“Remember When It Was YOUR Health Care!”

In every election there are unexpected, pivotal moments that tip the electorate irreversibly. When these turning points hit in October, they are called an “October Surprise“. In this election, the October Surprise was provided by an unelected, liberal judge in Michigan who believes freedom of choice ends with aborting children – everything else in life will be mandated from DC:

U.S. District Court Judge George Steeh ruled Thursday that the so-called individual mandate — a requirement President Barack Obama opposed during the presidential campaign but later embraced as part of sweeping changes — falls squarely within Congress’s ability under the Constitution to regulate interstate commerce.

Let’s just ignore the minor fact that health insurance cannot be offered or purchased across state lines – so therefore by definition it falls outside the ‘interstate’ commerce clause. The fact is, anyone can make up a rationalization to hang their arrogance on. It is a trivial exercise, as we see with this nonsense.

If the Tea Party movement – and I mean the grass roots, left-of-center to right-of-center, libertarian core of America who rose up for the first time in their live to protest at Town Halls and Tea Party gatherings – needed any rallying point, this is it. This is what created the movement in the first place. It was the rejection of the federal government’s over reach into OUR health care options that caused the backlash we now know as the Tea Party. It was the idea of Obamacare that propelled a little known GOP challenger into the Senate seat held by Ted Kennedy in January of this year. There were other concerns with the liberal mess being deployed by Reid, Pelosi and Obama – but the invasion of our health care was the straw that broke the back of the American voter. This is one place few want the federal government poking their incompetent noses into.

This judge’s decision can and should be overturned. But what we see from this ruling is how the Federal Bureaucracy has grown in all three branches to the point it is almost all cancer, not resolution. (The military and many other isolated areas are still of value). If you want to REALLY keep your health care, you cannot hope for the judicial system to stop the liberal march on our constitutional rights. If you REALLY want to keep your health care (and 70-80% of us do), then you have to get out and vote on November 2nd and throw the Democrats out.

And if the GOP screws up again when it is their turn, we can throw them out in 2 years. The point is, We The People will need to keep throwing them out until they pay attention. Right now, it is imperative we start tearing down this bureaucracy that is a more monument to arrogance and greed than to freedom and individual spirit.

Tags: Constitution, Federal Judge, Interstate Commerce, Obamacare