Barack Obama was feted by many as a messiah. His supporters compared him to Jesus.
He even equated himself to Superman, saying at a dinner that he had been “born on Krypton and sent here … to save the planet Earth.” The remark was presented as a joke, but the effect of Obama’s ego is no laughing matter.
Now, just over a year into his term, his legislative agenda lies in ruins. Despite poll after poll showing that Americans’ main priority is jobs, the president has focused on taking over the U.S. healthcare system.
Observing the wreckage, noted political pundit Charlie Cook candidly told Politico, “I think choosing to take a Captain Ahab-like approach to healthcare — I’m going to push for this even in the worst downturn since the Great Depression — is roughly comparable to Bush’s decision to go to war [in Iraq], It basically destroyed the first year of a presidency.”
What a fall, from “Super Hero” to obsessed Captain Ahab chasing his great white whale.
To save his whale, Obama and his legislative allies Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi are resorting to bare knuckled politics. The aptly named “nuclear option,” a classic piece of legislative trickery involving the reconciliation fast-track, which he denounced while campaigning, has become his final option.
Rather than a white whale, we should call ObamaCare his white elephant. Even if it passes, most knowledgeable legal scholars believe it will be ruled unconstitutional by the Supreme Court.
Matt Patterson, in an analysis prepared for the National Center for Public Policy Research, says the bill is unconstitutional for multiple reasons: “Both the House and Senate versions of ObamaCare contain penalty taxes on Americans who do not have government-approved health insurance, the so-called ‘individual mandate.’ Such a tax would function as a direct, or capitation, tax, as opposed to a tax on activity, such as excise or income taxes, and would therefore fall outside Congress’ authority to tax income granted by the 16th Amendment to the Constitution.”
The Constitution places strict restrictions on Congress’ power to lay capitation taxes under Article I, Sec. 9, which reads “No Capitation, or other direct, Tax shall be laid, unless in Proportion to the Census or Enumeration herein before directed to be taken.”
Exemptions for some people built into the Senate bill’s individual mandate tax would make it impossible for ObamaCare to meet this constitutional standard.
Patterson summarizes this way, “Some of the finest legal minds in the country have concluded that the enforcement provisions of ObamaCare’s individual mandate would violate the both spirit and the letter of the U.S. Constitution. Apparently, President Obama and members of Congress think they are smarter than these scholars — and smarter than the authors of the Constitution.”
The penalties for following Obama on his search for Moby Dick will be brutal for Democrats in Congress. With over 60 percent of Americans opposed to Obamacare the fall campaign could turn into a referendum on this unwise scheme. Senior citizens are understandably upset by the massive $400 Billion-plus cuts in Medicare mandated in the plan. Democrats are predicted to lose dozens of congressional seats, and they could even lose their Senate or House majorities.
Even if the Democrats don’t lose their majorities, and the new Congress doesn’t have the votes to repeal ObamaCare, the Supreme Court is likely to do the job. And they should; the bill isn’t just unconstitutional, full of new taxes, too big and unmanageable — it is un-American.
By Floyd and Mary Beth Brown, Expose Obama
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Super idiot.
I am definitely opposed to Obama's Health Care Reform. I oppose Government having that much control over it;s citizens. Freedom of Choice in this matter is an individual choice not a government choice. I cannot fathom Obama's neglect of other more pressing matters such as the state of the economy, mainly joblessness. The solutions are not the incentive pay-offs we have seen. I did not vote for Obama and he has confirmed my choice.
You don't understand, he is doing this on purpose. Wake up. Divide and conquer a country by financially imploding it. Attack it's religious foundation, its freedoms and brain wash the young. Hitler did it and it worked for awhile. Same mo, only this time its an illegal immigrant and a Muslim.
This Narcissist did it to himself. He forgot its "WE THE PEOPLE" who run this country, Not a Anti-American fool.
So, when do "WE THE PEOPLE" go after him????????????????????????
Where in HELL is my comment?????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????
Nice analysis, and I hope your prediction about Democratic ballot box problems comes to pass. As a Canadian I appreciate that the US still the torch bearer for freedom in the world, and the last thing Canada and the rest of the free world needs is the Manchurian Candidate Obama's suicidal economic policies.
Lots of comments?????????????? When you censor this is what you get. You like obama haven't learned anything!
There has to be an end to Obama's rule and we can'tafford to wait out his term as president. The citizenship issue needs pursued vigorously and relentlessly. We also need to start voting out all incumbants and make sure the new people elected establish term limits and begin reducing the size of the leviathon, called the US Government. We need to take our Country back… NOW.
Obama is certainly not anything like Jesus Christ, our Messiah. He is more like the antichrist and I wonder if he isn't really the anti christ come to destroy the world. He needs to be lowered down along with the devil.
….and anyone who has been able to glean anything that makes sense of the massive pages, has found when it is all "put together" has found that it DOES INDEED have mandates for the govt provision OR ELSE, death panels, whatever name you want to call them by, entitlements for illegals, nothing for Americans but threats and bullying and the signing over of all your worldly goods, both public and private, in order to satisfy this hydra-headed monster Obama in his desire to do nothing more than seize and confiscate everything from every citizen as quickly as possible, reducing us to a slave state instantly if not sooner. I have no idea why no one has struck this MANIAC down!! Even hitler, when he was observed to be the monster that he was, finally had to take cover! Do we HAVE to have bombs flying to be awakened from the dazed "wake-sleep" that everyone seems to be in????
You know there is an old saying my Mother told me years ago, while growing up and learning about life and people. One of my Mothers' pearls of wisdom was: You have to earn respect, you can't DEMAND it. When, has this evil piece of dirt (even during his campaign run) ever shown any respect for this country, God, our Flag, and our Security. And he now falls from grace? You mean Satan's grace. What is the saying about convincing that the Devil does not exist. Now he wants to do away with the Commission on Religious Freedom. Can you say Islam take over. Can't you people see were this is going?
I know obama isn't a legal citizen of this country but he sure does act and think like the majority of blacks when it comes to taking care of their money and their jobs. He is soul brother #1.