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In Case You Didn’t Notice, ObamaCare Is Both Unconstitutional and Un-American

Posted on | January 31, 2011 | 19 Comments

This falls under the category of “Not Exactly News,” although it’s good to have a federal judge say so:

A second federal judge ruled on Monday that it was unconstitutional for Congress to enact a health care law that requires Americans to obtain commercial insurance, evening the score at two-to-two in the lower courts as conflicting opinions begin their path to the Supreme Court.
Unlike a Virginia judge in December, Judge Roger Vinson of Federal District Court in Pensacola, Fla., concluded that the insurance requirement was so essential to the workings of the Affordable Care Act that its unconstitutionality required that the entire Obama health care law be invalidated.
“The Act, like a defectively designed watch, needs to be redesigned and reconstructed by the watchmaker,” Judge Vinson wrote.

Liberals are whining about like you’d expect, while conservatives are chuckling at Judge Vinson’s cleverness:

“I note that in 2008, then-Senator Obama supported a health care reform proposal that did not include an individual mandate because he was at that time strongly opposed to the idea, stating that ‘if a mandate was the solution, we can try that to solve homelessness by mandating everybody to buy a house,’” Judge Vinson wrote in a footnote toward the end of the 78-page ruling Monday.

Bwaaahahahaha! Dave Weigel detects a bit of Tea Party sentiment in this part of Judge Vinson’s ruling:

It is difficult to imagine that a nation which began, at least in part, as the result of opposition to a British mandate giving the East India Company a monopoly and imposing a nominal tax on all tea sold in America would have set out to create a government with the power to force people to buy tea in the first place.

Bwaaahahahaha! Chew on that one, lefties!

(Via Memeorandum.)

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