Naturally, our Democratic rulers won’t do anything to contest the ObamaCare invasion, but two thumbs up to any Republicans who try to fight it.
Whether it’s legal for the states to nullify what it I think is a blatantly unconstitutional federal law (I’m not just saying that some provisions are unconstitutional, such as the mandate to purchase health insurance, but that the entire bill is unconstitutional because the Constitution does not authorize Congress to enact any law regarding health care or health insurance) is questionable. The Idaho statute I noted yesterday, for example, might be declared a violation of the supremacy clause by a federal court.
Tough. Do it anyway. This is so momentous that defiance is perfectly justified. If a federal court, even the Supreme Court, rules that Idaho or any other state must submit to every authoritarian sentence in this legislation, the governor should say, “Then come and arrest me and the members of the state legislature who voted for the bill.”
Too bad that didn’t happen back in the 1930s when federal domination was just a gleam in the eye of statists like FDR. If the federal government had been confined to its proper scope all along, we would not be looking at an avalanche of debt, economically ruinous taxes, and the demolition of our liberties. It wasn’t confined, of course, and ObamaCare is the natural, almost inevitable consequence of the growing nanny/entitlement state.
It’s time to show the sort of bravery that the patriots did in 1775. Remember — what they did wasn’t “legal” either.
