Missouri says "no" to ObamaCare.

Missouri voters on Tuesday overwhelmingly rejected a federal mandate to purchase health insurance, rebuking President Barack Obama's administration and giving Republicans their first political victory in a national campaign to overturn the controversial health care law passed by Congress in March.

"The citizens of the Show-Me State don't want Washington involved in their health care decisions," said Sen. Jane Cunningham, R-Chesterfield, one of the sponsors of the legislation that put Proposition C on the August ballot. She credited a grass-roots campaign involving Tea Party and patriot groups with building support for the anti-Washington proposition.

With most of the vote counted, Proposition C was winning by a ratio of nearly 3 to 1. The measure, which seeks to exempt Missouri from the insurance mandate in the new health care law, includes a provision that would change how insurance companies that go out of business in Missouri liquidate their assets. . . . . READ MORE >>>>

Editor's notes: there are some 20 states working on legal challenges to the healthcare bill and most if not all of them take a slightly different legal stance. Understand and believe this: if healthcare is allowed to stand, it marks the end of Federalism and states rights. Any Congressional representative who does not understand this fact needs to be opposed by the voting populace. We need to keep this thing tied up in court until we are able to gather enough politicians in Congress to repeal this destructive piece of legislation.

Anyone remember the 'good old days' when Obama was saying that this thing was not a tax? Well, wouldn't you know that the Obama defense will include the notion that healthcare IS A TAX and is permitted by the Constitution. The states are developing arguments against the bill on the grounds that the Constitution does not allow the Federal government to order its citizens to purchase a product. The fact that the Obama-ites have changed their "battle plan" is evidence that the States' argument(s) may have more merit than is admitted.

It is extremely important that Obama is evaluated on the basis of what he does, not on what he says. The two have very little to do with each other in most cases. While he is busy arguing that he will not raise taxes on the middle class, in court, he is admitting that healthcare is a massive middle class tax and is permitted for that very reason. File this under "crooks and liars" -- jds.

update: the final count has ObamaCare losing with a vote against healthcare of 72%. McCain won Missouri in the '08 election but only by a margin of 1% !! Also, the total number of people voting in this special election was more than all that voted in both the Republican and Democrat primaries combined.

NOVEMBER, HERE WE COME !!!