According to Ilya Somin of the Richmond Times-Dispatch: When 21 states and several private groups initiated lawsuits challenging the constitutionality of the Obama health care law earlier this year, critics denounced the suits as frivolous political grandstanding. But it is increasingly clear that the plaintiffs have a serious case with a real chance of victory. [...]
Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli sent the following letter about the ObamaCare court challenge: Dear Fellow Virginians, As most of you know, today was Virginia's day in court to defend liberty against the individual mandate contained in the healthcare bill. Virginia's is the first state case to be heard on the merits of its arguments regarding constitutionality [...]
That’s right, my fellow Americans, WE will again choose our nation’s path in just a few weeks. We will awaken the morning of Wednesday, November 3rd to the consequences of our individual decisions, and I’m not talking about the decision we make in the polling booth. I’m talking about the decision we make regarding our [...]
And so begins the inevitable playing of favorites that comes with all government regulation: Nearly a million workers won't get a consumer protection in the U.S. health reform law meant to cap insurance costs because the government exempted their employers. Thirty companies and organizations, including McDonald's (MCD) and Jack in the Box (JACK), won't be [...]
A favorite trick of the ruling class is to sneak laws that benefit them at the expense of the public into legislation that has nothing to do with the sneaky new law. One such law regulates how citizens can buy and sell gold. It removes restrictions on government power while restricting the freedom of the [...]
I’m not surprised that support for ObamaCare continues to plunge and that it’s a major problem for Democrats who voted for it – I’ve posted about this several times already – but even I underestimated just how much Americans despise this bill and tie their votes to where candidates stand on this single issue. The [...]
While Senator Jim Webb (D-Va.) has proven to be a solid, left-wing voter so far, (ObamaCare, Financial Reform, etc.), it looks like he may be trying to slip out of lockstep and tiptoe to the right this fall, along with some other fellow Democrats who fear an increasingly angry electorate. Blogger Jay Hefflin notes in a September [...]
The lead editorial in the Wall Street Journal on Monday, Sept. 13, was titled “Sebelius Has a List: Political thuggery from HHS.” In slightly abridged form, it reads: ….The White House was always going to blame insurance companies for any cost increases, even when its own policies cause them. Witness Kathleen Sebelius's Thursday letter to [...]
Two things from Rep. Eric Cantor. First is an appearance on The O’Reilly Factor that I thought I’d post, in case you missed it last week. Laura Ingraham filled in for O’Reilly and pressed Rep. Cantor on his commitment to, among other things, repealing ObamaCare. This is an issue we’ve been highlighting on this blog, [...]
From Real Clear Politics, this article shows us our future under ObamaCare, if we fail to repeal it. This has already been tried before with disastrous results, both in Canada and Massachusetts. The author writes With health care now effectively "free" -- that is, paid for by other taxpayers -- Canadians began visiting the doctor [...]
In case you need further evidence that the Tea Party movement and the enthusiasm for repealing ObamaCare aren’t shirking, but instead growing, consider the following: "The citizens of the Show-Me State don't want Washington involved in their health care decisions," said Sen. Jane Cunningham, R-Chesterfield, one of the sponsors of the legislation that put Proposition [...]
The federal government's motion to dismiss Virginia's healthcare lawsuit was DENIED today. The Health Care Freedom Act we helped pass as a Tea Party movement will have its day in court! Great victory today, but the battle has just begun. Here are some portions from the judge's ruling: While this case raises a host of complex constitutional [...]