DeMint: Here's How We Can Nullify ObamaCare

A special message from Senator Jim DeMint:

Yesterday, a U.S. District Judge in Florida ruled that Obamacare is unconstitutional. If the ruling stands, it will overturn the 2,700 page, $938 billion bill passed by Congress last year.

In his opinion, Judge Roger Vinson referenced the Boston Tea Party:

"It is difficult to imagine that a nation which began, at least in part, as the result of opposition to a British mandate giving the East India Company a monopoly and imposing a nominal tax on all tea sold in America would have set out to create a government with the power to force people to buy tea in the first place."

It is difficult to imagine, indeed.

I certainly hope the U.S. Supreme Court strikes down the President's socialist experiment, but freedom-loving Americans cannot count on the courts to solve this problem.

If we want to stop President Obama from taking away the freedom to make our health care decisions, we must force Congress to repeal Obamacare wholesale.

The House of Representatives recently voted to repeal it and now it's time for the Senate to act. I wanted you to know that I will be working to force a vote as early as this week.

Thanks to your support, all 47 Republicans in the Senate have agreed to cosponsor my bill to repeal Obamacare and can now be counted on to vote for full repeal. This is a tremendous accomplishment, but we still have a long way to go.

There are a number of Democrats up for re-election in 2012 who need to hear from the American people right now. These senators include Jon Tester (D-MT), Ben Nelson (D-NE), Jim Webb (D-VA), Claire McCaskill (D-MO), and Joe Manchin (D-WV). They may not want to listen but it's important that they know you will repeal them at the ballot box if they don't help us repeal the bill.

Click here to find a complete list of senators and where they currently stand on the bill to repeal Obamacare.

Winning this battle will require perseverance and patience. 

• First, we have to put each senator on record and force them to vote on repeal over and over again so their constituents know where they stand.

• Then, we have to defeat as many pro-Obamacare senators in 2012 as we can.

• And finally, we either have to defeat President Obama or win a super-majority in the House and Senate to override his veto before the law goes fully into effect in 2014.

Stopping socialized medicine won't be easy but we can do it if we work together. We've already made significant progress, and with your help we can expect much more to come.

Thank you for your willingness to fight for the principles of freedom that make America the greatest nation on earth.