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Obamacare was in the docket for three days, and the White House did a poor job defending it...
La La Land liberals are in shock, reeling from Obama White House Solicitor General's embarrassing performance. It's not his fault; he had nothing to work with.
Progressives are in a panic. After years of telling us to sit down and shut up, and deeming us unworthy of debate or explanation over Obamacare, they are now a quivering lump of molded fruity jello with nuts in it, trembling at the prospect that the Supreme Court could knock down the entire incoherent, unconstitutionally rotten edifice known as Obamacare.
Constitutional Complacency, Intellectual Sloth
It's symptomatic of a larger progressive problem. They've driven the steamroller for so long they've forgotten how to explain themselves and form cogent arguments because they haven't had to. Now, they desperately cling to last century's paternalistic model, which is breaking down and crumbling around them...
Those who believe in the blue model and want to extend it have lost their touch; the dream machines of the blue social engineers don’t sail serenely across the azure sky anymore. Think of the various carbon exchanges and environmental planetary schemes; think of high speed rail proposals like California’s $100 billion train to bankruptcy; think of Obamacare.Liberals are left sputtering wishful thinking sophistry and incoherent emotionalism in defense of Obamacare, complete with pretzel logic, grannies pushed down stairs and starving children. Here's the far-left Nation Magazine on forced redistribution:
These days the experts, “social entrepreneurs” and smart young blue twenty somethings fresh out of the Ivy League whomp up social programs with as much verve and dedication as their New Deal and Great Society predecessors, but the new Dreamliners don’t take off. At most they roll around the runway, emitting clouds of noxious smoke; wings fall off, windows pop out, turbines misfire and the tires go flat. (Walter Russell Mead)
But that is, of course, the whole point of insurance, and nothing in the Constitution forbids redistribution of resources or collective sharing of burdens. (The Nation)
Nothing in the Constitution forbids blowing up the Capitol or lighting people on fire either. The constitution enumerates the powers of the federal government, and forced redistribution is not one of them.
This is the dangerous progressive mindset: "Government may do it if you can't find a specific prohibition against it in the Constitution." That is upside-down ass-backwards.
This is the dangerous progressive mindset: "Government may do it if you can't find a specific prohibition against it in the Constitution." That is upside-down ass-backwards.
If it is not in the constitution, government may not do it, and that is why the Obamacare monstrosity is unconstitutional.
Their only other line of argumentation is tautological: They concede that government can't take iron-fisted actions like regulating entire industries and making everyone purchase something unless it is part of a larger regulatory scheme, so they create the larger scheme and then ham-handedly regulate the hell out of it.
100 years of dominance has made the progressives complacent and decadent
They've gotten sloppy. Oh, they are still dangerous, like the aging, flabby fighter who can still coldcock you if you get in his wheelhouse, and who carries a razor just in case...
Progressives have essentially told us to shut up and eat our arugula. Whatever government cooks up can be called "commerce," and they can thus regulate us all into oblivion, constitution and personal liberty be damned. This is not classical liberalism. It is the opposite, yet so-called liberals stand on their little hind legs and cheer on this statism. They are inconsistent and bereft of fundamental philosophical principles. Instead, they are ruled by emotionalism and whatever fever happens to grip their collective groupthink this week.
100 years of dominance has made the progressives complacent and decadent
They've gotten sloppy. Oh, they are still dangerous, like the aging, flabby fighter who can still coldcock you if you get in his wheelhouse, and who carries a razor just in case...
Progressives have essentially told us to shut up and eat our arugula. Whatever government cooks up can be called "commerce," and they can thus regulate us all into oblivion, constitution and personal liberty be damned. This is not classical liberalism. It is the opposite, yet so-called liberals stand on their little hind legs and cheer on this statism. They are inconsistent and bereft of fundamental philosophical principles. Instead, they are ruled by emotionalism and whatever fever happens to grip their collective groupthink this week.
When they hijack the state and perpetrate drive-by shootings on our liberties, it's all good to them. It's for our own good, for the good of the collective, as they blather on about non-existent social contracts. But when rightwingers move the levers of federal power for their own agenda, it elicits an ear-spitting chorus of indignant howls from these same malefactors.
Knocking down the entire rotten Obamacare structure and telling Harry and the Pelosicrats to read the Constitution and start over would be an act of judicial restraint, since there is no severability clause. Obamacare is a stinking, unconstitutional affront to everything this nation was built upon.
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Knocking down the entire rotten Obamacare structure and telling Harry and the Pelosicrats to read the Constitution and start over would be an act of judicial restraint, since there is no severability clause. Obamacare is a stinking, unconstitutional affront to everything this nation was built upon.
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What does Individual Mandate have to do with Free Riders?
El Lay Times: Bad Omen
CNS - Justice Breyer
Court Likely to Overturn Obamacare
Powerful Objections to the Individual Mandate
Justices Poised to Strike Down Entire Law
Scalia - Reading the Bill Cruel and Unusual Punishment
What a Doctor Knows About Obamacare
Democrats in Disarray
Can Democrats Recover?
El Lay Times: Bad Omen
CNS - Justice Breyer
Court Likely to Overturn Obamacare
Powerful Objections to the Individual Mandate
Justices Poised to Strike Down Entire Law
Scalia - Reading the Bill Cruel and Unusual Punishment
What a Doctor Knows About Obamacare
Democrats in Disarray
Can Democrats Recover?
