The revolt against Obamacare: Missouri opts out
The other day, it was Virginia and Colorado moving forward with their efforts to protect their citizens against Obamacare coercion.
Last night, Missouri voters voted with their feet, via the St. Louis Post-Dispatch:
Missouri voters on Tuesday overwhelmingly rejected a federal mandate to purchase health insurance, rebuking President Barack Obama’s administration and giving Republicans their first political victory in a national campaign to overturn the controversial health care law passed by Congress in March.
“The citizens of the Show-Me State don’t want Washington involved in their health care decisions,” said Sen. Jane Cunningham, R-Chesterfield, one of the sponsors of the legislation that put Proposition C on the August ballot. She credited a grass-roots campaign involving Tea Party and patriot groups with building support for the anti-Washington proposition.
With most of the vote counted, Proposition C was winning by a ratio of nearly 3 to 1. The measure, which seeks to exempt Missouri from the insurance mandate in the new health care law, includes a provision that would change how insurance companies that go out of business in Missouri liquidate their assets.
“I’ve never seen anything like it,” Cunningham said at a campaign gathering at a private home in Town and Country. “Citizens wanted their voices to be heard.”
Ed Morrissey reads the tea leaves:
Bear in mind that over 315,000 Democrats turned out to cast ballots in the primary that nominated Robin Carnahan, while over 577,000 Republicans hit the polls. That is about a 65/35 split — which means that a significant amount of Democrats either supported the ballot measure repudiating ObamaCare, or didn’t bother to cast a vote to defend the program. Actually, Prop C got more votes than the combined voting in both Senate primaries — which tells us something even more about the passion in the electorate.
Democrats may have to hit the panic button after seeing the results from this swing state. ObamaCare set fire to the electorate last year, and that may be an inferno for Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid in November.
Gateway Pundit Jim Hoft (welcome back!) has a round-up of the Prop C victory.
May it be the first of many.
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Show me!!!! Way to go, Mo!!
ObamaCare is a cynical effort to push the already over-socialized American system far deeper to total State control. It’s wonderful to see so many Americans willing to defend their health care rights. But, we’ve got a lot of work to do as ALL Americans should be protesting socialist assaults on our rights.
There is a wave building …
We don’t have to settle for the lesser of two evils this year if we make up our minds that we aren’t going to.
in all my years working with health insurance, I never thought government would make it interesting. The more interest the more people want to see tweets about it. Thanks Obama.
In FL, we just had a judge kick Amendment 9 off the ballot which would have done the same thing.
Gotta love it when one person gets to decide how we live our lives.
How much you wanna bet Eric Holder and his team is on this like flies on you-know-what. Missouri is the next state that is going to be sued.
Look for the spin that since the wording of Proposition C meant a “Yes” vote was a vote against ObamCare it was too confusing and the results are meaningless. Delusional Dems will try to argue all the “No” and and at least 50% of the “Yes” votes were actually in favor of ObamaCare. Maybe even a Justice Department lawsuit to throw out the results since the wording of the proposition was obviously racist.
Good for Missouri!
Obama’s reaction will be…
“They’ll learn to like my health care. And we’ll sue Missouri if they resist further.”
Damn right.
Thank you, Missouri!!!!
I received an e-mail from the Jim Demint’s Senate Conservative Campaign this morning warning us that Assistant Democrat Deluxe John McCain is on his way today to campaign against conservative GOP candidate Ken Buck in CO today. I’m sure this will warm the cockles of Michelle’s heart.
I also noticed another game being played recently and that is for reporters to be pressing McCain on his born-again conservative rhetoric. Yesterday he was pressed real hard about his involvement with the talk of “reconsidering” the 14th amendment. He got testy, refused to respond other than to lamely offer that he supports reconsidering the amendment, not revoking it.
McCain’s rebirth as a conservative has an expiration date. Is it August 24 or November 2?
I’m proud to say that resounding number of my fellow Missourians had the courage to say NO to O.
As for the proposition being confusing, it was clear that a yes vote was a no vote to the socialism of our healthcare.
Demos in panic mode is really good. The more they panic, the more mistakes they will make, which will expose more of their true agenda. The GOP needs to panic more as well. Both parties have driven the country into a hole because they refused to follow the Constitution. We the people will drain the swamp.
The next thing on our agenda should be to send the two Carnahan losers home. Russ Carnahan is the proverbial equivalent of a greasy little rat.
Mighty Mo!
Ooops. that’s the Iowa.
Missouri voters,
Thank you for making a statement…
A statement that a majority of voters in this country want made.
Thank all voters in MO for showing this bho what they think of that horrible bill he signed! May many other states do the same.
L
Thanks Missouri!I hope this is the start of many more state’s rights fighting Obammycare. Great news!
Rep.Petey (Mr. Confusion) Stark (D) from CA wants to know what this “Proposition C” business is all about. Vitamin C? Rap group? Hepatitis C? Hawaiian Punch? He would also like to know just where Missouri is located in California.
MO Voted on C and said SCREW DC!!!
You are utterly clueless as to who you are dealing with.
The “Democrat” in “Assistant Democrats” that you refer to no longer exist. They are extinct. What has replaced them is totally different from the Democrats we knew even ten years ago.
The Democrats we knew for years wanted to defeat you. The ones who replaced them want you destroyed, silenced, and subjugated. The Democrats you knew wanted the Constitution changed. These Democrats want it obliterated.
To compare any Republican today to those who oppose us in the Democrat Party is ludicrous. The opposition is lead by Marxists, Socialists, and Progressives that happen to fly the Democrat flag as a form of camouflage.
That’s the threat. If you fail to recognize it, you do so at your own peril.
Beautiful isn’t she? But then all four of them were.
Missourians are racist and acted stupidly. The Obama Justice Department files a lawsuit against Missouri in 3..2..1..
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Is it possible to “opt out” of ObamaCare? I am under the impression that all the tax hikes and Medicare / Medicaid cuts will still take our money and give it to the Gubmint.
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Opting out doesn’t mean much if you still have to pay for something you don’t get.
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John Bibb
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That right there would be awesome but: not.holding.my.breath
To borrow a quote…
I have a dream…
You’re welcome.
Now to get rid of Robyn Carnahan and his sister, Russ.
Federalism is making a come-back.
Hopefully, it is not too late.
Bruce McQ had an interesting post up the other day, some of you might want to read.
http://www.qando.net/?p=9106
IF there is a second revolution, what will it look like?
In terms of actual legal impact, it’s only a gesture. Federal law has precedence. But as a show of force for the coming elections, it’s pretty impressive.
I’m not dead sure about your conclusion, tx.
I dunno (in common with everyone else) what made it into the final bill, but there was once an “opt-out” provision if memory serves.
Regardless, it is a HUGE political win.
On August 4th, 2010 at 10:13 am, Pasadena Phil said:
We in AZ are praying for August 24th!
AZ also has the Freedom from Obamacare on the ballot for November 2. There is no doubt that it will pass here as well!
I wonder if this gesture by Missouri will be a case of “too little, too late.”
Virginia has the best shot at defeating Donkey-Care in the courts because it passed its no-individual-mandate law before Donkey-Care became federal law. I’m afraid that passing a conflicting state law after the federal law will run head-on into a federal supremacy/pre-emption roadblock.
Think of it as one of 10,000 paper cuts.
10 million ants can consume an elephant one bite at a time.
It won with 71.1% of the vote, meaning an awful lot of Democrats also voted for Prop C.
Look out, D.C.. The states are finally fighting back after more than a century’s worth of federal power-grabs.
Best laugh of the day…so far. Keep ‘em coming Spacey!
People into astrology are talking about the transit of Pluto into Capricorn. The last time Pluto entered Capricorn was 1762. It remained there until 1778. The American revolution shares a lot with what is going on today. Pluto rules over hidden things; secrets, lies, corruption. It shatters the structures that imprison growth. Causes uncontrolled eruptions. Capricorn is the sign of realism, hard work and character with a focus on real value, real supply and demand, real assets.
The might will fall. The rotten to the core will fall with an end to do as I say not as I do. The superficial and false will be exposed.
We have a bumpy ride, just like our founding fathers. Remember how may battles were lost before the war was won. We will win, because we have to win! Future generations need us to win.
I was going with the analysis I heard last night, but of course if the Obamacare bill has an opt-out provision that changes things. I don’t recall that it did, but then nobody on the face of the earth knows exactly what the damned thing means until a bunch of ignorant HHS clerks fresh out of law school get through writing the implementing regulations.
Rush just pointed out a couple of things about this. One, that the bill got over 70% yes in a state that McCain won by only one point, and two, that the total vote on Prop C was greater than the combined candidate votes in the primaries, which means that people are really charged up about this. Huge is the word. “Massive realignment” is looking like the phrase of the day in November.
Mo is a very practical reality based state. We have voted for the presidential winner every time since the 20s except 2 times, Adlei Stephenson was a neighbor state hometown boy, and we had enough sense to vote for McCain over this bozo despite massive voter fraud by thug thizzle from E St Louis. If you want to know where the center of the country is geographically and politically, look at Missouri. Right now, the country is swinging massively away from socialism/redistributive government model. As a lifelong Missourian I can tell you it will be a LONG time before people trust democrats to run the country. They have morphed into the communist party of America, and have shown their true colors. Bye, Bye.
I also noticed that the votes cast by Republicans in the Senate race (that Blunt won) were far more than the total that Carnahan received (who won the Dem. primary).
Ah, off the topic but, as the Sock Puppet waves his hands to distract his minions go about their daily crimes, Soviet Style Block Apartments anyone?
“The Senate Banking Committee passed the Livable Communities Act on Tuesday, moving the bill one step closer to final passage. The bill creates $4 billion in neighborhood planning grants for “sustainable” living projects and a new federal office to oversee them. Similar legislation in the House has been criticized by Republicans on the House Budget Committee, who charge that “the program’s aim is to impose a Washington-based, central planning model on localities across the country.” In the Senate version, written by outgoing Chairman Sen. Chris Dodd (D-Conn)
Supremacy Clause anyone?
Already mentioned and dealt with. Bye.
10th amendment!
Yay, Missouri! Thank you for the good news, Mrs. Malkin!
The Post-Dispatch article doesn’t exactly emphasize the nature of the “federal mandate” it discusses, does it? I wonder how much the mainstream public is aware of sometimes. CNN “broke” the story of the individual mandate months after I knew about it. I think maybe they “broke” it in March or February 2010, right after an important Congressional vote. (I was in a public space where it happened to be on, saw the “breaking news” notation on the screen, was stunned because I knew about it in November ’09…)
why are you bringing up xmas? oh wait…
Actually I’d rather have a V8.
Yup, contains the words “in pursuance thereof”. Might want to contemplate their meaning.