No, of course not, they’re the bizpandering wing.
:rolleyes: And that’s another thing – when are you lot going to drop this pathetic declaration of your own idiocy?
Well, at least we acknowledge the legitimacy of elected Pubs. A lot of American RWs seem to have forgotten that Democrats can lawfully and constitutionally hold public office – yes, even after the Reagan Revolution; any Dem who has an office, they seem somehow to view as a usurper. This attitude goes back to the Clinton Admin at least; when Rush spoke of “America Held Hostage!” that was not simply a stupid ill-natured hyperbolic joke, it was some kind of ideological assertion. Relevant article in The Nation.
Everybody participates in the health care market whether you purchase insurance or not. An individual who does not have insurance drives up costs for everyone else when they need care - that’s certainly participating in the market.
Because although voters mostly like the general idea of a National Healthcare plan, they seem to dislike any possible version of one.
Thus, there’s just not a lot of voter support for Obamacare. And, what support there was has diminished due to GoP scare tactics like “death panels”, etc.
Unless we have a specific reason not to, of course, see Bush v. Gore.
The TEA Party congressmen voted to default on the nation’s debts. This is explicitly forbidden in the Constitution. Funny idea of constitutionality, that thinks something is unconstitutional if not required, but not unconstitutional when forbidden. 
Not to mention their deafening silence on the subject of such core human rights as torture and habeas corpus. Instead they focus on Commerce clause issues that nobody complained about when the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act was debated.
Let nobody make the mistake of believing that modern conservatives argue in good faith. When Romney ran for President in 2008, he advanced the mandate as aspect of citizen responsibility, to the complaints of nobody. Now modern conservatives claim that it represents the advance of tyranny. I can only conclude that they weren’t sincere to begin with and that furthermore they are comfortable and familiar with authoritarian viewpoints.
But unfortunately with Carter’s face. OLD Carter. 