Pence Tells Tea Partiers To 'Remember In November'

A prominent House conservative told participants in the second annual 9/12 Rally in Washington yesterday that the Obama administration is using the recession to wage socioeconomic war.

“No American should face a tax increase in January…not one. We will not compromise our economy to accommodate the class warfare rhetoric of this administration,” said Mike Pence (R-Ind.), Chairman of the House Republican Conference. Pence told the roughly 100,000 in attendance to stand against President Obama’s attempt to allow a series of tax cuts for the wealthy to expire at the end of this year.

“We do not consent to higher taxes on any American in the worst economy in 25 years. When did higher taxes ever get anybody hired?”

Pence spoke at the same rally last year, which focused mainly on drumming up resistance to a healthcare reform bill that would later become law. This year, the message from Pence and other speakers, including conservative Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli (R), was purely political.

Pence urged the audience to focus on voting out liberal members of Congress in the upcoming midterm elections, while Cuccinelli touted his own efforts to stop provisions within the aforementioned healthcare law from going into effect in his state.

The rally was organized by the conservative nonprofit organization FreedomWorks, along with a number of smaller local Tea Party groups. Glenn Beck’s 9.12 Project played an additional role in helping organize the rally both this year and last.

Lawyer Predicts Virginia's Health Care Reform Challenge Will Fail

Philip Bunnell - Talk Radio News Service

Despite a Federal Judge’s decision Monday to allow a lawsuit filed by Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli challenging the national health care reform law to proceed, Walter Dellinger, Chair of the Appellate Practice at the firm O’Melveny & Meyers in Washington, D.C. and an acting Solicitor General in the Clinton administration, predicts the effort to block the legislation will fail.

“It is fairly routine that thousands of cases go forward every week in the courts of this country that survive a motion to dismiss on the face of the pleadings where ultimately the plaintiffs lose, and I think that will be the case here,” Dellinger said during a conference call hosted by the Center for American Progress.

Dellinger also noted that filing a lawsuit that challenges decisions made by elected representatives is “a very dramatic expansion of judicial authority” and that such a notion would likely bother conservative judges.

“This is the kind of challenge that was brought against the Social Security law by the people who lost in the legislative process,” added Dellinger.  “This kind of litigation was brought against the Civil Rights Act, the Voting Rights Act.  These challenges have always failed because in the end, courts realize that these important decisions are to be made by the elected representatives of the people.”