What. The. HELL?!?!?
HOW in the blue f–k is ANYTHING about Obamacare constitutional?!? What the #$%* are they smoking at the Supreme Court?!? Are they high on bath salts or something?!
Well, it’s not like this would be the first time that the Supreme Court screwed it up, is it?
The individual mandate just became the biggest tax imposition in the history of mankind. We are now living in a socialist state that would have made the Kremlin hardliners envious.
This country is soooooooo screwed....
Louisiana College, a private Baptist school, is suing the federal government over the requirement that religious-affiliated hospitals and organizations must fund contraceptives as part of health care, even in spite of strong beliefs against such measures. Louisiana College and other religious organizations are quick to note that Obama’s “healthcare” mandate violates their constitutional rights.
Doug Powers notes that the mainstream media is giving President Obama a “free ride” about the ridiculous price of gasoline, when it blamed George W. Bush for it at every opportunity.
(Longtime readers will know that I have never been a fan of either Obama or Bush. They’re the two worst Presidents in American history, in my book…)
I juxtapose these two seemingly unrelated items before you, good readers, because I remember plenty of times during Bush’s presidency when too many Christians simply “rolled over and took it” when he and his administration violated ...
CatholicVote.org is reporting that every single bishop in the United States has gone on record as opposing President Barack Obama’s mandating the funding of contraception as part of health care, even for those institutions (such as Catholic hospitals) which oppose contraception as a matter of belief.
It must also be noted that in the past week or so a significant number of Baptists, Methodists, Presbyterians, Lutherans, Eastern Orthodox, Pentecostals, Seventh-Day Adventists, and members of many other denominations have rallied support behind their Roman Catholic brethren.
It should thus be noted that Barack Obama has pulled off something that has not taken place in about nineteen hundred years of church history:
He has unified the body of Christ, and found them to be of one accord....
…and my anger and disbelief at what I am watching right now in this country, just won’t let me be as mercurial a wordsmith as some have alleged me to be.
So I’m going to relent to brute-force attack.
Regarding how President Obama is trying to force Catholic hospitals and other institutions to fund birth control, against that faith’s beliefs and teachings:
If this isn’t a situation that demands civil disobedience and even flagrant lawbreaking against the government, then I don’t know what possibly WOULD be!
I try my best not to judge the spiritual state of another. For the first time, I am inclined to be compelled to wonder about that of Barack Obama. How can anyone of conscience even conceive of mandating such a thing?...
But it shouldn’t have been passed by the House and Senate to begin with!
Y’know, I am getting mighty fed up with the sorry lot of politicians in Washington… in both major parties mind ya… who have NO respect whatsoever for the Constitution.
Obama’s “health care reform” was always unconstitutional. It was the most brazen violation of the commerce clause in perhaps all of United States history. Of course it was going to be struck down by somebody in the judiciary sooner or later.
That this was lost on too many members of the House and Senate, who persisted in advocating and then voting for Obamacare in spite of all sane understanding of constitutional law…
Grrrrrr…
Anyone else doubt that the political system of this country is hopelessly and irredeemably broken? I mean, if people like this are the only ones that we can expect to vote for… ...
I’m thinkin’ that everyone now has a perfectly valid and legal reason to tell President Barack Obama to take his crummy “health care reform” and shove it up his ass.
(Oh yeah, that’s right: not even Obama and his cronies want Obamacare. They’re exempt from it.)
But within the legislation – which the House just re-approved a short while ago – are provisions for conscientious objection to Obamacare because of religion. The legal language seems tailor-made for the Amish (who use the communal resources of their churches to provide for medical care) and for Muslims, for whom insurance is religious taboo.
Since I’m neither Muslim, or a member of any Christian denomination (I still prefer to call myself a follower of my Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ), I guess that means that I’m screwed, right? Well, who is anyone in this steaming pile of bullshit (that’s the very first ...
Because of two items in the reconciliation bill – one of which having to do with Pell grants, which alone made people scratch their heads in wonder about why it was in the legislation to begin with – the House of Representatives will be voting once more on Barack Obama’s socialized medicine in order to reconcile the differences between the House and Senate versions.
Considering how in the past few days a number of representatives who voted “aye” for this monstrosity have had bricks thrown through the windows of their offices and one such congressman had a coffin dumped on the lawn of his house, I have to ponder aloud if such “knock-knock, zoom-zoom affirmation” might result in more than a few of them finally “getting the message” that the American people DO NOT WANT this crap!...
Because I’m feeling extra cranky tonight (and have for the past 24 hours or so)…
“Chutzpah” is a Yiddish word meaning “shameless audacity”. It’s an olden Hebrew term that in his book The Joys of Yiddish author Leo Rosten describes as “gall, brazen nerve, effrontery, incredible ‘guts,’ presumption plus arrogance such as no other word and no other language can do justice to.”
So what fits in the category of “chutzpah”?
One example of chutzpah is the child who kills both of his parents, and then throws himself down on the mercy of the court on the grounds that he is an orphan.
Another example of chutzpah is the “evangelist” who routinely rails against a television station for “promoting dancing, R-rated movies” as being somehow sinful behavior, yet is apparently not bothered by the fact that he gives more than a million dollars of his congregation’s money to buy airtime ...
Michael D. Tanner of the Cato Institute has written an essay about the costs of Obamacare, which passed the House last night (and which I nearly reacted to on this blog with a blunt “We are sooo f-cked”, before better angels of my nature prevailed).
In his article Tanner makes the following prediction, and I thought it was well worth making note of…
...Republicans won’t really try to repeal it. Republicans will run this fall on a promise to repeal this deeply unpopular bill, and will likely reap the political advantages of that promise. But in reality there is little chance of their following through. Even if Republicans were to take both houses of Congress, they would still face a presidential veto and a Democratic filibuster.
But more important, once an entitlement is in place, it becomes virtually impossible to take away. The fact that Republicans have been criticizing
“With thunderous applause.”...