Will the recent Supreme court decisions regarding Obamacare backfire for the Liberals in this election year?

The supreme court decision will make healthcare an issue in the 2012 election. It means Romney will either need to distance his most significant legislative accomplish as governor or differentiate Massachusetts' mandatory health care coverage from Obama's health care plan. The latter will be difficult because Obama's health care plan is based on Massachusetts' plan. So it would seem the intellectual debate between the two candidates will come out a wash.

Since most of the healthcare plan, other than a few popular provisions, has yet to be implemented, Romney will need to scare the people about the provisions yet to be come. Scaring people about the unknown is relatively easy and Republicans have proven particularly effective at scaring the American people since 9/11. Similarly Obama will need to convince Americans that Romney, on day 1, will cancel the implemented provisions, provisions the public likes; that the remaining provisions aren't as bad as Romney wants them to think.

Romney's campaign objective appears to be energizing his base while increasing the apathy of the middle. Since the health care debate is likely to help energize the base on both sides, he will take up this debate if he believes his base is bigger than Obama's. Obama's campaign strategy appears to be an attempt to energize the middle by delivering hope for the future. The healthcare debate seems like an ideal platform for both these strategies. Now we will see which is a better strategist. What do you think, can a strategy of fear defeat a message of hope?

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Basically our Government of "Separation of Powers" has got together and rammed it through each branch of Government by fraud!

Now that we have a Dictatorship and no Constitution, why do we need a Supreme Court? By the same token, since we haven't had a Congressional Budget for three and a half years, why do we need a Congressional Budget Office (CBO)?

However, regarding Obama Care, you're thinking short term. This ruling legitimizes taxes on negative actions. Before this they taxed on income and financial activity, now it's taxing you on not doing something. This is your long term chaos. The short term chaos is throwing the borders open and giving all "free" health care, when the reality is actually, health care is not free.

When this was first presented by Obama's lawyer for opinion to the Supreme Court, the specific question asked of him was if this was a tax and he responded, NO!. Had he said yes, no further consideration of this ruling would have even proceeded because our Constitution gives our Government the right to tax. Obama didn't want this nation's citizens to know that was what he was doing and he lied. Now, this is also why the White House representative Jay Carney, is telling the White House Press Corps to tell the public that this is not a tax. However, Justice Roberts' wrote the ruling by action, contrary to our Constitution, that this indeed is a "mandated tax".

Quote directly from the ruling ...

"One key provision is the individual mandate, which requires most Americans to maintain “minimum essential” health insurance coverage. 26 U. S. C. §5000A. For individuals who are not exempt, and who do not receive health insurance through an employer or government program, the means of satisfying the requirement is to purchase insurance from a private company. Beginning in 2014, those who do not comply with the mandate must make a “[s]hared responsibility payment” to the Federal Government. §§5000A(b)(1). The Act provides that this “penalty”will be paid to the Internal Revenue Service with an individual’s taxes, and “shall be assessed and collected in the same manner” as tax penalties. §§5000A(c), (g)(1)."

Consequently, citizens were given no vote on acceptance of this ruling, nor was the origin from the House of Representatives as required by our Constitution, but instead oringated from the Senate. Now, citizens are also subject to a fine if they don't have health insurance and they will still be obligated to obtain it while being fined up until they do so. The only way to eliminate Obama Care is through repeal via a newly elected President, other than Obama. However, this doesn't resolve what Justice Roberts established as a precedence and this is the real "whammy" to this nation.

Robert's precedence is that regardless of whatever administration is in there, the anarchists just got a free gift and you have continual division of everything including people and country, because it will not depend upon the Constitituion, Rule of Law and Equality under the Law, but upon whose party gets in at any time.

You can be taxed on not having something; let's say, you didn't buy a yacht this year and by virtue of this precedence, you can be taxed and fined. The only way to resolve this is through an Amendment to the Constitution, reversing the precedence established illegally by Chief Supreme Court Justice Roberts.

Now, give this a thought, did Chief Supreme Court Justice Roberts violate his Oath of Office by not unholding the Constitution through the issuance of this ruling?. Then, whom and how is a life-time, appointed, Supreme Court Justice removed from office for violation of the Oath?

What this does is illustrate the difference between a Republic and a pure Democracy. Where under a Republic, everybody has certain inalienable rights with the rest being voted upon. Under a pure Democracy, it will depend upon the party in power. In other words, a pure Democracy is two wolves and a sheep voting upon what's for lunch.

Remember what Benjamin Franklin responded to a woman's inquiry, when exiting a Constitutional Convention, She asked "Sir, what have you given us?" and Franklin stated, "A Republic Ma'am, if you can keep it." Consequently, we now have a Democracy.

This video is a good presentation of the American Form of Government ... watch it.

Do you want a global socialist government? The day the democrats took over was not January 22nd 2009, it was actually January 3, 2007... the day the Democrats took over the House of Representatives and the Senate, at the very start of the 110th Congress. The Democrat Party controlled a majority in both chambers for the first time since the end of the 103rd Congress in 1995.
For those who are listening to the liberals propagating the fallacy that everything is "Bush's Fault", think about this: January 3rd, 2007 was the day the Democrats took over the Senate and the Congress. At the time:The DOW Jones closed at 12,621.77 The GDP for the previous quarter was 3.5% The Unemployment rate was 4.6%
George Bush's Economic policies SET A RECORD of 52 STRAIGHT MONTHS of JOB GROWTH Remember the day...January 3rd, 2007 was the day that Barney Frank took over the House Financial Services Committee and Chris Dodd took over the Senate Banking Committee.
The economic meltdown that happened 15 months later was in what part of the economy? BANKING AND FINANCIAL SERVICES!
Unemployment... to this CRISIS by (among MANY other things) dumping 5-6 TRILLION Dollars of toxic loans on the economy from YOUR Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac FIASCOES!
Bush asked Congress 17 TIMES to stop Fannie & Freddie - starting in 2001 because it was financially risky for the US economy.
And who took the THIRD highest pay-off from Fannie Mae AND Freddie Mac? OBAMA And who fought against reform of Fannie and Freddie? OBAMA and the Democrat Congress So when someone tries to blame Bush.. REMEMBER JANUARY 3rd, 2007.... THE DAY THE DEMOCRATS TOOK OVER!" Budgets do not come from the White House. They come from Congress, and the party that controlled Congress since January 2007 is the Democrat Party.
Furthermore, the Democrats controlled the budget process for 2008 & 2009 as well as 2010 & 2011. In that first year, they had to contend with George Bush, which caused them to compromise on spending, when Bush somewhat belatedly got tough on spending increases.
For 2009 though, Nancy Pelosi & Harry Reid bypassed George Bush entirely, passing continuing resolutions to keep government running until Barack Obama could take office. At that time, they passed a massive omnibus spending bill to complete the 2009 budgets.
And where was Barack Obama during this time? He was a member of that very Congress that passed all of these massive spending bills, and he signed the omnibus bill as President to complete 2009.
If the Democrats inherited any deficit, it was the 2007 deficit, the last of the Republican budgets. That deficit was the lowest in five years, and the fourth straight decline in deficit spending. After that, Democrats in Congress took control of spending, and that includes Barack Obama, who voted for the budgets.
If Obama inherited anything, he inherited it from himself. In a nutshell, what Obama is saying is "I inherited a deficit that I voted for and then I voted to expand that deficit four-fold since January 20th."