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Longtime readers of this blog know that I don’t play the partisan game.  And I haven’t bought into the “conservative/liberal” mentality for a very long time.  Regardless of affiliation, we should expect all of our elected officials to put the Constitution and liberty of the American people ahead of their political agendas.

Richard Burr, North Carolina, Senate, Senator, ObamaCare
Senator Richard Burr
(North Carolina): Part
of the problem in D.C.

That being said, North Carolina’s Senator Richard Burr is now shown be a bitter disappointment.  Burr is choosing capitulation over leadership, and what is easy over what is right.

From the article at The Hill…

Blocking a government funding bill over ObamaCare is “the dumbest
idea I’ve ever heard,” Sen. Richard Burr (R-N.C.) said Thursday.

Burr
argued stopping ObamaCare’s funding is not going to be achievable as
long as President Obama is in the White House, and that Republicans
risked taking the blame if they

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The employer mandate component of Barack Obama’s Affordable Care Act health-care scheme has been delayed from implementation until 2015.  That’s after the 2014 elections, mind you.  Not well before.

Can Obama do that?  I mean, I thought the Affordable Care Act was codified law.  Seems kinda illegal to invalidate the most sweeping legislation in living memory like that, even if it’s only part of it.

I have an idea: let ObamaCare go into full-blown effect now.  Let Obama and those who pushed for the Affordable Care Act see what happens.  They wanted us to have this, we should give them what they want.

(Don’t think for a moment that this isn’t about politics.  Gotta wonder if the ACA will keep getting punted down the field for the next several elections to come.)

‘Course, Obama himself, members of Congress and other government officials have exempted themselves from the Affordable ...

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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....

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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 ...

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