{"id":8521,"date":"2011-02-01T13:55:47","date_gmt":"2011-02-01T18:55:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=8521"},"modified":"2011-02-01T13:55:47","modified_gmt":"2011-02-01T18:55:47","slug":"obamacare-and-the-tea-party","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/8521\/obamacare-and-the-tea-party\/","title":{"rendered":"ObamaCare and the Tea Party"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019ve yet to read a better sentence synthesizing the spirit of the Founding Fathers, the current Tea Party movement, and the threat to the American ideal embodied in ObamaCare than this passage from yesterday\u2019s decision declaring the entire law unconstitutional:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cIt is difficult to imagine that a nation which began, at least in part, as the result of opposition to a British mandate giving the East India Company a monopoly and imposing a nominal tax on all tea sold in America would have set out to create a government with the power to force people to buy tea in the first place,\u201d wrote the judge, a Reagan appointee who sits in Pensacola, Fla.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>U.S. District Judge Roger Vinson, intentionally or not, makes a great argument for keeping the federal government within its historic bounds.\u00a0 That Obama Administration officials are <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.wsj.com\/washwire\/2011\/01\/31\/federal-judge-a-wink-at-the-tea-party-in-overturning-health-law\/ \" target=\"_blank\">quietly pouting<\/a> over the supposed dig makes it even better.<\/p>\n<p>H\/T: Evan Perez of the Wall Street Journal<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019ve yet to read a better sentence synthesizing the spirit of the Founding Fathers, the current Tea Party movement, and the threat to the American ideal embodied in ObamaCare than this passage from yesterday\u2019s decision declaring the entire law unconstitutional: \u201cIt is difficult to imagine that a nation which began, at least in part, as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2354,465,35,2353,28],"class_list":["post-8521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-courts","tag-health-care-reform","tag-obamacare","tag-roger-vinson","tag-tea-party"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8521","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8521"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8521\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8526,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8521\/revisions\/8526"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}