The emperor wears no clothes. The bloom is off the rose. The bigger they are, the harder they fall. Pardon the barrage of stale metaphors, but it’s difficult to put into words the utter pasting Mitt Romney put on Barack Obama last week.
Pat Buchanan called Romney’s presentation“the finest debate performance” in 52 years “with the possible exception of Ronald Reagan’s demolition of Jimmy Carter in 1980.”
Indeed, when all of CNN and MSNBC – to include Chris Matthews, Lawrence O’Donnell, and Rachel Maddow – hysterically admit that President Obama got smoked, he got smoked. Bad.
Liberal blogger and Obama sycophant Andrew Sullivan captured the universally-shared “progressive” panic as the brutal mismatch came to a close: “How is Obama’s closing statement so f—ing sad, confused and lame? He choked. He lost. He may even have lost the election tonight.”
For those of us who have long recognized the messianic myth that is Barack Hussein Obama, the debate was especially gratifying.
The world had fallen prey to a cartoonish hoax. This media-crafted Iron Man has proven a mere mortal, a tin man, an international embarrassment.
The jig is up.
In just 90 minutes, Mitt Romney stripped away the Iron Man costume and exposed, naked beneath, a man more closely resembling Robert Downey, Jr.
Recall the image, so often seen, of a young Robert, head downcast in shame, standing before the judge to rationalize why, yet again, he’d screwed up magnificently. Last Wednesday was Barack’s turn.
Don’t get me wrong, I like Robert Downey Jr. – I’m glad he turned his life around. But he’s an actor. He reads his lines. He’s not Iron Man. And he’s not qualified to be president.
Neither is Barack Obama.
And so, lost with no teleprompter binky, and, thus, suffering a debate trouncing unparalleled in history, it would seem that the president’s not so good, very bad week couldn’t get worse.
It got worse.
Just two days prior, the U.S. Supreme Court revived hope – long thought dead – that Obamacare, the president’s signature achievement, might yet be ruled unconstitutional. The High Court shocked the legal community by opening its new term with an order giving the Obama Justice Department just 30 days to respond to Liberty Counsel’s petition for rehearing. Liberty Counsel filed the petition on behalf of Liberty University and two private individuals.
An appeals court in Richmond, Va. ruled that the Anti-Injunction Act, or AIA, barred the court from addressing the merits in Liberty Univ., Inc. v. Geithner, which challenged the individual mandate (Section 1501) and the employer insurance mandate (Section 1513) of Obamacare.
In addition to the constitutional arguments that Congress lacked authority to pass the law, the suit also raised the Free Exercise of religion claim because of the forced taxpayer funding of abortion.
You may recall that the first day of oral argument was dedicated to the AIA, the issue that Liberty University’s case placed before the High Court. In June, the Supreme Court ruled that the AIA does not apply to Obamacare. Therefore, Liberty Counsel asked the Court to grant the petition (because Liberty University prevailed on the AIA claim), vacate the Court of Appeals ruling, and remand (send back) the case to the Court of Appeals to consider the Free Exercise claim and the employer mandate, neither of which were decided by the High Court.
Long story short: If the Supreme Court ultimately hears the case on appeal – which is highly possible as the claims are unique – and rules that the employer mandate and Free Exercise claims are legit, Obamacare dies on the vine. It’s effectively overturned. It’s like a shiny new Chevy Volt without the exploding battery. It goes nowhere fast and is towed to the junkyard of really, really stupid ideas.
This means, among other things, that people who value human life won’t be made complicit in abortion homicide on the taxpayer dime.
“Obamacare is the biggest funding of abortion in American history,” said Mat Staver, founder and chairman of Liberty Counsel and dean of Liberty University School of Law. “Under the Health and Human Services (HHS) mandate, Obamacare will, for the first time, require employers and individuals to directly fund abortion.
“This abortion mandate collides with religious freedom and the rights of conscience. I am very pleased with the Court’s decision today,” concluded Staver.
During the debate, Mitt Romney took Obama to task over Obamacare: “I just don’t know how the president could have come into office, facing 23 million people out of work, rising unemployment, an economic crisis at the – at the kitchen table and spent his energy and passion for two years fighting for Obamacare instead of fighting for jobs for the American people. It has killed jobs.”
Obama was left stuttering and stammering – sheepishly defending his grossly unaffordable, wholly unsustainable, and wildly unpopular Obamacare monstrosity.
I was left encouraged.
Whether by legislative repeal, or through Liberty Counsel’s ongoing case, freedom-loving America should be confident. This freakish Frankenstein monster will, God willing, be soon laid to rest beneath the cold, clammy earth from which Democrats dug it up.
Obama’s shovel-ready debate performance was the ground-breaking.
Matt Barber (@jmattbarber on Twitter) is an attorney concentrating in constitutional law. He serves as Vice President of Liberty Counsel Action.
Photo Credit: Laura Padgett (Creative Commons)
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you got most of the letters right with the iron man comment, except i would rearrange them to Moron.
nonation got it right the King is Buck Naked.
This is the first sign of hope I have had in awhile. Thank you Supreme Court for finally listening to the people and upholding our Constitution. We just might have a chance of rebuilding our country. Not forcing Christians to be a partaker of abortion is precious to me. This country was built on Christian values and if we turn on God all is lost. I personally do not care how others live or what choices they make in life as long as it does not affect my life. I wish everyone loved and obeyed God but that free will was deemed by God and thus not for me to say. I love my country and would have a hard time dealing with the fact that my generation dropped the ball and did not correct it. We let the enemy in our House on our watch. Shame on us, living with the fear of becoming a muslim nation, and leaving that for the future of my children and grandchildren with no freedom is almost more than I can bear. Thank You again and keep up the good work.
It is so refreshing to see that America is beginning to take a stand against the tyranny of this administration…Let’s just pray that Roberts isn’t the deciding vote!
I thank the Lord, for taking the Blinders off the Supreme Court long enough to see that in reality, Obamacare IS unconstitutional. I to do not want my childrens, children to grow up in a really messed up world, it’s already messed up enough, in which we need to come back to the Lord. No matter what our President has been saying, that America is not a Christian Nation, I hate to be a barer of bad news to him, but America was founded on Christian Values, and our Laws have been written in reference to the Laws of God, therefore, I hate to be the barer of bad news to the muslims also, if none of you muslims don’t like it, then take yourself and your sharia law back home to your old country, but just like everybody here in America that is now a Citizen of this great Land of ours, when you make a decision to become Americanized, you take ALL of it, not just what you want of it. This is NOT your old country anymore, you GAVE ALL of you and your family to America, and the ways of America, so LIVE as AMERICANS or GO HOME. Simple as that. Thank you to Supreme Court Judges.
How is that Christian to tell Muslims to “go back to their old country”? I thought Jesus wanted us to love those who disagreed with us.
Very hard to love some people that wants to change our law’s, our way of living and wants us dead!
Not all, and not just Muslims. If an immigrant comes to America to try to change it and knock it off of it’s foundation or is not happy with the way we live, etc., they should not stay. It is only common sense. We can love them from afar. As for being Christian-like…Did Jesus not show his rage to the Pharisees and money changers in the Temple by knocking over their tables and kicking them out? God created this nation and to try to over-throw it and dishonor it is the same idea in my opinion.
Well said Michael.
We were all so shocked that Roberts voted the way he did last time. He did not vote as he should have. So they changed it to a tax. Even though it was told to us there would not be a tax. That vote by Roberts turned
it into a tax, and still it went into effect. Who is taking another handout from Obama? This should not have happened. All of the Senate needed to hear about this not just the chosen few that were invited to the planning stage. It was decided behind closed doors. Then to have the conservative Judge change sides and
vote against the conservative people, allowing this piece of monstrosity to become law. It needs to be overturned.
Let’s hope John Roberts isn’t lying awake at night trying to figure out another silly and convoluted way to sound “intelligent” while skirting the Constitution.