Day: March 23, 2010

Clear Road For Lou Barletta

Chris Paige has withdrawn from the Pennsylvania 11th Congressional District Republican Primary leaving Hazleton Mayor Lou Barletta the last man standing to face the Democrat candidate this November. That candidate is almost certainly going to be incumbent Paul “I Believe In Executive Orders” Kanjorski but still he faces a May 18 challenge from Lackawanna County Commissioner Corey O’Brien and in this climate you never can tell.

Barletta  would have likely beat Kanjorski in 2008 but for the Obama surge.

Corbett Adds Pa. To ObamaCare Suit

Pennsylvania Attorney General Tom Corbett said he believes ObamaCare will be declared unconstitutional and has added Pennsylvania to among the states suing to declare it so.

Other states suing are Florida, South Carolina, Nebraska, Texas, Michigan, Utah, Alabama, North Dakota, South Dakota, Michigan, Idaho, Washington, Colorado, Virginia and Louisiana.

The suit states that the bill violates the 10th Amendment and forces states to carry out its provisions without reimbursing them for the costs.

Also the Thomas More Law Center of Ann Arbor, Mi., is suing on of itself and four people that don’t have private health insurance and object to being told they must buy it.

Also, Idaho and Virginia have passed laws exempting themselves from ObamaCare while bills to do so have been introduced in 34 other states.

Quote Of The Day From T.J.

. . .that the several States
composing the United States of America, are
not united on the principle of unlimited submission to their general
government; but that
by compact under the style and title of a Constitution for the United
States and of
amendments thereto, they constituted a general government for special
purposes, delegated
to that government certain definite powers, reserving each State to
itself, the residuary
mass of right to their own self-government; and that whensoever the
general government
assumes undelegated powers, its acts are unauthoritative, void, and of
no force:

–Thomas Jefferson, The Kentucky Resolutions, Nov. 16, 1798