Show me the Constitution!
Mollie Hemingway ·
Aug 3, 2010 at 8:00pm
I like to follow Missouri news since my mom hails from there. But everyone should be interested in the news coming out tonight from the Show Me State.
Voters there had the opportunity today to become the first to have a say on blocking any portion of Obamacare. Proposition C asks voters if they oppose the requirement that most people obtain insurance or pay a tax penalty.
It's not even close. With 2117 of 3354 precincts reporting, some 74.5 percent of voters oppose at least that portion of the federal government's new health care plan.
Just another teachable moment.
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Jun '10
Re: Show me the Constitution!
Washington DC has become the We'll Show You Later, After It's Passed city--not quite the same spirit embodied in the Missouri motto.
Re: Show me the Constitution!
I'm embarrassed to admit this, Mollie, but I'd have missed this event altogether if you hadn't noted it for us. And you know what? It's actually a Pretty Big Deal. Republicans won the gubernatorial races in Virginia and New Jersey, then Scott Brown won the senatorial race in Massachusetts. And now this.
Every time they have the opportunity to engage in a particular political ritual, rooted in the eighteenth century, Americans seem very soundly to reject all the statist impulses of the president and his party.
That ritual?
Voting.
May '10
Re: Show me the Constitution!
I'M SORRY FOR THE CAPS BUT I'M DOING THIS ON MY IPAD AND IT DEFAULTS TO CAPS AFTER EACH LETTER. I FIGURED OUT A WAY TO POST ON THIS DEVICE, BUT I'M LIMITED BY THIS. WHERE THERE'S A WILL THERE'S A WAY. :-)
I'M PROUD TO BE AMONG THE GIANT MAJORITY OF MISSOURIANS WHO SPOKE OUT TODAY AGAINST OBAMACARE. I DROVE A HALF HOUR IN POUNDING RAIN WITH THREE YOUNG CHILDREN TO PLACE MY EARLY VOTE LAST WEEK...EVEN THOUGH I KNEW IT WOULD BE A LANDSLIDE.
Jun '10
Re: Show me the Constitution!
I as well, Andrea. Although I walked half an hour in 102 degree warmth to express my disgust with Ocare and vote yes on Prop C. The final tally was 667600 for, 271000 against, a 71% to 29% landslide. Here is the wording on the ballot:
The official ballot language of Proposition C reads as follows:
Shall the Missouri Statutes be amended to:
- Deny the government authority to penalize citizens for refusing to purchase private health insurance or infringe upon the right to offer or accept direct payment for lawful healthcare services?
-Modify laws regarding the liquidation of certain domestic insurance companies?
Of course, the gubmint care supporters are howling that the language of the proposition is confusing and that voting YES to be against a personal mandate and NO to be for it is way too tricky for their group of primates to understand. When it comes to their voting block, they are probably correct.
Jun '10
Re: Show me the Constitution!
MO Constitution, MO problems (for the Dem's).
Re: Show me the Constitution!
Over at Reason, Peter Suderman has much mo on Mo: