Obamacare Upheld

34 comments, 312 views, posted 3:25 pm 28/06/2012 in News by thecrookedman
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Supreme Court upholds Obama health care law
By David Jackson, USA TODAY

The Supreme Court upheld President Obama's health care law today in a splintered, complex opinion that gives Obama a major election-year victory.

Basically. the justices said that the individual mandate -- the requirement that most Americans buy health insurance or pay a fine -- is constitutional as a tax.

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10:30 pm 28/06/2012

Quaektem

Quote by backroom:

So why didn't the R's support the original proposal?
You know... The one that they had been in support of for something like 15 years previous.

I agree. I, on the other hand, never supported that plan.

Quote by backroom:

If W had had the nuts to propose it 2 years earlier it would have passed with bipartisan support.

Considering how much 'bipartisan support' W got, I doubt it... but it would have fit well along side the other horrendous expansions of government he got passed. Dems still bitch about the Medicare Prescription expansion he passed, and that's right up their ally.

Quote by backroom:

Be a twat...
You know as well as I do that if single payer was proposed by ANYBODY ON EITHER SIDE it would pass in a New York minute and the individual mandate would be history.

I would prefer it to what's in store actually...

Quote by backroom:

But it's not the D's blocking that. It's not the D's who have said nothing will move through the House before the election. (apparently except Republican attempts to embarass the administration) It's not the D's who have changed their stance from "repeal" to "replace"

House to Vote to Repeal ObamaCare Again July 11

Quote by backroom:

If they had thought any further than the next election cycle they just might have made out in the long run.

Funny, last I checked the Democrats have lost almost every significant election since Obamacare has passed...

Bottom line though, Republicans need a super majority in both houses of Congress as well as the Presidency to repeal or replace anything. That is not going to happen so they are going to wave the issue around like a bloody shirt to get re-elected. Had Obamacare failed the Democrats would be doing the same thing.

10:38 pm 28/06/2012

griffin

Quote by marksyzm:

griffin, the repubs got pretty much everything they wanted into this law.

Ahem. Read what I said earlier. "Neither the Democrats nor the Republicans could give a flying fuck about the people they represent."

10:39 pm 28/06/2012

backroom

Quote by Quaektem:

House to Vote to Repeal ObamaCare Again July 11

combined with the contempt vote on Holder and you have nothing moving...

Quote by backroom:

except Republican attempts to embarass the administration

Thank you for agreeing with me and providing evidence.

2:29 am 29/06/2012

Quaektem

Quote by backroom:

combined with the contempt vote on Holder and you have nothing moving...

Oh, you mean that 255 to 67 bi-partisan vote?

Because investigating a program that gave guns to Mexican crime-lords and then lost track of them has no merit Seriously, this isn't getting a BJ in the Oval office, or even lying under oath... people died!

2:32 am 29/06/2012

Quaektem

Quote by backroom:

Thank you for agreeing with me and providing evidence.

Your welcome... ? I was actually agreeing with that point. Dems did it to Nixon and Ford, Repubs did it to Carter, Dems did it to Regan and H.W., Repubs did it to Clinton, Dems did it to W., Republicans are doing it to Obama.

Republicans must be racist.

10:10 am 29/06/2012

marksyzm

Fair comment, my thoughts exactly

http://www.mittromney.com/issues/courts-constitution

Read the first line of the last paragraph

11:52 am 29/06/2012

Quaektem

Yup, and that goes back as far as FDR who tried to stack the court in favor of his own policies.

1:22 pm 29/06/2012

griffin

Quote by Quaektem:

Yup, and that goes back as far as FDR who tried to stack the court in favor of his own policies.

He actually wanted to expand the court to make sure the stacking stuck, so to speak. Another constitutional scholar like the current commandeer in chief.

3:29 pm 29/06/2012

backroom

Quote by marksyzm:

Read the first line of the last paragraph

You mean...

Quote by mittromney.com:

As president, Mitt will nominate judges in the mold of Chief Justice Roberts and Justices Scalia, Thomas, and Alito.

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