Mitt Romney’s presidential campaign has raised $4.3 million since the Supreme Court ruled President Obama’s healthcare law is constitutional.
Romney started raising funds immediately after the decision, and in a message to supporters Friday morning his campaign spokeswoman said he had raised $4.3 million from 43,000 donations.
“As of this morning, we have raised $4.3 million with 43,000 donations online. ” spokeswoman Andrea Saul said.
“The Supreme Court may have found Obamacare constitutional, but it remains just as disastrous for job creators as the day the law was passed. Obamacare is a job killer – it raises taxes, cuts Medicare, and puts government between patients and their doctors,” Saul added.
Romney responded to the ruling by renewing his pledge to repeal the Affordable Care Act known as “Obamacare.”
He wrote in a fundraising email to supporters on Thursday: “Today, the Supreme Court upheld Obamacare. But regardless of what the Court said about the constitutionality of the law, Obamacare is bad medicine, it is bad policy, and when I’m president, the bad news of Obamacare will be over.”
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We are going to see much more than campaign dollars…we will also see votes…and many of them. Chief Justice Roberts, probably the most politically astute Chief Justice in recent years, handed a gift to the Romney campaign…”the mandate is a tax”. Despite the “pundits” heralding Obama’s “win”, the seeds have planted (aside from a still flagging economy)for a Romney landslide in November.
Romney has many reasons to be delighted. Of course, his base is mobilized. Since the “individual mandate” is now a tax measure, it can be blocked without a 60 seat majority in the Senate – so if the Republicans have control of both hours, they can repeal and replace. And the court apparently crippled the expansion of the “Commerce Clause” as well as the use of “unfunded mandates” – something to delight the Tea Party.
#1 dont buy into the huppa that Roberts is a genius and only did this for a Romney win etc.. the fact is he damaged this country in a major way by setting president that congress is allowed to tax anything for anything when ever they want, and until now they never had such powers.
Eric55, what do you mean that until now they never had such powers? What are you talking about? When did Congress not have this power?
There is no precedent here; there was never any dispute that Congress has the power to impose such a tax. The conservative argument was that it could have done so, but it chose not to. Roberts decided that it really had done so, and was just pretending not to.
It may be constitutional, but we can’t abide by it! Who cares if a duly elected congress passed a constitutional law in a legal manner?
Next thing you know they’re gonna tell us we have to abide by the results of Egyptian free elections, even if they pick the wrong guy!