Posted on 07/27/2017 5:36:51 AM PDT by davikkm
Before he was defeated by unknown economist Dave Brat, then Minority Whip Eric Cantor led the charge to repeal Obamacare. Day in and day out, the GOP Rep. railed against the disastrous healthcare plan, using the hot button issue as ammo to drum up political support and boost fundraising efforts.
In a stunning admission, Cantor now admits the GOP was never serious about repealing the healthcare bill. It was all a charade.
The Washingtonian reports:
Cantor helped create that perception. Earlier that summer—after many failed attempts over the years to shred the law piecemeal—Cantor promised colleagues that the House would vote on a “full repeal.” But even after it did, the measure was dead on arrival in the Democratic-controlled Senate. Cantor—in Congress 13 years and, fairly or unfairly, once thought to be above electoral reproach—paid the price. His 2014 avenger, now-congressman David Brat, bludgeoned him for being soft on Obamacare, among other things. But the failure to make a dent in the law landed a bigger blow on the party. After seven years of pledging they could dismantle Obamacare, if only they had control of Congress and the White House, Republicans—at last in charge of both—have faced deep divisions over a replacement.
Asked if he feels partly responsible for their current predicament, Cantor is unequivocal. “Oh,” he says, “100 percent.”
(Excerpt) Read more at thegatewaypundit.com ...
That conservative icon, George W Bush, appointed Justice Roberts who salvaged OCare by declaring the penalties were actually taxes. So the UniParty controls the courts too.
Anyone with a brain already knew this,it was a matter of giving them the majority to Rove they were full of it.
I have said for some time,it’s not a republican democrat thing folks,it’s the establishment,the elite,call it what you want,the government is sending 4 trillion dollars a year,we are trillions in debt,we are broke.
Just a matter of time all your so called rights are headed for that giant ash pile. The likes of the Clintons the Bushes the Obamas will be there lording over all us peons
How many Republicans voted to repeal? The majority?
DC does not fear us.
Nothing will happen until they do.
And it will have to be real fear.
As in CW-II.
Article V Amendments illustrated below. Amendment XXIX is the one you’ll want to use to repeal Obamacare.
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AMENDMENT XXVIII (’State Suffrage’)
To restore effective suffrage of State Legislatures to Congress, the following amendment is proposed:
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Section 1.
Senators in Congress shall be subject to recall by their respective state legislatures or by voter referendum in their respective states.
Section 2.
Term limits for Senators in Congress shall be set by vote in their respective state legislatures but in no case shall be set less than twelve years nor more than eighteen years.
Section 3:
The seventeenth article of amendment to the Constitution of the United States is hereby repealed.
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AMENDMENT XXIX (‘Thirty-State Quash Authority’)
To redress the balance of powers between the federal government and the States, the following amendment is proposed:
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Section 1.
Upon a majority vote in three-fifths of state legislatures, specific federal statutes, federal court decisions and executive directives of any form shall be repealed and made void in any state, territory, or possession of the United States.
Section 2.
State legislatures in agreement with results derived from Section 1 of this amendment shall sign a state quash authority directive delineating the specific federal statutes, federal court decisions or federal executive directives affected, said directive addressed and delivered to the Congress of the United States becoming immediately effective as of the date of delivery.
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AMENDMENT XXX (‘Sunset and Repeal of the 16th Amendment’)
To facilitate Age-Of-Awareness Connectivity In Funding The Federal Government Of The United States:
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Section 1.
All forms of federal taxation in the United States, and unto the territories of its jurisdiction, that are derived under the authority of the sixteenth article of amendment to the Constitution of the United States shall be abolished and repealed by April 16, 2022.
Section 2.
As of April 16, 2022, the sixteenth article of amendment to the Constitution of the United States is hereby repealed.
Section 3:
Enforcement of federal tax liabilities shall cease as of January 1, 2025 with exceptions granted to active judicial proceedings initiated before January 1, 2025.
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The results of the “Silent Revolution of 1913” continue to play out. Three seminal events in 1913:
1. January; 16th Amendment Ratified; the Federal Government can tax individual incomes;
2. April; 17th Amendment Ratified; States as an entity no longer have an institutional political voice in government.
3. December; Federal Reserve Act becomes law. The government can now directly manipulate the currency, and can “create” money through the banking system to finance government debt.
As a result of the “Silent Revolution,” the federal government gained an almost unlimited access to money; the money needed to fuel a gigantic administrative state. The government doesn’t even need to take in as much as it spends. With the Federal Reserve, it can spend as much as it wants and “paper over” the difference. With the direct election of Senators, states no longer have the institutional voice in Washington to combat the administrative state. Senators become just like Representatives, where they fall into the Washington D. C. “Iron Triangle” of Congressional Committees, Federal Agencies, and Constituent Groups who feed at the trough.
Unlike most revolutions, the change was not immediate. It took time for the revolution to play out. Most notably in the judiciary, where a series of Supreme Court opinions, mostly from 1937 to 1943 (West Coast Hotel v. Parrish, United States v. Carolene Products, Wickard v. Filburn) gave the Congress the green light to do whatever it wished without regard to any Constitutional limitation. It culminated in Chevron USA v. Natural Resources Defense Council in 1977, where the Court stated it wasn’t going to just defer to Congress, it was going to defer to the Federal Agencies, and gave them the green light to do whatever they wanted. It is no coincidence that the massive explosion of Federal power has happened since the Chevron decision.
As a result, the Federal Government of the United States has grown to immense size and power. It no longer recognizes any restraint on is activities, and the individual agencies are like feudal duchies that don’t recognize any restraints by the Courts, the Congress, or the elected Executive. It was not 0bama’s directive that caused the IRS to stonewall TEA Party 501 tax-exempt applications. The TEA Party represented an existential threat to the IRS, and so it fought back. It would have done that regardless of who was in the White House. We are seeing that play out now with the Trump Administration.
Oh, and like feudal duchies, it has not escaped my notice that each and every Federal agency also has its own private armed security forces.
We are cursed with LIARS instead of being blessed with LEADERS. Pathetic.
If Trump really wanted to get rid of O-care he would terminate all exemptions. He doesn’t need Congress for that.
Someone called this years ago. Obamacare is about control over the people. Despite the rhetoric not one representative in congress is going to give up this opportunity. The Republicans are now enjoying this new power just as much as the Democrats did.
The lefties will just infiltrate / subvert the Article V convention.
Not as much risk of that as you think.
The answer is to drain the swamp: the left wing press, and the K street lobbyists & foreign interests.
Never gonna happen in our life time. the swamp refills to quickly.
Hopefully Tea Party candidates will primary them.
Drain The Swamp.
Trump should issue an executive order putting all current and former members of congress, their families and staff, on Obamacare until it is repealed and then watch the sewer rats squeal!
ONE-SIXTH of the economy, that’s what they keep telling us and why it needs to be repealed.
These people have no principles and there is no republic. They’re all just a bunch of compromised liars.
Yeah, the Bronze Plan
http://www.teapartypatriots.org/content/seven-gop-senators-break-biggest-promise-in-modern-politics/
Seven GOP Senators Break Biggest Promise in Modern Politics
July 26, 2017
Atlanta, GA – Tea Party Patriots President and co-founder Jenny Beth Martin released the following statement today, reacting to Senate Republicans’ failure to pass a partial repeal of ObamaCare the Senate passed in 2015.
“Today, seven Republican Senators betrayed their constituents and the American people by breaking what is arguably the biggest political promise in modern American politics, and refusing to vote to repeal Obamacare. For the last four election cycles, Republican candidates have promised to repeal Barack Obama’s signature legislation and as a result, have increasingly been granted more power in Washington by the American people. Now, Republicans are completely in charge and should find it easy to keep this critical promise that lifted them to power. However, Senators Capito, Heller, McCain, Portman, Alexander, and Murkowski should be ashamed for having flip-flopped and voting against repealing Obamacare, just 18 months after they voted to send virtually the same exact legislation to President Barack Obama’s desk. And the seventh, Susan Collins, seems more concerned with critiquing the looks of House members or the sanity of the president than providing relief to the American people from rising costs and deteriorating quality of care under Obamacare. This is precisely the reason President Trump was elected. It is precisely the reason Congress has an approval rating worse than cockroaches. And it is precisely why the American people voted to drain the swamp in 2016. Tea Party Patriots will never give up the fight to fully repeal Obamacare and restore health care freedom to the American people. We call on President Trump to take action to end the congressional exemption from Obamacare so that senators, their families, and theirs staffs are forced to experience the same hardships that they refuse to lift from the American people. Perhaps if they were forced to live under the law that was unfavorably imposed on the American people, they will finally have the motivation to repeal Obamacare once and for all.”
What they are really saying is that 90% of that one-sixth of the economy is FAKE - direct transfers from paying health customers to suites full of healthcare executives, hospital administrators, insurance staff, attorneys, and recipients of political donations in exchange for no actual health care provided - and neither party can afford to be blamed for the economic reset that will happen if they are forced to admit it.
But as Karl Denninger has pointed out many times, within a year or so of that reset the economy would start a very healthy boom. And the alternative is national bankruptcy.
3. It doesn't cost very much anything at all.
I'm surprised at how many people, even some on the right, who somehow believe that the best healthcare in the world should somehow be a "right" they do not have a pay for.
Well no $hit $herlock (Joshua Caplan)! I think most of us figured that out a long time ago! While Obama was squatting in the White House, nearly every one of them supported repeal of Obamacare, tax reform, immigration control, etc., but now can’t seem to vote for any of the above.
The vast majority of our elected “representatives” are owned lock, stock and barrel by the companies and special interests that provide them each with hundreds of thousands - if not millions - of dollars to run for a “job” that pays $174,000. The fact that many also have some pretty serious character flaws is just icing on the cake and helps to keep them in line when they have the occasional flash of conscience or regret.
As an old command sergeant major I knew once said, “We are screwed, blued and tattooed!” and there isn’t a damned thing we can do about it.
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