This morning, I have my American flag at the ready for hanging out on my front porch. If Obamacare is not upheld, I will fly it in their face. If it IS upheld, I will fly it half mast.

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It all begins when someone or group of someones decides they know what is best and convinces 50.01% to vote accordingly. That is why democracy unchecked results in dictatorship.

progressoverpeace: by “if the Democrats are victorious” I meant if they keep the White House and regain control of the legislature. I was referring to victory in the election.

I see. Seeing how it was shoved through the last time, I doubt they would be able to get it done, again. Keep in mind that what ended up being ObamaCare was the Senate bill (which was never intended to become law but was only an intermediate bill used to get past one more Senate vote – hence the talk of DemonPass and the like in the House) which became the d facto bill after Scott Brown’s election killed any further chances of passing anything in the Senate. Unless the dems got total control of everything I find the idea of them passing this steaming pile again to be extremely remote. Barky setting off on EOs and other tyrannical tactics is, of course, expected – should America really call it quits and vote him in again.

As for the rest, Congress can pass laws that we don’t like but that doesn’t necessarily mean they are unconstitutional.

Sure. I disagree with many of their idiotic laws which aren’t un-Constitutional, just stupid. Mucking around in individual health insurance is, however, totally and completely un-Constitutional.

Some people, however (I don’t know whether you’re among them), don’t think a that federal income tax, or Social Security, or Medicare are constitutional, and Obamacare would be another step down that road.

The federal income tax is Amendment XVI, which makes its Constitutionality tautological. As to SS and Medicare, I don’t consider them Constitutional at the federal level, but then anyone who can call FICA a “tax” is stretching the definition of that word well beyond reason. What other “taxes” have we ever had where future government services are dependent on past payments and quantity of “taxes”? I can’t think of a one. One can more sensibly call the Empire State Building a “chair” because someone can sit on top of it.

As to the “General Welfare” term (or the “Good and Welfare” term, as per the former dem judiciary chair) which tends to be the lynchpin upon which all leftist schemes eventually come to rest (after they’ve blown by the Commerce Clause) you know what James Madison (the father of the Constitution) said about it:

“With respect to the words ‘general welfare,’ I have always regarded them as qualified by the detail of powers connected with them. To take them in a literal and unlimited sense would be a metamorphosis of the Constitution into a character which there is a host of proofs was not contemplated by its creators.”

Too many lines have been crossed with no consequences. The day of consequences approaches unless we begin to change the course of the ship of state under the rule of law.

Melodramatic, perhaps, but that is what my hara tells me.

As for the rest, Congress can pass laws that we don’t like but that doesn’t necessarily mean they are unconstitutional. Some people, however (I don’t know whether you’re among them), don’t think a that federal income tax, or Social Security, or Medicare are constitutional, and Obamacare would be another step down that road.