What happens when you read the ObamaCare bill, specifically the one coming out of the USSA Senate?
We learn just how bad it really is.
It isn't just that this bill will create new citizenship mandates, eliminate freedom of choice and liberty, or even jail people for making personal legal choices,' [...]
I’ll say this for Daniel Akaka (D., Hawaii), at least he’s honest in admitting there’s no Constitutional authority for ObamaCare:
(CNSNews.com) – Sen. Daniel Akaka (D-Hawaii) says he is “not aware” of the Constitution giving Congress the authority to make individuals purchase health insurance, as the health care bills in [...]
Mason Rayner, son of my esteemed colleague Bob Rayner, asks a good question: Why, exactly, are young people so supportive of Barack Obama when his policies—an insurance mandate aimed at dragooning the young into supporting the old, massive deficits the young will be paying off [...]
Just when you thought that Health Care Reform could not get any more Draconian :
Today, Ranking Member of the House Ways and Means Committee Dave Camp (R-MI) released a letter from the non-partisan Joint Committee on Taxation (JCT) confirming that the failure to comply with the individual mandate to buy [...]
Yet more lovely details from the House health care bill:
Today, Ranking Member of the House Ways and Means Committee Dave Camp (R-MI) released a letter from the non-partisan Joint Committee on Taxation (JCT) confirming that the failure to comply with the individual mandate to buy health insurance contained in [...]
Via Kevin at The Liberty Papers:
On Saturday at 6PM, the Democrats plan to bring Obamacare for a vote on the House floor. Obamacare contains:
* A government run public option which will eventually take over our healthcare
* Higher taxes on individuals
* A mandate that [...]
They may have won an historic victory on Tuesday, but it doesn’t look like Virginia Republicans are letting it get to their head:
RICHMOND — Despite winning the governor’s race by a 17-percentage point blowout, Virginia Republicans insisted Wednesday that they had gained no broad mandate and would make their [...]
Despite a 17% margin, newly elected Bob McDonnell pledged to govern the way he campaigned and to steer towards the center. He and others have added that they have no mandate.
According to the Washington Post:
The state’s Republicans have recaptured the governor’s office after eight years [...]
Gov-elect Bob McDonnell should be commended on a solid win, but Republicans shouldn’t get too excited.
Without a doubt, McDonnell and Virginia Republicans have a mandate, a fact to which state Democrats should play close attention. But no one should overestimate exactly what that mandate is. Exit [...]
Photo H/T: Bearing Drift
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The real question now, with the margin of victory as large as it is, will McDonnell have a mandate?
Contests serve as warning to Democrats: It’s not 2008 anymore
The Washington Post
On Tuesday, Virginia moved [...]
What a night . . .
-I'll have much more later tomorrow, but things have now changed. Republicans have figured out how to win in Northern Virginia and now have a governor with a greater mandate that any previous governor in history.
-Don't tell me this isn't about Obama. Republicans [...]
Gov.-elect Bob McDonnell’s margin of victory has surpassed that of Gov. George Allen’s 1993 win, making him the most popularly elected governor of Virginia since it became a competitive two-party state 40 years ago.
There is one word to describe that.
MANDATE. [...] “Pelosi’s press spokesman, Nadeam Elshami, clarified for the record that asking the speaker of the House to articulate the Constitutional authority for the [individual] health care mandate is not a serious question.”
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How will we pay for the mandates in the health care reform bill introduced by Nancy Pelosi Thursday?It appears I owe the Obama Administration an apology.
Last week, I wrote about a column by Law Professor Jonathan Turley reporting that the United States was allowing a resolution about free speech to go through the United Nations despite the fact that it continued language supporting Islamic efforts [...]
From Jane Delung and Judith A. Himes of the Population Resource Center in Princeton, N.J.:
The Constitution created 65 seats in the House of Representatives, set a minimum size of 30,000 residents for a Congressional district, and mandated a reapportionment after each census. As new states entered the union and [...]
Tyler Cowen talks about the likely impact of a health insurance mandate in today’s New York Times:
The proposals now before Congress would require just about everyone to buy health insurance or to get it through their employers — which would generally result in lower wages. In other words, millions [...]
The Speaker of the House demonstrates her contempt for the Constitution of the United States:
(CNSNews.com) – When CNSNews.com asked House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) on Thursday where the Constitution authorized Congress to order Americans to buy health insurance–a mandate included in both the House and Senate versions of the [...]
The fall-out from President-mandated pay cuts: "Chaos will be created at these firms as top people leave in droves. Will the administration then order people back to work?"
Uh-oh. Obama suffers worst third-quarter drop in approval since 1953. B-b-b-but, [...]
I’ve got two new essays up at The Liberty Papers:
Is An Individual Health Insurance Mandate Constitutional ?
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