Battlecrap – The Stuff *They* Don’t Want You To Remember,… Or Refer Back To….
The leftist usurpers and their willfully blind media cohorts, love to bring up the insufferable talking point(s) about Obamacare being the law of the land. Passed by Congress, signed by the President, and upheld by The Supreme Court; as if this baseline is the principle behind their “get over it” talking point.
You will see this set of talking points in essentially every argument against the current popular demand to defund, delay or otherwise modify Obamacare.
So what I want to do here is focus on that “principle”, and just remind everyone of some simple facts about how this “law” came to be in the first place; and, perhaps, give some assistance when you are pushing back against the manipulation of the discussion.
First, Obamacare was not passed as a regular legislative construct. Not.Even.Close.
Most of you will easily remember exactly how it came to be. In the Fall of 2009, as the National Healthcare was being debated, an awakened electorate began to recognize just how horrid the concept being sold actually was.
We witnessed day after day, after day, of Democrat special interest groups (unions) constructing the concept of our healthcare. As each day passed, opposition grew.
Subsequently, Harry Reid needed to keep all the Senators away from their constituents so they did not hear the voice of the people. Unlike the House Dems, who were flogged at numerous town halls, Reid ”sequestered” the entire Senate and kept them in session over the holiday break of 2009. He would not allow them to pause, return home, and then resume debate and construct in January.
Harry Reid was doing everything he could to buy votes for the horrible legislation, even from his own party members. Remember this is when the “Louisiana Purchase”, the “Nebraska Cornhusker Kickback” and “the Gatorade” deals were struck to buy the votes of Mary Landrieu (LA) , Ben Nelson (D-NE) and Bill Nelson (D-FL), respectively.
This further outraged an engaged electorate who saw what was going on. Then, at 1:32am on Christmas Eve, Harry finally held enough people to put a construct vote through with normal order (60 votes – 58 Democrats and the 2 Independents). No Republicans.
The House of Representatives was entirely controlled by Dems and Speaker Pelosi.
The majority of Americans did not want it then, as they do not want it now. But left wing progressives don’t give a hoot about the majority of We The People – their own ideology rules supreme.
The House had passed a bill, and the Senate had now manipulated their way to pass a bill. But both versions needed to be passed by each other house to become law.
The Senate bill did not stand a chance in the house because it openly funded abortion (the Blue Dog Dem Stupak coalition opposed), and it held all those *now toxic* handouts previously mentioned. The House Bill could not pass the Senate (as constructed) because it did not have Abortion coverage (Stupak Amendment) and did not have the carve outs demanded by Landrieu, Nelson and Nelson.
Neither bill could pass the other Chamber because of the construct. Even though both the House and Senate were controlled by Democrats.
Then on 12/29/09 a new electorate awakening happened. People realized the Ted Kennedy seat was a possible way to stop the 60 vote threshold. This would block the House Bill from becoming law.
Candidate Scott Brown became the possible 41st vote against Obamacare – Millions, and I do mean MILLIONS, flocked to send money to his campaign. His opponent Martha Coakley was caught off guard; she had taken a vacation to the Bahamas with her family for the entire holiday season. By the time she returned on January 3rd, all hell had broken loose. Brown had millions and millions of dollars infused into his efforts, and people from around the nation were sending money, making calls and campaigning on his behalf.
On January 19th, 2010 he stunningly won the election and sent a shock wave through the liberal opposition. A Republican had won Kennedy’s seat with one mandate from America, “Kill Obamacare”.
So the Massachusetts Dem coalition petitioned to delay his seating; They did, but they could not go so far as to give that Healthcare vote to the Dems because of the sheer shock wave of losing the Kennedy Seat to a Republican.
So, Harry Reid dropped regular order, then scrapped the Senate Bill entirely, thereby eliminating the carve out issue, and manipulated a new strategy:
“Deem and Pass”. Then begin “reconciliation” with a simple majority.
Meaning Deem the House Bill passed as accepted to the Senate, and then reconcile all the Senate needs to it with only 51 votes. Additionally, and simultaneously not allowing a single Republican amendment to it.
So who was the “terrorist”, the “extremist”, the antagonist then?
This insufferable origin is what the media fails to note when they say “it’s law”. Yeah, It’s law, but only by manipulation of legislative construct. “Trickery” !
Because of this it was flawed from the outset, it was highly partisan, it was VERY controversial, and it did not pass the 3/5 majority vote rule for Senate Passage. It was passed *despite* the majority of Americans being opposed to it. Period.
Second, the entire construct was a lie. It was sold to the public as *not a tax* by both the President, Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid. Repeatedly the American people were told the financing of the bill would not be a tax. A lie.
Because as soon as the challenges to it came to the Supreme Court; it could only be upheld as a law *if* the fees and penalties within it were considered taxes. If it were not a tax, it would not be constitutional because of the violation of the constitution’s commerce clause.
It had to be a tax to be upheld. That, indeed, is what Chief Justice Roberts decided; again to the angst of the majority of the American people.
Thirdly, the cost was a lie. It was sold to the public as a bill costing, according to the CBO (Congressional Budget Office), roughly $850 billion. This too was manipulated, but the amount was repeated ad infinitum as a selling point.
The cost of Obamacare is now, according to the same CBO, estimated to be almost $3 TRILLION.
So when you see, or hear the Dem/Media talking point about this being a law passed by congress, signed by the president, and upheld by the Supreme Court, remember:
(1) It was passed by legislative manipulation, not regular order. (2) It was signed by the President only after he promised an Executive Order banning abortion (Bart Stupak Amendment) which he subsequently allowed to expire. (3) It was only upheld by the Supreme court as a Tax which is directly contradictory to what the Administration promised. and (4) It costs three times more than originally promised when passe
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