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House Republicans filed a brief last week in support of a legal challenge
against ObamaCare that argues the law
imposes billions of dollars in new taxes but did not originate in the House, as
tax bills must under the Constitution.
Rep. Trent Franks (R-Ariz.) spearheaded the effort by filing a "friend of the court" brief on Friday with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit. That brief argued that ObamaCare violated the Origination Clause of the Constitution, which holds that all bills for raising revenue "shall originate in the House."
Rep. Trent Franks (R-Ariz.) spearheaded the effort by filing a "friend of the court" brief on Friday with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit. That brief argued that ObamaCare violated the Origination Clause of the Constitution, which holds that all bills for raising revenue "shall originate in the House."
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Oh, Bill Clinton. Just as the Obama
White House was scrambling to keep Democrats from jumping ship on the double
disaster of ObamaCare – people thrown off their insurance because of an
ideological decision who are now unable to buy new policies because of
technical incompetence – the former president thought he ought to offer his two
cents.
“I personally believe even if it
takes a change in the law, the president should honor the commitment the
federal government made to those people and let them keep what they got,” the
Big Dog told Ozy, the new liberal news site launched by some of the Clintons’
friends and allies.
But the current Democrat in the
White House didn’t honor that commitment on purpose. This is the plan. It’s
only because his administration is bad at the Internet that the millions of
disrupted policies are even being treated as a problem by the administration.
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The fifth and sixth years of a presidency often end up being high noon for judicial politics. This time the first confrontation concerns the powerful D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals, the venue for many important regulatory issues and a training ground for future Supreme Court justices.
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid says he intends to force a vote this week on the nomination of Cornelia Pillard to the court. Pillard’s is one of three nominations Republicans are opposing. They say the Democrats are trying to pack the court. The Democrats say they’re just trying to fill vacancies and argue that the Republicans’ behavior is so abusive they’ll restrict the filibuster if it continues.
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As the list of Democrats distancing
themselves from Barack Obama and his so-called "Affordable Care Act"
continues to grow, Obama imparted this remarkable observation:
"When we buy IT services
generally, it is so bureaucratic and so cumbersome that a whole bunch of it
doesn't work or ends up being way over cost. ... Once we get this particular
website fixed they're going to be some lessons learned we can apply to the
federal government in general."
Evidently, Obama is conjunctionally
challenged when he says, "it doesn't work OR ends up being way over
cost." The correct conjunction in this case is, of course,
"and." But his claim that "cumbersome bureaucracy" is to blame is entirely accurate, and that is
true across the full spectrum of our bloated central bureaucracy. Other
key Obama
administration officials agree.
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I remember how the critics attacked
George Bush and his administration after the FEMA response to Hurricane
Katrina. Much of the anger was probably deserved.
But how does that look now?
Obamacare is not a botched response
to a disaster. It is
the disaster.
Right now it looks like thousands of
people believe they have been signed up for Medicaid that are in for a
nasty surprise when they go to the doctor. Millions are losing their insurance.
Many
millions more, the employees of small businesses, will lose their insurance in
2014. Many are discovering insurance is less affordable as a result of the
law. The
Disaster!
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A man known as Josh Billings, one of
the leading American humorists during the second half of the nineteenth
century, once said this:
“It ain’t what a man don’t
know that makes him a fool…It’s all the things he does
know…that just ain’t so.”
I think we can heartily agree that
it’s a problem when a man or woman takes action based on beliefs that are
flawed. It’s really a recipe for disaster.
The same is true for a culture and
its government. No matter how much we might believe something to be true,
if
we take action based on things that turn out NOT to be true, the results are
usually very bad.
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1.
Obama
extends Patriot Act without reform
2.
Obama
sends more troops to Afghanistan
3.
Obama
signs NDAA 2011
4.
Obama
appeals the Federal Court decision that “indefinite detention” is
unconstitutional
5.
Obama
uses his Presidential Drone “Kill List” to kill American cleric without trial
and his 16 year old son in a separate strike
6.
Continues
to approve drone strikes that kill thousands of innocent civilians including
women and children in Pakistan, Yemen, and other countries that do not want the
US intervening
7.
Protects
Bush’s war crimes as State Secrets
8.
Support
for countries use of child soldiers
9.
Appointing
Monsanto, GMO company with multiple unsafe practice violations, lobbyist to
head the FDA
10. Continuing prohibition and Federal
attacks on legal marijuana dispensaries
11. Protects AG Holder from
Congressional “Fast and Furious” gun walking investigations
12. Bringing no charges against bank
executives that misused bailouts
13. Engaging in a war on whistleblowers
14. Grants immunity to CIA torturers
15. Quadrupling the numbers of
warrantless wiretapping since Bush era
16. Continuing military tribunals he
vowed to end Failing to close Gitmo
17. Allowed innocent man to die at Gitmo
18. Violating the War Powers Act of 1973
19. Signed Anti-protest law
20. Deported more immigrants than any
other president
21. Increasing Drug War budget
22. Defends raids on Amish raw milk
farmers
23. Granting the FBI access to private
electronic communication without warrant
24. Building an even more intrusive TSA
25. Says it’s legal to track individuals
by pinpointing their cellphone without warrant
26. Renewing FISA and NSA’s unregulated
spying and banking of all wireless communication
27. Appeals SCOTUS ruling that
warrantless installation of tracking devices on cars is unconstitutional
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