Health Care SNAFU: Leftist Media Trying to Muffle That More Americans Want ObamaCare Repealed, Judge Ruled Parts of Bill Unconstitutional… Obama’s Approval Takes Dump
Posted By Vicki McClure Davidson on December 15, 2010
More Americans than ever despise ObamaCare and want it repealed, and a Virginia judge has ruled that part of the Democrat party’s horrible, power-grabbing, trillion-dollar health care bill is unconstitutional. Left-wing media is trying desperately to not over-publicize that information. They’d rather tear Sarah Palin apart with a non-story about her having her hair fixed by daughter Bristol while on a humanitarian visit to Haiti.
Where would Dear Leader be without the left-wing media covering for him time and time again on all that is heinously wrong with ObamaCare? Probably still voting “present” in the Illinois Senate, or voted out by now for his naked incompetence.
From Media Research Center, ABC Poll Finds Health Care Law Is Massively Unpopular, Network Offers Scant Coverage:
A December 13 ABC News/Washington Post poll found Barack Obama’s health law at a new low in popularity, but Monday’s World News and Tuesday’s Good Morning America offered only meager coverage of the development.
Released the same day a Virginia judge ruled part of ObamaCare to be unconstitutional, the only mention on Monday came when Jake Tapper briefly highlighted the findings. At the end of a segment on the court ruling, he explained, “And, Diane, an ABC News/Washington Post poll out today shows the health care law at its lowest level of popularity ever. Just 43 percent support with 52 percent opposition, just weeks away from the Republican House taking office.”
On Tuesday’s Good Morning America, George Stephanopoulos talked to his friend and former Clinton White House colleague James Carville. Stephanopoulos allowed, “And we have a new poll out just yesterday, showing that public support for health care is the lowest it’s ever been.”
Referencing the judge’s ruling and the incoming Republican House majority, he worried, “How much time and energy can the President and his team afford to invest in this fight?”
The poll was not mentioned again on the show during subsequent news briefs.
Reminder… if Team Obama and his statist minions can mandate that all Americans must buy ObamaCare, anything goes thereafter. Nothing’s off the table — the barn door is opened and the government can order Americans to purchase anything it so desires — shredding the Constitution to bits and robbing Americans of most of their constitutional freedoms. The latest ridiculous spin from Team Obama is that ObamaCare is like civil rights or something.
VA Attorney General: If We Lose, Government ‘Will Be Able To Order’ Us To Buy Anything
From NewsMax, Cuccinelli: Defeating Obamacare Critical to ‘Constitution and Liberty’:
Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli tells Newsmax that the defeat of Obamacare and its individual mandate is “critical to the preservation of the Constitution and liberty.”
Cuccinelli successfully argued the case that led to a federal judge’s ruling on Monday that the individual mandate — requiring Americans to buy healthcare insurance or pay a penalty — is unconstitutional.
The Republican attorney general says other parts of the healthcare reform bill regarding Medicaid and Medicare also may be found unconstitutional, asserts that the “incredible uncertainty” about the bill’s ultimate legal status is affecting the entire U.S economy, and rules out a run for the U.S. Senate in 2012.
Even as Cuccinelli’s victory is hailed as a pivotal point in the fight against Obamacare, he cites another potentially decisive case: the Florida-based suit of 20 states in which arguments will be heard beginning Thursday.
Cuccinelli was elected to his current post in November 2009 after serving as a Republican state senator in Virginia.
In an exclusive interview with Newsmax.TV on Tuesday, he says the key from the ruling in Virginia Monday “is the constitutional findings. There were two: the individual mandate, and the federal government’s fallback argument that the penalty for not buying their health insurance was a tax.
“That’s what they argued, because Congress has the power to tax. They tried to save the statute that way. And this judge, as three other judges before him, rejected that argument as well.”
President Barack Obama and the Democrats in Congress did a “flip-flop” on the tax issue, Cuccinelli says.
“There’s no question that the proponents of the bill argued while the bill was in Congress, ‘This is not a tax, this is not a tax.’ They were emphatic. And then we sued them on the individual mandate and they dumped on us for how unlikely [our case] was to succeed, until they started reading our arguments and a few weeks in they started to realize, ‘Oh my gosh, they might win this case.’ So they started looking for a fallback argument, and the fallback was to argue that the penalty is a tax.
“The judge noted, as other judges have noted, that it’s fruitless, that no judge in the country has ruled in the government’s favor on that. In fact they’re oh-for-four, including with Clinton appointees, Bush appointees. The federal government has lost every single court case on the tax argument. So that’s going nowhere.
“This whole case is going to come down to the individual mandate and whether or not Congress has the power to order us to all buy a product. Realize this isn’t just about health insurance and healthcare, it’s about liberty. Because if they can order us to buy health insurance, they can order us to buy cars, they can order us to buy books, they can order us to buy guns or asparagus.
“There’s no limit as to how this power could be exercised, and it’s critical to the preservation of the Constitution and liberty that we prevail in this case.”
Howard Dean, former head of the Democratic National Committee, has said that the individual mandate is not an essential part of the healthcare reform law and was added only to persuade the health insurance companies to sign on.Cuccinelli takes issue with that. “Let’s look at the federal government’s own argument, in which they called it the linchpin of the legislation,” he tells Newsmax.
“That was their word, the linchpin. So obviously they think it’s critical. And in their own briefs, they admitted that the insurance provisions of the bill cannot survive without the individual mandate because the insurance industry would collapse. This is their financing mechanism.”
What you have to know about the entire Obamacare debate, folks, and even about the ruling of Judge Hudson yesterday is that this is essentially about liberty. Do politicians in Washington get to tell us how to live? Including what we have to buy, what services we have to purchase, or do we get to tell them what to do and what we do or do or not want? This is about liberty. This is about free will. And this ruling highlights this. Health care here is almost beside the point. Health care is being used as a Trojan horse to take down the nation. Do not think otherwise. It is not about health care. Just like the Obama economic policy is not about jobs. It’s all about taking down this nation, for whatever reason, Obama’s got a chip on his shoulder, he’s always been hateful country, he’s been taught to be hateful, doesn’t matter.
Look at what’s being debated here and everybody’s celebrating. The regime was gonna tell everybody they had to buy health insurance simply because they’re gonna get health treatment over the course of their lives, they’re gonna have to buy it. The Constitution says no. The government doesn’t have that power. This regime is arguing in court that it does, and frightfully there are a lot of Democrat appointed judges who agree with the notion this is perfectly within the government’s purview to order citizens what to buy, what they must have. And yesterday with Michelle Obama coming out saying it’s us, we’re gonna determine what your kids eat before school, during school, after school, and at dinner, because you can’t trust the parents to do that. So essentially this is about liberty and freedom and a Trojan horse that’s designed to take the country down. We can get caught up in the argument, the commerce clause. What we’re really arguing about here is does some politician, some president in a far away capital get to tell us what we must spend our money on, much less money that we would otherwise have if this guy weren’t the president.
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There’s now a concerted media attack on Ken Cuccinelli, the attorney general of Virginia. It’s totally predictable. The media is ganging up on the guy, and he’s hanging in firm. He’s hanging tight. Now, one little observation here. If the requirement that everybody has to buy insurance is struck down but the rest of the law stands, then insurance companies are gonna go out of business even faster. Remember when the insurance companies went along with this at the outset and we were all scratching our heads? It turns out that they were promised a brand-new pool of customers: The healthy! Everybody was going to be forced to buy a policy.
And, of course, looking out for themselves, they said, “Cool! All right, this is finally worth supporting, especially with no preexisting conditions. Hey, we’re gonna go to town for a couple years.” You know, they said, “Okay, we know we’re targeted, but we’re gonna get in while the getting’s good and we’ll take out of it what we can get,” but if this thing stands and people are no longer forced to buy a policy, then there’s no reason for the private sector insurance industry to stay all that pepped up for it.
For those who are keeping track… Pres. Obama’s presidential approval index has been going up and down (mostly down) for months. It has worsened since yesterday’s minus 18. It is now minus 19– not the first time POTUS has been at negative 19, and it most assuredly won’t be the last.
Rasmussen Reports Presidential Approval Index for Dec. 15, 2010 - now at minus 19
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