Virginia AG Cuccinelli: Today’s Ruling Eliminates Funding Mechanism for Obamacare (Video)
Posted by Jim Hoft on Monday, December 13, 2010, 10:56 PM
Virginia Attorney General Kenneth Cuccinelli told Greta Van Susteren that today’s ruling finding the individual mandate unconstitutional eliminates the funding mechanism for Obamacare.
From the video:
Greta: Is there any way that this statute gets funded if the mandate is unconstitutional?
AG Cuccinelli: No it doesn’t. And that’s why the federal government in their briefs conceded that if the individual mandate is unconstitutional all the insurance elements need to go with it because it is the funding mechanism… Now the funding mechanism, the center pole of the tent is gone. So they have no way to finance this. So the federal government is really going to have to go back to the drawing board and hopefully we’ll get a more comprehensive review by the new Congress and get some real health care reform that will put consumers in control and not add more and more and more power to government.
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Redwine commented:
Brilliant! Defund and kill the monster.
gus commented:
This is not about getting HEALTH CARE for American citizens. I wonder if the VA AG understands the point. This is about OBAMA being a MARXIST and the LIBTARDS going along like good little soldiers and LIBTARDS.
There will be no NATIONAL HEALTH CARE bill unless it is OBAMACARE. The fight will be in the COURTS from here on out. God help us. Republicans have approved of MARXISTS and STATISTS when libs have put them up for confirmation.
a former democrat commented:
Thank you thank you thank you Virginia’s atty general. Please keep fighting for Americans who the damn elitists demonrats no longer give a crap about.
Sickofobama commented:
Greta did not look pleased – she likes Obama and would hate to see his #1 agenda item taken away.
Congrats AG Cuccinelli.
I have a question:
Does anybody know why Justice Kennedy on the SCOTUS would be ruling on this case?
GLM In Ohio commented:
#4 – Sickofobama – You caught that too huh? Try as she might, she can’t conceal her true colors. Not only could you see the distress in her face, but at several points she said things that were clearly confrontational. I know FOX says they’re “fair and balanced”, but they can present the news in a “fair and balanced” way without employing the enemy. Van Susteren and Rivera need to hit the bricks in my opinion….
squeaky commented:
[Since Congress failed to pass a new budget for 2011, the House passed a continuing resolution on Dec. 8 to continue funding the government next year. Somebody on the House Appropriations Committee, to Holder's supposed shock and dismay, inserted a provision that prohibits federal funds from being used to prosecute terrorist detainees in federal..] listening to rush a couple of days ago there was something else that obama wanted but since they don’t have a budget……..the dems came out swinging with every hair brain scheme and how many ended up in the waste basket but not before our eyes glazed over…..
http://www.americanthinker.com/2010/12/guess_who_got_eric_holders_bri.html
Militant Conservative commented:
Gee, Ronald Regan tactics. Just defund the target program.
This is my thoughts on abortion, keep it legal, but NO federal
or state funds. Problem solved. Powder is dry
DaveinPhoenix commented:
Wonder what happens to the state laws – as in Massachusetts where the individual health insurance mandate (and subsequent disaster) has been in effect for a couple of years ?
Lee Kwan commented:
Like someone said on Limbaugh’s show yesterday, if salvation is to come to America, it will come from the South.
nadadhimmi commented:
It doesn’t matter a damn bit to the socialists what the courts rule.
Muffin commented:
God bless these people that still see what the American people see – we must be a nation governed by law and not by the whims of an oligarchy. Give us back our Constitution.
Obamacare, ha! Tyrants.
tarpon commented:
AG Cuccinelli credited the tea party folks …
We need to repeal the 17th Amendment, and give the States back their Senate. Then the notion it’s “Schumer’s seat” goes poof. Re-balance the Constitution, the people’s House and the State’s house. The States created the Federal government, it’s time this monster was brought back under control, along with the unfunded mandates.
RickZ commented:
tarpon, I’m certain we can never go back to governors appointing senators. It’s bad enough now with clowns, literally, like Franken in the Senate, but at least they have the veneer of winning an election, as well as standing for election every 6 years. Were governors to appoint senators, who would ever vet them? How could they ever be thrown out of office? I do not remember recalls for senators as being a part of the Constitution.
S. Wolf commented:
RickZ #13
Actually before the 17th it was the state legislatures that elected U.S. Senators and that was a good system.. senators are supposed to represent states, they are not apportioned by population as are representative who do represent the people..
As far as this ruling goes it is a good step toward getting rid of Zerocare.. the Commerce Clause has nothing to do with regulating commerce between individuals and organizations..
‘The Commerce Clause is an enumerated power listed in the United States Constitution (Article I, Section 8, Clause 3). The clause states that the United States Congress shall have power “To regulate Commerce with foreign Nations, and among the several States, and with the Indian Tribes”.’
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commerce_Clause
Unlike the Bill of Rights there is no wording in this clause referring to ‘the people’, it refers only to relationships between the formal lawful entity of the United States and other entities.. nations, states, tribes, not people.
kansas commented:
My insurance rates still went up because of allowing pre-existing conditions and removing lifetime maximums. The whole thing needs to be repealed.
Conservative to the Core commented:
Looks like the ruling will be thrown out.
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Noislamocommie commented:
Man, I see this as being up to justice Kennedy.I,m nervous.