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Obamacare Meets the Death Panel — The Erick Erickson Show

The Erick Erickson Show starts off a bit late tonight due to a basketball game. We’ll go live at 10:06 p.m.

I’m going to spend a lot of time on Obamacare and also the gays and Chick-Fil-A. That should be fun.

You can listen live at http://wsbradio.com and call in at 1-800-WSB-TALK.

Consider this an open thread.

COMMENTS

  • http://www.timelyrenewed.com timelyrenewed

    Judge Vinson’s decision is good news, and we all hope that it will prevail when Obamacare finally reaches the Supreme Court two years from now. However, that is not certain, and there remain substantial political powers who regard this vast extension of federal power as constitutional based upon the Supreme Court’s vast expansion of the interstate commerce clause since 1937. The only sure way to stop not only Obamacare, but the innumerable other ways in which the federal government has increased its power beyond the original scope of the Constitution, is to reverse those Supreme Court cases and restore the interstate commerce clause to its original meaning. Given how entrenched these Supreme Court precedents are, this will require a constitutional amendment restating the original, very limited scope of the interstate commerce clause. See http://www.timelyrenewed.com

  • http://www.examiner.com/x-1597-Charlotte-Law--Politics-Examiner Mike gamecock DeVine

    the federal government very broad powers that can be abused. One of the main reasons We the People ratified the Constitution was because under the Articles of Confederation, the states acted too much like separate nations on commerce.

    Washington and most of the founders favored the building of national roads, canals etc to bind the nation as one.

    That said, there is no question that Wickard v Filburn and many other SCOTUS cases have aided and abetted the expansion of the power to regulate interstate commerce too far. But it is also true that some of those rulings indicate that maybe we needed to amend the constitution in some areas so that the fed govt could do more in some specific areas.

    Finally, I conclude that the only real brake on fed power must come from Congress, as the Founders intended.