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LOL. Press release from one of our stupidest politicians:
http://paul.senate.gov/?p=press_release&id=562
Jun 28, 2012
WASHINGTON, D.C. - Following today's U.S. Supreme Court ruling on Obamacare, Sen. Rand Paul offered the following statement:
"Just because a couple people on the Supreme Court declare something to be 'constitutional' does not make it so. The whole thing remains unconstitutional. While the court may have erroneously come to the conclusion that the law is allowable, it certainly does nothing to make this mandate or government takeover of our health care right," Sen. Paul said.
"Obamacare is wrong for Americans. It will destroy our health care system. This now means we fight every hour, every day until November to elect a new President and a new Senate to repeal Obamacare," he continued.
cyberpj
(10,794 posts)leftyohiolib
(5,917 posts)JoePhilly
(27,787 posts)LiberalLoner
(9,762 posts)woofless
(2,670 posts)Tools are useful.
Ikonoklast
(23,973 posts)Only good now for poking things.
WI_DEM
(33,497 posts)Harmony Blue
(3,978 posts)This is crazy....no wonder non Americans view Republicans as strange lol.
Auggie
(31,246 posts)Blue_Tires
(55,445 posts)For all the quasi-libertarian/teabag rhetoric of freedom and liberty, so few of them have actually READ the constitution aside from the second amendment...
Turbineguy
(37,423 posts)treestar
(82,383 posts)And still hasn't gotten over it and still wants to go back that far.
They think the SCOTUS is only a trial court for maritime disputes.
The Velveteen Ocelot
(116,021 posts)If the Supreme Court says something is constitutional, it's constitutional. That's the way the system works, like it or not. Go read Marbury v. Madison, Senator, before you flap your gums on this topic again.
Ganja Ninja
(15,953 posts)I wonder why?
LynneSin
(95,337 posts)SoCalDem
(103,856 posts)Swede Atlanta
(3,596 posts)Actually you are incorrect. It is well established law in this country from the seminal case of Marbury v. Madison that the Supreme Court determines which acts of Congress or the President are constitutional. It is part of the brilliant checks and balances the Founders included in our form of government.
The ACA is constitutional. You may attempt to repeal it but you will have to repeal a law that is valid and constitutional.
Harmony Blue
(3,978 posts)is futile.
elleng
(131,457 posts)NightWatcher
(39,343 posts)What does he know about the Supremes and Constitutionality? I think the Court does define Constitutionality.
Spazito
(50,645 posts)Like father, like son, both bat-shit crazy.
HappyMe
(20,277 posts)He's a moran.
We're gonna have to work hard to re-elect Obama & Dems. They are pissed off royally, and will stop at nothing.
Johonny
(20,975 posts)no matter how many times the Ron Paul said he was.
Blue_Tires
(55,445 posts)Graybeard
(6,996 posts)He is an embarrassment as a Senator and he embarrasses the Nation that there are people who actually voted him in.
NYC Liberal
(20,139 posts)SCOTUS makes bad decisions and has made many of them. He wants to argue this one was a bad decision? Fine. But until SCOTUS reverses itself, it's constitutional.
Initech
(100,152 posts)Rose Siding
(32,623 posts)..just like the people who vote for them.
PatSeg
(47,774 posts)the Affordable Care Act will destroy???
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God forbid!!!!
truebrit71
(20,805 posts)What a fucking doofus...
lumberjack_jeff
(33,224 posts)Dawson Leery
(19,348 posts)He consistently held higher approval numbers over Rand "Dred Scott" Paul, yet he lost because the southern state wanted to vote against Obama at all costs.
Sad.
Lint Head
(15,064 posts)3catwoman3
(24,145 posts)...IN your own mind if you are OUT of your mind? Hee, hee, hee.
Lint Head
(15,064 posts)Jake2413
(226 posts)I can't believe this guy is a US Senator.
1StrongBlackMan
(31,849 posts)This could get really interesting, in a not very pleasant way.
Here rand paul is challenging the very foundation of our system of government and essential saying, "Just because the Constitutional Authority has decided in a way we don't like ... we are under no obligation to listen to them."
I think there's a term for that ... "punishable by firing squad or hanging by the neck til dead, dead, dead."
SidDithers
(44,228 posts)It's a next generation fuck you.
Sid
WI_DEM
(33,497 posts)hobbit709
(41,694 posts)madinmaryland
(64,934 posts)We have a right to health care?? Whoda thunk!!
rdking647
(5,113 posts)the SCOTUS are the ones to decide of its constitutional...
nadinbrzezinski
(154,021 posts)And the radical comes.
If they rule for us...high respect...yada
If not, damn activist judges.
Rand...you took an oath, time you read that document.
Liberal_Dog
(11,075 posts)Words can't express how embarassed I am about that.
sinkingfeeling
(51,499 posts)obey the Constitution and the nation's laws. Law established the Supreme Court as the final say on the constitutionality of a law.
spanone
(135,952 posts)morningfog
(18,115 posts)good law. We live in a nation of common law. What a complete idiot.