i asked him to consider signing it he s a leader among the democrats. hopefully, he will be interested in doing that. this part is not partisan. this is a procedural issue to get the law clarified. the one thing business abhors and we ve seen a lot of this out of washington, unfortunately, the lack of certainty and predictability. that s what kills business. as long as we might have to go years of appeals, it is not gonna help the economy recover. it is not going to create certainty in the health care environment we need. greta: are you gonna go full speed ahead expecting it will be declared by the supreme court unconstitutional? or full speed ahead that it is constitutional? what do you do now even the fastest would be six months or three years sitting up in the supreme court. i have to operate like every governor does assuming this will be the law of the land. greta: and though right now it is not in this jurisdiction
to take a closer look at that question. greta: is there any way this statute gets funded if the mandate is unconstitutional? if they can t require people to pay for it. i realize you didn t win the severeability argument. any way this gets funded within the statute if that is gone? no. that s why the federal government in their briefs conceded if the individual mandate is unconstitutional all the insurance elements need to go with it because it is the funding mechanism. there was a way they could have achieved the same goals constitutionalityly. to have passed a constitutionally. to have passed a tax bill that funds the tax provisions. they didn t want to vote on the tax. they wanted to just use this circumventing route to get around the tax requirements. so they required all of us to buy this health insurance that they were gonna mandate the
from coast-to-coast, the united states to take time to know it was so well worth i. thank you. thank you. greta: video pictures behind the scenes stories about our trip to haiti, go to gretawire.com. here s one story about the trip you might want to hear. did you see this ap picture of governor palin? the caption read governor palin has her hair done during a visit to a cholera treatment center. many websites went wild hammering governor palin for bringing a hairstylist to haiti. the person is not a hairstylist it is the governor s daughter bristol reaching up and fixing her mother s hair. check out the similar picture i took the same day. was that ap caption lame and deceiving? and why did they do it? we report, you decide.
i asked him to consider signing it he s a leader among the democrats. hopefully, he will be interested in doing that. this part is not partisan. this is a procedural issue to get the law clarified. the one thing business abhors and we ve seen a lot of this out of washington, unfortunately, the lack of certainty and predictability. that s what kills business. as long as we might have to go years of appeals, it is not gonna help the economy recover. it is not going to create certainty in the health care environment we need. greta: are you gonna go full speed ahead expecting it will be declared by the supreme court unconstitutional? or full speed ahead that it is constitutional? what do you do now even the fastest would be six months or three years sitting up in the supreme court. i have to operate like every governor does assuming this will be the law of the land. greta: and though right now it is not in this jurisdiction
authority. two other judges disagree with judge hudson. including one in virginia on the other side of the state. we have two districts eastern and western. in the western district they just had an opinion issued where the mandate was upheld as proper exercise of the commerce clause power. even those two judges have said the taxing argument does not apply. the federal government is reaching too far. even the judges favorable to them on the individual mandate. greta: in the decision the judge talks about the income thing is the federal government says it has the taxing . the day they signed the bill the senate passed the bill in december of last year they were careful to change it from tax to penalty. that makes a difference. whether it is a tax or penalty. right. the president was very emphatically arguing this is not a tax. while the bill was in process. then it became law and we challenged it and they began to argue this is their