Texas AG compares fight against Obamacare to.. the Alamo?

[Doc Holliday]

A-J AUSTIN BUREAU

AUSTIN — Comparing it to the battle of the Alamo, Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott said Wednesday though the state lost the health care fight in the U.S. Supreme Court, there are other ways to dismantle the landmark legislation critics call Obamacare.

“I view this somewhat like the battle of the Alamo,” Abbott said at a luncheon hosted by the conservative think tank Texas Public Policy Foundation. “It is a catastrophic loss for the United States and for individual liberty.

“However, like the battle of the Alamo, the battle cry here is ‘remember Obamacare,’ ” Abbott said before explaining two possible ways the law can be repealed.

The first and easiest is if Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney is elected Nov. 6, and the GOP regains control of the U.S. Senate, Abbott said.

The second — in the event President Barack Obama is re-elected — is that, at least in Texas, the state can legally dismantle the Affordable Care Act piece by piece.

Romney and a Republican-controlled Congress would be able to repeal the law because the June 29 Supreme Court ruling stated it is a tax law. For that reason, all the U.S. Senate needs to repeal it is a majority vote, not a minimum of 60 votes like in most other pieces of legislation, Abbott explained.

In the event Obama is re-elected, the other possibility of dismantling the law is by a series of legal challenges, he told his audience.

“There are going to be volumes of rules and regulations,” Abbott later said in an interview.

And as those rules and regulations are spelled out, his office will be analyzing them to see if they violate Texas law and then challenge them in court, he said.

Abbott also told his audience and then elaborated in the interview, that his office is just as confident that in the end it will win the redistricting and voter ID fights as well.

The rest of the story and comments are at http://lubbockonline.com/government/2012-09-05/abbott-compares-fight-against-obamacare-alamo#comment-246639

I find it ironic in the extreme that the same folks who castigate Obama and Holder for "refusing to enforce" certain laws (DOMA, for example) have no problem with trying to subvert Obamacare. Like a bunch of ducks with law degrees, they want to nibble it to death, at least in Texas.

[still_one]

1. Then Texas needs to vote the bastards out

[Doc Holliday]

3. If only.

Texas is so red, my friend...the blue parts are scattered around like a bunch of mini-oases.

The Dreaded Godless Liberal Scourge is a little thin on the ground down here....but we try to be noisy about it.

The Texas mindset can be a little disconcerting to the uninitiated. It takes some getting used to, if you're from a differently civilized part of the country.

[Drahthaardogs]

2. The Texans got their asses kicked at the Alamo.

I grew up in southern Colorado, and every elk season, ski season, and summer season our mountains were inundated with visitors from Texas. Since I worked at a State Park in high school, I got to meet a lot of Texans. I never understood their strange love affair with the Alamo.

I once asked a Texan man (who became my friend) "What does it say about your state when you all go around bragging about an ass kicking."

[Doc Holliday]

4. They'll tell you

it ain't about the asskicking....it's about the payback.

As Texans charged into the Battle of San Jacinto, they screamed "Remember the Alamo!" as a way to remind themselves of their dead comrades and the asskicking they took at the Alamo. Time to get some of their own back, as some still say down here.

[Drahthaardogs]

5. The Romans would say

veni, vidi, vici.

I came, I saw, I conquered. Much better, but I guess Sam Houston was no Constantine the Great, and sure as hell was no Julius Caesar,.