I am pretty busy this week with other stuff (to include the unexplainable 7 game winning streak by the Stros and my winning streak on my PS3 NCAA football dynasty) so I apologize if my writing has been a bit blah. It seems the same fights are on-going and I am sure they will continue until the liberals lose control of Congress. One of those is Obamacare (I believe the discharge petition currently sits at 170). I know Obama hoped it would become an after thought after they pushed it through Congress, but it is not going away, and this time Obama and his ultra liberal supporters cannot simply go after ‘backwards rednecks of the tea party movement’. They will have to face the real constitutional issues of the legislation in the courts. Eric Holder has already asked for the Virginia lawsuit against Obamacare to be thrown out, but that wishful thinking was denied already so the lawsuit will continue as those from over a dozen other states. This week Missouri voters also sent the administration a message by voting to prohibit the individual mandate by a score of 71% of the vote.
But even without the constitutionality issues that exist, who can honestly look at this legislation and think that it is a good idea. Rep Kevin Brady and his team have put together a chart that illustrates the complexity of just a portion of the new expanded system. You should check it out if you have not already. If you remember they put out a similar chart during the debate. This one is updated to show what is actually in the legislation that passed. Maybe even more frightening than that chart is the report from the Congressional Research Service. Here is one line from their report…”The precise number of new entities that will ultimately be created pursuant to PPACA is currently unknowable”. Pretty crazy considering the report is called “New Entities Created Pursuant to the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act”. If a research service cannot determine what Congress has created, how will Congress hold them accountable. That is what I would call an uncontrollable expansion of the federal government led by bureaucrats…just as Charles Merriam would have liked it I guess. It is all very frustrating but I have confidence that Obama’s plan will fall apart and be dismantled just as I have confidence that the liberal majority will be no longer after November.
Before I go, I would be remise if I did not mention that a Kagan confirmation vote is coming upon us. I would also be remise if I did not mention the 5 Republicans who are unexplainably supporting her nomination. Those would be Susan Collins of Maine, Olympia Snowe of Maine, Lindsay Graham of South Carolina, Judd Gregg of New Hampshire, and Richard Lugar of Indiana. I have written several posts on Kagan. If I can understand that she is dangerous to our Country and its founding principles, then I know these people should understand. Their only justification can be that they are wolves in sheep’s clothing, even if they are not educated enough in our founding principles to understand that they are. I plan on writing them to let them know my disgust for their anti-conservative position and I would encourage you to do the same. To put into perspective of Obamacare, do they really think Kagan would consider it unconstitutional when she dodged questions on whether or not Congress could force people to eat their vegetables.
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