“Obamacare should have been struck down in its entirety, and remain optimistic that it will be struck down following November’s elections. Anything less spells the end of America’s world leading healthcare system…”

If Mr. Vance wishes to tilt at windmills in deference to his Tea Party ideology, then fine.  However, he should at least try to use actual facts instead of easily discredited nonsense to bolster his case.  According to a World Health Organization study in 2010 (the last year of such a thorough review), the United States is #1 in expenditures per capita on health care, yet ranks #37 in all outcomes measured. 

The only thing “world leading” about it is that the U.S. health care system leads the world in insuring private companies continue to enrich themselves at the expense of the average American’s money and health.

“If Mr. Vance wishes to tilt at windmills in deference to his Tea Party ideology, then fine.”

He’s a sissy compared to real Tea Partiers, like Rand Paul:

“Just because a couple people on the Supreme Court declare something to be ‘constitutional’ does not make it so.”

http://www.politico.com/blogs/on-congress/2012/06/rand-paul-obamacare-is-still-unconstitutional-127574.html

What would the GOP even talk about if they werent spending the last (and next) 4 years calling a handout to the insurance industry ‘socialism’?

NDAA? Patriot Acts? Drone strikes on countries we are not at war with?

Naw. Better just ramble on about ‘socialism’.

derp.

The GOP has not offered anything at all; not during the Bush years, including the time they held both Houses of Congress.  Nada.  They offer nothing now but discredited sound bites.  Wait, I take it back;  Maryland Governor Martin O’Malley correctly “attacked their hypocrisy in objecting to government involvement in health care while simultaneously implementing hundreds of new restrictive anti-abortion laws in state houses across the country.

“The only health care mandate they can embrace are transvaginal probes for women,” he said.

Vance and his fellow Tea Party types, along with other conservative types, are full of bluster about how they’re going to “repeal Obamacare.”  I’ll take bets that the public will not allow these corporate lackeys to return to the status quo.  It’s all about placating their extremist base and saving face.  And trying to raise money.

“like Rand Paul”

Oh yes, he who endorsed the godfather of Obamacare, Romney, for president, much to the ire of other Tea Party types. 

Maybe Rand (I wonder where the name came from?) Paul doesn’t subscribe to the concept of judicial review as the final arbiter of what is constitutional (since 1803), but his whining doesn’t change a thing.  It just makes him look like the other right-wingers: sore losers.

Randal “pseudo libertarian” Paul also wanted the US to declare war on Libya. So much for limited government.

Also, he is named Randall. Not named after Ayn Rand. Not literally, at least.