Though DeMint was referring specifically to the Affordable Care Act, a law the Heritage Foundation is urging Congress to defund in next month's continuing resolution, his comments could also apply to existing programs that have more direct government involvement than the ACA.
If he isn't, the ACA is in real trouble.
Rinehart's lawyers have seized on the ACA segment as evidence much of the action in the drama is fiction.
Whether Creepy Uncle Sam and his creepier backers will succeed in bringing down the Affordable Care Act (ACA) remains to be seen, but the prognosis is not good.
As it happens, even the Koch brothers have begun to realize that their attempts to stop the ACA are getting them nowhere.
Since the ACA was signed into law in 2010, it has miraculously managed to withstand "Hitler death panel" comparisons, state by state efforts to block its implementation, a US supreme court challenge to its constitutionality and, most recently, a defunding effort that led to the federal government shutdown.
The supreme court has already established a "limiting principle", which upholding the ACA would not threaten.
— lesley clark (@lesleyclark) October 17, 2013 "They are making improvements every day," Carney says of the #ACA glitchy website Facebook Twitter Google plus Share Share this post Facebook Twitter Google plus close 2.07pm ET19:07 Carney is asked about the president's sharp criticism of his critics.
What think tanks such as the IPA and like-minded groups effectively do is free up the coal industry's primary lobby groups, such as the ACA (Australian Coal Association, which is now part of the Minerals Council of Australia) and the companies themselves, from damaging their own credibility by being publicly identified as rejecting the scientific consensus on climate change.
"This is a big explosive Dallas-type drama and a lot of it we didn't have to make up, a lot of it is on the public record," Ford told ACA.
The fact that I don't believe that the constitutional case against the ACA is strong, however, doesn't mean that a majority of the court will.
