Archive for June, 2012

Health Exchange Posts on the STP website

At one time in the 2011 session Democrat Harold Mitchell introduced a bill to set up a Health Exchange in South Carolina. 13 Republicans signed on to that bill. The South Carolina tea parties and liberty groups and conservatives went to work and eventually all 13 GOP legislators removed their names from the bill. Below [...]

June 30, 2012  Tags:   Posted in: Uncategorized  One Comment

Five-Point Plan to Achieve Full Repeal of ObamaCare

Dean Clancy of FreedomWorks has written this 5 point plan to full repeal. 1) Stop your state from setting up an ObamaCare exchange.* 2) Get your state to opt out of the ObamaCare Medicaid expansion. 3) Elect 4 additional pro-repeal Senators, which would give us a pro-repeal majority. 4) Retain and if possible enlarge the [...]

June 30, 2012   Posted in: Uncategorized  One Comment

Kerry Wood Signature Events!

Operation Lost Vote has been promoting “Signature Saturday” events all over the state and candidates are close to or have met their numbers, and this week a couple of candidates in York County actually turned in their signatures! Now we still have some work to do here in Spartanburg, so please look on your calendar [...]

June 30, 2012  Tags: , ,   Posted in: Uncategorized  4 Comments

Issa drop bombshell into the record

Anthony Martin has followed up this headline from the past few days with an indepth explanation at Examiner.com: During the Thursday afternoon debate in the U.S. House of Representatives on the resolution to find Attorney General Eric Holder in contempt of Congress, U.S. Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif., quietly dropped a major bombshell into the official [...]

June 30, 2012  Tags: , ,   Posted in: Uncategorized  No Comments

SCOTUS decision applied to … Social Security

Now HERE’S a unique spin on yesterday’s decision by WMCraig at Redstate: It is constitutional to enact a tax, and allow citizens to purchase private insurance in lieu of paying the tax. When Congress returns to work after our great independence holiday I ask that someone in Congress, maybe Representative Bachmann, submit the following bill [...]

June 29, 2012   Posted in: Uncategorized  2 Comments

Win/Lose re: Tax vs. Commerce Clause

I found this article extremely helpful, Philip Klein at the Washington Examiner. It is largely an interview of Georgetown Law professor Randy Barnett, who has been described as the legal architect behind challenges to the health care law. This is how it ends: “This case reaffirms everything we said about constitutionally limited government. Everything that [...]

June 29, 2012   Posted in: Uncategorized  No Comments

Haley administration ‘opts out’ of health care expansion

Renee Dudley reports at The Post and Courier: In one of Thursday’s unexpected findings, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that “states may now choose to reject the expansion of Medicaid,” the state- and federally-funded health insurance program for the poor and disabled. In his majority opinion, Chief Justice John Roberts said the federal government cannot [...]

June 29, 2012   Posted in: Uncategorized  One Comment

Your School Boards at work

Please consider running for School Board in 2013. Why? District 4 approves budget increase to $18.7M District 5 passes larger, $64M budget District 6 approves increased budget of $74.7M

June 29, 2012   Posted in: Uncategorized  3 Comments

Haley, witnesses say governor did nothing improper

Here is Stephen Largen’s article in the Post and Courier on yesterdays ethics hearing. Stephen tweeted the hearing all day yesterday, it was the best live tweet coverage I’ve seen on an event. I watched part of the hearing on SC ETV, including Haley’s testimony. NOTE: This is funny. The defense subpenaed Rainey the instigator [...]

June 29, 2012   Posted in: Uncategorized  2 Comments

Today’s SCOTUS Decision Dooms Obama’s Reelection

Mike Flynn at BigGovernment.com: I’m just going to give you the best paragraph, go read the rest. Patriots around the country will now realize that there is no cavalry on the horizon. If we want to preserve our liberties, we will have to fight for it. Patriots and Independents now have a singular reason to [...]

June 28, 2012   Posted in: Uncategorized  One Comment