Tea Partiers plan to keep the heat up on the U.S. Supreme Court tomorrow at a 1 p.m. Capitol Hill rally as the court enters its second day of deliberations on the constitutionality of Obamacare.
The #Hands Off My Health Care rally sponsored by Americans for Prosperity will be the latest in a series of Tea Party-connected rallies over the past few days aimed at pressuring the court to overturn the law.
Speakers will include House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan, R-Wisc.; Rep. Michele Bachmann, R-Minn.; Sen. Pat Toomey, R-Pa.; Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky.; and Sen. Jim DeMint, R-S.C.
The rally will be livestreamed on the Internet for all who want to watch, and the rally’s Web site has amassed a collection of over 68,000 signatures asking the Supreme Court to rule against Obamacare.
“We want to send the message to the Supreme Court and make sure it does the right thing and upholds the constitution,” said Americans For Prosperity spokesman Levi Russell. “It violates the Constitution.
“I think that either way happens with the Supreme court decision, it will go back to Congress,” Russell continued. “People are very engaged and want to make their voices heard.”
Americans for Prosperity has put together a large coalition together with 25 other organizations, including the Tea Party Patriots, Tea Party Express, the Richmond Patriots from Virginia and Let Freedom Ring.
DeMint told Red Alert Politics that this is a pivotal moment for America.
“We will find out in November if Obama gets his Waterloo or if it is America’s Waterloo,” DeMint said. “I think that when we get into the general election, I think we will see the pattern of a president who wants the federal government run to practically every aspect life.
“The question is: Can the president dodge and weave and convince the American people that it’s daytime and when it’s night?”
The conservative Senator had strong words for young Americans who supported the president and the passage of Obamacare, calling them “the biggest dupes.”
“They are the ones who are going to end up paying for it,” DeMint said.
DeMint believes that Obama and the Democrats inserted the provision into Obamacare allowing young Americans to stay on their parents’ health insurance until age 26 to entice them to back his policies. However, they are being extremely naïve, in his opinion, because they will have to pay much higher costs for health insurance.
“Do they really think that the government can run health care when it couldn’t even run ‘Cash for Clunkers?’” DeMint said. “The youngest Americans are going to pay dearly.”
This is especially true because of the costs associated with our rapidly aging population, and people like the senator himself who is five years away from being eligible for Medicare at age 65.
“[Obamacare] is going to force them to buy health insurance to spread out the costs of those older Americans,” DeMint said.
But that’s not all, because DeMint argues that the admitted $1.76 trillion cost of Obamacare over the next decade is far too low. Instead, he suggests that the sticker shock could be between $4 and $5 trillion instead based on studies that he has seen.
“We are headed for something that Americans can’t imagine,” DeMint said. “We can’t manage this the way they do in Canada and in Europe, which is a socialistic approach.”
DeMint proposes eliminating Obamacare and overhauling the health insurance market by making it dependent on individual choices that would force insurance companies to compete for the business of millions of Americans. This, he said, would drive down costs.
