Welcome back from the holiday! We hope your fireworks celebration lasted longer than San Diego's. We hope you ate some good BBQ, but hopefully less hotdogs than Joey Chestnut (68). His stomach must be as twisted as Mitt Romney's clarifications about the individual mandate. Boom. Here are some stories informing the rundown for the Last Word tonight:
- Romney's response to Obamacare mandate reveals larger campaign problems
- Obama's bus tour to kick off today in Ohio
- Bobby Jindal and Tim Pawlenty shadowing Obama at tour stops
- San Diego firework malfunction causes 30 seconds of fireworks to go off all at once
- Alabama pastor holds "Whites Only" Christian conference
- Bloomberg asks pun-loving speechwriters, 'Who wrote this s#!t'
- Former Scientology inspector general explains what Katie Holmes is up against
- 'Kenneth the Page' responds to Bobby Jindal comparison





While MSNBC is busy knocking themselves out critiquing Romney's very clear and cogent explanation in his CBS interview on the SCOTUS "discovering" the Taxing power of the Federal Government as going against his belief that the 4 Justices in the minority had it right when they specified that the (Un)affordable Care Act was conceived by Congress and the President as coming under the Commerce Clause powers of the Federal Government, sold on that basis, argued on that basis in the Court, and the infamous mandate was designed to be enforced as a penalty under a "policing" authority that the Federal Government (unlike the State of Massachusetts) does not have under the Constitution was confusing, nothing could be farther from the truth. Romney is perhaps the only one other than Justices Scalia and Kennedy who have spoken with any kind of insight on how far afield this decision went.
But the Court has spoken. The "Act" rests on the flimsy foundation of the taxing power of the Obama Administration. Therefore the burden of another broken promise by Obama falls on that reelection campaign as middle and working class tax payers under $200K in annual income will have their taxes raised by this bill of goods we were sold, which Romney states is onerous, and "BAD" law, and that needs to be rewrittren, if not repealed outright, and the up to 15,000 new tax accountants and attorneys being hired by the IRS under this Administration fired, as should be Obama himself for perpetrating this monstrosity on the people.
Keith: Blah, blah, Fox News Talking point, blah. The taxing power of the government is anything but flimsy; it's engraved in the Constitution of the United States of America. Sorry if you have trouble understanding that.
I'm still trying to get over the, "Obama want's to kill Romney," crap. Well, maybe in the back of his mind. I would rather get a look at his tax refunds for the last 20 years, and see if we can take some of those $250 billion "hard earned" dollars, and put them to something useful, if not put Romney in Jail for tax evasion.
Democrats don't usually pick, "kill," as their first option, but this democrat is a gun owner, and a historian. The last time our political and social structure was ruled by so much lying and hatred, we recreated the U.S. in a Civil War. The country is actually only 147 years old, since it was re-invented in 1865. Maybe the trick to making a republic work is to reconstitute it every so often, and if I end up wearing Union Blue, you bet I'll use all the 2nd amendment skills I've honed for the last 25 years to put down another rebellion. Mitt Romney will be well out of danger, though; he will have taken his family to France.