Breitbart: Obama Team: Obamacare Still Not A Tax

[Patricia M. McBride]

Hardly anyone on this site will be able to make sense of this as it truly takes a liberal mind (and someone who lives outside the realm of reality totally..........that eliminates most of us).  Anyway, the adjustments to the Robert's ruling, and necessary for the story line the progressives want to use about Obamacare, are already starting.  It is all about the ruling being what they wanted it to be even if it wasn't and making it more to the liking of the liberal mind set!

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by        Ben Shapiro       1 Jul 2012

The only legal peg on which Chief Justice Roberts was able to hang his hat in ruling Obamacare constitutional was a broad reading of the Taxing Clause. In order to do so, he had to deliberately misread the Obamacare law; had he not done so, the law would have been struck down as a violation of the Commerce Clause.

Nonetheless, the Obama administration insists that Obamacare isn’t a tax.

The latest Obama spokesperson to deny Roberts’ logic and essentially admit that Obamacare is unconstitutional is Jack Lew, the White House Chief of Staff. This morning, he appeared on CNN to explain:

First of all, the law is clear, it’s called a penalty. Second of all, what the Supreme Court ruled is that the law is constitutional.  Actually, they didn’t call it a tax. They said it was using the power under the constitution that permits it. It was not labeled.

This is, simply put, a lie. Lew’s first two sentences are in direct conflict with one another. The law is clear – it’s called a penalty. But if the administration is going to stand by its original construction of the statute, they can’t then claim that the Supreme Court ruled it constitutional on their basis. The notion that the Supreme Court ruled the statute constitutional without any specific basis is simply false. Lew continued:

Read more here: http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2012/07/01/Obama-team-Obama...

[Patricia M. McBride]

I wish they had like buttons. Great find!

[Patricia M. McBride]

It is pathetic that they continue to lie about the penalty and would guess they figure Roberts ruling allowed them to do as they please since he ruled above all, it was constitutional (liberals have a way of ignoring those parts of anything that don't fit into their idea of how it is and should be).