The emperor wears no clothes. The bloom is off the rose. The bigger they are, the harder they fall. Pardon the barrage of stale metaphors, but it’s difficult to put into words the utter pasting Mitt Romney put on Barack Obama last week.
Pat Buchanan called Romney’s presentation“the finest debate performance” in 52 years “with the possible exception of Ronald Reagan’s demolition of Jimmy Carter in 1980.”
Indeed, when all of CNN and MSNBC – to include Chris Matthews, Lawrence O’Donnell, and Rachel Maddow – hysterically admit that President Obama got smoked, he got smoked. Bad.
Liberal blogger and Obama sycophant Andrew Sullivan captured the universally-shared “progressive” panic as the brutal mismatch came to a close: “How is Obama’s closing statement so f—ing sad, confused and lame? He choked. He lost. He may even have lost the election tonight.”
For those of us who have long recognized the messianic myth that is Barack Hussein Obama, the debate was especially gratifying.
The world had fallen prey to a cartoonish hoax. This media-crafted Iron Man has proven a mere mortal, a tin man, an international embarrassment.
The jig is up.
In just 90 minutes, Mitt Romney stripped away the Iron Man costume and exposed, naked beneath, a man more closely resembling Robert Downey, Jr.
Recall the image, so often seen, of a young Robert, head downcast in shame, standing before the judge to rationalize why, yet again, he’d screwed up magnificently. Last Wednesday was Barack’s turn.
Don’t get me wrong, I like Robert Downey Jr. – I’m glad he turned his life around. But he’s an actor. He reads his lines. He’s not Iron Man. And he’s not qualified to be president.
Neither is Barack Obama.
And so, lost with no teleprompter binky, and, thus, suffering a debate trouncing unparalleled in history, it would seem that the president’s not so good, very bad week couldn’t get worse.
It got worse.
Just two days prior, the U.S. Supreme Court revived hope – long thought dead – that Obamacare, the president’s signature achievement, might yet be ruled unconstitutional. The High Court shocked the legal community by opening its new term with an order giving the Obama Justice Department just 30 days to respond to Liberty Counsel’s petition for rehearing. Liberty Counsel filed the petition on behalf of Liberty University and two private individuals.
An appeals court in Richmond, Va. ruled that the Anti-Injunction Act, or AIA, barred the court from addressing the merits in Liberty Univ., Inc. v. Geithner, which challenged the individual mandate (Section 1501) and the employer insurance mandate (Section 1513) of Obamacare.
In addition to the constitutional arguments that Congress lacked authority to pass the law, the suit also raised the Free Exercise of religion claim because of the forced taxpayer funding of abortion.
You may recall that the first day of oral argument was dedicated to the AIA, the issue that Liberty University’s case placed before the High Court. In June, the Supreme Court ruled that the AIA does not apply to Obamacare. Therefore, Liberty Counsel asked the Court to grant the petition (because Liberty University prevailed on the AIA claim), vacate the Court of Appeals ruling, and remand (send back) the case to the Court of Appeals to consider the Free Exercise claim and the employer mandate, neither of which were decided by the High Court.
Long story short: If the Supreme Court ultimately hears the case on appeal – which is highly possible as the claims are unique – and rules that the employer mandate and Free Exercise claims are legit, Obamacare dies on the vine. It’s effectively overturned. It’s like a shiny new Chevy Volt without the exploding battery. It goes nowhere fast and is towed to the junkyard of really, really stupid ideas.
This means, among other things, that people who value human life won’t be made complicit in abortion homicide on the taxpayer dime.
“Obamacare is the biggest funding of abortion in American history,” said Mat Staver, founder and chairman of Liberty Counsel and dean of Liberty University School of Law. “Under the Health and Human Services (HHS) mandate, Obamacare will, for the first time, require employers and individuals to directly fund abortion.
“This abortion mandate collides with religious freedom and the rights of conscience. I am very pleased with the Court’s decision today,” concluded Staver.
During the debate, Mitt Romney took Obama to task over Obamacare: “I just don’t know how the president could have come into office, facing 23 million people out of work, rising unemployment, an economic crisis at the – at the kitchen table and spent his energy and passion for two years fighting for Obamacare instead of fighting for jobs for the American people. It has killed jobs.”
Obama was left stuttering and stammering – sheepishly defending his grossly unaffordable, wholly unsustainable, and wildly unpopular Obamacare monstrosity.
I was left encouraged.
Whether by legislative repeal, or through Liberty Counsel’s ongoing case, freedom-loving America should be confident. This freakish Frankenstein monster will, God willing, be soon laid to rest beneath the cold, clammy earth from which Democrats dug it up.
Obama’s shovel-ready debate performance was the ground-breaking.
Matt Barber (@jmattbarber on Twitter) is an attorney concentrating in constitutional law. He serves as Vice President of Liberty Counsel Action.
Photo Credit: Laura Padgett (Creative Commons)
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AMEN! This ruse has gone on long enough and many heads ought to be rolling…
Maybe, they'll get it RIGHT this time?? It should have been DOA, long ago!!!!
I doubt it Vince I think Obutthole got Roberts in his pocket and what would be said if they reverse their decision.Now the best way is to get Romney elected president along with congress and senate in republican control.
I refuse to get my hopes up about this because I have been disappointed by federal judges so many times. I will believe it when I see it.
I look forward to the day that this healthcare from hell is repeal, it will kill jobs. Many people are not aware that this healthcare has the death panel. That means that many elderly people may die because the government will take upon themselves to decide on which medication to give or not to give to save money. In other words people especially the elderly will die. I didn’t’ realize that the politicians were doctors too, this is all wrong anyone voting for obama should have their head examine.
Not too surprising that obama didn't win, you have a man who never worked for or earned anything in his life vs. a man who has worked hard for all the things he has despite the the fact that he didn't have to. Romney also has developed a recipe for continued success, discipline, hard work, and ambition.
It doesn’t matter if the Barakhole wins or loses any debate, he's toast; the same is true for ObamaCare, via the supreme court or Congress or any other body it goes down the literary drain, it gets flushed by the collapse of a bankrupt Political Class nightmare tolerated this long by people who actually work for a living giving the whole of the now unified scum the finger.
The word is insurrection. What the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution properly substitute for a tyranny such as this.
A close, finally, or the legacy of FDR and the bogus Deals ever since.
The climax will shake the world more than 1776.
Mandate, Justice Roberts, forces persons to do something against their will. It was never touted as a tax, you sir, made it a tax. You have failed your country, and denied your oath. You have allowed the government to order and make others pay for abortions regardless of religious conviction. You have single handedly shredded the contitution, well not exactly singlehandedly, you had the help of four others. Two of which should have recused, and did not. By violating your oath, you and your four cronies have committed treason, and caused irreperable harm to this country. You now have a chance to redeem yourself, take it, and follow the oath you have sworn. I sincerely hope you do the proper thing, but don't really have the feeling that you will.