One more federal judge has decided that ObamaCare is constitutional, and now we have a chorus of Democrats opining this makes the actual score 3-2 in the judicial process for their side. Isn’t it nice that we’re keeping score instead of following the US Constitution as written, not with rulings from Bizarro World. Constitutionalists will disagree with the most recent decision, however it is worth noting the judge in this latest decision thought her imagination could neatly rewrite parts the Constitution to fit her little puzzle where square pegs fit into round holes.

The heart of these cases concerning health care reform is whether the particular government’s power to regulate “Commerce . . . among the several States” is so broad it can easily mandate that everyone purchase medical insurance. Judge Gladys Kessler of the Washington DC district court says in her 64-page ruling that this power involves regulating even “mental activity, i.e., decision-making.”

The distinction among activity and inactivity is actually “of little significance,” Judge Kessler writes.

“It is pure semantics to argue that an individual who makes a choice to forgo health insurance is not ‘acting’ . . . Making a choice is an affirmative action, whether one decides to do something or not do something. They are two sides of the same coin.”

Hold on, we have a runaway judicial train! At the very least Judge Kessler is using a trick coin.

In other words, there isn’t any Constitutional principle that restricts nationwide coercion. Virtually any determination which doesn’t adhere to exactly what the federal government believes you should do is surely an economic choice and as a consequence everything is subject to rules and government regulations.

Although Judge Kessler may not have planned it, she has demonstrated that this real debate is coming  from a federal government of limited as well as enumerated powers as realized by the Founders, but also an authority whose reach incorporates “mental exercise.”

Now the geniuses in the Obama administration wish to regulate your mind since they were so successful at doing so in the 2008 election when so many people were transformed into Obama Zombies.

Thomas Jefferson warned that judges, always eager to expand their own jurisdiction, would “twist and shape” the Constitution “as an artist shapes a ball of wax.” Indeed!

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How nice, Muammar Gaddafi and Barack Hussein Obama pals, friends and “rulers.”

During the current upheaval in Libya, Barack Obama stay fairly silent for day while Mr. Gaddafi was mass murdering the people of Libya. But last April Mr. Gaddafi had glowing praise for Mr. Obama. When Obama finally did speak on the crisis he offered a tepid response and never mentioned Mr. Gaddafi by name.

The UK Telegraph headline declares: Obama Administration’s spineless response to Colonel Gaddafi’s reign of terror:

Obama administration is stuck in classic deer in the headlights mode, offering little more than mealy-mouthed statements condemning the state-sponsored violence against anti-government protesters on the streets of Tripoli, Benghazi, Tobruk and other key Libyan cities…

…Obama makes Jimmy Carter look like General MacArthur by comparison. The US administration needs to wake up from its slumber and start showing some real leadership on the world stage in place of its existing milquetoast foreign policy.

In a speech published in London-based al-Hayat newspaper, Gaddafi praised Barack Obama, called him a “friend” and said there is no longer any dispute between his country and the US.

Speaking in the Libyan city of Sirt at an event marking the 24th anniversary of an American attack on Libya, he said: (Emphasis LCs)

“At the time, we were the target of the American cannon, the American navy challenged us in the gulf of Sirt and attacked us all along Libya’s shores. America tested Libya, and the Libyan people resisted the large country, but today, thank God, the difference is great.”

“Now, ruling America is a black man from our continent, an African from Arab descent, from Muslim descent, and this is something we never imagined – that from Reagan we would get to Barakeh Obama.”

Gaddafi stressed that Obama’s presidency is “a major historical gain” and said, “He is someone I consider a friend. He knows he is a son of Africa. Regardless of his African belonging, he is of Arab Sudanese descent, or of Muslim descent. He is a man whose policy should be supported, and he should be assisted in implementing it in any way possible, since he is now leaning towards peace.”

He continued, “I urge all peoples to give him this chance and to support this policy, because America is a country that, when its policy is bad – harms the world, and when it is good – it helps the world.”

“The dream that Obama has for a world free of nuclear weapons will come true. This is something that no previous American president has proposed. Obama is a man who opposes wars that previous American presidents were entangled in; he has declared that he will withdraw from Afghanistan and Iraq – something which has never been proposed before.”

Despite the warm sentiments towards the American leader, he stressed, “The Arabs hate America, there is no doubt. There is not an Arab that loves America, and even the leaders who the United States considers allies or friends – hate it. The external love is merely hypocrisy or pragmatism. The reason for this is clear – Palestine.”

Mr. Obama has had his chance Mr. Gaddafi and you’re correct about one thing – Barack Obama is NO Ronald Reagan. Indeed!

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The Washington Post reviews that “the daunting tower system of national, state and also local debt in the United States may reach a level this year unparalleled just after World War II and by now exceeds the size of the entire overall economy, according to government estimates.” But there are a number of large differences between our country wide debt now and the financial debt in 1946. The Post reviews:

“State and municipal governments through Sacramento to Madison to Harrisburg have compiled about $2.4 trillion indebted, or more than 15 percent involving GDP.”

And even this specific total is understating the problem. Recent reports show that state as well as local governments are seriously underestimating their pension and profit promises, including a $574 billion dollars shortfall for the nation’s top main cities and a possible $3. A several trillion shortfall for the claims. The cause of these crippling monthly pension and benefit obligations isn’t secret. The Post points out:

“Public employees often enjoy far more generous pension and health-care positive aspects, and these are at the root with the long-term budget problems confronting a lot of states.”

How would this happen? Many state and neighborhood governments not only spend excessive amounts of taxpayer money today but promise upcoming spending far beyond the method for taxpayers to pay for it. The answer is government unions. And across the country, legislators and governors are starting to fight back.

The skilled left (including the AFL-CIO, the SEIU, your Reverend Jesse Jackson, the NEA, AFSCME along with Barack Obama) is trying to represent these budget battles as a possible assault against all unions. Nevertheless as Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker (R), who’s pushing legislation to stop government union bargaining strength, explained, this is just simply false:

The bill I submit isn’t aimed at state workers, also it certainly isn’t a battle with unions. Whether it was, we would have eradicated collective bargaining entirely or even we would have gone following your private-sector unions. But, we did not since they’re our partners in monetary development. We need them to allow us to put 250,000 individuals to work in the private sector on the next four years.

Walker is correct: Government unions are inherently completely different from private-sector unions. The purpose of private-sector unions is to get workers a more substantial share of the profits they will help create. But federal government is a monopoly and earns absolutely no profits. All government unions carry out is redistributing more tax dollars from taxpayers to unions. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt wrote in 1937:

“All government employees should realize that the process of collective bargaining, as usually understood, cannot be transplanted into the public service,” but as recently as 1959, the AFL-CIO Executive Council stated that “government workers have no right [to collectively bargain] beyond the authority to petition Congress—a right available to every citizen.”

Ohio Governor John Kasich (R) additionally recognizes the key difference between private-sector and government unions, telling the Associated Press Monday:

We have an $8 billion budget hole in Ohio. We have a third of our college students that leave Ohio after three years. We’ve lost 600,000 jobs in the last 10 years. Only California and Michigan have lost more than that. And part of the reason why we are pushing collective bargaining is we frankly want to give the managers in our local communities and our schools the ability to control their costs so they don’t have to raise taxes and drive businesses out and more jobs out.

By granting government employees the power to collectively negotiate, government unions have completely politicized the actual civil service. State as well as local employees in twenty- eight states are required to pay total union dues or be fired. Using this government coercion, federal government unions have amassed tremendous savings that they use to strategize for higher taxes and pay for government workers. The superior outside spender in the last election ended up being the American Federation of State and County Municipal Employees ($91 million). Governor Mitch Daniels (R-IN), who signed a professional order ending state employee collective bargaining his very first month in office, spoke in complete support for Governor Walker:

The people who are doing the demonstrating, and their allies … spent that state broke. … The most powerful special interests in America today are the government unions. They’re the leading financial contributors. They have muscle, a lot of times their contracts provide for time off to go politick and lobby.

And lobby along with politick government unions have. Across the country, through Arizona to California and Minnesota to Maine to New Jersey and more, government unions have forced legislation and ballot steps that raise taxes as well as spending. In Trenton, New Jersey, Governor Chris Christie (R) framed the actual debate:

In Wisconsin and Ohio, they have decided there can no longer be two classes of citizens: one that receives the rich health and pension benefits, and the rest who are left to pay for them. These ideas are not red or blue. They are the black and white of truth.

Conservative governors across the land should absolutely work to be able to reform the way public-sector unions drain our economy. As Governor Christie told MSNBC’s ‘Morning Joe’ right now:

“We’re not trying to break the unions, the unions are trying to break the middle class.”

Two-Thirds of Wisconsin Public-School 8th Graders Can’t Read Proficiently—Despite Highest Per Pupil Spending in Midwest reads the headline.

Teacher unions on fraudulent sick days – we never get what we pay for.

Government unions the bane of American society – The Enemy Within, indeed!

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