DEMOCRATS LIED: They Told Us Obamacare Was Not a Tax… Then Argued in Court That It Was a Tax… Now They’re Saying It’s Not a Tax Again

From: Gateway Pundit

Democrats told us Obamacare was not a tax.
Then they argued before the Supreme Court that it was a tax.
A fraud was perpetrated on the American people.

They said it wasn’t a tax.

A Fraud Has Been Perpetrated On the American Citizenry

Democrats told us Obamacare was not a tax. Then they went before the Supreme Court and argued that it was a tax. Now they’re saying it’s not a tax again.
The American Spectator reported:

Critics of the majority’s decision will say for the foreseeable future that Chief Justice Roberts rewrote Obamacare to save it. Michael Carvin, who argued against Obamacare before the Supreme Court, noted dryly, “I’m glad he rewrote the statute instead of the Constitution.”

Carvin’s summary of the Supreme Court’s ruling was on target: “What the Obama Administration… thought they were doing was completely unconstitutional; what they lied to the American people about was constitutional.… Unfortunately they got away with that bait-and-switch. A fraud has been perpetrated on the American citizenry.”

In oral arguments before the Supreme Court, the administration’s attorneys argued — as they knew they had to — that the mandate was constitutional as a tax. This despite the fact that Democrats passed Obamacare by stating specifically and repeatedly that the mandate was not a tax, including a testy response by President Obama himself to unusually challenging questioning by ABC’s George Stephanopoulos in 2009.

As recently as a few months ago, President Obama’s budget director said in a Congressional hearing that the mandate is not a tax, with Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius saying “it operates as a tax, but it is not per se a tax.”

If the bill had been marketed to members of Congress and the public as a tax, it is unlikely that even the Cornhusker Kickback and the Louisiana Purchase would have been enough to pass the law, despite the large Democrat congressional majorities at the time. Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC) said that “if it had been seen as a tax, they wouldn’t have gotten ten votes, much less sixty.”

As for those Democrats in Congress who have argued, and may continue to argue, that the Obamacare mandate is not a tax, Graham said “they either don’t know what they’re doing, or they lied to us. So this is a huge issue in the fall.” Graham called for every Congressional Republican who is up for election to ask their Democratic opponents whether they support this tax increase; given that Democrats have little choice but to support Obamacare, this is the political equivalent of asking someone if he has stopped beating his wife yet, and a solid political tactic.

Tomorrow on the Sunday morning shows Democrats are going to go out and lie again that ObamaTax is not a tax.
They hope that you’ll believe them.

Go to Source

What was Obama doing on his flight back from Colorado Springs wildfire sightseeing trip?

From: Michelle Malkin

Fund-raising, of course.

On Air Force One.

And frantically:

“The majority on this call maxed out to my campaign last time. I really need you to do the same this time,” the president said in a highly unusual (and presumably legal) fundraising pitch from Air Force One on his way back to Washington from Colorado Springs, where he’d been assessing the terrible damage caused by uncontained wildfires. A special phone on the government aircraft is dedicated to political calls that are paid for by the campaign.

“I’m asking you to meet or exceed what you did in 2008,” the presidential pitchman continued, speaking to donors who were invited to dial in based on their contributions during the last election. “Because we’re going to have to deal with these super PACs in a serious way. And if we don’t, frankly I think the political [scene] is going to be changed permanently. Because the special interests that are financing my opponent’s campaign are just going to consolidate themselves. They’re gonna run Congress and the White House.”

The president’s 18-minute pleading—a recording of which was provided to The Daily Beast by an Obama contributor—hardly sounded like a man doing a victory lap after Thursday’s Supreme Court ruling upholding Obamacare, as the Affordable Care Act has come to be known. Or, for that matter, like a candidate who has been beating his Republican opponent in recent polls of key battleground states.

Rather, Obama sounded like a dog-tired idealist forced to grapple painfully with hard reality. “In 2008 everything was new and exciting about our campaign,” Obama said. “And now I’m the incumbent president. I’ve got gray hair. People have seen disappointment because folks had a vision of change happening immediately. And it turns out change is hard, especially when you’ve got an obstructionist Republican Congress.”

Never let a wildfire (or a post-wildfire sightseeing trip flight back home!) go to waste.

And…the money-grubbing continues on Twitter:

President Obama on tonight’s fundraising deadline: “This is important.” Pitch in $3 before midnight: OFA.BO/NNZpqq

— Barack Obama (@BarackObama) July 1, 2012

Go to Source

Radical Atheists Erect Billboard Bashing Catholic Church (Video)

From: Gateway Pundit

The radical atheists are attacking the Catholic Church with a new billboard campaign.
A billboard positioned on a highway between Dallas and Fort Worth, Texas, is raising eyebrows with its controversial message:
“Quit the church: Put women’s rights over bishops’ wrongs.”

The atheists are upset that the Catholic Bishops are standing up to the Obama regime with their campaign for religious freedom.

“Quit the church. Put women’s rights over bishops’ wrongs” sponsored by the Freedom From Religion Foundation out of Wisconsin.

Go to Source