Keith Hennessy of the Hoover Institution has the skinny. Basically, we can repeal by reconciliation, but first we have to pass a damn budget. And then: Future Republican majorities can work with moderate Democrats to enact needed insurance market reforms and the bipartisan Wyden-Ryan Medicare reform plan, which provides a stronger system of competing private… Read More A Viable Health-Care Reform Strategy
You should, too. We can pound the keyboards in limp frustration at the hollow-souled priests of Leviathan, or we can put our money where our mouth is. Or as Stacy McCain puts it: Tomorrow is Independence Day. Fight for your freedom.
Please shut up about Harriet Miers. Harriet Miers was not nominated for the post on the Supreme Court that went to John Roberts. Harriet Miers was nominated for the post that went to Samuel Alito, after conservatives had this reaction to Harriet Miers: So please stop all references to Miers vis-a-vis the ObamaCare ruling, such as… Read More Harriet Miers Would Not Have Saved Our Bacon, Or A Message to the Ignorami on My Side of the Aisle
Insert your own Mayan calendar joke here. Outages are not inevitable. The German power grid has outages at an average rate of 21 minutes per year. The winds may howl. The trees may fall. But in Germany, the lights stay on. There’s no Teutonic engineering magic to this impressive record. It’s achieved by a very… Read More David Frum Said Something Interesting…
Jeff Goldstein embraces — outlaw-style — the new federal power to tax: Writing my congressman to demand that liberals be “taxed” for not carrying arms, going to church, and driving battered old F150s. You know, for the costs to society of not being prepared, conscienced, and self-reliant. Welcome to your bright tomorrow, comrade. Once you get the… Read More Unintended Consequences, ObamaCare Edition
From that evergreen source of real news, Ace’s sidebar. This guy is not kidding. “The President’s health care law must be fully repealed as all of its promises have proven false. We were told it was not a tax hike, but this ruling confirms it is an unprecedented and enormous tax on the poor and… Read More Jim DeMint Calls For ObamaCare Resistance
Don’t like the law? Just re-write it! The dissent acknowledges that if an ambiguous law can be read in a way that renders it constitutional, it should be. It distinguishes, though, between construing a law charitably and rewriting it. The latter is what Chief Justice John Roberts has done. If Roberts believes that this tactic… Read More NRO: Robert’s Folly, AKA the Return of Earl Warren
Protein Wisdom was right, and we were wrong. Roberts has surrendered to Leviathan, and given us a ruling that makes no sense on a law that makes no sense. The AFA (ObamaCare) cannot be justified under the commerce clause, but can be justified as a tax. The Administration explicitly said it was not a tax,… Read More Good Thing John Roberts was So Carefully Vetted…
This is blowing up all over, but Patterico has the key detail: I just got off the phone with Aaron and he and his wife are a little shaken up but OK. The officers had machine guns but did not point them at Aaron. They were quickly able to determine it was a hoax. At… Read More On the Aaron Walker Swatting
Long weekend, long day, blah, whatever. We’re all waiting for the Supremes to hand down their ObamaCare verdict anyway.
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