Lose-Lose Decision
This is a day of tremendous concern for the American people. It truly is a lose-lose decision by the U.S. Supreme Court.
For the vast majority of Americans, if you have health insurance that you like, you are either going to pay more for it or lose it. If you do not have it, you will have to buy insurance even if you do not want it or pay an excessive penalty (tax).
We are also going to add almost $2 trillion to our already staggering federal debt.
This ruling does not change the fact that the Affordable Care Act (a.k.a., Obamacare) is bad law and is going to hurt the American people. It needs to be repealed.
On March 8, 2011 a bill was brought up by John Boehner for a vote in the House of Representatives. This was one of the early bills brought to a vote by the new Republican House Speaker. The bill, if eventually passed into law, would have expanded Obama Care.
http://www.redstate.com/russvought/2011/03/09/house-leadership-let-obamacare-expansion-pass/
This day in 2011 was the day our republic died. The significance of this bill was that it exposed a willingness on the part of John Boehner and the House establishment REPUBLICANS to actually vote to EXPAND the very program they were elected by the American people a mere 4 months earlier to “repeal, replace, or defund”.
Two essential questions need to be addressed regarding this vote:
1) Why in the world did John Boehner even bring this bill to a vote? (Was this a payback for a previous political deal?)
2) How did our respective Republican representatives vote?
95 establishment REPUBLICANS supported this bill. Sadly for Missouri the Congressional Record shows that with the exception of Billy Long the entire Missouri Republican delegation voted FOR the bill. Among those casting a “yea” vote from Missouri was now establishment Senate candidate Todd Akin.
http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2011/roll164.xml
This vote was a canary in a coal mine. It should have served as an early indication to the American people that the Republican House we had just ushered in to power in 2010 had neither the political will nor the courage to stand on principle and fight to do whatever it took to stop Obama Care in its tracks. This lack of political will was later demonstrated throughout 2011 when this same Republican House cut deals with the Democrats to pass a series of CRs to fund the government through FY12; deals that increased our debt while funding early Obama Care programs, Planned Parenthood, the EPA, and a list of agencies and departments as long as Todd Akin’s arm that all Republicans will be campaigning against between now and November 6. Pledges and promises from any Republican who voted the Obama Care expansion bill or any of the ensuing CRs (the CR votes implicate Billy Long as well) should be taken with a grain of salt in light of their voting records in 2011.
Contrary to the opinion of some, John Roberts did not kill our republic with his ruling on June 28 2012. It had been dead for over a year at that point, since March 8 2011 if not before then. We just didn’t realize it. Are we awake yet?
Comment by Gravelyvoice Jim — July 1, 2012 @ 5:07 a.m.