Obama Signs Healthcare Bill

President Obama signed into law the health care reform bill, America’s most substantial social legislation in four decades, achieving a top priority of his administration.

The jubilant signing ceremony capped a political victory for Obama.   The bill has ignited a political fight that promises to entangle the bill’s future in the courts. 

Republicans are trying to come up with a strategy that will use this one-sided victory for the Democrats against them in the fall.

Tea Party Promises A Revolt

Instead of being discouraged by passage of health care reform, tea party activists across the country say the defeat is a rallying cry that makes them more focused than ever on voting out any lawmaker who supported the measure.

“We’re not going to stop. Obviously, the whole tea party movement started because we’re about smaller government and less spending and less taxes. There is absolutely no way we can pay for this,” said Denise Cattoni, state coordinator for Illinois Tea Party, an umbrella group for about 50 groups from around Illinois.

Cattoni says the health care defeat doesn’t deflate tea party activists. “We couldn’t stop it because of the shenanigans that went on in Washington,” Cattoni said. “People are definitely more driven today than they were yesterday without a doubt.”

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