judge Roger Vinson, was confirmed by a wide margin today.
Vinson is best known for his 2011 ruling striking down the unpopular Obamacare bill.
Do you have any kind of documentation to support that charge?
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“For the first time in my life, I’m proud of my country”.
Do you suppose they called a TelePrompTer to the stand?
Ok I get that this was “reported” but the judge issued a declaration that the law IS void. Unless that ruling is stayed or vacated, how can the executive branch legally continue to implement this?
In other words he's not a fascist and can still think.
I suppose this case will make a stop at the 11th Federal Circuit Court of Appeals; does anybody know the current makeup of the 11th Circuit?
And don’t forget Nancy Pelosi’s line about having to pass the bill to find out what’s in it.
Zero is a mouthy little kid that is all too easy to shove his own words own his throat.
BUMP!
The White House says the judge is an “activist”, LMAO!!
“unless, and until, some higher court reverses the lower court ruling.”
Or puts a stay on the ruling, pending appeal. Which I guarantee will happen.
I believe the judge laughed to himself when he included that little tidbit in his ruling. He realizes that implementation of Ubama's communist health care plan isn't going to happen without money, and the money for implementing Mengelecare must be approved by the GOP-controlled House.
If the GOP-controlled House devotes one thin dime to Mengelecare, they will be out on their asses in 2 years.
Yeah, but you don't understand. Obama was lying when he said it.
Those were the words of an Obama speech that the judge quoted, not the words of the judge.
Or, it’d be like mandating everyone using public transportation to get a car.
Or, telling someone on food stamps to grow a garden and go to the local food bank.
Or, telling people on welfare to get a job.
Wow. I just read your most recent post. I guess maybe it wasn’t a rhetorical flourish. Regardless, you are incorrect and insisting that you are correct makes you look not very serious.
Because the individual mandate does not come down on our necks until 2014, thus there is no urgent need to issue a restraining order.
Of course the termites will continue to chew on the wood of the Republic until then even if it is a foregone conclusion. That's just the way 'bamanites are.
I know sometimes I mementarily forget to apply the wisdom too.
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