THE PROGRESSIVE CONSERVATIVE, USA
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Volume XII, Issue # 48, March 17, 2010
Dr. Almon Leroy Way, Jr., Editor
Government Committed to & Acting in Accord with Conservative Principles
Ensures a Nation's Strength, Progress, & Prosperity
OBAMACARE: DEAD MAN WALKING
By Alan Caruba
IN PUSHING THE HEALTHCARE BILL, PRESIDENT OBAMA HAS SOUGHT TO IMPOSE STATISM & SOCIALISM ON THE
AMERICAN NATION, REDISTRIBUTE WEALTH, UNDERMINE CONSTITUTIONALISM, & DEPRIVE THE FIFTY STATES OF THEIR
AUTONOMY UNDER THE U.S. CONSTITUTION. IN DOING SO, OBAMA HAS UNITED THE AMERICAN PEOPLE AGAINST
HIM & HIS ADMINISTRATION.
FULL STORY:
Don’t you think, if the Democrats had the votes for Obamacare, it would be the law of the land right now?
I have been telling friends for days that it doesn’t matter if Obamacare is somehow “passed” by the U.S. House of
Representatives and sent to the White House for the President’s signature. It is as dead as Marley’s ghost.
The law will be challenged by law suits or possibly nullified because of the manner of passage and elements of its content
that require citizens to buy health insurance. That is manifestly unconstitutional.
I know the common wisdom among the Democratic Party 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.
Obamacare 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 -- comprised of Democrats, Republicans,
Libertarians, independents, and those under every other political flag, excepting the U.S. Communist and Socialist Parties --
is opposed to this 2,700 page monstrosity.
Truly, Barack Hussein Obama has brought us all together. Against him!
With regard to the member-states of the American Union, one state 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.
“The 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.”
The people. That’s us.
The people who got Prohibition repealed.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.
In his iconic novel, On the Road, Jack Kerouac (1922-1969) wrote, “This is the story of America. Everybody's doing
what they think they're supposed to do.”
That’s how the Tea Party movement exploded out of nowhere and suddenly was everywhere. It’s all those people jamming
the phones on Capital Hill, burning up its fax machines, overheating its email system. It is quintessentially American.
And, as for the states of the Union, they are all semi-autonomous republics! They have their own constitutions. And they
will fight back, too.
There isn’t a governor breathing who (a) doesn’t know his state is broke and (b) knows Obamacare will aggravate that
condition to a point where the state no longer will have any budget over which it can exercise any control, because this
“entitlement” is the ultimate deal-breaker.
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 “passed” or not.
For now, I am going to assume that it will be defeated in the U.S. House of Representatives.
Even if Obamacare passes the House and is sent to the President, Obamacare will still be a dead man walking.
© Alan Caruba, 2010
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Alan Caruba writes a daily post at http://factsnotfantasy.blogspot.com. An author, commentator and business and science writer,
he is the Founder of the National Anxiety Center, a clearinghouse for information about "scare campaigns" designed to influence
public opinion and policy.
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