Repeal It Anyway

It’s good news that a Virginia federal district court judge struck down as unconstitutional portions of Obamacare dealing with the government-imposed mandate on individuals to buy health insurance. This is a no-brainer decision to anyone familiar with letter and spirit of the Constitution; it’s a measure of the danger of our times that anyone considers this a close question. Lawyers can imagine and analogize and hypothesize all they want, but the founding fathers might have instigated a second bloody revolution if someone suggested that the limited government they had labored so hard to establish had the power to compel any citizen to buy anything, much less submit their sovereignty over their own health to a bunch of federal bureaucrats.

Any time we have a judge able and still willing to read and uphold the Constitution, it is a signal that there is hope for America. But the abomination that is Obamacare is far too serious to be left in the hands of people wearing robes. It has to be rejected and repealed by the American people, through the vehicle of their elected representatives, acting individually and collectively to preserve the American heritage. Repeal is what the American people want; it is what the American people when given an actual vote have made crystal clear; it will be the measure of America’s collective character and moral strength—a signal confirming the war against liberalism will be won.

The chattering classes can spend all day and night on the vicissitudes of repeal as a matter of political strategy; they can talk about Presidential vetoes and their implications; they can talk about White House spin operations and the bully pulpit and the Pravda media’s influence; but those are the comments of the terminally naïve and shallow. We are at a much more serious and pivotal point of American and human history.

Obamacare is a monstrous piece of godless intellectual tyranny, arrogantly imposed against the will of the American people, passed without being read by those who voted, passed using bribes and extortion, and passed in complete disregard and disdain for mankind’s signature stance for individual freedom: the US Constitution. We know the tweed jacket crowd would tut-tut at this description as overwrought and extreme; they would talk about lots of different examples of controversial legislation having been passed into law without angelic behavior on the part of Congress, and smugly go on to say that America survived—so just chill out and take your normal seat as spectator to the great American democracy at work. We know, also, that we have an entire media structure consumed with covering the trivial in an effort to portray life under this radical leftist regime as going along pretty much in a normal way.

We wish America was at just another inconsequential phase of its history. We wish the stakes of the times were all about whose political fortunes are up or down a point in the latest poll. But we are in a war in this nation; the core Judeo-Christian heritage of America is under fierce subversive attack by the radical left; and the two hottest fronts in the war at this writing are (1) the conflict with Islam, and (2) the bare-knuckles, government-shall-be-god imposition that is Obamacare.

Americans are far out in front of their elected representatives in understanding the enemies in this war, and the stakes of winning and losing. Large majorities are disgusted by the obliviousness and naivete of the politically correct Islamo-apologists who are responsible for American security; they know and understand the irreconcilable conflict between America and Islam, and they know it’s time to face this fact and deal forthrightly with it. Large majorities of Americans are equally disgusted by Obamacare and the complete breakdown of Constitutional principles and values that its passage represented; they are also increasingly aware at an intuitive level that Obamacare in reality represents an aggressively atheistic mindset seeking to make human government into mankind’s master.

The new Congressional class of 2010 has an historic challenge facing it: an opportunity to be a rare form of political army which can actually defeat a vicious enemy in one of the key fronts of an ongoing war. It will take character and fortitude not often seen in a group of politicians, but it can be done. The American people DO have the character and fortitude, and they will have the backs of their elected representatives if they just steel themselves and go forward to repeal Obamacare (and if Obama vetoes it, keep repealing it every month until he signs it or is out of office). But nothing less will do. Wars are not won by handing things over to judges.

Paul Gable

December 13, 2010