Obamacare Quote of the Day

From Federal Judge Vinson, in his ruling declaring Obamacare to be void:

"If Congress can penalize a passive individual for failing to engage in commerce, the enumeration of powers in the Constitution would have been in vain."

In other words, we would have a Constitution in name only, not a document that actually has power over the lawmakers and can limit their activities as originally intended.

I hope the Supreme Court sees it the same way.

Oh, and how about this:  The judge uses Obama's own words against him:

In ruling against President Obama‘s health care law, federal Judge Roger Vinson used Mr. Obama‘s own position from the 2008 campaign against him, arguing that there are other ways to tackle health care short of requiring every American to purchase insurance.

“I note that in 2008, then-Senator Obama supported a health care reform proposal that did not include an individual mandate because he was at that time strongly opposed to the idea, stating that ‘if a mandate was the solution, we can try that to solve homelessness by mandating everybody to buy a house,’” Judge Vinson wrote in a footnote toward the end of the 78-page ruling Monday.

The White House responded with this rather lame statement:

Senior WH official: Fla. ruling on #healthcare "is a plain case of judicial overreaching" & "contradicts decades of Supreme Court precedent"

You mean like when Brown v. Board of Education contradicted decades of Supreme Court precedent that stated that "separate but equal" was constitutional?  I don't think the left was particularly exercised about that overturning of precedent.