Loopholes v. Disease

Flanders

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Bill O’Reilly took his medication last night —— the clear-vision pill that controls attacks of fair & balanced. His talking points about homosexual marriage must have sent the liberals in FOX’s audience into shock and disbelief.

Speaking for myself, I was pleasantly surprised by this:


00:01:57 This there is no way on earth that the federal government should have the power to compel americans to buy any product, including health insurance.

00:02:04 The only exception is public safety as in automobile insurance. 00:02:07 If somebody hurts with you a vehicle, they must be able it to pay compensation.

00:02:11 So, the states mandate car insurance.

00:02:15 But five members in the supreme court ruled that the feds can now order everyone to buy expensive health insurance and the feds will dictate how that happens.

00:02:23 And punish you if you don't comply.

00:02:26 Again, there is no way the founders would ever have condoned that.

00:02:31 But the vote decider, chief justice john roberts found a legal loophole to justify its support.

The O'Reilly Factor - Monday, Jul 01, 2013 - Ark Livedash TV Transcript - Livedash - Search what is being mentioned across national TV

It’s too bad Mr. O’Reilly did not ask if John Roberts got his marching orders from Steny Hoyer:

House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) said that the individual health insurance mandates included in every health reform bill, which require Americans to have insurance, were “like paying taxes.” He added that Congress has “broad authority” to force Americans to purchase other things as well, so long as it was trying to promote “the general welfare.”

Hoyer Says Constitution’s ‘General Welfare’ Clause Empowers Congress to Order Americans to Buy Health Insurance
October 21, 2009
By Matt COVER

Hoyer Says Constitution?s ?General Welfare? Clause Empowers Congress to Order Americans to Buy Health Insurance | CNS News

I’m grateful to O’Reilly for getting the truth out to millions in his nightly audience who might not realize the damage done by the Supreme Court. If, and when, Congress tries to repeal the ACA, I can think of no argument for repeal more powerful than including the government’s power to force Americans to purchase whatever the government orders them to purchase. Hillarycare II is only the beginning if it is not repealed.

Glick on the link to watch the video:



If you watched the video you heard O’Reilly say:

00:01:07 The united states of loopholes.

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00:02:31 But the vote decider, chief justice john roberts found a legal loophole to justify its support.

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00:03:16 So the supreme court heard the case and once again found a loophole to nullify two votes.

I think O’Reilly’s loophole interpretation was true away back when activist judges needed some justification for dismantling the Constitution. The SCOTUS has not needed justification for a long time; not since the Congress conspired with the Court, or, at the very least, did nothing when a majority among 9 lawyers decided they were better legislators than were the elected officials they bulldoze.

Or maybe it is nothing more than all of those lawyers in Congress having too much respect for their own kind. Note that respect for the High Court grew in leaps and bounds after 7 lawyers decriminalized infanticide. Also note that neither Congress nor the Courts will defund Planned Parenthood regardless of Kermit Gosnell. It seems that at least two branches of government can force Americans to purchase unwanted goods and services, but they do not have the authority to stop tax dollars from funding infanticide.

The Commerce Clause


US CONSTITUTION
ARTICLE 1


Section 8


1: The Congress shall have Power To lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises, to pay the Debts and provide for the common Defence and general Welfare of the United States; but all Duties, Imposts and Excises shall be uniform throughout the United States;

2: To borrow Money on the credit of the United States;

3: To regulate Commerce with foreign Nations, and among the several States, and with the Indian Tribes;

4: To establish an uniform Rule of Naturalization, and uniform Laws on the subject of Bankruptcies throughout the United States;

5: To coin Money, regulate the Value thereof, and of foreign Coin, and fix the Standard of Weights and Measures;

6: To provide for the Punishment of counterfeiting the Securities and current Coin of the United States;

7: To establish Post Offices and post Roads;

8: To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries;

9: To constitute Tribunals inferior to the supreme Court;

10: To define and punish Piracies and Felonies committed on the high Seas, and Offences against the Law of Nations;

11: To declare War, grant Letters of Marque and Reprisal, and make Rules concerning Captures on Land and Water;

12: To raise and support Armies, but no Appropriation of Money to that Use shall be for a longer Term than two Years;

13: To provide and maintain a Navy;

14: To make Rules for the Government and Regulation of the land and naval Forces;

15: To provide for calling forth the Militia to execute the Laws of the Union, suppress Insurrections and repel Invasions;

16: To provide for organizing, arming, and disciplining, the Militia, and for governing such Part of them as may be employed in the Service of the United States, reserving to the States respectively, the Appointment of the Officers, and the Authority of training the Militia according to the discipline prescribed by Congress;

17: To exercise exclusive Legislation in all Cases whatsoever, over such District (not exceeding ten Miles square) as may, by Cession of particular States, and the Acceptance of Congress, become the Seat of the Government of the United States, and to exercise like Authority over all Places purchased by the Consent of the Legislature of the State in which the Same shall be, for the Erection of Forts, Magazines, Arsenals, dock-Yards, and other needful Buildings;--And

18: To make all Laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into Execution the foregoing Powers, and all other Powers vested by this Constitution in the Government of the United States, or in any Department or Officer thereof.

Two words ——general welfare —— justified abusing the Commerce Clause. Those abuses were the Court’s worst offenses until the ACA came along. Today, whenever Socialists want something the SCOTUS has only to call upon the Commerce Clause. No further justification is needed. In that sense liberals transformed O’Reilly’s loopholes into original intent. Everyone who knows the malevolence done under the Commerce Clause surely understands that the Affordable Care Act opened the door to butchers hellbent on expanding cruelty far wider than infanticide.

Regarding homosexual marriage from an average American’s perspective: Justice Scalia has it right when he calls the Court diseased:


The root error of the Court’s erroneous decisions, Scalia writes, is its “diseased” exaltation of its own role:

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Scalia extends his “diseased” metaphor as he examines, in his view, the Court’s superfluous decision to even hear the case, which he later characterizes as a “contrivance”:

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Thus, we have the image of a “diseased” court “healing” the healthy.

Overall, the image is of a ravenous (“hungry”), “diseased” Court that has infected a healthy system with its malignant decision. Rather than bringing order (or health), the Court’s decision, Scalia states later, will bring “chaos.”

Finally, You gotta love Scalia for chastising his pal Ruth Ginsburg:

Scalia’s biting sarcasm on the topic of the Court’s jurisdiction in the case is also wonderfully entertaining. He suggests, for example, that Court must be confusing the American Constitution with a “foreign” one: “The majority must have in mind one of the foreign constitutions that pronounces such primacy for its constitutional court and allows that primacy to be exercised in contexts other than a lawsuit.”

Scalia’s Literary Dissent
By Micah Mattix on 7.1.13 @ 6:08AM
The pursuit of truth in a time of diseased thought.

The American Spectator : Scalia?s Literary Dissent

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KuMXqcK4Nrg&feature=player_embedded]SC Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg ~ to Egypt: "I would not look to the US constitution" - YouTube[/ame]​
 
On Tuesday, conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh joined the hosts of Fox & Friends for a wide-ranging interview relating to international and domestic political issues. Limbaugh attacked President Barack Obama’s administration’s response to the turmoil in Egypt and the Middle East saying that the White House prefers shaping perception to affecting positive change. He then went after Republicans for focusing on the politics of immigration rather than the Affordable Care Act and noted that it was a real possibility that the GOP could lose the House in 2014.

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Asked about the political impact of ‘Obamacare,’ Limbaugh saw political opportunities for the GOP.

“I think it’s a golden opportunity for the Republicans to get back in people’s good graces and stand for something the American people actually stand for,” Limbaugh noted. “They’re using Obamacare and these exchanges to grow the Democrat party.”

Limbaugh said that the GOP is allowing themselves to be “skunked” by focusing on immigration reform. He noted that the 2014 midterms are critical because the Democrats could win back the House.

On Fox, Rush Limbaugh Tears Into ‘Sideshow’ Obama Admin, Warns GOP Will Get ‘Skunked’ In 2014
by Noah Rothman | 9:26 am, July 2nd, 2013

On Fox, Rush Limbaugh Tears Into ?Sideshow? Obama Admin, Warns GOP Will Get ?Skunked? In 2014 | Mediaite

Rush is so right.

Two positives beats bipartisanship bullcrap every time.

First positive: House Republicans should simply drop the immigration bill altogether. Don’t vote on the immigration bill in any way. Don’t debate it. Don’t talk about it on talk shows. Just drop it as though it never existed.

Let the Democrats hang themselves by denying they want amnesty for illegals followed by another wave of illegal immigrants. Do not waste time calling them liars. The public already knows the truth of it. Proof: All of the lies Marco Rubio et al. told to date did not diminish opposition to their amnesty bill by one iota.

Second positive: Concentrate on repealing the Affordable Care Act:


. . . to get back in people’s good graces and stand for something the American people actually stand for, . . .

Republicans would control the House, and the Senate, right now had they done that last year. They better do it next year or they are done for sure.

NOTE: The additional time it will take to repeal the ACA without the present Republican party is the only reason I want to save it. An additional several years of the ACA will be more painful to the country than Americans realize. The thing is not fully implemented and the pain is visible. Think what it will be in a few years with the IRS in charge.

In addition to the tens of millions of private sector voters getting ripped off by exorbitant insurance premium increases, one of the largest blocs of voters ——THE ELDERLY ON MEDICARE —— are learning what the ACA did to them.

The clincher: Democrats won’t win one congressional seat in 2014 if nine out of ten Americans who oppose Hillarycare II vote. A blowout of such magnitude would force remaining Democrats to vote to override a guaranteed presidential veto or lose their own seats in 2016.

Conservatives are onboard; so it’s only a matter of convincing Karl Rove’s Republicans. Their choice is clear. Cave in to Wall Street, or do the right thing for working Americans being punished every which way by the ACA.

NOTE: Republican candidates who vote against repeal run the risk of losing tens of millions in campaign contributions they usually get from businesses that stand to gain trillions of tax dollars from the ACA in the next two decades. The healthcare insurance industry alone expects to rake in tens of billions from the private sector through increased premiums and new customers forced into the system. All of it taken together will prop up stock prices, and enrich Wall Street brokers churning medical industry stocks.

Finally, NOT repealing the ACA is the number one priority for the Washington establishment, Wall Street, the SEIU, and the entire parasite class. They will do anything to derail repeal. I’m convinced that they have the machinery in place for rigging election results. The things Democrats got away with in 2012 were minor compared to what they will do to stop repeal in 2014. Question: Are conservatives prepared to defend their votes against the people who control the system?
 
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Boehner begins well:

The announcement tonight of the delay of part of the implementation of Obamacare prompted Speaker of the House John Boehner to release this statement,. . .

"The president's health care law is already raising costs and costing jobs. This announcement means even the Obama administration knows the 'train wreck' will only get worse. I hope the administration recognizes the need to release American families from the mandates of this law as well. This is a clear acknowledgment that the law is unworkable, and it underscores the need to repeal the law and replace it with effective, patient-centered reforms," . . .

Boehner: Obamacare 'Train Wreck,' 'Unworkable'
7:07 PM, Jul 2, 2013 • By DANIEL HALPER

Boehner: Obamacare 'Train Wreck,' 'Unworkable' | The Weekly Standard

Let’s hope the Speaker’s tough talk is not a prelude to another infamous “bipartisan compromise” which is so often the case whenever there is a ton of loot waiting to be divided among Beltway brigands. It always comes down to cutting a fat hog in the ass, or crooks walking away with empty sacks. You take it from there.

Should repeal actually come about it will be the first time Congress ever voted to reduce the government’s revenues.
 

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