Posted on 01/31/2011 4:07:08 PM PST by Libloather
White House Calls Ruling Striking Down Health Care Law 'An Outlier'
January 31, 2011 6:20 PM
ABC News' Sunlen Miller reports: Senior White House officials called today’s ruling striking down the health care law “an outlier” and are confident that it will be overturned on appeal.
A federal judge in Florida struck down the Obama administration’s health care law ruling that because a central provision of the law is unconstitutional the rest of the law cannot stand without it. Judge Roger Vinson of the Northern District of Florida ruled that the individual mandate -- which requires individuals to purchase health care by 2014 or pay a penalty -- "exceeds Congress' commerce power."
The ruling marks the first time a federal judge has struck down the entire law. "I must conclude that the individual mandate and the remaining provisions are all inextricably bound together in purpose and must stand or fall as a single unit," the judge ruled.
Noting that the judge did not order the government to stop implementing the law, a senior administration source said "implementation will proceed at pace."
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I want to see that. I really do.
“..... a senior administration source said “implementation will proceed at pace.”
Even without funding?
They got contempt alright, contempt for the constitution.
Hussein has the fix in with the “wise Latina”, but if it ain’t enough, there’s gonna be fun.
“..... a senior administration source said “implementation will proceed at pace.”
Even without funding?
I think it would be hard to out-lie Obama.
“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,’” wrote Judge Vinson brilliantly.
The judge and his ruling are quite correct.
If one part of a bill is unconstitutional and there is no severance clause attachment, then the entire bill is unconstitutional.
The severance clause was detached from the original bill so it could be passed even with the many bribes that it took to get passage of it. The irony is that many who objected to the severance clause in wake of the judge’s ruling are now crying foul.
Such is the sad state of liberalism. Liberalism has become a laughingstock in this country now because everybody realizes that liberalism is nothing more than thinly veiled communism.
The balance of the court hasn’t changed.
There’s still a conservative majority.
I feel that this decision - to eventually be taken up by the Supreme Court, will be decisive in whether this country remains a Republic.
Really, I see a major revolt if the Supreme Court lets this obvious abuse of the Constitution go. It could very well be a start of another Revolution if this is allowed to stand.
I actually can’t imagine that the Supreme Court will allow this government mandate to stand - regardless of the 10th amendment and it’s very loose interpretation. This was NOT and can NOT be in any way the intent of this amendment!
Impeach that sucker.
The election in two years will decide that. We must get rid of all the communists.
Levin just uttered the word ‘sedition’.
Yes, but that only gets rid of 1/3 of the problem. The way things are going lately, that is not enough.
what would they go against?
The judge declares the whole thing unconstitutional but lets them continue with implementation as they go through apellates.
“Levin just uttered the word ‘sedition’”
There, he said it. :-)
This reminds me of the response of the Obama administration to the decision by the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals that ruled against the enforcement of the moratorium on deepwater drilling in the Gulf.
I see Obamma has broken out the tenth grade vocabulary for this press statement. His use of “outlier” has most of his supporters thinking he’s talking about those Hawaiian canoes.
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