Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal appears ready to lead his State’s resistance to the latest Federal power grab despite the recent US Supreme Court’s split decision upholding it by redefining the healthcare mandate as a ‘tax.’ As argued by Thomas Jefferson and James Madison (the Father of the Constitution) in the Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions, the States as the (once) sovereign bodies which created the Federal compact are the proper last authorities to decide on the constitutionality of laws. Jindal’s stated resistance to implementing Obamacare is very much in the historical States’ rights tradition of Jefferson and Madison. The question remains as to how far Jindal is willing to go and what measures the Obama Administration will take against Louisiana. Chris Moody has the report for Yahoo News:
Is it time to hoist up the Louisiana Secession Flag and toast the re-birth of freedom in Louisiana?
The Supreme Court upheld President Barack Obama’s health care law on Thursday, but Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal, a possible Republican vice presidential contender who has refused to establish a federally mandated health care exchange in his state, said Friday that he will continue to ignore it.
“We’re not going to start implementing Obamacare,” Jindal said during a conference call with Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell. “We’re committed to working to elect Gov. Romney to repeal Obamacare.”
Under the Affordable Care Act, states must set up a health insurance exchange program by Jan. 1, 2014, and will receive grants from the federal government to implement it. Several Republican governors, including both Jindal and McDonnell, have put off setting up the exchanges in the hope that the law would be repealed or struck down by the court. Now that the law has been upheld, Jindal said he won’t change course and is looking to presumptive Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney to lead the repeal effort if he takes office in 2013.
“Here in Louisiana we have not applied for the grants, we have not accepted many of these dollars, we’re not implementing the exchanges,” Jindal said. “We don’t think it makes any sense to implement Obamacare in Louisiana. We’re going to do what we can to fight it.”
Also see: Federal court approves extension of Federal power, Podcast: Obamacare, the South & secession and League of the South’s statement on Obamacare ruling
$5 says he will bow down to the omnipotent Federal like all other Republicans
The federal government is a Beast that devours freedom and crushes individual liberty whenever it can, wherever it can. This has been true since almost its inception. I agree that the States were once sovereign bodies. The States were the bodies that made the federal pact in the first place, but they did so with the belief that the States would retain their sovereignty and could withdraw from the union if it proved to be tyrannical or oppressive. What a huge mistake that turned out to be! The States ARE supposed to be the proper last authorities to decide on the constitutionality of laws. It gives me hope to see the 25 states that are resisting & pushing back. I support Jindal 100%. Yet, I worry. Because the Beast has proven time and time again that it will destroy what it cannot manipulate, control, or force into submission. Our Confederate ancestors had truth and rightness on their side! I honor them for their bravery – for trying to prevent the escalation. But the Beast nearly devoured them. The federal fist destroyed the South, occupied what was left, and tortured the survivors for years with Reconstruction. And the same federal government has only gotten more beastly. It won’t be satisfied until it controls & devours everything and makes slaves out of ALL of us. On a side note, I am a political blogger, and if you pay attention you can clearly see that the Unionists are STILL beating up on the South – still blaming the South, taunting us, daring us to exist. But we DO exist, and until my dying breath I will defend Dixie! Deo Vindice!
DISUNION NOW!
The evolved hostility toward individual Liberty is increasingly exemplified by this government’s claim to regulate essential aspects that are commonly associated with the life of an individual. While it is very true that our Freedoms may well prove inconvenient to this government, we should, in no wise, allow this government any abridgements of the foundations of our Liberty. There is, as there always has been, a propensity of the political process that leans toward mischievous inclinations. There must be a reinstitution of the Constitutional prohibitions on the powers by which this government nurtures itself. There must be a rejection and an elimination of government precedents by which such infringements have become legally justified.
Along with such blatant infringements, our Congress has been successful in the creation of pecuniary inequities, redistributing, as it were, both the wealth and the poverty of this country on a scale that has never been witness in our history. With such inequities come discord and discontent, all the while avoiding the very principles, which would be far more propitious to the happiness of the People and the future safety of the Republic. With such powers, the government has extended itself beyond the limits of all social necessity in the pursuit of its own aggrandizements, its funding systems, emoluments, pensions, standing armies, government sponsored corporations, banks and by its political patronages. In short, it has assumed the absolute power to act according to the pleasure of political expediencies in the interests, ambitions and avarices of its own administration.
The principles of our American Revolution have long since faded; instead we have allowed this government to invest itself in the instruments of our own oppression. By a system of inferences and distorted construction, this government has laden itself with superfluous powers, which are both pernicious in execution and devoid of Constitutional principles. We have yet to understand that the lost of one of our natural Rights is equivalent to the loss of them all.