{"id":442014,"date":"2010-03-18T07:01:47","date_gmt":"2010-03-18T11:01:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/papundits.wordpress.com\/?p=32769"},"modified":"2010-03-18T07:01:47","modified_gmt":"2010-03-18T11:01:47","slug":"obamacare-dead-man-walking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/442014","title":{"rendered":"Obamacare: Dead Man Walking"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>By Alan Caruba\"\"<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Don\u2019t you think, if the Democrats had the votes for Obamacare, it would be the law of the land right now?<\/p>\n

I have been telling friends for days that it doesn\u2019t matter if Obamacare is somehow \u201cpassed\u201d by the House and sent to the White House for the President\u2019s signature. It is as dead as Marley\u2019s ghost.<\/p>\n

The law will be challenged by law suits or possibly nullified because of the manner of passage and elements of its content that require<\/em> citizens to buy health insurance. That is manifestly unconstitutional.<\/p>\n

I know the common wisdom among the Democrat denizens of Washington, D.C. is that once Obamacare becomes law the great heaving mass of ignorant and unwashed citizens will quickly forget about the whole thing. They are wrong.
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\nObamacare is the equivalent of the Confederate States declaring secession and the first shots fired at Fort Sumter. That time it took a war to restore the Union, but this time a huge majority of people, Democrats, Republicans, Libertarians, independents, and every other political flag other than the Communist and Socialist Parties USA is opposed to this 2,700 page monstrosity.<\/p>\n

Truly, Barack Hussein Obama has brought us all together. Against him!<\/p>\n

With regard to the States, one after another is passing resolutions and laws to exempt themselves from the authority of Obamacare and it is likely to reignite and vivify the Tenth Amendment as nothing has in decades.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.\u201d<\/p>\n

The people. That\u2019s us.<\/p>\n

The people who got Prohibition repealed. The people who finally granted suffrage to women. The people who volunteer to be in our Armed Forces. The people in our police and fire departments. The people in the Red Cross and the Salvation Army. The people who drive trucks providing goods to the rest of us. The people who marry and raise kids. You know who they are. They are your neighbors, your friends, your co-workers.<\/p>\n

In his iconic novel, \u201cOn the Road\u201d, Jack Kerouac (1922-1969) wrote, \u201cThis is the story of America. Everybody’s doing what they think they’re supposed to do.\u201d<\/p>\n

That\u2019s how the Tea Party movement exploded out of nowhere and suddenly was everywhere. It\u2019s all those people jamming the phones on Capital Hill, burning up its fax machines, overheating its email system. It is quintessentially American.<\/p>\n

And, as for the States, they are all sovereign republics! They have their own constitutions. And they will fight back, too.<\/p>\n

There isn\u2019t a governor breathing who (a) doesn\u2019t know his State is broke and (b) knows Obamacare will aggravate that condition to a point where they no longer will have any budget over which they can exercise any control because this \u201centitlement\u201d is the ultimate deal-breaker.<\/p>\n

So let Madame Pelosi babble away about leaping over fences and parachuting in as if America was some enemy nation to conquer. It does not matter whether she gets Obamacare \u201cpassed\u201d or not.<\/p>\n

For now, I am going to assume that it will be defeated in the House.<\/p>\n

Even if Obamacare passes the House and is sent to the President, Obamacare will still be a dead man walking.<\/p>\n

\u00a9 Alan Caruba, 2010<\/p>\n

Alan Caruba<\/a> writes a daily post at Warning Signs<\/a>. A business and science writer, he is the founder of The National Anxiety Center<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/em>.<\/p>\n

Read more thought provoking articles at Warning Signs<\/a><\/p>\n

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