Mark Levin plans to sue if ObamaCare becomes law

Mark Levin, the popular conservative radio host and constitutional lawyer, announced on his radio show yesterday that he would immediately file a lawsuit if Democrats passed ObamaCare using the Slaughter Solution.

Levin's legal complaint quotes Article I, Section 7, clause 2 of the Constitution, which necessitates that, "But in all such cases the votes of both Houses shall be determined by yeas and nays, and the names of the persons voting for and against the bill shall be entered on the journal of each House respectively.” Levin plans to argue that because the House will vote for the reconciliation sidecar rather than the actual Senate bill under the Slaughter Solution, health care reform will have been passed unconstitutionally. The lawsuit, which will be filed by Levin's Landmark Legal Foundation, directly names Barack Obama, Timothy Geithner, Eric Holder, and Kathleen Sebelius.

Levin won't be alone. C.L. "Butch" Otter, the governor of Idaho, signed a bill today mandating the state's attorney general to sue the federal government if ObamaCare becomes law. Otter is specifically targeting the individual mandate, the unconstitutional provision that would force every citizen to buy health insurance or face a punitive fine. As we reported yesterday, other states are actually considering nullifying health care reform if it becomes law.

Slaughter Solution opens doors for authoritarianism in America

Journalist Matthew Vadum reminds us just how much is at stake from the Democrats' ObamaCare blitz.

If the flagrantly unconstitutional Slaughter Solution is used and allowed to stand it amounts in a sense to a coup d’etat, that is, a fundamental structural change in our system of government without the consent of the governed. Nothing will stop the Democrats in the future from imposing their will on the American people without taking a vote. Hello cap-and-trade and card check. Anyone who supports the Slaughter Solution supports this supports a kind of treason against the Republic.

This is not a rhetorical flourish. Congress passes the laws of the land. If the laws of the land can be approved by Congress without a vote being taken in which lawmakers are forced to take a stand for or against, the whole idea of representative government is washed away.

Elsewhere, radio host Mark Levin has called for Slaughter to be expelled from Congress. Instead, Democrats have adopted her idea wholesale in order to force health care reform on the country.

Obama an anti-gun nut in college

Progressives are always lecturing concerned Americans that it's crazy to think they'll ever take anyone's guns away. But what if the president was an anti-gun nut who didn't believe in the Second Amendment?

That's the point we've reached in Barack Obama's America. Last night, radio host Mark Levin interviewed John Lott, a former lecturer at the University of Chicago. Lott has written extensively in favor of the Second Amendment and looser gun control laws as a way to prevent crime. He was also at the University of Chicago during Obama's brief tenure as a constitutional law professor about ten years ago. According to Lott, the first time he saw Obama, he approached him and introduced himself. "Oh you're the gun guy," said the future president, warily. Lott said he laughed and said he was. Obama then said, "Well I don't think anyone should be allowed to own guns."

Lott was surprised by the remark. Trying to be friendly, he invited Obama to dinner with him to discuss the matter as academics. Obama refused and after that declined to speak with Lott. Lott was surprised. As a lone conservative at a liberal university, he often argued with his colleagues, but always in a spirit of mutual respect. Obama, Lott said, seemed to condescend to anyone who disagreed with him. He was the ultimate ideologue, intolerant of anyone who thought differently. Lott also revealed that the rest of the faculty didn't take Obama seriously and considered him an unqualified intellectual lightweight.

The interview is shocking because it sheds a small ray of light on Obama's college days, which are mostly shrouded in mystery. Two weeks ago, we reported on a friend of Obama's during college who came forward to admit that the president was an unabashed Marxist. Now we find out that Obama's an anti-gun loon as well.

Unfortunately the transcript and audio aren't available, but we'll post them as soon as they are.