Peter Ferrara has great piece at the American Spectator explaining why he believes the U.S. Supreme Court will pull the plug on ObamaCare. He concludes the following from the recent ruling by the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals that the individual mandate is unconstitutional: The bottom line takeaway from this decision is that if this is how Judges Hull, Dubina, [...]
The Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals has upheld the individual mandate against a Commerce Clause challenge by the Thomas More Law Center. This is the first time an appeals court has ruled on the mandate, but the logic is just as Orwellian as some of the lower court rulings. Two of the three judges bought the argument that NOT [...]
Last year, Judge Henry Hudson ruled that ObamaCare’s individual mandate was unconstitutional, and the Obama DOJ appealed. Today, the appeal was heard by 3 judges of the 4th Circuit Court of Appeals, Judges Davis, Motz and Wynn. All were appointed by Democrat presidents. Judges Davis and Wynn were appointed by none other than President Obama and Judge Motz was [...]
Say it ain’t so, Allen. Rep. Allen West (R-Fla.), who has emerged as an outspoken conservative voice among GOP freshmen, cast a surprising vote last week against a bill to scrap part of the 2010 healthcare overhaul … West was one of just four Republicans to vote against the measure, which passed 235-191. If West [...]
The Massachusetts “universal health care” plan that served as the model for the Rube Goldberg contraption we know as ObamaCare is five years old. It’s a train wreck and the man who signed into law, Mitt Romney, will get his ass kicked if the GOP is dumb enough to nominate him for President. Anyone who [...]
As discussed in my American Spectator column yesterday, the Supremes will devote part of today’s Justices’ Conference to a discussion of Virginia’s petition for certiorari before judgement. But, as Brad Joondeph points out, it’s hard to predict when they will tell us what they’re going to do about this request for expedited review of the Old [...]
The GOP’s budget proposal was presented today by Rep. Paul Ryan, the Chairman of the House Budget Committee, and it purports to contain not a penny for ObamaCare: The Republican proposal says one of its aims is ‘making sure that not a penny goes toward implementing the new [health care] law enacted last year. This includes [...]
John Goodman does a typically thorough job of laying out the economic realities of ”reform.” The ten problems he discusses are as follows: An impossible mandate. A bizarre system of subsidies. Perverse incentives for insurers. Perverse incentives for insurers. Impossible expectations. Impossible Medicare cuts for seniors. Impossible burdens on the states. Lack of portability. Over-regulated patients. Over-regulated [...]
In this radio interview, Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN) and Rep. Steve King (R-IA) explain that the GOP leadership is not willing to remove $105 billion in ObamaCare funding from the upcoming continuing resolution because they are afraid Obama won’t sign it and they will be blamed for a government shutdown. Speaker Boehner, Majority Leader Cantor and [...]
In my latest American Spectator column, I discuss Judge Roger Vinson’s surprising decision to stay his own January ruling and question whether the government mule will ever stop its obstinate behavior without the firm application of a two-by-four to the beasts’s occiput. Vinson makes it clear that he was not taken in by the pretext behind the DOJ’s motion to [...]
