A Firm Repudiation of ObamaCare
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on August 17th, 2011 4:31 am by HL
A Firm Repudiation of ObamaCare
Avik Roy, National Review
You’ve seen the headlines: The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit has upheld a lower-court ruling that Obamacare’s individual mandate — which requires all U.S. residents to purchase health insurance — is unconstitutional. The case in question, Florida v. Health and Human Services, is the most important of all the Obamacare constitutional challenges thus far, because the plaintiffs include the governors and attorneys general from 26 states.In January, when lower-court judge Roger Vinson overturned the entirety of Obamacare in the same case, I…
GOP’s Anti-Government Extremism
Steven Rattner, New York Times
In the middle of all the debt default drama and stock market turbulence, the leading Republican presidential candidates have begun to fill in the shadowy outlines of their positions on major economic issues.And what a picture it is, a philosophy oriented around shrinking the role of the federal government in every imaginable way, by slashing spending, cutting taxes and halting or rescinding regulations. Their mantra is repeal and retrenchment, devoid of new initiatives or a positive agenda.
Obama Tries to Reclaim Momentum With Bus Tour
Mark Landler, NYT
For most of the summer, President Obama has been under siege in the White House. On Monday, he became a road warrior, kicking off a three-day bus tour of the Midwest that provided him campaign-style opportunities to strike back at Republicans in a region vital to his re-election.Traveling in a black bus with dark tinted windows and flashing red and blue lights that looked like something out of a "Mad Max" movie, the president urged audiences in Minnesota and Iowa to tell their elected officials they would no longer tolerate the partisan gridlock on display in the recent…
