5-Step Repeal Plan: ObamaCare is More Like Prohibition than Social Security
THE FIRST STEP TO REPEAL:
WIN the HOUSE, DEFUND OBAMACARE
OBAMACARE HAS MORE IN COMMON WITH PROHIBITON
THAN SOCIAL SECURITY and MEDICARE
A lively debate ensued yesterday on whether it’s possible/probable to repeal ObamaCare.
It most certainly is–and readers only have to look to the past to find where Americans repealed another highly-unpopular program that was rammed down their throats by those who thought that Government Knows Best: Prohibition.
The talk of repealing ObamaCare was everywhere in the blogosphere. A quick round-up:
* Michele Bachmann, Big Government: We Must Repeal this Bill!
* Bill Whittle, PajamasMedia: FREE WILL AND DESTINY
* Bill Kristol, Weekly Standard: Special Editorial: Repeal
* Jeffrey H. Anderson, The Corner: The Battle Is Lost, and the War Has Begun
* Ace, AofSHQ: We Can Repeal This
* Paul Hsieh, PajamasMedia: ObamaCare: The Coming Battles
Many commentators–some on the Left, some on the Right–insist that once a historic action (entitlement) is taken, it’s impossible to reverse. Which calls into question how we got rid of the whole Prohibition thing.
Believe it or not, this is the proper comparison of ObamaCare: not Social Security, not Medicare. ObamaCare has more in common with Prohibition.
* Both ObamaCare and Prohibition are “noble experiments” which attempt to regulate personal human behavior by an unwieldy, gargantuan federal apparatus. In fact, Prohibition was known as the “Noble Experiment.”
* Both programs are highly-unpopular with a majority of the population.
* Both programs were promulgated by those who thought that government was smarter than ordinary Americans.
* Both programs are examples of the government’s “forcing you to do something you’d rather not do for your own good” philosophy.
It took a Constitutional amendment to make Prohibition the law of the land. While Nancy Pelosi might insist that the unprecedented government power grabs against its citizens are totally Constitutional (“Are you serious?”), we’ll see.
FIVE STEP PLAN TO REPEAL
Regardless, Prohibition was repealed. It took 14 years.
And that was repealing an amendment to the Constitution. Repealing ObamaCare is a walk in the park compared to that process.
Repeal will take a single-minded focus. It will also take 5 easy steps.
1- Fight a holding battle through filing suit in the courts.
Perhaps something as onerous as the government dictating that everyone buy a product is unconstitutional. If individual insurance mandates are ruled constitutional, then it’s hard to see what a renegade Congress and a president bent on usurpation can’t require citizens to do.
2- Stop playing nice.
The MSM will NEVER come to the aid of ordinary citizens. That much is clear. The MSM’s repetition of unfounded allegations over Tea Party “racism” is merely one proof. Ignore them. Barney Frank calls you a sexual slur (“Tea Bagger”), you call him one back (“Faggot”).
It’s not the preferred way. But “civility” is only mentioned when Progressives are on the ropes. When Keith Olbermann is making Teabagger references, no one in the MSM calls him on it.
STOP playing nice. This is our lives and the future of our children these bastards are trying to control. They set the rules of the game, fine. We’ll play by their rules.
If you need bucking up, refer to Dana Loesch’s The Socialists won a battle; Now it’s our turn. If reading this and the comments that follow doesn’t put some fire in your belly, you’re not worth having in the fight anyhow.
3- Take back the House of Representatives.
Get your friends and neighbors registered to vote. Circle November 2, 2010 on your calendar. This is absolutely the first step. Put aside notions of “making a statement” by running third-party candidates. If the Republicans don’t practice fiscal responsibility and listen to their constituents; if the GOP can’t wean itself from earmarks, there’s always time to punish them in 2012. If Republicans won’t act responsibly, the voters/middle class is screwed until another (Conservative? Tea Party?) party can take their place. But, for now, repealing ObamaCare is the number one priority.
Repealing this law is one thing on which conservatives and Libertarians can agree. Conservatives for its crippling debt for future generations and unsustainability–except through huge new tax increases. Libertarians for its assault on the free market and liberties. There’s something to hate for everyone.
In the interim, the House of Representatives can refuse to fund any provision of ObamaCare. Need $10 billion for those 16,000 IRS agents? Sorry, there’s no money. Need to set up a Bureau of Tooth Brushing Compliance? No can do.
Refuse to fund any agency tasked with collecting fines or fees to implement ObamaCare. Refuse to fund any agency that’s job is to regulate the insurance industry in the run-up to full implementation. Cut the purse strings on this monstrosity. Strangle it.
David Axelrod dares Republicans to run on repeal? Game on.
4- Take back the U.S. Senate.
This is doable in 2010, especially with the reckless disregard that the sitting Democrats in the Senate have performed. However, it may be that it will take until 2012. Then, 24 of the 33 senate seats in play are held by Democrats.
5- Elect a president committed to repeal.
Republicans need to make sure that mealy-mouthed RINOs need not apply. It’s a simple question, “Are you going to repeal ObamaCare?” Yes or No?
It’s tempting to cite Mitt Romney’s Masscare Massacre known as RomneyCare here, but here is not the place. Whoever the GOP presidential candidate is must stand for the citizens and not for New York Times/Washington Post’s approval pieces (see J. McCain, 2008).
With a GOP president, repeal is assured.
What? Only 54 Republicans senators? That’s enough: Reconcile it through. In the words of Markos “Daily Kos” Moulitsas: “Screw ‘em!”
There you have it. Americans repealed a Constitutional amendment in 1933. We can repeal this devil spawn of a law.
Oh, and the president who signed the Repeal of Prohibition?
Progressive hero, Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Let his actions be our inspiration.
Ironic, huh?
by Mondo Frazier
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