ObamaCare Survives - Electing Romney Just Became Imperative

Townhall.com ^ | June 30, 2012 | Bob Beauprez

[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.

[xzins]

Yes. You’re right and I’m wrong. Reconciliation cannot be filibustered.

However...the repeal of RomneyCare wouldn’t be automatic because it was originally passed by reconciliation. It would be a new bill and a new Senate, and it would have to itself meet the requirements to qualify to be eligible for reconciliation.

Most importantly, the Repubs would have to control the Senate even for that to happen. It’s possible with a 48 Dem, 8 tossup, 45 republican current election map, but it’s easier for the Dems to retain control than for the republicans to take it.

Finally, the Senate bill itself was not passed by reconciliation...it passed by a 60-39 vote in the Senate, so reconciliation wasn’t needed.

It was the Senate/House conference refinement of the bill with the House that required reconcilation.

As always, that assumes a rino-proof Senate. None of the rinos had to show their true colors in the original vote, because the dems had 60 votes already. The rinos were able to stay hidden.

[Conservative Vermont Vet]

Liars, backstabbers, and the AUTHOR of ObamaCARE/RomneyCARE thanks YOU for your support...

As opposed to those who are working diligently (WITH DEAR LEADER'S TACICT SUPPORT) to DESTROY OUR REPUBLIC?

COME ON Diogenesis, GROW A PAIR and give us some "FACTS" as to HOW and WHY, Mittens is more DANGEROUS and a THREAT to our Republic than is Dear Leader?

The Muslim Brotherhood Agenda as outlined in 1991 in Phildelphia:

The process of settlement [of Islam in the United States] is a "Civilization-Jihadist" process with all the word means.

The Ikhwan must understand that all their work in America
is a kind of grand Jihad in eliminating and destroying the Western civilization from within
and "sabotaging" their miserable house by their hands
and the hands of the believers
so that it is eliminated and God's religion is made victorious over all religions.

Without this level of understanding, we are not up to this challenge and have not prepared ourselves for Jihad yet. It is a Muslim's destiny to perform Jihad and work wherever he is and wherever he lands until the final hour comes, and there is no escape from that destiny except for those who choose to slack.

(REMINDER of that—The Muslim Brotherhood/Islam--which B. Hussein Obama SUPPORTS and which is ACTIVELY working—through “Civilization/Stealth” Jihad—to replace our Constitution with SHARIA )

THE MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD CREED:

Allah is our objective;
the Prophet is our leader;
the Quran is our law;
Jihad is our way;
dying in the way of Allah is our highest hope.”

Though we are all aware of Obama's proclivity towards appeasing Islam and Islamic Republics; his negotiating with our enemies (Taliban); his release of captured Terrorists; his support of the "Arab Spring" in the ME which has led to the takeover of those countries by Radical Islamists; etc, many are not aware of what he has done to facilitate their (Islamists) acceptance and appointment to positions of "trust" within our own Government

Here are but 6 of those individuals:

Rashad Hussain

Kifa Mustapha

Momamed Elibiary

Huma Abedin

Daliah Mogahed

Mohamed Magid

Islam is a frontal attack on Christianity and Judaism and its time we understood this threat and called it what it is. We are not in a “war on terror”, which so many politically correct politicians would have us believe.

The whole world is, and has been for 1,400 years, in a WAR AGAINST ISLAM! If we do not stand up against this cancerous enemy, whose ultimate goal is to bring the entire world into submission to Islam and have all people worship none but Allah, then Western Civilization and human freedom as we know it will soon cease to exist.

America faces in addition to the threat of violent jihad another, even more toxic danger – a stealthy and pre-violent form of warfare aimed at destroying our constitutional form of democratic government and free society. The Muslim Brotherhood is the prime-mover behind this seditious campaign, which it calls “civilization jihad.”

For a detailed description of who these individuals pictured above are, their goals and what damage they have done and the real threat they pose, see the following:

Muslim Brotherhood in America Part 8: Team Obama and the Islamists

IF after viewing this video, one does not come away with the resolve to do whatever it takes to defeat Barack Hussein Obama, then I worry about the future of our Great Republic.

PS: One should at least bookmark this most enlightening, informative, well researched and documented 10-part Series by Frank Gaffney (Muslim Brotherhood in America) and watch all of it as soon as time permits.

“I will stand with the Muslims should the political winds shift in an ugly direction.”

from page 261 of the paperback edition of “The Audacity of Hope.

All it takes for .....

.....EVIL....

..... to triumph is for good men to do nothing.......!"

....you know, like staying home or writing in someone's name which is the same thing as affirmatively, voting for the closest most of us will ever come to WITNESSING PURE EVIL while still alive...Barack, Barry, Hussein, Soetoro, Obama.

"Oh yeah, we'll stand on 'PRINCIPLES' and show them what's what, then in 2016, we will really, REALLY, work to elect a true Conservative....."

Yeah, right, provided there is still a United States of America left as we used to know it.

FAIR WARNING: America's Enemies Within

"A nation can survive its fools, even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within.

An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves against those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself.

For the traitor appears not a traitor; he speaks in accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and their arguments, he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men.

He rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of the city, he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to fear." ...

Roman statesman and political theorist Marcus Tullius Cicero

[baddog 219]

I like it, but I was going for more of a neo-con theme to it therefore using the ism Obama+ -ism is a suffix in many English words, originally derived from Ancient Greek. It is commonly used in philosophy and politics. But I see your point.

[JCBreckenridge]

I ain’t drinking the kool-aid either.

If the GOP wants to put Romney in, they’ll do it without me.

[Innovative]

But you are happy to help Obama get reelected.

Great “conservative” position. :(

[BrewingFrog]

I do not disagree. However, you have two choices. A third choice does not exise, except insofar as to tacitly benefit Obama. Therefore, you have only two choices.

We are forced to deal with degrees of losing.

The only hope is to have such a mighty number of voices in the House and Senate that a slime like Romney will be forced to do the right thing.

[mandaladon]

Interesting point !

[altura]

Then I’ll change my hopes ... instead of hoping THEY see the light, I’ll start hoping they are very few in number.

(I think they are, just very dedicated and determined to post everywhere)

[Diogenesis]

You do NOT win by choosing a PHONEY LIAR who has history
of helping the OTHER SIDE, and in the case
of Team Romney, simply LYING about it.

[I see my hands]

"You like four more years of Obama"

It isn't about our nation or freedom with any of these guys. They've just found an outlet that lets them pretend their pride and petulance is principle. They are weak and ill.

[Monorprise]

“”I respect the decision”

I don’t, I doubt the four dissenters do, and I even doubt Roberts does. He knows it was a silly, convoluted, ridiculous finding for political reasons. He sold his soul, and sold out liberty.”

Traitor John not only sold his soul, and liberty. His act was to sell out whatever was left of our Constitutional(limited) republic. He betrayed his oath, and what was formerly his country. This is why we have a desire for vengeance.

[Innovative]

[rurgan]

So you say it's better to let this POS Obama marxist keep his Obamacare and laugh at us now being enslaved and give Obama a victory in November. Or would you rather see this POS Obama defeated and humiliated along with the media defeated? Romney says he'll repeal Obamacare. So you want most of the economy over not to socialism? Those 2 things alone should be enough to vote against Obama. Remember that Bush beat Gore by 500 votes. It could be your vote that gives Obama a victory so it can further destroy us and the U.S. , enslave us and lead us to be pets of his. Just to see this POS beat is worth anything to me . Look at the genocide they are doing against whites in South Africa as what this Obama has in store for us.

[I see my hands]

Go to Hell! Don't put me in with those Obama supporters. Got it?

[Innovative]

“Don’t put me in with those Obama supporte’

When it walks like a duck,quacks like a duck, it IS a duck.

When it campaigns for Obama, bashes Romney, does everything an Obama supporter would do, it IS an Obama supporter.

You are only upset because we see through your pretense.

[I see my hands]

Are you illiterate, you miserable fool? Read my posts.

[rurgan]

These morons have 2 options.

1. Not vote for someone that could beat Obama. Bush beat Gore by 500 votes. So them not voting could give Obama a victory. obama will then be laughing at us , and will be further enslaving us and turning the U.S. into South Africa where they are doing a genocide against whites which the media is hiding.

2. Vote against Obama so this smug communist POS gets humiliated and also the media gets humiliated and beat. Also Obamacare will be repealed so Obama and the smug media get further beat and humiliated.Just these 2 things are enough for me to vote against Obama.

[rurgan]

These morons have 2 options.

1. Not vote for someone that could beat Obama. Bush beat Gore by 500 votes. So them not voting could give Obama a victory. obama will then be laughing at us , and will be further enslaving us and turning the U.S. into South Africa where they are doing a genocide against whites which the media is hiding.

2. Vote against Obama so this smug communist POS gets humiliated and also the media gets humiliated and beat. Also Obamacare will be repealed so Obama and the smug media get further beat and humiliated.Just these 2 things are enough for me to vote against Obama.

They choose option 1.

[I see my hands]

Could I be any clearer, you low IQ moron?

[Diogenesis]