Jul 7, 2012 No Comments ›› Pat Dollard
From Nugent's Washington Times column on The SCOTUS Obamacare Decision: Chief Justice Roberts squandered the opportunity to restore judicial, financial and legislative sanity to a government that by any sane person’s standards is insane and addicted to centralized federal control of our lives. Because our legislative, judicial and executive branches of government hold the 10th Amendment ...
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Jul 6, 2012 No Comments ›› Pat Dollard
Excerpted from The Floor Blog: Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) said he's proud of Chief Justice John Roberts for his ruling on the healthcare reform law and plans to call him soon. Roberts joined the four liberal justices on the high court in upholding virtually the entire healthcare law. The 5-4 decision preserved ...
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Jul 5, 2012 No Comments ›› Toro520
CNS News: (CNSNews.com) - Only 6 percent of Americans think that health care is the most important problem facing the country, according to a new Gallup poll. When asked in June to identify the most important problem facing the country, a whopping 94 percent of Americans named something other than health care as the nation’s top problem, ...
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Jul 4, 2012 No Comments ›› Pat Dollard
No, this can't be indicative of anything material, now can it? At the very least, it's appropriate. Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts arrives for a lecture on the history of the US Supreme Court at the University of Malta today. Last week, Roberts' cast the key vote to uphold President Obama's health care law. (AP)
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Jul 2, 2012 No Comments ›› Pat Dollard
Excerpted from Health Watch: Mitt Romney's presidential campaign broke with congressional Republicans on Monday by arguing that the individual mandate upheld by the Supreme Court last week is a penalty, not a tax. The majority in the court's decision ruled it constitutional because it was a tax, and Republicans in Congress since that decision have ...
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Jul 2, 2012 No Comments ›› Pat Dollard
Excerpted from The Hill: The House as early as next week will pass legislation prohibiting the IRS from receiving any money from the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to implement the 2010 healthcare reform law. Passage of the financial services spending bill is especially timely in light of last week's Supreme Court ruling that ...
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Jul 2, 2012 No Comments ›› Pat Dollard
FYI, according to the Universal System of Weights and Measures a crap ton is a dozen shitloads. Excerpted from Buzz Feed: The Supreme Court’s decision to uphold ObamaCare Thursday offered an immediate financial boost to Republican candidates at all levels, GOP operatives and fundraisers told BuzzFeed. While both the Romney and Obama campaign boasted that the decision ...
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Jul 2, 2012 No Comments ›› Pat Dollard
Stephen Moore, Senior Economics Writer with the Wall Street Journal, told FOX and Friends this morning that nearly 75% of Obamacare costs will fall on the backs of those Americans making less than $120,000 a year.
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Jun 30, 2012 No Comments ›› Pat Dollard
Excerpted from The Hill: President Obama is leading Mitt Romney thanks to a bump from last Thursday's high court healthcare ruling, according to a survey released Saturday from conservative polling outlet Rasmussen. Rasmussen’s latest daily presidential tracking poll finds Obama with 46 percent support from likely voters to Romney’s 44. The poll noted that this was ...
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Jun 30, 2012 No Comments ›› Pat Dollard
Excerpted from The Hill: The White House is standing by its position that individual mandate in President Obama's healthcare law is a penalty despite the Supreme Court's decision to uphold it as a tax. White House spokesman Jay Carney told reporters traveling with Obama on Friday that the mandate enforces a penalty, not a tax, ...
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Jun 29, 2012 No Comments ›› Toro520
Excerpted from The Washington Post: Did the Supreme Court just make the Affordable Care Act much less affordable? The calculations are complex, and the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office has said it will need some time to review the situation. But an early back-of-the-envelope analysis by a former CBO director suggests that Thursday’s ruling could sharply raise ...
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Jun 29, 2012 No Comments ›› Toro520
Excerpted from the Daily Caller: The charge that the Obama administration coordinated with the health-care industry in 2009 during the Obamacare fight to send a good chunk of business to the consulting firm founded by presidential adviser David Axelrod has resurfaced in the news media. At issue is whether the White House worked with officials inside the industry ...
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Jun 29, 2012 No Comments ›› Toro520
Excerpted from the Daily Caller: The Supreme Court’s stunning rejuvenation of the Obamacare mandate into a new tax didn’t leak to Washington D.C. insiders — but it may have leaked to yet-unknown Wall Street investors. In a brief 10-minute period starting at 9:32 a.m., the stock value of the nation’s largest hospital chain, HCA Holdings Inc., jumped ...
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Jun 28, 2012 No Comments ›› Chuck Biscuits
Excerpted from The Hill: President Obama initially thought his healthcare mandate had been overturned due to erroneous reports on cable news, according to senior administration officials. Obama had been standing in a room outside the Oval Office staring at a muted television screen showing four networks — including CNN, MSNBC, FOX News and one other — ...
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Jun 28, 2012 No Comments ›› Pat Dollard
Excerpted from Buzz Feed: Ann Coulter prophesied the coming split between Chief Justice Roberts and conservatives back in 2005, writing that "Stealth nominees have never turned out to be a pleasant surprise for conservatives." After pretending to consider various women and minorities for the Supreme Court these past few weeks, President Bush decided to disappoint all ...
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Jun 28, 2012 No Comments ›› Pat Dollard
Related: Roberts Brain Medication Affects His Cognition Excerpted from ABC News: ABC News: Did Chief Justice John Roberts decide to join the court's liberal wing and uphold the individual mandate at the very last minute? Related - NY Times: Roberts Medication Causes "Mental Slowing" That's the theory floated by Paul Campos, a law professor at the University of ...
Continue ReadingJun 28, 2012 No Comments ›› tlmertz
Chief Justice John Roberts, a Bush appointee, was the swing vote in ruling the Affordable Care Act as constitutional; not as a mandate to force Americans into commerce, but as a tax. This ruling is a major victory for President Obama, and a major blow to the GOP, as well as all American conservatives....or is ...
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Jun 28, 2012 No Comments ›› Toro520
Via the Washington Free Beacon: READ RULING HERE
Continue ReadingJun 28, 2012 No Comments ›› Toro520
Excerpted from the Daily Caller: The Romney campaign raised $1 million dollars in the three hours immediately following the Supreme Court decision to uphold President Barack Obama’s health care reform law, according to a campaign spokesperson’s tweet. Romney campaign spokesperson Andrea Saul tweeted: “Just crossed $1 million raised for @MittRomney since SCOTUS decision. #FullRepeal.” The tweet was sent ...
Continue ReadingJun 28, 2012 No Comments ›› Toro520
Excerpted from CNBC: Stocks held their sharp losses across the board Thursday after the U.S. Supreme Court upheld a key part of President Obama's health care overhaul. Stocks had opened lower amid skepticism that European leaders would be able to form a solution to tackle the ongoing debt crisis. [...] Experts were mixed on the announcement. “The follow-through from this ...
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