ran 4.2 milesHappy Valentines Day. In case you didn’t know, on this day in history, approximately 278 A.D., Valentine, a priest in Rome during the rule of Claudius II, was executed. In an effort to maintain a strong army “Claudius the Cruel” observed that men were unwilling to join his military because of their strong ties to their wives and children. To reverse this problem, Claudius banned all engagements and marriages in Rome. Valentine deemed this decree to be unjust and defied Claudius by continuing to perform marriages for young lovers in secret. Upon discovering Valentine’s actions Claudius ordered his arrest and sentenced him to death. He was beheaded and eventually declared a saint for his great passion and service to holy matrimony. Over time, February 14 became a date for exchanging love messages and poems or simple gifts such as flowers. So that’s where Valentines Day came from.
Back to the present, Representative Steve King of Iowa is working toward an effective halt to Obamacare. Through a tactic used by democrats to put a halt to the Vietnam War decades ago, he plans to add an amendment to the continuing resolution, which will prohibit all federal funds from being spent to enforce the provisions of Obamacare.
In an article from The Washington Times, King explains that when Obamacare was drafted Democrats “Quietly included provisions that trigger automatic and mandatory funding in the law. An additional $105.5 billion is about to be spent to implement and enforce Obamacare unless action is taken in the continuing resolution to stop it.”
This continuing resolution, the same tactic that ended the Vietnam War and can end Obamacare now, would completely defund Obama’s unconstitutional health care law. The unfortunate alternative is that the first $105.5 billion gets pumped into Obamacare, like lighting a highly explosive ignition source that can’t be put out, and any measures taken after that to repeal Obamacare is weighed against the fact that so much money has already been invested in it. And with every argument made against it and every proof of its unconstitutionality revealed, money will still be pumping into it, lighting the fire more and more, until right and wrong no longer matter. The only argument that’s left is, “Well, we just invested hundreds of billions of dollars in this thing. Are you going to tell America that all of that money is lost?”…or something of that conniving and deceitful politic-speak nature.
This story should be in the news tomorrow and the House of Representatives has a useful majority of conservatives who are primed to fight for their constituents, so hopefully it works. The first step was taken today in a committee meeting and passed eight to four. But, like everything else in Washington this will likely drag on for a while. Something has got to give soon or the Obamacare train is going to roar out of control.
1,624.7 miles to go.
Back to the present, Representative Steve King of Iowa is working toward an effective halt to Obamacare. Through a tactic used by democrats to put a halt to the Vietnam War decades ago, he plans to add an amendment to the continuing resolution, which will prohibit all federal funds from being spent to enforce the provisions of Obamacare.
In an article from The Washington Times, King explains that when Obamacare was drafted Democrats “Quietly included provisions that trigger automatic and mandatory funding in the law. An additional $105.5 billion is about to be spent to implement and enforce Obamacare unless action is taken in the continuing resolution to stop it.”
This continuing resolution, the same tactic that ended the Vietnam War and can end Obamacare now, would completely defund Obama’s unconstitutional health care law. The unfortunate alternative is that the first $105.5 billion gets pumped into Obamacare, like lighting a highly explosive ignition source that can’t be put out, and any measures taken after that to repeal Obamacare is weighed against the fact that so much money has already been invested in it. And with every argument made against it and every proof of its unconstitutionality revealed, money will still be pumping into it, lighting the fire more and more, until right and wrong no longer matter. The only argument that’s left is, “Well, we just invested hundreds of billions of dollars in this thing. Are you going to tell America that all of that money is lost?”…or something of that conniving and deceitful politic-speak nature.
This story should be in the news tomorrow and the House of Representatives has a useful majority of conservatives who are primed to fight for their constituents, so hopefully it works. The first step was taken today in a committee meeting and passed eight to four. But, like everything else in Washington this will likely drag on for a while. Something has got to give soon or the Obamacare train is going to roar out of control.
1,624.7 miles to go.
