Dems Scramble to Scuttle ObamaCare Nullification
Posted by on Friday, January 28, 2011
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Rep. John Rusche (D-Lewiston), the House Minority Leader, voted in 2008 “to direct the Idaho Transportation Board and the Idaho Transportation Department not to implement the provisions of the REAL ID Act of 2005.” Idaho was one of 25 states that helped to nullify this unconstitutional national ID card.
In defiance of common sense, more than 150 years of history and settled law, and the opinions of constitutional experts, Rusche is now engaging in meaningless grandstanding against HB 59, a bill to “provide that no department or agency of the state of Idaho shall take certain action to implement certain public laws.” Without quoting the whole bill, it estimates that not implementing ObamaCare will save Idaho taxpayers more than $228,000,000!
“Rather than pursue the accepted recourse for challenging federal laws...” Rusche's press release says. Wait. Is he talking about the accepted recourse he pursued in 2008 for refusing to implement unconstitutional federal acts of usurpation? No, that would be too consistent. His current stunt is particularly dangerous in that he wants to waste taxpayer dollars and time on ObamaCare. Such action simply cannot be reconciled with his sworn obligation to uphold the U.S. Constitution and the Idaho Constitution. Any more questions about why he's the Minority Leader?
But you may have some questions about why our Attorney General was reelected when you discover how he's come out of the closet on the wrong side of the issue. Democrats are relying on an opinion they got from his office as ammunition for their publicity stunts, with the Associated Press serving as their usual accomplice.
Here's a quote from the A.G. opinion that this issue really, "represents the apex of the ongoing argument between Alexander Hamilton and Thomas Jefferson over the scope and influence of the fledgling federal government."
Unfortunately, this is not the first time the A.G. has come down on the Big Government side of the argument. Time for a new A.G.?
Here's the limited government side of the argument, “State vs. Federal: The Nullification Movement.”
To paraphrase Rusche, “At a time when more than 70,000 Idahoans can’t find work, school budgets are bursting at the seams to provide uniform and thorough administrator salaries and benefits, and services for our state’s most vulnerable citizens are in jeopardy of being put out of business by government regulations and takeovers, it’s appalling that minority lawmakers would waste our time and taxpayer dollars implementing ObamaCare, another bureaucracy like those that have never worked and cannot succeed and that does not address our state’s greatest challenges.”
He could continue, “Nullification has been used—successfully I might add—in efforts such as the one in 2008. I’m quite certain history will judge this similarly.”
10 states have already introduced legislation similar to HB 59 this year! This is our only chance to stop this horrendous legislation. Our current system of private health care will just go away and it will be difficult, if not impossible, to bring it back.
In defiance of common sense, more than 150 years of history and settled law, and the opinions of constitutional experts, Rusche is now engaging in meaningless grandstanding against HB 59, a bill to “provide that no department or agency of the state of Idaho shall take certain action to implement certain public laws.” Without quoting the whole bill, it estimates that not implementing ObamaCare will save Idaho taxpayers more than $228,000,000!
“Rather than pursue the accepted recourse for challenging federal laws...” Rusche's press release says. Wait. Is he talking about the accepted recourse he pursued in 2008 for refusing to implement unconstitutional federal acts of usurpation? No, that would be too consistent. His current stunt is particularly dangerous in that he wants to waste taxpayer dollars and time on ObamaCare. Such action simply cannot be reconciled with his sworn obligation to uphold the U.S. Constitution and the Idaho Constitution. Any more questions about why he's the Minority Leader?
But you may have some questions about why our Attorney General was reelected when you discover how he's come out of the closet on the wrong side of the issue. Democrats are relying on an opinion they got from his office as ammunition for their publicity stunts, with the Associated Press serving as their usual accomplice.
Here's a quote from the A.G. opinion that this issue really, "represents the apex of the ongoing argument between Alexander Hamilton and Thomas Jefferson over the scope and influence of the fledgling federal government."
Unfortunately, this is not the first time the A.G. has come down on the Big Government side of the argument. Time for a new A.G.?
Here's the limited government side of the argument, “State vs. Federal: The Nullification Movement.”
To paraphrase Rusche, “At a time when more than 70,000 Idahoans can’t find work, school budgets are bursting at the seams to provide uniform and thorough administrator salaries and benefits, and services for our state’s most vulnerable citizens are in jeopardy of being put out of business by government regulations and takeovers, it’s appalling that minority lawmakers would waste our time and taxpayer dollars implementing ObamaCare, another bureaucracy like those that have never worked and cannot succeed and that does not address our state’s greatest challenges.”
He could continue, “Nullification has been used—successfully I might add—in efforts such as the one in 2008. I’m quite certain history will judge this similarly.”
10 states have already introduced legislation similar to HB 59 this year! This is our only chance to stop this horrendous legislation. Our current system of private health care will just go away and it will be difficult, if not impossible, to bring it back.
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