Re: gubment shuts down and Obamacare opens up
If you still think this is Dems vs. Republicans, you are myopic on this one.
Here's some problems that will need resolution:
The Affordable Healthcare Choices Act is unconstitutional, when read cover to cover (which NO lawmaker has done yet). This renders the Bill DOA, as far as being Constitutional and therefore fit for legislation. It is not even worth challenging that it isn't Constitutional, it is a Bill designed to transfer power directly to the Executive Branch.
"The irony is that the Congress doesn't have any authority to legislate in most of those areas to begin with! I defy anyone to read the text of the U.S. Constitution and find any authority granted to the members of Congress to regulate health care." - Michael Connelly Retired attorney, Constitutional Law Instructor Carrollton , Texas
Here, read this,
http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/50/842
50 USC § 842 - Proscription of Communist Party, its successors, and subsidiary organizations
The Communist Party of the United States, or any successors of such party regardless of the assumed name, whose object or purpose is to overthrow the Government of the United States, or the government of any State, Territory, District, or possession thereof, or the government of any political subdivision therein by force and violence, are not entitled to any of the rights, privileges, and immunities attendant upon legal bodies created under the jurisdiction of the laws of the United States or any political subdivision thereof; and whatever rights, privileges, and immunities which have heretofore been granted to said party or any subsidiary organization by reason of the laws of the United States or any political subdivision thereof, are terminated: Provided, however, That nothing in this section shall be construed as amending the Internal Security Act of 1950, as amended [50 U.S.C. 781 et seq.]
So basically, if Obama tries to push this legislation through and goes to extremes to get it, he and his cohorts can be removed, period. Especially so if he goes for this one
http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/50/212
50 USC § 212 - Confiscation of property employed to aid insurrection
Whenever during any insurrection against the Government of the United States, after the President shall have declared by proclamation that the laws of the United States are opposed, and the execution thereof obstructed, by combinations too powerful to be suppressed by the ordinary course of judicial proceedings, or by the power vested in the marshals by law, any person, or his agent, attorney, or employee, purchases or acquires, sells or gives, any property of whatsoever kind or description, with intent to use or employ the same, or suffers the same to be used or employed in aiding, abetting, or promoting such insurrection or resistance to the laws, or any person engaged therein; or being the owner of any such property, knowingly uses or employs, or consents to such use or employment of the same, all such property shall be lawful subject of prize and capture wherever found; and it shall be the duty of the President to cause the same to be seized, confiscated, and condemned.
So what will happen?
Basically the way I see it, if Obama goes for an open Martial Law, he'll be on the hook. If he tries to push this any further, he'll be on the hook. And if he stays the course, he'll be on the hook. He's fucked, basically.