The Supreme Court upheld President Barack Obama's health care law on Thursday, but Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal, a possible Republican vice presidential contender who has refused to establish a federally mandated health care exchange in his state, said Friday that he will continue to ignore it.
"We're not going to start implementing Obamacare," Jindal said during a conference call with Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell. "We're committed to working to elect Gov. Romney to repeal Obamacare."
Under the Affordable Care Act, states must set up a health insurance exchange program by Jan. 1, 2014, and will receive grants from the federal government to implement it. Several Republican governors, including both Jindal and McDonnell, have put off setting up the exchanges in the hope that the law would be repealed or struck down by the court. Now that the first major challenge to the law has been upheld, Jindal said he won't change course and is looking to presumptive Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney to lead the repeal effort if he takes office in 2013.
"Here in Louisiana we have not applied for the grants, we have not accepted many of these dollars, we're not implementing the exchanges," Jindal said. "We don't think it makes any sense to implement Obamacare in Louisiana. We're going to do what we can to fight it."
Despite the court ruling, there is still a chance that Republicans in Congress can repeal much of the law next year even if they don't have a filibuster-proof majority in the Senate. Because Chief Justice John Roberts ruled that the mandate to purchase health insurance--one of the key provisions of the law--was a tax, Republicans can use a procedure called "budget reconciliation" to pass a repeal bill that requires only a simple majority to pass. But this scenario relies on the Republicans' ability to win the White House, keep the majority in the House and gain enough seats in the Senate.
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Was going to post the same article. Appears that LA and VA will not implement (for now, at least). Tennessee's governor was quoted with a very high $$ pricetag yesterday, which leads me to believe they will not implement either. Very interesting chess match lining up....
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Scott Walker in Wisconsin say yesterday that he's waiting until after the November elections to see if he'll implement this or not.
Of course the usual idiots are now crying for his arrest.
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[An Nahar] U.S. President Barack Obama We're gonna punish our enemies and we're gonna reward our friends who stand with us on issues that are important to us... hailed Thursday's decision by the Supreme Court to uphold his health care reforms as a "victory" for people across America and urged opponents to swing behind the law.
"Whatever the politics, today's decision was a victory for people all over this country whose lives are more secure because of this law and the Supreme Court's decision to uphold it," Obama said.
Obama spoke after the Supreme Court handed down a decision upholding Obama's landmark health care reform which seeks to expand insurance coverage to another 32 million people.
"The highest court in the land has now spoken. We will continue to implement this law. We will work together to improve on it where we can," Obama said.
"But what we won't do, what the country cannot afford to do is to refight the political battles of two years ago or back the way they were," he said.
Republicans, however, vowed to fight on to repeal the "Affordable Health Care Act," with the House of Representatives scheduling a vote on it July 11.
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Mitt Romney raised $3.2 million overnight from over 30,000 donors, according to Atlantic magazine, and yesterday pledged to make appealing Obamacare a Day One priority.
The Weekly Standard mentions that the twenty three lawsuits against the contraception/abortion mandates are unaffected by yesterday's ruling, and are continuing to send their way through the courts.
So the individual mandate/tax is not the only arrow in the anti-Obamacare quiver, and President Obama may well discover that he was victorious in this first battle, only to lose the war.
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Dale, while I admire your ability to be optimistic at this late date, I fear that all of us here at the 'burg and other places who espouse center/right, Western thought just had our chances of dying in a civil war or a Dem reeducation camp brought to the "virtual certainty" level.
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Here let me prescribe this little tonic for you no mo uro. I have found it to be a comfort to myself;
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Well the pressure will certainly be on Mitt now if he's elected he damned well better follow up on that day one promise with everything he has or he's gonna be the last Republican President ever.
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Roberts' is a clown. I just listened to that P.O.S. Geraldo Rivera deify him on Fox news for his supposed brilliant legal move. Pathetic. SCOTUS's role is to uphold the U.S. Constitution and interpret laws within that framework. Period. The Chief Justice is not supposed to parse or publish half-measure jibberish in order to kowtow to the politicial whimsies of the day. Disgraceful. Kagan is an absolute piece of crap as well.
Penalty = Tax? Really? So w/that logic, I guess a Tax should be seen as a Fine? And now the U.S. Congress has fining powers on individuals merely because they exist? I'm sure James Madison and the rest of the men who put this thing together in the summer of 1787 would have liked to hear that one...and doesn't the house have some say on tax bills and how they originate?
Also, I don't look to the avg congressional repub to be worth a shit either - bunch of wimps. Repeal and Replace? How about just repeal and let the free market reign for a change? As someone else already mentioned, and I say this with sadness in my heart - buy ammo and be vigilant. I despairingly and unfortunately feel that in the future (maybe near) that there will only be one way to right the ship. Never thought I'd ever feel that way.
"SCOTUS - we make up Constitutional interpretations as we go along, and, if it's not in there, we'll find it!"
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Just remember, when the civil war does come, it's the Zombie Apocalypse, and the demonrats are the zombies.
I ran out of mercy a long time ago for them. Everytime I look at my tax return or W2 or even think about what this country is like now vs when I was growing up, I find myself thinking that certain parties could use a good kick in the forks, followed by a muzzle to forehead insurance policy.
The very fact I feel this way bothers me the most. So FUCK YOU very much demonrats.
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Silent Brick - "I ran out of mercy a long time ago for them. Everytime I look at my tax return or W2 or even think about what this country is like now vs when I was growing up, I find myself thinking that certain parties could use a good kick in the forks, followed by a muzzle to forehead insurance policy."
That effectively describes my point of view also. In the upcoming producer v parasite battles, I expect brutality. The battles will start in California, the day after the state runs out of money to pay our police departments.
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While at the hospital today for cadio workout I asked the Nurses what had been discussed about this Health care action. They are very concerned. Nobody knows. They had a meeting on this last week.
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All part of the Cloward–Piven's strategy for crashing the system and having it replaced with a statist system based on social justice and redistribution of the wealth.
I am concerned about the next bunch of $hit coming down the pike: The UN administered Law of the Sea Treaty (Lost) which cedes considerable sovereignty to the UN. Hillary is pushing this. It basically has the potential to collect and redistribute part of our wealth to less developed countries. Surporisingly, there are quite a few pushing this such as the US Chamber of Commerce, Verizon, Hillary Clinton, John Fn Kerry and others. The Senate needs 34 votes to oppose this. Some 27 Senators have expressed their opposition to this treaty. I look for a push in the lame-duck session.
The UN Small Arms Treaty is being also being pushed by Hillary which neuters our 2nd Amendment.
Both of these treaties have been lying around for some years and are part of the collective fantasy of Progressives.
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If you do not have something the government thins you should have (health insurance in this case), you must pay a tax. Never has the US government taxed any one for what they do NOT have.
Crazy. That is why the Obama Admin will try to rename this as a "penalty", not a tax, which is what it is, an IRS enforced TAX.
They thought they slipped that by, but the Supremes shined the spot light on it.
A federal judge has upheld the legality of Florida's purge of non-citizens from voting rolls, denying the B.O. regime's request for a halt to the program, which could handicap Obama's performance in Florida.
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U.S. District Judge Robert Hinkle said that, according to his reading of the law, the 90-day provision did not apply to removing non-citizens from the rolls.
-exactly. Finally someone w/an oz. of commonsense & respect for the Constitution. I'm glad there was someone else out there that clearly saw Non-citizens on voter rolls as the oxymoron it is.
I bet this judge really pissed off a lot of Menshecrats with that ruling.
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I think it she be known that anyone convicted of election fraud, and make it manditory for groups like Acorn to announce penalities to their signature gatherers and such, gets 20 years in prison and actively go after the slime would change a lot of attitudes.
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Actually preventing vote fraud may be important in removing and replacing Obamacare. Although fraud probably doesn't amount to more than a few thousand votes in any given State, it could swing an Senate seat or two or a half dozen House seats.
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