{"id":2738,"date":"2011-03-04T12:47:17","date_gmt":"2011-03-04T12:47:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=2738"},"modified":"2011-03-04T12:47:17","modified_gmt":"2011-03-04T12:47:17","slug":"the_states_and_obamacare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=2738","title":{"rendered":"The States And Obamacare"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2011\/03\/03\/judge-who-declared-obamacare-unconstitutional-sends-message-to-white-house-with-second-ruling\/\">Daily Caller<\/a>&nbsp;posted a story yesterday about the ongoing court battle against Obamacare.&nbsp; On January 31, Judge Roger Vinson ruled that Obamacare was unconstitutional.&nbsp; Because the Obama Administration ignored his ruling and continued implementing the law, the Judge has issued another ruling.<\/p>\n<p>The article reports:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px\" dir=\"ltr\">\n<p><em>&#8220;Now, Vinson has given the Obama administration an ultimatum to either stop implementing the law, or appeal it&#8211;presumably to the Supreme Court.&nbsp; It is unclear what will happen if the administration ignores that order.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Several states have stopped implementing the law since it was declared unconstitutional.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Meanwhile, the plot thickens&#8230;Today&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2011\/03\/04\/hhs-secretary-sebelius-admits-to-double-counting-in-obamacare-budget\/\">Daily Caller<\/a>&nbsp;posted a report on the appearance of Kathleen Sebelius, secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) before the&nbsp;House Energy and Commerce Health Subcommittee.&nbsp; In her testimony, Secretary Sebelius admitted that $500 billion&nbsp;was&nbsp;double counted in the Obamacare law.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Republican Rep. John Shimkus of Illinois questioned Secretary Sebelius about whether the $500 billion in&nbsp;Medicare cuts were to preserve Medicare or pay for Obamacare.&nbsp; Secretary Sebelius answered, &#8220;Both.&#8221;&nbsp; &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Wow.&nbsp; Remind me never to give that lady access to my checkbook.&nbsp; Nancy Pelosi said, &#8220;We have to pass the bill to find out what&#8217;s in it.&#8221;&nbsp; I guess she was right.&nbsp; If I ran my household budget that way, I would have been broke a long time ago.&nbsp; Now the government is trying to help me get there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Daily Caller&nbsp;posted a story yesterday about the ongoing court battle against Obamacare.&nbsp; On January 31, Judge Roger Vinson ruled that Obamacare was unconstitutional.&nbsp; Because the Obama Administration ignored his ruling and continued implementing the law, the Judge has issued &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=2738\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2738","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2738","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2738"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2738\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}