Missouri to Obama & The Dems: Take Your Health Care Mandate and Shove It!

As a lifelong Missourian (now forced to live in the damn jayhawker state), I'm quite proud today of my Missouri brethren for overwelmingly approving Missouri Proposition C yesterday. The measure prohibits the federal government from mandating that citizens have health care insurance and punishing them if they don't have it. And it passed with a whopping 71% of the vote.

Even before their inevitable legal challenges to Proposition C, we already, of course, have the left in high spin mode today. First, they say this wasn't a rejection of Obama & The Dems' entire health care reform law, rather only the insurance mandate component. Purely laughable. Are they really claiming with a straight face that this result would have been any different if the entire law had been in front of voters? Puh-lease. Not to mention, the insurance mandate is a huge component of the law in and of itself!

Second, the left-wing spin points out that there was a higher republican than democrat party turnout in Missouri yesterday for what was mostly primary voting. This spin is particularly disingenuous since Missouri Senate dems threatened to filibuster this measure as a November general election constitutional amendment, and repubs avoided the filibuster by putting it on the August primary ballot as simply a law.

Put another way, dems knew that November passage of the measure would have more political clout and wanted this measure on the August ballot so that they could engage in the very spin in which they are now engaging. And is there really any doubt that this measure would have passed just as easily in November!?

Plain and simple: Regardless of whether Proposition C is ultimately able to stand up in court, what we're left with at the end of the day is Missouri sending a resounding message of disapproval from middle America to Obama & The Dems concerning the health care monstrosity that they ram-rodded down the throats of the American people on Sunday Bloody Sunday.

Now, do Obama & The Dems really care? I seriously doubt it. I don't think they give one rat's ass what any of us in this part of the country think about much of anything. Which is why Independents are going to kick plenty of their leftist hides to the curb come November.

http://apnews.myway.com/article/20100804/D9HCF3I80.html