Discussion: West Virginia GOPers Want To Make Enforcing Obamacare A Felony

system1 · February 25, 2015, 3:56pm

Discussion for article #233661

estamm · February 25, 2015, 3:58pm

Jeez, don’t people proofread before hitting the ‘publish’ button? That said, this bill is obviously unconstitutional. Next there will be a bill calling for secession.

trippin · February 25, 2015, 3:59pm

This just in: West Virginia also hopes to distinguish itself by being one of only a dozen or so states that would permit concealed carry of a firearm without requiring any goddamned permit whatsoever.

UPDATE: the group known as “Al Shabaab Right to Carry” is rumored to have opened up a field office in the Morgantown Mall.

mcbain · February 25, 2015, 4:02pm

Yet another example of how conservatives just love the Constitution and fully support everything in it. Well, except for the parts that make them do something they don’t like - those parts of the Constitution don’t count.

radicalcentrist · February 25, 2015, 4:03pm

Which would be ironic, given the reason West Virginia exists in the first place

538liberal · February 25, 2015, 4:05pm

West Virginian Republicans are like a reverse toilet with no shutoff.

blue_grit · February 25, 2015, 4:06pm

Thanks Abe.
President Abraham Lincoln (D-HEAVEN).

rssrai · February 25, 2015, 4:06pm

How to make West Virginia the worse state in the country in one easy step. Although West Virginia doesn’t have far to go to be the worse state in the country for anything.

khaaannn · February 25, 2015, 4:07pm

The stunning ignorance of Tea Baggers never fails to impress me.
See Federal Supremacy Clause: Article 6, Paragraph 2 of the US Constitution.
Failing that, see Civil War settles states rights issues: 1861-1865.
This is just Republican pandering to the most ignorant/bigoted/racist of their moronic constituents.
In other words: It must be Wednesday.

blue_grit · February 25, 2015, 4:07pm

During a cholera epidemic.

fargo116 · February 25, 2015, 4:08pm

I thought it was the OTHER Virginia that was big on nullification.

doremus_jessup · February 25, 2015, 4:19pm

The state with the biggest prescription drug addiction problem in America wants to make it harder for people to see a doctor?

spamonwry · February 25, 2015, 4:23pm

Well, I live out here in very, very, very Blue Calif. So, WV wants to make enforcing a constitutional law become a felony. I’m contacting my state reps in Sacramento, and asking them to introduce a law which
will outlaw the RepubliKlown party in its entirety. Makes about as much sense as WV, and who knows, it might be found constitutional when it passes!

ralph_vonholst · February 25, 2015, 4:25pm

However, a lawyer for the committee admitted that it might be unconstitutional to actually prosecute federal or state workers over administering Obamacare. It could also put healthy insurance for thousands of West Virginians who benefit from the law into jeopardy.

Let cooler heads prevail —not!

Observing these GOP berserkers is like watching a kind of Monty Python skit on an endless loop.

trumpdog · February 25, 2015, 4:32pm

Wait…wut?
They want to make it a felony…to enforce a law.

OMG.

tigersharktoo · February 25, 2015, 4:34pm

Fine. Let them pass the law. And then the response should be to close all Federal facilities in WV, to free them from the heavy hand of Washington.

Transfer the jobs to Detroit, to help them rebuild.

ncsteve · February 25, 2015, 4:34pm

Somewhere, all the West Virginians who helped take their counties out of Virginia and died fighting for the Union are spinning in their graves.

ncsteve · February 25, 2015, 4:35pm

Right. Because Michigan totally isn’t run by deranged Republicans.

ecmiles · February 25, 2015, 4:36pm

AH, THE STUPIDITY! THE STUPIDITY! Congrats WV! Move to the bottom of the class. Oops, I forgot. You are already there.

Talibaptist · February 25, 2015, 4:36pm

Also, rescind all Medicaid, SNAP and Federal infrastructure investments… Let them TRY and make it on their own…