Showing posts with label repeal. Show all posts
Showing posts with label repeal. Show all posts

Friday, March 11, 2011

Should Senators Represent voters or Party

Last year Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid forced Obamacare through the US Senate for Barack Obama, this year he led the fight to prevent the Senate from joining the House in voting to repeal the law. 

Reid must not be paying attention, Nevada is requesting an exception, a wavier for portions of the law.  Nevada is also one of the 28 states suing to have Obamacare overturned in court.  Guess Harry puts party over the people he's supposed to representing.

Virginia has a lawsuit of it's own against Obamacare, the State Legislature passed a law exempting it's residents fom the Federal Mandate to Purchase insurance as is their right under the Tenth Amendment to the Constitution, which says "The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people"

 It seems that Virginia's two Senators, Mark Warner and Jim Webb, both Democrats, haven't read the Constitution, and could care less what Virginians want.  They both voted against Repeal,.  Shortly afterwards Mark Warner decided running for reelection might not be fun and announced his retirement.