The most over-the-top response to ObamaCare ruling
Loading ...I’m trying to decide which right-wing reaction to Thursday’s Supreme Court ruling on ObamaCare is my favorite, and I just can’t settle on one winner. So maybe you could help me.
Here are your options:
A. An angry Glenn Beck — but I repeat myself — referring to Chief Justice John Roberts as “the Dread Pirate Roberts” and announcing that his website would be selling T-shirts featuring Roberts’ picture and the caption “Coward,” all for just $30.
B.) U.S. Rep. Jean Schmidt, R-Ohio, celebrating after hearing initial and incorrect reports that the Supreme Court had struck down the mandate:
C.) The statement put out by Roy Nicholson, chairman of the Mississippi Tea Party, who went all Jefferson Davis on us:
“All of us are now simply chattel of the government to be used and ordered about as they choose. The history books will mark this date as the day our constitutional republic was killed. It will now rest with We The People to decide if it will be resurrected or left to rot in the shallow grave dug for it.
Where is the weeping and wailing? Where is the anger and outrage? Do the people of the country realize what has just been stolen from them? Do the people of the world recognize that the shadow of darkness is now fallen upon them as well and that there remains no defender of their feeble freedoms? The all-out oppression of all people has begun.
Those “occupiers” now controlling the three federal branches of government have joined together in rejecting all Constitutional restraint and in doing so they have severely violated their oaths to support and defend the Constitution of the United States. Together they now stand as blatant usurpers of power and have reduced our constitutional republic, along with all of its freedoms, to nothing more than a dictatorial junta. Becoming a banana republic is next.
When a gang of criminals subvert legitimate government offices and seize all power to themselves without the real consent of the governed their every act and edict is of itself illegal and is outside the bounds of the Rule of Law. In such cases submission is treason. Treason against the Constitution and the valid legitimate government of the nation to which we have pledged our allegiance for years. To resist by all means that are right in the eyes of God is not rebellion or insurrection, it is patriotic resistance to invasion.
May all of us fall on our faces before the Heavenly Judge, repent of our sins, and humbly cry out to Him for mercy on our country. And, may godly courageous leaders rise up in His wisdom and power to lead us in displacing the criminal invaders from their seats and restore our constitutional republic.”
D.) Matt Davis, former spokesman for the Michigan Republican Party, who posed the question:
Is Armed Rebellion Now Justified?
“Implicit in Benjamin Franklin’s fabled response at the conclusion of the Constitutional Convention was a dire warning: That the Republic would one day devolve into tyranny unless we the people prevented it.
In 2008, we the people elected Barack Obama as president, and the 100-year progressive trek to tyranny begun in 1912 with Woodrow Wilson’s election was complete. It cannot be said too many times — for the purposes of emphasis and clarity — that the Constitution was possible ONLY AFTER the American Revolution; and that the war itself would not have been possible without the collective agreement, as so eloquently articulated in the Declaration of Independence, that the course of human events will sometimes justify one group of people to sever themselves from their oppressors.
In other words, America itself was possible only after its people summoned the will to risk their lives and their futures — as well as those of their children — for a freedom they did not enjoy but knew was their gift from God. Along with their desire to be free came their willingness to engaged in armed rebellion for their freedom.
If government can mandate that I pay for something I don’t want, then what is beyond its power? If the Supreme Court’s decision Thursday paves the way for unprecedented intrusion into personal decisions, then has the Republic all but ceased to exist? If so, then is armed rebellion today justified?
God willing, this oppression will be lifted and America free again before the first shot is fired.”
Or as they put it in the music-video version:
E.) U.S. Sen. Rand Paul, R-Kentucky, who clearly wasn’t paying attention when he was studying constitutional law back in ophthalmology school:
“Just because a couple people on the Supreme Court declare something to be ‘constitutional’ does not make it so. The whole thing remains unconstitutional.”
F.) Ben Shapiro, editor-at-large of Breitbart.com, who tweeted:
Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, we await your verdict.
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Over the top???
June 30th, 2012
2:39 pm
Congressional Black Caucus Walks Out on Holder Contempt Vote
JamVet
June 30th, 2012
2:41 pm
I do not support an armed rebellion however I am afraid that is where we are heading.
These government hating fake conservatives don’t have the cajones to even stand up to Rush much less Wall Street or the 1% plutocrats and their systemic, decades long program of economic and social injustice and class warfare.
You really think they are going to ever take a righteous stand? Puhleeze. These are NOT people of action.
They will sit on the sidelines and b*tch endlessly and hope Donald Trump trickles down on them.
Occupy that…
Midori
June 30th, 2012
2:42 pm
I borrowed this from a friend:
This is what is so nuts about this whole charade.
Hillarycare is proposed – Republicans come up with a counter proposal. Republicans kill Hillarycare.
Republican’s counter proposal becomes Obamacare. Republicans want to kill their own Hillarycare counter proposal.
They are just like two year olds. What I say goes. Anything else, even if I said it before, must be stopped.
*******************************************************************************************************************
Now — which was it about?
Orange 12
June 30th, 2012
2:43 pm
Jay. your 2:39 sure sounds like discrimination. You might want to retract that one.
Jay
June 30th, 2012
2:44 pm
Really Senor Coffee? Liberals were advocating armed rebellion in response to Bush v. Gore?
Not me. I was arguing in favor of accepting the court decision and welcoming our new president. I didn’t like it much, but sometimes you shut up and take one for the team.
Recon 0311 2533
June 30th, 2012
2:45 pm
The loony left makes far more stupid comments in its attempts to fire up their base. The money now flowing into the Romney campaign from small donors along with firing up the right wing conservatives was accomplished shortly after the Supreme Courts 5-4 decision. The right doesn’t require comments from media or entertainment personalities to motivate the greater number of them, the left is very much dependent on it. This campaign is now a conservative all out offensive against an opponent that is now forced to play defense on 3 fronts, the economy, Obamacare and its cover up strategy for an activist Attorney General.
gt_me79
June 30th, 2012
2:45 pm
Its close between the (B) crazy lady (I’d love to see her – “never mind” – moment) Rep. Schmidt and the (D) Armed Rebellion whack job (loved the video). But given that I think (D) and (C) are dangerous in their delusions and their impact on others just as delusional I’ll stick with (B) she’s just crazy (who elected her by the way – we maybe need to reassess whether those folks deserve the right to vote
).
Mama Says
June 30th, 2012
2:45 pm
Ok decibels,
Guess you thought they could mandate healthcare also.
You dismiss the entire concept of the founding of this country.
The main cause was the improper use of taxation.
Laugh it up when the dragons are flying out of your butt.
This is yet another step that will end this country, your insistence to step on me to get what you want. Laugh it up. It’s is certainly very funny, wonder if you think it’s funny that millions die for the right to be free from government oppression. Wonder if you think the civil rights movement was just a growing phase.
Wonder if you have a clue what you will be forced to do when republicans take control. As a liberal, the fact that the crazy republicans will also have this power should scare the hell out of you.
As a conservative the first bill I would write would require that anyone who obtains an abortion will pay a tax of $1000 per procedure. If I call it a tax you can’t stop it and by that means I can have you arrested for not paying your abortion tax.
This will work both ways. Of course we will hear you scream and yell but then again who cares ?
RB from Gwinnett
June 30th, 2012
2:46 pm
Skip, apparently there weren’t enough of you and your fellow liberals pretending to care about their fellow man with their actual dollars and not just their words or there wouldn’t be so many millions without insurance. Talk is cheap, skip. Insurance plans cost a heckofalot. Prior to this ruling, were you caring with your money or just your mouth?
JamVet
June 30th, 2012
2:47 pm
Congressional Black Caucus Walks Out on Holder Contempt Vote.
Do you mean exactly like the neocons did in 2008 when John Boner (R-OH) led Republicans in a walkout in protest of the contempt vote against White House Chief of Staff Josh Bolten and former White House counsel Harriet Miers, who refused to respond to subpoenas in Congress’s investigation of the U.S. attorney scandal?
OH! You forgot about that! I see…
So how about like last year when Eric CANTor and gang walked out on debt talks led by Vice President Biden?
You “forgot” about that one too?
OK…
stands for decibels
June 30th, 2012
2:49 pm
I didn’t like it much, but sometimes you shut up and take one for the team.
Yup. Pissed me (and millions of others) off mightily, but when Al went on TV and announced with a sad smile, “It’s time for me to go,” I was willing to enter the difficult “acceptance” phase.
Mama Says
June 30th, 2012
2:50 pm
Jam Vet,
Dismissal and apathy is what caused most wars.
Continue to support the usurpation of the intent of the bill of rights and you will see.
Of course you don’t have to believe. You can continue to call conservatives names. If you studied history that’s what took place before the civil war. Even here in Georgia those who wished to leave the union were called names until of course the burning of Atlanta.
stands for decibels
June 30th, 2012
2:50 pm
They walked out on the contempt vote? good.
I guess this marks yet another time when this white guy feels it’s only the Congressional Black Caucus that truly represents his interests.
stands for decibels
June 30th, 2012
2:53 pm
Laugh it up when the dragons are flying out of your butt.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=__vZAjrJsFw
A clown has feelings, too!
Mama Says
June 30th, 2012
2:56 pm
It would have been much better for this to have passed constitutional muster under the commerce clause.
The precedent of government imposition via tax law is a new, troublesome thought.
Those who fail to learn history are bound to repeat it.
The urge for man to impose their will on others is an urge that had been placed in our DNA. Even the peace loving do right libs cannot help but to relish in the fact that there way has won.
RB from Gwinnett
June 30th, 2012
2:57 pm
Don’t waste your time on Amvet. He’s a ” better red than dead” sort of guy.
stands for decibels
June 30th, 2012
2:58 pm
As a conservative the first bill I would write would require that anyone who obtains an abortion will pay a tax of $1000 per procedure.
oooh, oooh, almost forgot to ask–Mama, what do you think of those $50 Romneycare abortions that your party’s Presidential aspirant signed into law, in Massachusetts?
0311/8541/5811/1811/1801
June 30th, 2012
2:59 pm
“I stayed up all night to see where the sun went. Then it dawned on me.”
JamVet
June 30th, 2012
2:59 pm
Even here in Georgia those who wished to leave the union were called names…
You mean names like traitors?
Because that is what they were?
OK.
JamVet
June 30th, 2012
3:01 pm
RB, go genuflect before your autographed Joseph McCarthy poster.
Dismissal and apathy is what caused most wars.
Where do you come up with stuff, mama?
Seriously.
Is there some tome of goofy con sayings that I’m not aware of?
Recon 0311 2533
June 30th, 2012
3:03 pm
Now if it’s a Republican president that asserts executive privledge to assist a cabinet member in withholding documents from congressional investigation that’s unacceptable by the lefty’s.However, if it’s a Democrat that’s perfectly acceptable and challenging it is called witch hunting and reinforced by throwing temper tantrums. Oh the left wing hypocrisy.
0311/8541/5811/1811/1801
June 30th, 2012
3:04 pm
Jay:
You need to go back and study your history.
Jewish white males have been victims for a long, long time.
………………. and it’s raising it’s ugly head again all over the world.
NEVER AGAIN !
Mama Says
June 30th, 2012
3:04 pm
I don’t like any government bill that mandates my freedom away.
I don’t like the fact that we cannot get a bill of rights respecting moderate in office, and I don’t like how mad I get watching people celebrate taking my rights away so that the government can decide what to do with them.
But Decibel I do like Gary and the Playboys now
Although you play with my emotional state, that actually made me smile.
Remember thought tyranny is not understood by those who impose it. There will be a time in the future when libs understand. But you know what I won’t like that either cause we are all the real loosers
Mighty Righty
June 30th, 2012
3:06 pm
Wunnerful, wunnerful,wunnerful, free health care for all. It’s like manna falling from the sky. No more illness, no more sickness, no more un insured. The government is never wrong in their estimates. Every governemnt program runs like a well oild machine. We can expect the same quality health care that we have have learned to expect from other government programs. The post office for example is a self supporting smooth operation. No fraud, no waste. It will be just like welefare and foord stamps. Oh boy. We will have the same quaiity of medical professioanls as those highly traine TSA agents. Think DMV. We are on our way to joining the 18th centrury. Bring on the PC medical specialists. Doc in the Box, here we come. Who would like to wager that within five years medical cost is twice the government’s estimate and you will have to wait days to get a prescription for some drugs? There will be shortagaes of medicine and facilites, and care.
getalife
June 30th, 2012
3:06 pm
bretbart lost all credibility so they are desperate.
Then you have the three gop guvs refusing to implement it..
0311/8541/5811/1811/1801
June 30th, 2012
3:06 pm
martin the calvinist 1:20 pm
Great analogy which is exactly what Washington meant when he said:
“If in the opinion of the People, the distribution or modification of the Constitutional powers be in any particular wrong, let it be corrected by an amendment in the way which the Constitution designates. But let there be no change by usurpation; for though this, in one instance, may be the instrument of good, it is the customary weapon by which free governments are destroyed.”
Translation:
You might like usurping the Constitution when it’s your pet project but just be aware what you have done when you open that box !!!
Mama Says
June 30th, 2012
3:07 pm
Jam vet some of this stuff I come up with on my own, it’s pretty good isn’t it ?
And you may want to think about the fact that traitors come in many colors and stripes, not all want to leave the union, some want to use the union to change your rights.
0311/8541/5811/1811/1801
June 30th, 2012
3:07 pm
“This girl said she recognized me from the vegetarian club, but I’d never met herbivore.”
getalife
June 30th, 2012
3:07 pm
No side will take on the military so lets stop the false bluster cons.
Mama Says
June 30th, 2012
3:08 pm
They don’t get it 3/11, they just don’t get it.
DannyX
June 30th, 2012
3:08 pm
Before the SC healthcare verdict Boehner cautioned his fellow Republicans if the law was overturned. “Don’t spike the ball,” he said.
Boehner was so overconfident that he didn’t issue a statement on how the Republicans should act if things didn’t go their way. Missing was Boehner cautioning Republicans to not “go all all bat Shiguano crazy with the usual right wing craziness,” if they lost.
stands for decibels
June 30th, 2012
3:08 pm
Although you play with my emotional state, that actually made me smile.
Well, I did mean it in the spirit of good fun. (and that little combo did make some halfway decent music before Gary got drafted.)
Remember thought tyranny is not understood by those who impose it.
Huh? pretty sure Adolf, Mao and Stalin had a pretty good grasp of what they were doing.
Unless by “tyranny” you’re dumbing it down to mean modest inconveniences and political skirmishes that didn’t happen to go your way. I hope that’s not the case here.
getalife
June 30th, 2012
3:09 pm
No use crying over spilled ilk.
The issue is over.
willard will not repeal willardcare, he will take credit for it cons.
0311/8541/5811/1811/1801
June 30th, 2012
3:10 pm
Headline: “Heat Wave to Test Power Grid As Utility Threatens Strike”
Ah …………. this is when “unions” can be at their finest !
http://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/Heat-Wave-New-York-Temperature-Weather-Forecast-Thunderstorm-160826185.html
Mama Says
June 30th, 2012
3:11 pm
Getalife you have no control, you gave it all up.
Although you are right, in the modern world no rebellion can stand against the war machine that’s why the dems have used the internal mechanisms of government to change the constitution.
But then again you guys have taught use that maybe that is the way to go. Either way you have won
stands for decibels
June 30th, 2012
3:12 pm
Anyway, headin’ offline for awhile. pleasant afternoon, all.
0311/8541/5811/1811/1801
June 30th, 2012
3:12 pm
getalife:
“No side will take on the military so lets stop the false bluster cons.”
No one is going to start a “revolution” as we are far, far from that. But ……………. if it ever does come years and years from now it will be because a large percentage of those “in the military” (along with their hardware) decide to “side” with one cause or the other. Just study your history ………. that’s the way it happens.
That’s when it gets nasty.
JamVet
June 30th, 2012
3:13 pm
Mama, that is true. But understand this. I do not call them secessionists, rebels or insurrections (as Lincoln did, so as to not inflame things further), I call them traitors.
Jewish white males have been victims for a long, long time.
And in this country it was predominantly southern white Christian conservative males who were the guilty party.
Ask the descendants of Leo Frank…
Mama Says
June 30th, 2012
3:13 pm
Decibels,
Do you really think Hitler and those folks did not think they were helping their country’s ?
I doubt that they thought they were engaging in tyranny. Do you
Smoke&Mirrors
June 30th, 2012
3:14 pm
Hey … Mighty.
The sky is falling, the sky is falling…..
0311/8541/5811/1811/1801
June 30th, 2012
3:14 pm
Mama Says @ 3:08
They never do ………. that’s why they destroy the very thing they need.
Mama Says
June 30th, 2012
3:15 pm
Irony, Jam Vet
The white male Jew was indeed a victim but all we have really accomplished is that you cannot ask him his religion now.
DannyX
June 30th, 2012
3:15 pm
Mama, Is this your idea of tyranny?
GIBSON: ”Governor … you imposed tax penalties in Massachusetts?”
ROMNEY: ”Yes, we said, look, if people can afford to buy it, either buy the insurance or pay your own way; don’t be free-riders.”
Mama Says
June 30th, 2012
3:19 pm
The dog biting his owners hand, sad really.
He doesn’t understand there will be no more food does he ?
Dang Jam Vet I am rolling today !
While I have sat on my porch arguing with y’all it has gone from 97 degrees to 102. Why am I out here.
( I just set you libs up, who will jump)
0311/8541/5811/1811/1801
June 30th, 2012
3:20 pm
“History of antisemitism in the United States”
“During the Civil War, General Ulysses S. Grant issued an order (quickly rescinded by President Abraham Lincoln) of expulsion against Jews from the portions of Tennessee, Kentucky and Mississippi under his control. (See General Order No. 11)
Antisemitism continued into the first half of 20th century. Jews were discriminated against in some employment, not allowed into some social clubs and resort areas, given a quota on enrollment at colleges, and not allowed to buy certain properties.
Antisemitism in America reached its peak during the interwar period. The rise of the Ku Klux Klan in the 1920s, the antisemitic works of Henry Ford, and the radio speeches of Father Coughlin in the late 1930s indicated the strength of attacks on the Jewish community.
Antisemitism in the United States has rarely turned into physical violence against Jews. Some more notable cases of such violence include the attack of Irish workers and police on the funeral procession of Rabbi Jacob Joseph in New York City in 1902, the lynching of Leo Frank in 1915, the murder of Alan Berg in 1984, and the Crown Heights riots of 1991.”
The above is just one of many articles. “josef” would be the most qualified on here regarding which American entity has been (and is) the greatest source of danger to Jews.
I will defer to him.
0311/8541/5811/1811/1801
June 30th, 2012
3:21 pm
“I’m reading a book about anti-gravity. I just can’t put it down…”
Mama Says
June 30th, 2012
3:23 pm
See Danny,
It’s like this, unlike you I don’t see the value in my party that you doin yours. Matter of fact I have little confidence in any politician. Hey say what they need to to win and then do whatever they like.
This is the main reason I don’t want them to have more power, they will screw me and you in a heartbeat.
Obama had gone back on so many things it’s unreal. He went back on them in a way that conservatives would support, yet you still love him and his party.
I don’t love Romney, I wanted Ron Paul or someone that thinks like him. A more independent kind of think for yourself person.
So truly, to me, Romney is just another Obama
0311/8541/5811/1811/1801
June 30th, 2012
3:24 pm
YES !! And I’m sending another $100.00 !
“Casino billionaire Sheldon Adelson is making another huge campaign contribution aimed at electing Republicans and voting President Barack Obama out of office.
One of the world’s richest men, Adelson is donating $10 million to the campaign activities of the billionaire Koch brothers.”
Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2012/06/30/ap-source-adelson-giving-10-million-to-aid-gop/?test=latestnews#ixzz1zJ3A8GN8
getalife
June 30th, 2012
3:26 pm
Mama,
The only thing I won was electronic medical records.When you go to the doctor, they have all your medical record on the computer and list the reason of the visit, doctor orders and drugs.
It eliminates mistakes and they print it out to take home. I love it.
Mama Says
June 30th, 2012
3:27 pm
3/11
You cannot point out that racist or antisemites were in other parts of the country too.
Don’t you understand ?
That is a liberal rule of engagement in the south
Brosephus™
June 30th, 2012
3:27 pm
martin the calvinist @ 1:20
The biggest obstacle with your post, and the reason it will never happen is because it calls for the GOP to pass a bill that will raise taxes. Any scenario that you concoct to switch the two parties around requres the GOP to pass a bill that raises taxes. Unless you’re gonna repeal and replace the GOP, that’s not gonna happen anytime in the near future.
————–
This was never about healthcare for regular conservatives it was about government power.
And the SCOTUS affirmed the Constitutional right that Congress has to levy taxes. Whether it’s called a tax, fee, penalty, fine, or anything else, it basically amounts to a tax being paid to the government.
Mama Says
June 30th, 2012
3:30 pm
Getalife
That makes good medicine as does other parts of this bill, but did we need to go as far as we did in order to get it ?
My god the constitution
Skip
June 30th, 2012
3:30 pm
RB, karma has been good to me, you figure it out.
getalife
June 30th, 2012
3:31 pm
None of these disagreements compare to abolishing slavery.
Lets get real.
It is just politics and not worth dying for.
JamVet
June 30th, 2012
3:32 pm
You arch-conservatives in Dixie lost the argument about racism, antisemitism, gay bashing, et al LONG ago. Deal with the consequences.
they have all your medical record on the computer and list the reason of the visit, doctor orders and drugs.
Something that the VA has had for years.
They are so far ahead of these for profit joints it is absurd. And yet another example of how in the realm of health care, the government does things MUCH better that free (LOL!) market…
Brosephus™
June 30th, 2012
3:32 pm
As a conservative the first bill I would write would require that anyone who obtains an abortion will pay a tax of $1000 per procedure. If I call it a tax you can’t stop it and by that means I can have you arrested for not paying your abortion tax.
You could write a thousand bills with the same thing. When Grover hears about it, and you know he will, you will be called on the carpet to repent for your sins. No conservative writes legislation to raise taxes…. EVER!!!
getalife
June 30th, 2012
3:33 pm
But Jam, that is government run health care
getalife
June 30th, 2012
3:35 pm
Mama,
The sc said yes.
Which part of over did you not understand?
Mr_B
June 30th, 2012
3:37 pm
“How about CNN first reporting that ObamaCare had been overturned.”
Probably change about as much as the LA Times declaring Dewey the winner over Truman.
getalife
June 30th, 2012
3:38 pm
Think about billionaires united for a second.
Both parties have legalized unlimited bribes flowing in from billionaires all around the world..
This should give you partisan Americans pause on the blind, mindless partisanship.
Think about it.
Mama Says
June 30th, 2012
3:38 pm
Jam,
Can we argue without to return trips of southern racist BS.
Nobody on here has even tried to say it was right.
We are talking about government powers.
Bro,
I love how you split hairs. Let’s see if the government taxes you it’s the same as a penalty, fee or any over process by which the government is paid.
You miss one huge point. Taxes are a constitutional ability for he government to raise money so IT can provide a service.
I have no idea how you, the court or any other could say the government had the right to impose a PENALTY, which by every definition is punishment, on us if we do not buy a plan from a private business.
Huge difference and they are two separate things. One is in the constitution the other is not
0311/8541/5811/1811/1801
June 30th, 2012
3:40 pm
Mama Says:
I know ………… if you win the war you get to write the history ………. but ask any blacks who have lived in Chicago, Detroit, Boston, Philly, etc. about true racism.
getalife
June 30th, 2012
3:40 pm
“How about CNN first reporting that ObamaCare had been overturned.”
Like this.
Fox did it too but cons can’t say it.
It is ridiculous.
Mama Says
June 30th, 2012
3:40 pm
Oh Bro,
I can always explain to Groover that I am really penalizing you libs for using abortion.
He will be ok with that cause he knows what the word penalty means
FrankLeeDarling
June 30th, 2012
3:41 pm
Mandatory abortions and free medicinal marijuana for all!
0311/8541/5811/1811/1801
June 30th, 2012
3:42 pm
getalife:
What about that “revolution” post ?
Steve - USA ("None of the Above")
June 30th, 2012
3:42 pm
Are you sure “C” wasn’t written by JamVet? Looks like one of his rants.
JamVet
June 30th, 2012
3:43 pm
Yet more red state Republican mooching off the rest of us…
The House passed a transportation and housing spending bill that would boost funding by 11 percent for a government program that subsidizes air travel to rural areas, an initiative long criticized by budget watchdogs as rife with waste.
Lawmakers voted 261-163 to pass the fiscal 2013 appropriations measure. The bill would provide $214 million for the Essential Air Service, which pays carriers to continue flights to more than 100 small communities, such as Dodge City, Kan., and Huron, S.D.
Critics say the flights often are little-used and can cost taxpayers hundreds of dollars per passenger. The program “lavishly subsidizes some of the least essential air services in the country,” said Rep. Tom McClintock, a California Republican.
On June 26 McClintock offered an amendment to cut $114 million from the program. His proposal divided his Republican colleagues, with some saying their constituents depend on the service, and the House rejected it, 164-238.
“It is the only way some of these airports stay open,” said Rep. Tim Huelskamp, a freshman Republican whose district covers 69 counties in central and western Kansas. “It’s a rural issue.” Without the program, he said, his constituents would have to drive hundreds of miles to the nearest airport.
Mama Says
June 30th, 2012
3:48 pm
You libs are funny.
You should change your name to the
WE DO NOT JUDGE YOU BECAUSE IT’S POLITICALLY WRONG UNLESS YOU DON’T AGREE WITH US PARTY
or
THE EVERYONE IS RACIST EXPECT US CAUSE WE JUDGE YOU IN OUR OWN WAY PARTY
or
I RESERVE THE RIGHT TO JUDGE YOU FOR ACTING LIKE YOU JUDGE ME PARTY
then there is the
I AM NOT RACIST BECAUSE I JUDGED YOU TO BE, EVEN THOUGH I DON’T KNOW YOU PARTY
gotta go so I will not read your lib responses for a while.
Can’t wait to see my party names though
0311/8541/5811/1811/1801
June 30th, 2012
3:49 pm
“The lab report said I had type-A blood, but it was a Type-O.”
DannyX
June 30th, 2012
3:53 pm
“Yet more red state Republican mooching off the rest of us…”
JamVet, did the deficits-suddenly-matter-Republicans list the offsets for the increase to their ‘Runways to Nowhere’ funding?
Mr_B
June 30th, 2012
3:54 pm
OK, Mama. You have me convinced. You do NOt have to be racist to be completely wrong.
FruitNewt
June 30th, 2012
3:55 pm
I think the most over-the-top reaction was Romney’s statement prepared and released before SCOTUS announced its decision.
Mr_B
June 30th, 2012
3:57 pm
If government can mandate that I pay for something I don’t want, then what is beyond its power? If the Supreme Court’s decision Thursday paves the way for unprecedented intrusion into personal decisions, then has the Republic all but ceased to exist? If so, then is armed rebellion today justified?
God willing, this oppression will be lifted and America free again before the first shot is fired.”
Why didn’t this yoyo take up arms when the Feds mandated seat belts and catalytic converters.
Brosephus™
June 30th, 2012
3:57 pm
Let’s see if the government taxes you it’s the same as a penalty, fee or any over process by which the government is paid.
It all comes out the same. You pay a penalty for speeding, DUI, or anything else you go to court for. Along with the penalty, there’s usually court costs in the form of fees and such. There’s a recycling “fee” when you buy tires here in GA. The government has been doing this for much longer than I’ve been alive and will likely continue to do the same after I’m dust in a metal box.
You miss one huge point. Taxes are a constitutional ability for he government to raise money so IT can provide a service.
When you DON’T buy insurance because you choose not to or can’t afford to, you’ll be taxed or penalized. Where do you think the extra money for Medicaid is going to come from, taxing corporations more? You buy insurance, and you don’t get taxed. I’ve carried insurance since I was in college, and I don’t plan to NOT carry it. Therefore, I won’t be taxed or penalized by the government. So, I don’t see where the government is going to tax me or penalize me over this anyway. Hell, I’ve been paying for everybody else’s medical insurance, and I’m tired as hell of my premiums jumping 20% or more every year when I barely even use my insurance.
I don’t like this bill, but it is what it is. If you can find a way to keep ME from paying for other people’s medical costs, then I’m all ears.
I have no idea how you, the court or any other could say the government had the right to impose a PENALTY, which by every definition is punishment, on us if we do not buy a plan from a private business.
I can say it because:
a) Congress legislated it.
b) The president signed it.
C) The Supreme Court upheld it.
WHether I like it or not, that’s how our government functions according to the Constitution. If you think any of them have subverted the Constitution, then campaign to repeal and replace Congress and the President. Otherwise, all we’ve seen is the government function as it should.
JAW
June 30th, 2012
3:58 pm
AmVet, I am not too keen on the downloady thing, but these is right up your alley
http://now.msn.com/now/0629-rock-riffs.aspx
Brosephus™
June 30th, 2012
3:58 pm
I can always explain to Groover that I am really penalizing you libs for using abortion.
He will be ok with that cause he knows what the word penalty means
All fine and good, but Roberts has already went on record as saying pretty much that if it walks like a tax, sounds like a tax, and looks like a tax, it is a tax regardless of the name you give it.
DannyX
June 30th, 2012
3:59 pm
Democrats should take a cue from Georgia Republicans, instead of a tax for not having insurance they should call it a surcharge, you know, like they did with the new Georgia Power nuclear plants.
JamVet
June 30th, 2012
4:00 pm
Danny, they are the anti-patriots.
The red staters take hundreds of millions of dollars every year from Uncle Sam, and then tell him that he sucks.
I sweat they would have fought for the British in 1778…
getalife
June 30th, 2012
4:01 pm
scout,
I con revolution ?
Y’all are scared of everything.
Just loud mouth bluster and your health care will not change if you have insurance.
TGT
June 30th, 2012
4:03 pm
None of the above. The most over-the-top response to ObamaCare ruling?
Two answers: First: The executive director of the DNC: “It’s constitutional. B*tches.”
Second: DNC’s new media director tweeting on celebration overheard in the office: “TAKE THAT MOTHER******S!!”
getalife
June 30th, 2012
4:04 pm
corporate media jumped all over the word tax to create conflict.
They focused on it.
Turn it off.
Yellow journalism.
JamVet
June 30th, 2012
4:04 pm
JAW,
WOW!
I’m only about a quarter the way through and ………………….WOW!
Thanks, I appreciate the hell outtta that!
getalife
June 30th, 2012
4:04 pm
TGT,
Hacked.
Brosephus™
June 30th, 2012
4:06 pm
This whole court thing was a complete waste of time. The GOP House has had since they took control in Jan 2011 to craft a viable replacement if they were truly concerned about healthcare costs. As things have played out, it has been revealed that this was yet another attempt in their quest to defeat Barack Obama.
At what point does the GOP quit trying to be the real-life version of Wile E. Coyote trying to catch the Roadrunner and actually focus on doing what they are supposed to do? Has there not been at least one GOP strategist that has suggested that maybe, if they legislated and ran government better than the Democratic Party and Obama, they would defeat them and remove them from power? Usually, when there are two people racing for first place, the one that wins usually out drives or outperforms the other. Only in a demolition derby do you win by destroying your competition. Last time I checked, this country was not a demolition derby.
FrankLeeDarling
June 30th, 2012
4:06 pm
I hope these cons do take up arms
It will be like fish in a barrell
Poof out of our hair
204 more days
June 30th, 2012
4:08 pm
Good post TGT
carlosgvv
June 30th, 2012
4:09 pm
Actually, I have my own “over the top candidate” entry.
It’s all these cons who, with a straight face, say RomneyCare in Mass. is just totally different from Obamacare. Especially since we all know it’s virtually identical.
Orange 12
June 30th, 2012
4:11 pm
“I hope these cons do take up arms
It will be like fish in a barrell
Poof out of our hair”
Listen to yourself
carlosgvv
June 30th, 2012
4:12 pm
Brosephus – 4:06 “doing what they are supposed to do”
In the twisted minds of Republican politicians, they are doing exactly what they are supposed to do. Namely, protect the profit margins of their Corporate sponsors at all costs. This includes telling as many lies as needed about Obamacare to get rid of it and Obama.
Liberal Pariah
June 30th, 2012
4:14 pm
Jay, if you haven’t fallen asleep yet, what do you think of the profanity laced responses of the Democratic Leadership? Or does it not offend because your morality meter only tunes right?
Tundra Dude
June 30th, 2012
4:15 pm
You really think they are going to ever take a righteous stand? Puhleeze. These are NOT people of action.They will sit on the sidelines and b*tch endlessly and hope Donald Trump trickles down on them.
Occupy that…
LOL! Good Un!
Can’t really blame them too much Their intellectual leadership consists of Sarah the Palin, Mucho Cum Loud graduate of the famed Idaho College of Hair and Nails, and that 40-year old professional plumbing student, Joe the Helper (still can’t pass that test).
Liberal Pariah
June 30th, 2012
4:16 pm
carlosgvv…why do you think the insurance companies went along with Obamacare? Because Obama protected the profits of those big corporations. Quit drinking the Republicans only look out for the big corporations Kool-Aid. Your talking points are worn out.
Liberal Pariah
June 30th, 2012
4:18 pm
The sad part is that Sarah the Palin is still more qualified for POTUS than the clown in the White House. Community organizer hahahahaha!!!
getalife
June 30th, 2012
4:20 pm
lib,
Where is palin?
I figured she would go off too.
I guess her fifteen minutes are up.
Impotent Rage against the Obama Machine
June 30th, 2012
4:20 pm
well, I think its time for jaysus to ride in on his dinosaur and
save us all from this sharia law.
pogo
June 30th, 2012
4:21 pm
No need to back bite. Just get of rid of the lying POS that is now occupying the Whitehouse.
getalife
June 30th, 2012
4:22 pm
It would have been great to see these con heads explode over billionaires united or the legalize past insider trading bill but we saw they cheered that on.
Sad but true.
getalife
June 30th, 2012
4:23 pm
pogo,
w is gone.
Midori
June 30th, 2012
4:25 pm
so now “it’s constitutional, b*tches” equates to death threats and calls for armed revolution?
the things one learns on this blog.