Will the Obama Congress Come to Order?

 December 2, 1912

“Congress Will Come To Order!”
by Clifford K. Berryman
Washington Evening Star, December 2, 1912
From the US Senate Collection, Center for Legislative Archives

The ultimate prize of a congressional election is control over the two houses of Congress: the U.S. House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate. This cartoon shows Congress following the pivotal 1912 elections when the Ultra-Liberal Progressives under Woodrow Wilson as Democrats swept into power and captured majority control of the gavels in both houses to come under their order.  History later proved it was the wrong outcome which led the United States on into a subsequent recession and depression era lasting on into 1945 with Franklin D. Roosevelt's liberal New Deal Progressive Programs.

A Double Entendre

One hundred years later the 1912 editorial cartoon shows how Obama sees the gavels coming down to pass Obamacare while declaring his victory boldly, "Congress will come to order!"

However. the United States Supreme Court will overrule Obamacare because the government is overreaching with a mandate forcing all Americans to buy health insurance under the guise of the Commerce Clause which allows the government to regulate commercial activity among the states.  Obamacare is therefore held unconstitutional which will subsequently unfund it and overturn the entire single-payer Obamacare Act, "Congress will come to order!"