Another federal Judge has declared ObamaCare unconstitutional. That's two strikes in about six weeks. “I note that in 2008, then-Senator Obama supported a health care reform proposal that did not include an individual mandate because he was at that time strongly opposed to the idea, stating that ‘if a mandate was the solution, we can try that to solve homelessness by mandating everybody to buy a house,’” Judge Vinson wrote in a footnote toward the end of the 78-page ruling Monday.
Naturally, BO's response is to act all outraged and surprised. "This ruling is well out of the mainstream of judicial opinion," Stephanie Cutter, an assistant to President Obama, wrote on the White House's blog after Judge Roger Vinson in Florida ruled that the entire law is unconstitutional. "Today’s ruling ... is a plain case of judicial overreaching. The judge’s decision contradicts decades of Supreme Court precedent that support the considered judgment of the democratically elected branches of government that the Act’s 'individual responsibility' provision is necessary to prevent billions of dollars of cost-shifting every year by individuals without insurance who cannot pay for the health care they obtain."
Never mind that most Americans made it abundantly clear that they didn't support the legislation; never mind that Democrats hired by the people to represent them chose instead to ignore the will of the people. This is not democracy, much less the representative republic that our Founders envisioned. This is not government of the people, by the people, and for the people.
It is autocracy.
"We don’t believe this kind of judicial activism will be upheld and we are confident that the Affordable Care Act will ultimately be declared constitutional by the courts."
We disagree, and with as much respect as you have demonstrated toward we, the people. Which is to say, none.
Come back and talk to us about "judicial activism" when you folks are ready to explain why your "justice department" suddenly dropped a rock-solid case against a band of thugs. You may remember that: the "New Black Panthers" caught on tape intimidating voters. Yeah. Come talk then.
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