Senator Ron Johnson on Mark Levin's show appeared misinformed about ObamaCare. He said ObamaCare was 'mandatory spending.' Even if that were the case, the Supreme Court ruled it only exists as a tax. The House has never voted to approve 'mandatory spending' for the tax called ObamaCare. Nor has it ever voted on a standalone ObamaCare defunding bill

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ObamaCare is presently illegal. The Supreme Court said it can only exist as a tax. The House has never voted to enact ObamaCare as a tax. Nor has Mr. Boehner ever allowed a standalone ObamaCare defunding measure to come to the floor of the House. If as Senator Johnson said on Mr. Levin's show and elsewhere that, ObamaCare is "mandatory spending," when did the House vote to provide "mandatory spending" to this tax? The following article explains that the House can unilaterally defund ObamaCare:

10/2/13, “Obamacare can be defunded without Senate approval,“ Examiner, Christopher Collins

"Dr. Harold Pease, an expert on the United States Constitution, stated that the authority in dealing with Obamacare funding belongs to the U.S. House, not the U.S. Senate and that the House is doing this all wrong.

Pease said, “Everything hinged upon funding which was given exclusively to the House of Representatives, the only power that they alone had.”

Pease went on to say, “All bills for raising revenue shall originate in the House of Representatives; but the Senate may propose or concur with Amendments as on other Bills. To fund anything, in this case Obamacare, first approval is required by the House of Representatives.”

“If that does not happen taxpayer money cannot be spent. The people, through their representatives to Congress, have determined, after a three-year closer scrutiny of The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (Obamacare), that it does not protect the patient, is not affordable and is not even workable; hence in the interests of the vast majority of the people needs to be defunded.”

When the United States Supreme Court ruled on Obamacare in 2012, Chief Justice Roberts stance on Obamacare coincides with the intent of the U.S. Constitution, explained by Pease, and the powers between the House and Senate.

According to the U.S. Supreme Court ruling, Obamacare cannot be implemented and is not considered the law of the land....

"Because Congress doesn’t have the ability to mandate, it must, to fund Obama-care, rely on its power to tax. Therefore, the mechanism that funds Obama-care is a tax,” said Atkinson.... 
 
When the House attached Obamacare to the legislation in funding the government, it made a mistake in doing so and the funding of Obamacare should have been separate, thereby giving the Senate no power in denying the Houses’ request to defund Obamacare.

Pease said, “House opposition to funding Obamacare would have been far more powerful if made a “stand alone” bill not attached to general funding, but it is not. “Stand alone,” having no other parts, would have left the Senate no wiggle or compromise room once it went to them, nor would there be for the Joint Conference Committee thereafter that reconciles any differences between the two houses. There would be nothing to reconcile, Obamacare is merely defunded.”

“Still, the intent of the Founding Fathers was to give the people, through their House of Representatives, the power collectively to say no to any proposed federal tax, which she is decidedly doing.”

[Edited for clarity] If Obamacare is removed from the government budget, presented, and voted on as a separate bill, Obamacare can be defunded by the House. If that is the case, then the Senate and the President can vote yes or no and if the vote is no, then the Obamacare bill can sit in the House with no funding.”



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Comment: Speaking just about the House, the reason we gave the GOP House a huge majority in Nov. 2010 was so they could easily defund ObamaCare. But they never allowed even a mention of it. Month after month went by, billions upon billions of our tax dollars flowed out the door to states to set up ObamaCare. GOP 'leadership' likes ObamaCare, has never had any intention of defunding or repealing it. They even put an ObamaCare defunding measure in the GOP controlled House Appropriations Committee where they made sure it was "deadlocked" for an indefinite period.
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9/29/11, "Draft spending bill would defund Obama healthcare law," The Hill, Sam Baker

"House Republicans released a draft spending bill Thursday that would cut off funding for many parts of the healthcare reform law, though the bill remains deadlocked in the Appropriations Committee."...

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Sen. Ron Johnson citation, "mandatory spending:"

9/26/13, "Sen. Ron Johnson: 'Stop Relying on the Federal Government to solve your problems,'" CNS News, via Fox News

Senator Ron Johnson: ""Obamacare is permanent law. It's part of that mandatory spending."" (quote at end of article)

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P.S. "Passionate" doesn't describe Senator Johnson's views on US government in October 2013 though that may be how he chooses to describe them. Senator Johnson has gone over to the other side, meaning the Beltway side. Like the others over there, he can't abide us for one second. On a different issue, I do appreciate him attempting to stand up to the multi-trillion dollar CO2 terror industry, headquartered in the US government which has been stealing from US taxpayers for non-existent terror for over 3 decades. Senator Johnson, if you want to help this country, why not focus on that? I'd suggest some therapy, too. Either you're not managing your emotions well these days, or you thought your job was something quite different than it is.





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