"I would be shocked if we didn't move forward and keep our commitment to the American people."
Sen. McConnell is wrongly ignoring that repealing Obamacare is not simply a matter of Senate votes.
More specifically, low-information McConnell is seemingly clueless that the corrupt, post-17th Amendment ratification Senate should have vetoed the Obamacare bill. This is because, regardless what lawless Obama’s activist justices want everybody to think about Obamacare, it remains that the states have never delegated to the feds, expressly via the Constitution, the specific power to regulate, tax and spend in the name of INTRAstate healthcare.
“Congress is not empowered to tax for those purposes which are within the exclusive province of the States.” —Justice John Marshall, Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.
”State inspection laws, health laws, and laws for regulating the internal commerce of a State, and those which respect turnpike roads, ferries, &c. are not within the power granted to Congress [emphases added].” —Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.
”From the accepted doctrine that the United States is a government of delegated powers, it follows that those not expressly granted, or reasonably to be implied from such as are conferred, are reserved to the states, or to the people. To forestall any suggestion to the contrary, the Tenth Amendment was adopted. The same proposition, otherwise stated, is that powers not granted are prohibited [emphasis added].” —United States v. Butler, 1936.
Another reason why it has to be repeal, not repeal and replace.