Is ObamaCare constitutional?

State Attorneys General are asking:

Looks like the steadily growing list of constitutional, ethical and political outrages that constitute the Harry Reid version of Obamacare is sparking a rebellion in the states, as AP reports South Carolina's attorney general plans to investigate the vote-buying that surrounded the proposal in the Senate majority leader's office.

According to AP, South Carolina's Henry McMaster is being joined by the attorneys general of Michigan and Washington state in a suit to determine the constitutionality of the Obamacare proposal. Their initiative was prompted by a request from South Carolina's two senators, Lindsay Graham and Jim DeMint, both Republicans.

Attorneys-general in at least four other states are also considering joining McMasters, according to AP.

A rebellion in the states is a good way to describe what needs to take place here.  Every state needs to be pushing Obama and his minions for the same breaks and deals that Nebraska received.

This William Warren 'toon describes what has taken place... and it seems certainly criminal, if not unconstitutional, to me:

Comments

[Locutisprime]

A rebellion of the states? To what end and to who's benefit. This regime won't listen to them or pay any attention to their wailings. Why should they. And the complicit media and courts will continue to allow the disease of egalitarian socialism and Marxist multiculturalism to consume this country.

America is all but road kill carrion to be fed to the jackals of the world now.

It will take more than "lawsuits" to tip the balance back toward reason.

[Matteo]

Eventually it will take secession. The House and the Senate have already seceded from the Union defined by the Constitution. It is becoming time for the states to follow suit.

If one of the parties tears up a contract, then that contract is null and void.

The Federal government has torn up the contract.

[Mommynator]

I was VERY pleasantly surprised to see Mike Bloomberg and Governor Patterson of NYS come out STRONGLY against Obamacare, as they know it will destroy healthcare as it exists in New York state. We've managed to set things up to take care of our own, thank you, and don't need Obama and his gangsters to tell us how to do it or how to pay for it.

[Gringo_Malo]

The vote-buying in Reid's office is not what makes Obamacare unconstitutional. Obamacare, Medicare, Medicaid, TANF, SSI, food stamps, HUD Section 8 housing, etc. are all blatantly unconstitutional regardless of any machinations in Congress surrounding their passage. Nothing in Article I, Section 8 authorizes Congress to transfer one citizen's property or income to another simply because Congress feels like doing so. The 10th Amendment therefore forbids Congress to do so.