Is a federal mandate to purchase health insurance Constitutional? Ruth Marcus says it is.
Marcus’ argument rests on two powers given to Congress: the power to tax, and the power to regulate interstate commerce. Looking first at the Commerce Clause, which has been stretched beyond all recognition, she relies on [...]
Never thought a Republican primary would turn on who supports Obamacare, but that’s the way it’s going for the 8th Senate district race between Rosemary Wilson and Jeff McWater$.
“Wilson accused McWaters of favoring mandated health insurance for all Americans, a charge he did not deny.
A Wilson [...]
What happens when you read the ObamaCare bill, specifically the one coming out of the USSA Senate?
We learn just how bad it really is.
It isn't just that this bill will create new citizenship mandates, eliminate freedom of choice and liberty, or even jail people for making personal legal choices,' [...]
I’ll say this for Daniel Akaka (D., Hawaii), at least he’s honest in admitting there’s no Constitutional authority for ObamaCare:
(CNSNews.com) – Sen. Daniel Akaka (D-Hawaii) says he is “not aware” of the Constitution giving Congress the authority to make individuals purchase health insurance, as the health care bills in [...]
Mason Rayner, son of my esteemed colleague Bob Rayner, asks a good question: Why, exactly, are young people so supportive of Barack Obama when his policies—an insurance mandate aimed at dragooning the young into supporting the old, massive deficits the young will be paying off [...]
Just when you thought that Health Care Reform could not get any more Draconian :
Today, Ranking Member of the House Ways and Means Committee Dave Camp (R-MI) released a letter from the non-partisan Joint Committee on Taxation (JCT) confirming that the failure to comply with the individual mandate to buy [...]
Yet more lovely details from the House health care bill:
Today, Ranking Member of the House Ways and Means Committee Dave Camp (R-MI) released a letter from the non-partisan Joint Committee on Taxation (JCT) confirming that the failure to comply with the individual mandate to buy health insurance contained in [...]
Via Kevin at The Liberty Papers:
On Saturday at 6PM, the Democrats plan to bring Obamacare for a vote on the House floor. Obamacare contains:
* A government run public option which will eventually take over our healthcare
* Higher taxes on individuals
* A mandate that [...]
They may have won an historic victory on Tuesday, but it doesn’t look like Virginia Republicans are letting it get to their head:
RICHMOND — Despite winning the governor’s race by a 17-percentage point blowout, Virginia Republicans insisted Wednesday that they had gained no broad mandate and would make their [...]
Despite a 17% margin, newly elected Bob McDonnell pledged to govern the way he campaigned and to steer towards the center. He and others have added that they have no mandate.
According to the Washington Post:
The state’s Republicans have recaptured the governor’s office after eight years [...]
Gov-elect Bob McDonnell should be commended on a solid win, but Republicans shouldn’t get too excited.
Without a doubt, McDonnell and Virginia Republicans have a mandate, a fact to which state Democrats should play close attention. But no one should overestimate exactly what that mandate is. Exit [...]
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The real question now, with the margin of victory as large as it is, will McDonnell have a mandate?
Contests serve as warning to Democrats: It’s not 2008 anymore
The Washington Post
On Tuesday, Virginia moved [...]
What a night . . .
-I'll have much more later tomorrow, but things have now changed. Republicans have figured out how to win in Northern Virginia and now have a governor with a greater mandate that any previous governor in history.
-Don't tell me this isn't about Obama. Republicans [...]
Gov.-elect Bob McDonnell’s margin of victory has surpassed that of Gov. George Allen’s 1993 win, making him the most popularly elected governor of Virginia since it became a competitive two-party state 40 years ago.
There is one word to describe that.
MANDATE. [...] “Pelosi’s press spokesman, Nadeam Elshami, clarified for the record that asking the speaker of the House to articulate the Constitutional authority for the [individual] health care mandate is not a serious question.”
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How will we pay for the mandates in the health care reform bill introduced by Nancy Pelosi Thursday?
