June
28th 2012
Posted under Health Care & States Rights
So all you state attornies general who challenged Obamacare, now that the Supreme Court has gone against you what is your next move? Do you just roll over and take it, or do you put your money (actions) where your mouth is and seek to nullify this abomination in your state? The ball is in your court.
Matt Weber on 28 Jun 2012 at 10:30 pm #
Roll over and take it of course.
C Bowen (Hawthorne) on 28 Jun 2012 at 10:48 pm #
Catholics should demand that Communion is withheld from Roberts.
roho on 29 Jun 2012 at 12:46 am #
Stock up on vaseline.
James on 29 Jun 2012 at 3:33 am #
Their mouths will shut and they will bend over and grab heels, of course. These modern, mainstream Republicans talk big but all that talk is only for the benefit of the Tea Party/Talk Radio crowd to get their votes and campaign contributions. Now that “the court has ruled” from on high they can use that as cover to simply comply which what they probably were intending to do anyway. Nullification? How many of these state attorney generals have even heard of it?
Sean Scallon on 30 Jun 2012 at 5:04 pm #
Tom Di Lorenzo wrote an exception blog post about this at LRC:
http://www.lewrockwell.com/blog/lewrw/archives/114709.html
Sometimes the Constitution isn’t enough, especially when it’s used against the very principle it was supposed written up for. The Jeffersonians understood long before anyone else did. Find the right lawyers and you can justify almost anything.
Rick Perry Won’t Implement Obamacare | Conservative Heritage Times on 10 Jul 2012 at 12:01 am #
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