Get Ready to Rebel Against Government Healthcare

After the uprising that the Democrats faced this summer given all the profoundly unpopular provisions of its healthcare reform strategy, clearly they devised the following brilliant strategy: "wait three months and jam it all down the peons' throats anyway". "End of life counseling", "trillion dollar costs", "public option", "individual mandate", "huge taxes". Everything that is unpopular and caused Americans to rise up in disgust this summer is all still around in the latest and greatest from the Pelosi & Reid Sausage Factory (confirmed) and hurtling towards becoming the law of the land.

We are at the Rubicon. Your liberty is set to be diminished. So what is to be done?

First, Federalism is to be done. One or two brave governors (Rick Perry comes to mind) has to propose and spend every last bit of political capital to get passed something along the lines of the following bill: "With this bill the sovereign state of _____ asserts its sole authority to regulate the conduct of insurance markets and health regulations within its borders, and any federal regulations in contravention of state regulations contained within this bill are not recognized as binding on the citizens of the state of _____." Get behind and encourage direct state legislative action asserting state rights to ignore federal usurpation of healthcare policy.

Second, we need individual citizens to step up and challenge the individual mandate in the court system. Never in our 230 year history has our government required its citizens to purchase a good or service as a requirement of citizenship and only by virtue of the most radically permissive standard can our Constitution be considered to enable such a mandate. So this must be challenged in the courts, not by interest groups, but by regular citizens.

This fight has to be waged on all fronts and waged relentlessly. The result cannot be taken lying down. This is as necessary a cause for peaceful citizen rebellion as any. Let's get about it America.

UPDATE: It's not like we haven't done it before...