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2011-02-01 Home Front: Politix
Obama says healthcare law "needs a tweak"
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Posted by Fred 2011-02-01 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11128 views ]  Top

#1 Hopefully there is nothing left to tweak after the courts are done.
Posted by OldSpook 2011-02-01 00:29||   2011-02-01 00:29|| Front Page Top

#2 but it does not mean "refight the battles of the last two years."

What battle? They just strongarmed it through.
Posted by Besoeker 2011-02-01 02:58||   2011-02-01 02:58|| Front Page Top

#3 "Obama says healthcare law "needs a tweak" "is a freak".

FIFY.
Posted by no mo uro 2011-02-01 05:49||   2011-02-01 05:49|| Front Page Top

#4 Seems it was rushed through so fast, they forgot to add the severability clause. In so doing, the law is either all constitutional, or not all all. If it was severable, one or more portions of the 2,000 page bill could have been struck down, but leaving the rest in place.

I think it was a sign.
Posted by Bobby 2011-02-01 05:59||   2011-02-01 05:59|| Front Page Top

#5 The hilarious part is that when all is said and done, Obama may end up doing more to *end* socialism in the US than any president since "Ol' Frank" started it in earnest.

Essential to Obamacare was the destruction of both Medicaid and Medicare, and so far it has gone much of the way to destroying those two. But then, if Obamacare is thrown out by the courts, there will be *no* major system of socialized government health care.

The only thing that could stand in his way is if the Republicans do something insanely stupid, like trying to restore Medicare and Medicaid. If they can just be prevented from doing this, America will be freed of two of its biggest millstones dragging it underwater.
Posted by  Anonymoose 2011-02-01 09:35||   2011-02-01 09:35|| Front Page Top

#6 "Tweak, tweak" - he sure does like that word.

Has anyone checked his pockets lately for rocks of crystal meth?
Posted by Mitch H.  2011-02-01 09:44|| http://blogfonte.blogspot.com/  2011-02-01 09:44|| Front Page Top

#7 It was no battle, it was Dunkirk. Hopefully D-day arrived in November 2010.
Posted by whitecollar redneck 2011-02-01 09:49||   2011-02-01 09:49|| Front Page Top

#8 Tweak? Maybe someone needs to have a little talk with TOTUS. That unconstitutional mandate is central to Obamacare. There's no tweaking your way out of this one.

And he wasted the first two years of his presidency shoving that crap down our throats instead of dealing with the economy.

He and his enire pack of idiot advisors, czars and in-pocket politicians need to go.
Posted by gorb 2011-02-01 10:13||   2011-02-01 10:13|| Front Page Top

#9 The Florida Judge that struck down Obamacare was appointed by Reagon. Obama has been channeling Reagon in the media the past couple of weeks. I reckon that séance stopped yesterday, real quick like.
Posted by Glemble McCoy6601 2011-02-01 10:39||   2011-02-01 10:39|| Front Page Top

#10 Tweaked? That law needs to be dragged out in front of Congress, shot and strung up as a warning to other bills that might want to be unconstitutional, socialist crap.
Posted by DarthVader 2011-02-01 11:37||   2011-02-01 11:37|| Front Page Top

#11 Legislators have proposed a bill that would REQUIRE all citizens 21 or over in good legal standing to purchase a firearm.

Of course this requirement will be declare unconstitutional. At least you end up with a firearm if passed. I love irony.
Posted by JohnQC 2011-02-01 11:49||   2011-02-01 11:49|| Front Page Top

#12 There already is a federal law for that, JohnQC.

The Militia Acts of 1792 took care of that.
Interesting debate on it then at this blog.

Needless to say, I am out of compliance as I don't have my musket and bayonet. I need to remedy that.

The militia was modified into the National Guard by the Militia Act of 1903.
Posted by DarthVader 2011-02-01 12:09||   2011-02-01 12:09|| Front Page Top

#13 Hissy fit.
Posted by  Anonymoose 2011-02-01 12:46||   2011-02-01 12:46|| Front Page Top

#14  It looks like the Zero Administration will ignore the recent court action against Obamacare, as if it never happened. If they can stall the court process, by the time the issue does get to the Supreme Court, Zero will have appointed a couple more communists to that level, and he'll be in like Flynn.
Even if the Supreme Court acts immediately on this issue, I don't have a lot of faith in their rectitude. After all, the USSC approved FDR's seizure of private gold without just compensation and invalidated gold clauses in contracts, both obviously unconstitutional then & now. Those old-time justices were by & large appointed by Republicans.
Zero's only proper way out is to file an appeal and seek a stay of the judgment. Either that or order his many minions (IRS, HHS, etc.) to cease to carry out Obamacare until the issue is settled. If he doesn't do one or the other, Articles of Impeachment should immediately be acted on by the Congress. Those gutless wonders won't do that either.
Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2011-02-01 15:59||   2011-02-01 15:59|| Front Page Top

#15 The current implementation of Section 8, Article I, of the Constitution concerning the militia is found in Title X, United States Code, Subtitle A, PART I, CHAPTER 13 -

311. Militia: composition and classes

(a) The militia of the United States consists of all able-bodied males at least 17 years of age and, except as provided in section 313 of title 32, under 45 years of age who are, or who have made a declaration of intention to become, citizens of the United States and of female citizens of the United States who are members of the National Guard.
(b) The classes of the militia are—
(1) the organized militia, which consists of the National Guard and the Naval Militia; and
(2) the unorganized militia, which consists of the members of the militia who are not members of the National Guard or the Naval Militia.

- emphasis added, because some people like to ignore the implications. The 'draft' is a misnomer of the selective activation of the unorganized militia.


Posted by Procopius2k 2011-02-01 16:44||   2011-02-01 16:44|| Front Page Top

#16 The Doctor has prescribed a Tweak
tweak [twiːk]
vb (tr)
1. to twist, jerk, or pinch with a sharp or sudden movement to tweak someone's nose
2. (Engineering / Automotive Engineering) Motor racing slang to tune (a car or engine) for peak performance
3. Informal to make a minor alteration
n
1. an instance of tweaking
2. Informal a minor alteration
[Old English twiccian; related to Old High German zwecchōn; see twitch]
tweaky adj

Hold still, this won't hurt a bit !

Posted by Goodluck 2011-02-01 17:06||   2011-02-01 17:06|| Front Page Top

#17 the destruction of both Medicaid and Medicare, and so far it has gone much of the way to destroying those two.

How so, Anonymoose?
Posted by trailing wife 2011-02-01 17:22||   2011-02-01 17:22|| Front Page Top

#18 Medicare payments to Doctors have been cut forcing more and more to refuse to see Medicare patients. Wonder why the AARP has been flooding the airwaves with Medicare Supplimental Insurance adds? As payments continue to drop medicare patients have to find othe sources of money. Th AARP sells suplimental insurance to cover these costs and in the process makes more money.
Posted by Deacon Blues 2011-02-01 19:55||   2011-02-01 19:55|| Front Page Top

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Posted by pan 2011-02-01 22:18||   2011-02-01 22:18|| Front Page Top

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Posted by pan 2011-02-01 22:49||   2011-02-01 22:49|| Front Page Top

#21 Saying that Obumblecare needs a tweak
is like saying
the Titanic needed a bilge pump......
Posted by USN,Ret 2011-02-01 23:12||   2011-02-01 23:12|| Front Page Top

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