Astroturf? Obamacare's Legal Setback
Philip Klein writes at American Spectator:
Nationwide protests were "Astroturf." Polling was to get better once Congress passed a bill. And the new law was supposed to boost Democrats' electoral chances in November. Throughout their campaign for national health care, liberals tried to convince us that opposition was a joke, only to be proven dramatically wrong each and every time.
This Monday, a federal judge punctured another liberal fantasy -- that constitutional challenges to ObamaCare were frivolous exercises that would be laughed out of courtrooms.
In a 42-page decision, U.S District Court Judge Henry Hudson ruled that the health care law's requirement that individuals purchase insurance "exceeds the constitutional boundaries of congressional power," rejecting the Obama administration's argument that the Commerce Clause gave it the authority to compel the purchase of coverage as part of a larger health care regulatory scheme.
The Founders envisioned a federal government limited by the Constitution and a host of other checks and balances. In contrast, Obamacare's deep offense against all things Declarational and Constitutional -- that is, against human freedom and dignity with God at the center and not the state -- envisions a federal power unlimited in principle by nothing by what the imaginations and machinations of elites in power at a particular moment are able to impose upon a purposefully weakened people.
The Founders divided government so that "We the People" could conquer tyranny. Obamaism divides the people (class warfare) so that government can collect power and conquer freedom.
Obamacare enslaves. A people of dignity created for freedom revolt.