After Supreme Court loss, GOP focuses on Obama’s claim mandate is ‘absolutely not a tax increase’
by George Bennett | June 28th, 2012Stung by today’s Supreme Court ruling upholding the individual mandate and most of the federal health care law, Republicans are trying to salvage some political gain by noting President Obama‘s past insistence that the mandate “is absolutely not a tax increase.”
While Obama and his administration refused to call the mandate a tax, Chief Justice John Roberts says it is, and that’s what makes it constitutional.
“Because the Constitution permits such a tax, it is not our role to forbid it, or to pass upon its wisdom or fairness,” Roberts wrote.
Mitt Romney‘s campaign, Sen. Marco Rubio and a variety of other Republicans quickly tried to paint Obama as a massive tax-hiker and pointed to his 2009 interview with ABC’s George Stephanopolos.
“For us to say that you’ve got to take responsibility to get health insurance is absolutely not a tax increase,” Obama said at the time.
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June 28th, 2012 at 11:45 am
MASSIVE WIN!
SCREW THE SPIN!
Thank you President Obama!
Thank you Democrats!
June 29th, 2012 at 12:54 am
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June 30th, 2012 at 8:45 pm
Maybe I am asking too much, but… Since Pam Bondi and Governor Rick Scott ACTUALLY WORK in Florida for Floridians, do me a favor.
Before pandering to a national audience, have a press conference IN FLORIDA with a Florida TV show. Maybe we citizens would like to hear FIRST HAND whether you will be in compliance of a federal law.
And now we know why Pam Bondi is not fighting for citizens in this voter purging, or FP&L and Florida Progress rate increases before the PSC. She’s like a wife who sits at a bar in pretty clothes her husband buys her, instead of being home with her husband.
And since we have 825,000 illegal immigrants, mostly working in agricultural US Sugar and Fanjul low paying jobs, I would appreciate “E-sig” for verification.
If the federal database is good enough to sue over to bump thousands of people from the voter roles, it should be good enough to keep illegal non citizens from FLorida’s welfare, AFDC, and free medical from our hospitals.
Shouldn’t we expect the billion dollar global companies to provide these services to workers in THEIR fields, instead of this “negative externality” of dumping these costs on the taxpaying public?
As usual, it is a pleasure having GOP Republicans breach their fiduciary to the public, and embarass us (Crist and Greer) with their fraud and scandals. Between Bondi, Scott or Rep Mica doing their FOX yacking, I do not know who embarasses me more.
July 1st, 2012 at 3:12 pm
Over the last three or four years many people have come to realize that our great nation is on the brink of total destruction as we have know it to function since the end of World War II.
Probably it was the collapse of the economy that brought most able bodied capital producing Americans to this realization because when the economy is good the people are making, spending and enjoying the fruit of the labors. In essence all is well because they are fat, dumb and happy and don’t think for a moment the people who manipulate the government systems don’t know that.
They are well trained on just how to make the people jump through hoops; how to make them jump even higher when they want or feel the need to.
The sad reality is when Camelot crashed most people began to blame everyone but themselves. Remember all of those hundreds and perhaps thousands of folks you have met and talked with over the years who always seemed to end a conversation with the words “there are two things I don’t like to talk about; politics and religion.” Well, while everyone was busy being fat, dumb and happy riding their motorcycles; flying their personal aircrafts or boating and vacationing on the French Rivera those same politicians folks didn’t want to talk about were busy planning our future. And the results of those plans were slanted in their favor. As for the religion people didn’t want to talk about well; your politicians took care of that for you as well.
For those who have been too busy and asleep at the wheel of the regression (opposite of progress) through the use of Federal Tax laws with the threats of losing their tax exempt status’ our government has for a long time now dictated what our Clergy can and can not say from their pulpits! For those non-believers feel free to ask your local pastor what this means.
Almost immediately after entering the greatest economic downturn since the end of World War II many folks not knowing exactly what to believe nor who to blame began to blame both political parties. It is of course true there is plenty of blame to go around for sure. But, the blame game will not solve this crisis. The forming of the Tea Party movements based on the Boston Tea Party revolution concerning taxation without representation was most certainly a deciding factor with many races in the mid term elections of 2010.
However lest we forget the Tea Party organizations were and still are led mostly by political novices not trained in the art of political manipulation of the people. Experts in the field of politics at first shied away from the Tea Party groups but, once clear leaders of the movement began to surface political experts moved in for the kill with promises of turning Tea Party leaders into “Save Our Country” political leaders sure to win elections because they had come from no where to do just that. Only the well financed and organized were successful at defeating the well healed politicians who remain in control at this time.
Every person who has come forth to take a stand against the direction our politicians are taking this country is a patriot! The problem with all organizations is they start out for a good purpose but they all end the same way; a few strong willed people always wind up controlling the organization while the other good people become discouraged and drop by the wayside. Soon you are left with nothing more than another social club meeting which brings forth no real benefits to the original cause for which it was formed.
Many Tea Party organizations have become sources of education; more particularity spending time to educate the people on the Constitution and Bill of Rights and such. This is a very good cause; Lord knows we The People are in dire need of all the education we can get.
But, the political genius’ of the two major political parties certainly do not want the people educated as to how they are able to manipulate the system. By doing so they are at least nationally able to play ball back and forth between themselves with little or no interference from minor parties or their candidates.
For various reasons over the last several years many folks have abandoned their longtime political party affiliations to become independents or NPA (no party affiliation) or other registrations available to them. Many former Republicans deserted the Republican party over the last presidential election when it appeared the party worked harder to select the least viable candidate to oppose the Democrats than they actually worked to elect that nominee. These people belong to other parties today and some even support candidates from other than Republican and/ or Democratic parties.
If it is the goal of a majority of the voters (people) not to return our president to office they are left but with one other choice. That choice is the presumptive Republican nominee Mitt Romney. Why? Because it is almost impossible for any other of the many minor party candidates to win election to the office of President of The United States of America!
Probably the most viable third party candidate in recent American history was Texas businessman Ross Perot. On November 3, 1992 in a three man race with sitting President George H. W. Bush and Bill Clinton; Perot received nearly twenty million of the popular votes while George H. W. Bush received forty million. And of course we know the winner of the 1992 presidential election was Bill Clinton. You see, Bill Clinton was elected by a majority of 370 votes of the Electoral College. George H. W. Bush received 168 of those votes and with all the money Ross Perot spent in the election held of November 3, 1992 he did not receive one Electoral College vote. Needless to say all of his efforts and all of the money he spent was a waste of time and money on his part! But some still argue that he helped Bill Clinton beat George H. W. Bush.
So, why is it impossible for a third part candidate to become president of the United States? Because; the holder of the highest office in the land is not elected by the people and their popular votes! The president is elected by the 538 members of the Electoral College. So the man who is elected to the office of president of the United States in November 2012 only needs to receive 270 votes from the Electoral College. For those who are mad at the system and out to prove a point that the entire system is corrupt and choose to waste their votes on some candidate other than Mitt Romney – they might just was well go ahead and cast that vote for Barack Obama because in the end he will benefit from those wasted votes just like Bill Clinton benefitted in 1992 by having a strong well funded third party candidate in that race.
How the Electoral College works today-
http://archive.fairvote.org/e_college/today.htm
July 3rd, 2012 at 11:22 pm
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July 5th, 2012 at 6:09 am
I have to hand it to Mitt the liar. Going around screaming the the health care mandate in “Obamacare” is a tax and spouting his “mandate” was a penalty. He must think he can hood wink the majority of Americans. We know he can hood wink the uneducated lemming repugs. I don’t think that will work for the Independent voters however. We can already see that the Rethugs are eroding the rights of women, Hispanics and the gay population. I suggest for every bill proposed to change a woman’s right to choose add to that same bill that all must surrender their guns.Let’s see how that plays out!