WASHINGTON – With the Supreme Court giving President Obama’s new health care law a green light, federal and state officials are turning to implementation of the law — a lengthy and massive undertaking still in its early stages, but already costing money and expanding the government.

The Health and Human Services Department “was given a billion dollars implementation money,” Republican Rep. Denny Rehberg of Montana said. “That money is gone already on additional bureaucrats and IT programs, computerization for the implementation.” (more…)

A Court source tells Salon the chief justice wrote the majority opinion and much of the dissent in the Obamacare case….
(Salon) This past weekend CBS News’ Jan Crawford reported that Chief Justice John Roberts switched his vote in regard to upholding the bulk of the Affordable Care Act. Crawford reports that Roberts voted with the rest of the court’s conservatives to strike down the individual mandate, but in the course of drafting his opinion changed his mind, and ended up siding with the court’s four liberals to uphold almost all of the law.

Roberts arrives in Malta

In response, according to Crawford’s story, the four conservatives then independently crafted a highly unusual joint dissent. If so, this would represent a powerful symbolic gesture: Joint Supreme Court opinions are rare. Normally a justice authors an individual opinion, which other justices may choose to join. Jointly authored opinions are reserved for momentous statements of principle, such as in Cooper v. Aaron, when all nine justices jointly authored an opinion declaring that the court’s anti-segregation decisions were binding on state governments that disagreed with the court’s constitutional interpretations. (more…)

The term “Honest Democrat” is quickly becoming an oxymoron. Elizabeth Warren NOW tries to rewrite history and claim she was never in favor of a single-payer Healthcare System.   Insufferable…..

Here’s ONE

Democrats have perpetrated the biggest tax fraud on the American people ever.   First, to get the law passed they insisted the funding was NOT a tax.   Then they argued before the court it was a tax.  After the Supreme Court agreed and called it a tax, now Democrats try to say it is NOT a tax again…. 

Jack Lew, the Obama White House Chief of Staff, was trying to persuade Chris Wallace on FOX News Sunday that Obamacare was not a tax. But it didn’t work out so well for Lew when Wallace played audio of the Obama lawyer arguing that Obamacare was a tax in front of the Supreme Court. Lew was speechless after being caught in his lie. (more…)

Many people continuing to absorb the recent SCOTUS Healthcare ObamaNation… A few questions pass through my own personal mind:  
FIRST – If the healthcare insurance “mandate” is an allowable, albeit unavoidable, taxation passed on citizens regardless of their economic inactivity then what happens to all those “waivers” granted?   A non-congressional federal department, in this case HHS, cannot lawfully “waiver” taxation?
SECOND – If the first dime of healthcare coverage is now considered taxation, because the first moment of non-engagement in activity is considered taxable, then all healthcare premium expenditures are taxes and therefore automatically deducted from taxable income right?   I mean the only way to collect the taxation is through employment activity, ie. income, and if income expenditures on healthcare coverage are now considered taxes, then they should be deductible from income from the first dime.  No?
(Economist)  AS PETER SUDERMAN of Reason put it, “Some coup”. The individual mandate passes constitutional muster after all. Crisis of legitimacy averted! Akhil Reed Amar’s life has not been a fraud!
However, according to the majority decision by John Roberts, the Supreme Court’s conservative chief justice, the mandate cannot be justified on commerce-clause grounds. Indeed, Mr Roberts wholly affirms the argument that the commerce clause cannot regulate economic inactivity. From the syllabus of the decision: (more…)

Democrats realize how much sh!t they just walked into with the SCOTUS approval of Obamacare yet the TRUTH of funding being actually and specifically a TAX.

The lawyer, Michael Carvin, who argued before the Supreme Court, has admitted that President Obama committed an intentional act of fraud on the American people.   The payment mechanism for ObamaCare was always a “tax”, it was represented internally within the White House discussion as a “tax”, and argued by the administration, successfully, that it was a taxing authority issue to the Supreme Court.
Specifically Carvin presents the case that President Obama, Nancy Pelosi, and Harry Reid intentionally, and with specific and pre-planned forethought, met with their party representatives to conspire and strategize on hiding the language of taxation. (more…)

Prog Talking Point Deconstruction provided by Sarah Palin.

IPAB is a panel of 15 unelected and unaccountable government bureaucrats that would essentially allocate Medicare funds, deciding on which specific care and medical proceedure to approve or reject. In order for the decision that the 15 bureaucrats that sit on the IPAB board make to be overturned, Congress would have to have a supermajority vote. Something that isn’t likely to happen very often.
Further prog deconstruction.   If “Death Panels” do not exist then why would a bi-partisan congressional committee be voting recently to eliminate them? (more…)

….and to think, there was not even an offer for lunch or dinner scheme involved; nor were celebrities needed or fancy campaign swag.    Once again affirming…..

WE ARE THE MAJORITY

If yesterday’s court decision makes no sense to you… Good! You are among those of us who thought that American liberty was protected by the Constitution.  The Constitution tells the Federal Government what power it is ALLOWED to have.  Progs see the Constitution as little more than an obstacle in their lust for power in creating a collective society.  They have worked tirelessly for the last century to slowly make it irrelevant. Yesterday, they took a giant leap forward in building the very government our Founding Fathers tried to protect us from when they gave us our Constitution.
WASHINGTON DC – Mitt Romney’s presidential campaign has raised $5.5 million since the  Supreme Court ruled that President Obama’s healthcare law is  constitutional.
Romney started raising funds immediately after the decision, and in a message to supporters Friday morning his campaign  spokeswoman said he had raised $5.5 million from 55,000 donations.

“As of this morning, we have raised $4.3 million with 43,000 donations online,” spokeswoman Andrea Saul said.   And the funds continue to come in…. (more…)

Many people have wondered what President Obama specifically meant in Tucson Arizona when he called his supporters toward a “New Civility“, a “New Tone”…. 
 Now we know.   All you need to do is CLICK HERE to witness first hand.

(CATO) With the Supreme Court ruling on President Obama’s health care law, everyone is wondering what’s next for big government. Here are some ideas for federal policymakers to consider:
Federal Broccoli Act of 2013: Eat your broccoli, else pay the IRS $1,000.
Federal Recycling Act of 2014: Fill your blue box and put on the curb, else pay the IRS $2,000.
Federal Green Car Act of 2015: Make your next car battery powered, else pay the IRS $3,000. (more…)