Obama’s Individual Health Care Mandate is Unconstitutional
by Brian DarlingThe Senate is debating the future of American health care, yet one very important issue has yet to get a full and fair debate. Is the individual mandate that forces citizens to purchase health care insurance a constitutional power of the federal government? When House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Ca.) was asked this question, she answered with the non sequitur “are you serious?” Conservatives who respect the idea that the constitution maps out a federal government with limited powers would answer with a loud — “Hell No.”
The Heritage Foundation and the American Center for Law & Justice (ACLJ) recently released legal analysis calling into serious question the constitutionality of the Congress’s plan to force all citizens to purchase health insurance. These conservative institutions argue that the unprecedented idea, a mandate that all Americans be forced into a contractual agreement with a private party for health insurance, is not a constitutionally permissible activity by the federal government. My sources tell me that this issue will be raised during the Senate debate on ObamaCare very soon and may open another front in the war against ObamaCare.
The Heritage Foundation argues that the federal government has never required all Americans to buy any good or service. The individual heath insurance mandate is truly unprecedented.
An individual mandate to enter into a contract with or buy a particular product from a private party, with tax penalties to enforce it, is unprecedented — not just in scope but in kind — an unconstitutional as a matter of first principles and under any reasonable reading of judicial precedents.
One of the goals of our Founding Fathers was to set up a federal government with limited powers. Article 1 of the Constitution gives Congress powers and some powers “remain beyond Congress’s reach.”
Nowhere in the Constitution is Congress given the power to mandate that an individual enter into a contract with a private party or purchase a good or service and, as this paper will explain, no decision or present doctrine of the Supreme Court justifies such a claim of power.
The proponents of expansive federal power hang their hat on the “Commerce Clause” for Congress’s authority to mandate health care insurance for citizens.
Proponents of the individual mandate are contending that, under its power to “regulate commerce…among the several states,” Congress may regulate the doing of nothing at all! In other words, the statute purports to convert inactivity into a class of activity.
Voting is not mandated, but under this precedent, one could argue that the federal government could force citizens to vote against their will. Under the big government line of reasoning, the federal government could have tossed aside Cash for Clunkers, the failed government program to give away billions in subsidies to spur the purchasing of cars, and mandate that citizens buy a car from an American car company of their choice. Would this precedent allow the feds to say that you shall buy insurance and you shall buy it from a certain company? If this mandate is allowed to stand, it would “be the first use of the Commerce Clause to universally mandate an activity by all citizens of the United States.”
The most common argument used to justify a federal mandate to purchase health insurance is the talking point that states are allowed to force individuals to buy car insurance before they are allowed to drive. “There is a fundamental constitutional difference between the inherent police powers of the states and the enumerated powers of the national government.” Not to mention that driving is a voluntary activity, therefore you don’t have to have auto insurance if you don’t have a car. Something I didn’t realize until I read the paper is that “states require drivers to maintain auto insurance only to cover injuries to others.” The analogy between a state mandating auto insurance for those who drive and mandatory health insurance for those who choose not to purchase it is not a good one for the three reasons mentioned above.
Some, like Ruth Marcus of the Washington Post, don’t think this mandate is a big deal. Others like Hans von Spakovsky at NROnline think the mandate is a dangerous precedent.
If Congress can impose a health-insurance mandate, then there is no limit to what Congress can do, and the Constitution’s limits on congressional power will have essentially been eliminated. As Will Rogers once said, with Congress, every time they make a joke it’s a law, and every time they make a law it’s a joke. Unfortunately, none of us will be able to laugh over this pending abuse of power.
There are thousands of reasons to hate the Senate version of ObamaCare, yet the issue over the constitutionality of the mandate has yet to receive serious consideration. Lovers of small, limited government hope that sanity prevails with the 100 elites making decisions about the future of health care right now in the United States Senate, yet we have minimal confidence that they will end up doing the right thing. Maybe Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid’s new compromise, dropping the public option with a limited expansion of Medicare, will not convince enough of his caucus to pass ObamaCare and America will receive a temporary reprieve from those in Congress who love big government and hate private enterprise.
The bottom line is that if a Senator raises a constitutional point of order against the individual mandate or a Senator requests that the Courts review the issue, then the Senate will finally debate one of the fundamental questions that the Senate, and the House for that matter, should consider every time they review a piece of legislation. Is the legislation permitted under the United States Constitution? Many would argue that the invididual mandate in ObamaCare fails to pass that test.
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It has become quite apparent now in the New World Order of the Opaquely Transparent Barry Bizzarro World, that the modus operandi is Unconstitutionality.
The Dems already face annihilation in 2010-
They can’t pass ObamaCare with abortion OR a public option- and reconciliation is just an empty threat, the remaining legislation would be a hollow shell-
And Cap-n-tax? With the evidence looking weak lately, Obama’s own #s tanking… and 11% unemployment? Good luck!
That leaves the only major legislation enacted -even with Democrats dominating Congress- the wholly-ineffective Porkulus. Obama has NO political cover on that one, due to the paucity of GOP collaborators- he owns it.
And all it will ever stimulate is inflation… in the months leading right-up to midterms. The Democrats look to face a bloodbath next fall, with some already predicting a 100 seat loss.
By 2012, most people will wince at the very mention of the name “Obama”- and the GOP could take 40 states running Gilbert Gottfried- LOL
Party’s over kiddies- time to put the grown-ups back in charge…
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It would make for a shorter story line if you just told us what part of this administrations agenda was legal.
Let's vote for a "part-time" government. These guys have way too much time on their hands
for unnecessary foolishness, they work part-time anyway but get full-time wages…
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let us know when the lawsuits are filed. With 61% opposed to Obama care, that's alot of lawsuits against congress. American citizens need to know so we can file as well
well, OF COURSE this all is unconstitutional! this gang doesn't much care for that pesky little document that is supposed to limit their power. they have their friends in the courts that will help to cover them.
This is undoubtedly unconstitutional, but in all honesty I don't think it will matter when all is said and done. Obamacare is a liberty usurping instrument that serves to give the statist oligarchy control of one-sixth of the economy.
Barry Hussein in crisis mode, searches for Republican Boogerman to place Blame Game on.
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/politics/In-tro...
Sorry Buckwheat, it won't work. WE are on to your transparency of hoax and chains…….
Nazi Pelousy is a self-starting slut. She thinks "constitution" is the inability to take a dump.
I'd love to see that look on her face when someone rolls up a constitution made of aluminum and pounds it up her cornhole with a jackhammer.
Send them a message, don't pay taxes! Let the fools jail productive people and watch the sudden destruction of their progressive Utopia. Goodbye, liberty has left the building.
Speaker Pelosi wouldn't recognize the US Constitution if it jumped up and bit her in the botox.
Social Security was never constitutional, but that never stopped FDR from threatening to appoint extra justices to the Supreme Court to dilute the opposition.
Medicare was never constitutional, but that didn't stop LBJ from pointing to Social Security to double down on unconstitutional policy.
The Supreme Court's existence is outlined in the Constitution, but the number of justices isn't. Congress and the President can threaten to "print" more justices just like they are now printing more money – the new dilutes the value of the old.
The number of justices should be fixed in the Constitution, so Congress and the President can't arbitrarily create more. That is part of our system of checks and balances.
While we're talking about checks and balances, it is also worth mentioning that our Founding Fathers required Federal judges to be confirmed in the Senate. Originally, the Senate was composed of two Senators per state, with both Senators having been appointed by their state's legislature.
The Senate was tasked with confirming judges, as well as other Presidential nominees. This power was given to the Senate, not the House, because Senators representing each state would never give in to the powers that wished for an unlimited consolidation of Federal power.
The House represented the people, and the Senate represented the states. After all, our Federal government is an association of states.
This provided an important check and balance, because Senators appointed by states would never go along with a massive and unconstitutional expansion of Federal government that turned the states into relatively tiny government entities, as they are now. The appointment of Senators also made sure that a Federal official (the President) would not have another Federal body (elected Senators) rubber-stamping an unchecked expansion of Federal power.
Senators representing the states would never approve judges calling for an infantilization of the states by means of an ever-expanding Federal government, because those Senators represented the states in Congress, just as the House represents the people.
The Seventeenth Amendment, which called for the popular election of Senators, was passed in 1911.
If you wonder where your activist judges came from, look to the Seventeenth Amendment's repeal of Senatorial appointments. After its passage, the Senate became part of the Federal political class, rather than a delegation representing the states.
After that, it wasn't long before the Federal budget started exploding, engulfing more efficient local government. Today, with the exception of the big states like California and New York, most states have budgets smaller than most of the Federal divisions.
Our states have become inferior to the various Federal bureaucracies.
The Federal government is too big and too distant from the people it claims to represent. It is no wonder there is so much waste and electoral disconnect.
A bit of Newz from the Obama Job Programme.
http://www.washingtontimes.com/weblogs/back-story...
It appears that hopey changey thingey is really kicking in, in the coal fields. So much for "Jobs Saved". I am not sure what the headlines say, but it appears that the fine print reads: "Barrack Obama says SCREW YOU!"
Merry Christmas from Barry, MoShelle and the Girls………
Joe Paterno is quoted as saying “If you take care of the little things, the big things will take care of themselves.” This is the current strategy, if you can't flat out pass something big, break it up into several little parts & pass it in several other bills. If they pass the Individual Mandate in this bill, as the article states, this will opens the lid to a Pandora's Box. And once the Fed has power over something, be damned if the are going to relinquish it.
-Power begets power
flower power, thats the ticket. maybe wide spread AIDS.
When you consider what they're teaching and not teaching our children in the public schools, this can only get worse. We have people coming into the voting population who truly think that the US government is there to save polar bears.
Only in America.
Save the Polar Bears while pi$$ing and fisting the school children……..
There needs to be a demand for a public accounting of where all the unspent stimulus went. Payoffs, bribes, pocket money and billions hoarded to attempt to rig the 2010 elections.
"Are you serious?" That's what I think of when I see Pelosi is a congresswoman.
You are right. I would love to get their salaries, healthcare benefits, and let's not forget their retirement perc's. As I recall, they were only supposed to be in session for 6 weeks out of the year, based on the original constitution. Maybe if they spent less time (and made less money – who gets a annual salary for 6 weeks of work), maybe they wouldn't have time to spend our money.
Don't get me started on how the US could be using it's significant coal resources for oil production.
Ahh, that's a coal company cutting jobs. That's reason for Pres. Obama to applaud. He's all for shutting them down, and losing jobs is just the first step in his attaining that goal.
Sometimes, when looking at Madame Pelosis botoxed photo, one must laugh and shout WTF!!!!!!!!!!!!
Oh, and don't put Merry Christmas next to the Obamas…Michelle saw to that via their "holiday" cards that don't reference Christmas at all.
"Originally, the Senate was composed of two Senators per state, with both Senators having been appointed by their state's legislature."
You are correct…….. However, if you live in the state of CA that's the LAST thing we need. Our state is run by unions, state & government employees and their spending has been out of control for years. As goes the state of CA, as goes the country… pretty scary, but that's where we are headed. It's sad that the unions, public workers, and people who don't actually pay taxes override all of our votes.
It's frustrating when you're in the minority! But I will keep voting.
Thank you for that information. It is really helpful in understanding the current situation. I have thought for some time that our representatives, being paid by the federal government rather than by their respective states, is a serious conflict of interest. If our Senators (and perhaps our Representatives) were on the state's payrolls, then they would also be more subject to the will of their state's politics. Their pay and benefit packages (yes, that includes insurance) should be paid and defined their state. This could solve this conflict of interest.
Frankly, I am surprised that when the Constitution was mentioned, Pelosi didn't simply ask, " What is that?"
That is our Speaker of the House, ladies and gentlemen. Third in line if Obama and Biden are unable to perform their duties. Lord help us.
That doesn't change anything regarding the wisdom of Senatorial appointment.
California's state legislature is overrun with corruption, big spending, and special interests. It represents much of what we might consider "politics at its worst."
As corrupt as a state's legislature might be, they still would never appoint Senators seeking an unlimited expansion of Federal power.
Why?
Simple. Politicians want power for themselves. Crooked politicians at the state level aren't going to appoint Senators to go to DC and reduce the power of the state, because that reduces the largesse available to the very people who would have been appointing the Senators in the first place.
What state legislature, whether honest or corrupt, would send Senators to DC to subjugate the very legislature that sent them there?
This is why checks and balances are essential to keeping government honest, constitutional, and under control. A competition for political power between the states and the Federal government would prevent the Federal government from accumulating all of the power and the influence.
The judiciary will not stop the expansion of the Federal government. The states lack the power to do so.
The only thing, hypothetically, that can halt the continued metastasis of the Federal government is the people. Despite the multiple safeguards implemented by our Founding Fathers, this is the only one left.
I say "hypothetically" as more and more people are starting to realize that the entire process is rigged. The current bunch of crooks personifies the culture of cronyism and corruption in DC. Politicians look out for each other. Their bottomless pork barrel ensures they will have no problem rounding up enough special interest support and campaign cash to fix the elections.
There are no words for these bums except jail them.
The President and Dems in Congress say that health insurance is a right and thus should be provided by the government. If that's the case then mustn't they then supply us all with guns as we have the RIGHT to bare arms? Should we not then be required to speak non stop as we have the RIGHT to free speech? Even in some Bizzarro world, where health insurance somehow is a right, to infer that one must practice or utilize said right is ludicrous. When you are forced to do something, it is not a right (as there is not a choice), it is a law. This being said a law is not a right and must pass the muster of constitutionality. Finally, a law that requires one to enter into a contract because you merely exist is not in anyform under any one of the 18 enumerated powers.
Bravo Anonymous Guest, Bravo.
Good point by Pale Ale as well.
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Another good point, +1 M.E.
Amen.
Then my fellow Americans we need to mandate that the Congress have term limits set, also that they follow the constitution and all the laws of this country. If they want to change the way things are done put it to a vote of the people and we will decide, just as we will decide your fate come the 2010 elections.
Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
~Lord Acton
100% agreed, they just want to perpetuate and justify their government "job". The more trouble that they make,
unfortunately for us, the more job security and prestige they accumulate.
Just take a look at the head on that thing. BLLUUUWWWCCKKKK!!!!
44% of American's wish Bush was back in as president. Only 50% want to keep Obama as president. What is with the other 6%? They are the one's for whom ACORN filled out the ballot!
I'll vote for that! It is quite insane that Congress and the Senate feel compelled to pass laws. I'd vote for them if they just went to Washington, DC, had a bunch of parties, then went home without conducting any business at all. Unfortunately all they do is pontificate, legislate and mandate.
I don't think it is possible for the look on her face to change.
For all you "non-believers" out there………
Just look at the photo of Pelosi, and tell me there are no 'lizard people'!!
Just saying.
Best line I heard recently about Mad dame Pelosi, was by Dennis Miller.
He opined on O'reilly that "Pelosi is not equipped to play tic-tac-toe with a grub worm" :/
The Left doesn't give a rat's rear end about the Constitution. To them, the Constitution is an obstacle to their Utopia. They'll totally ignore the Constitution if it gets in the way of what they want.
Good write! But we are starting to run out of options. There is a group called the 10th Amendment Center that is been around awhile but is really gaining momentum now. We, as States, can nullify anything that comes out of DC., we just gotta rally around each other and become huge. Spread the word, join this group. My state group (Texas) has come out with a petition. We are NOT going down without a fight!
Ditto.
Better yet…
Part time with a mandate you live in your district and hold office hours where you HAVE to be at the office, not just your staff, 4 days a week (I'll be generous…it should be six days, really), actually TALKING to your constituents…
Imagine the Demofreaks actually having to spend time with those they wish to lord over…?
You know when it's really cold out? and you're sleeping under the stars. You first get into your sleeping bag and it's still really cold, then you let out about a cubic foot of ass air, just a tremendous and smooth fart and it's like "ahhhhhhhhh, 98.6 degree air". That's good.
You know when your sleeping under the stars and it's snowing lightly? you can't really see what's on the ground and you have the runs really bad and blood is coming out and you have to take it to the hole every 1/2 hour? Then it catches you by surprise and you try and hot-foot it, but you end up stepping onto a pancake cactus with bare feet and it ends up on the back of your calves. That's not good.
I eat eagle eggs
I am appauled at this childish behavior ! I have pictures of you fornicating with sea scallop. Even your barnacle ass can't hide from me obamamama. The wrath of jesus christ will come down from outer space and zap you.
It would be worth a pretty penny, in the end, that is if it ends well, to say the least, speaking on the matter, of which you know not, to really give it its due credit i would have to tell the whole story, and not leave the parts, the lines in between the lines, out of context, for which there is no rapid release capsule, and Jason and his Argonauts would fall into perill, if I leave the lines out, because you just don't have all of the information, regarding the matter, and I know you have a gambling problem, you just can't be trusted, and you don't think, you don't think things, the way that the situation occurs, in which the times, for heaven's sake
I come from the streets son
If and then then, it's just that simple, because of what it means to me, as an individual, the persecution of the jews, is like java or krakatoa, in that deeper meaning, inside the circumference, of an eggshell, there is only one way out, and that way is any direction, any direction except inward, because that would lead to, inevitably film in desposable cameras runs out, because it's inevitable, and we can't stop playing with the buttons, so you see, for me as an individual, acting under emotions, as oppose to, the criteria for an expensive lobster dinner, then cindy crawford, and her hair, emotionally I can't see the way out or inwards which creates a black hole
If the wise were to see, than my eyes would be, like visions, of far away things not yet conceived of by mankind, of womankind perhaps, but not in the long run, for I am not made of, or consisting of by any matter, anything that won't turn into or change apart from, itself as an entitty, or as itself as a primate of similar dissention among men, like filling a car up, but not with primates, filling it to the brim, brimming with applesauce and floating to the moon, after all, considering the facts, none other than a chimp, a hairy and undeserving chimp, was sent into the vacuum, that great expanse, greater than my greater trochanter, and not much less than it is really worth in the real world.
…AND you have a regular JOB!!!
Thing about that, Jacey, is you can scream all you want …nobody's listening..that's the #1 problem!!!
check out FEDERAL aid to all states to help pay their Medicaid programs, and this is not sustainable…….taxes going up???
http://www.taxfoundation.org/publications/show/25599.html
they are not acting as politicians concerned with re-election – think that through- prepare.
every other letter of every third word, except the ones written on tuesday- o.k. broke the code – see you there on the agreed to date and time.(I`l bring the crabapple vodka)
I'm curious. Tell me your opinion…….
Come to think about it if the government had there way we would have to buy insurance. Then they will be telling us we have to buy organic underwear, just incase we get hungry we can eat it. Hemp clothes so if we feel a pain we can smoke it. Then they will get serious and have us all buy nothing but GM cars because the government runs it. With Pelosi overseeing GM, I hear they no longer have a right turn indicator they can only go left. Then we will all bank at the government banks where the president of that bank makes $27k per year since that is the national average earning in the US. We will only be able to buy GE products because they own the government broadcasting network (seriously they are buying Comcast cable, and no one has said monopoly yet?).
It will be a cold day in H for the government to have that control but that is exactly what they want.
I would like to see all the coal electric plants shut down for 10 days. Just to show how nice it will be with the Obama plan. Since 50% or more of our energy is produced via coal that may wake some people up.
Then when they turn the plants back on double their rates just to show how that tax credit thing will help them. We already know it won't change the weather. So these plants might as well bank some profits now before they are mothballed by the Hope and Change Nuts.
Hey the Consitution is only 5 pages long so that can't be important.
With every stupid bill coming out over 1,000 pages what ever happened to bills people can read and understand. I read all the time and even finished War and Peace once on vacation but that was a struggle but nothing compared to reading these bills. They could sell these as sleeping pills.
Exactly! Politicians and MSM are following BO off the cliff. I was alarmed before, but seeing what they are getting ready to do with the paid back/unused TARP money has me extremely alarmed. They have to know what they are doing to themselves. It's very disconcerting.
Actually they can. If they move the top age down for Medicare to 55 and the bottom aget for medicaid up to 20 years old there is only a small gap of people not covered by the government. So yes if this bill passes there are just 35 years of freedom a US citizen will have in their lives and most of the time the government will have complete access to their health, bank accounts and freedom.
We hope it is a bloodbath in 2010 but the GOP has to wise up to the fact that the Tea Party Candidates need their support when facing RINOs. Florida has that situation with Chalie vs Rubio. Rubio is the real conservative and Charlie is the RINO with the full backing of the GOP. Either the GOP gets smart or changes to the CGOP for the conservative branch.
I was watching his No Bell Prize speech while getting dressed for work. I even had a complete breakfast before he was done. That guys has no off switch. He just rambels on and on.
they do not see it as off the cliff – they see it as up the mountain, once the mountain(constitution) has been conquered votes/elections will be a moot point. one small obstacle these traitors have not considered- us.
we are busy with watching washington, but Florida legislators should be very afraid, they are next on our to do list. the candidates that support a 10th amendment protection from the feds, and support it loudly and publicly, will be the choice of the people. crist isn`t even in the hemisphere of reality – he is, and always has been an opportunist, not a statesman. the rest of florida officials are late to the party – vocal now when elections are coming but not a word in the last year or so -everybody goes home unemployed in November. 9-12-09 in d.c. was a small version of things to come.
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gee dan first off – thankyou for your service and your sacrifice and please pass that thanks along to your brave soldier as well – as for the legality of the afore mentioned actions… the story would hardly make a paragraph, very good observation
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Stone face Pelosi wouldn't know the Constitution if bit her on the ass!!! To these commie democrats and some republicans, it's nothing more than an 'old' piece of paper!!!
“We don’t need no stinkin, Constitution,” …says the witless left. “Healthcare reform,” is wrong in so many ways, this is yet another. God help us!
2010! 2012! It will be time for the AMERICA voters to restore sanity to our government! Hopefully we will have a overwhelming turnout of INTELLIGENT, WELL INFORMED, AMERICA LOVING, FISCALLY RESPONSIBLE CONSERVATIVES, instead of a bunch of SPECIAL INTERES SHEEP that are told who to vote for. Know what I mean acorn? It's time for the irresponsible, dishonest, CONSTITUTION TRAMPLING libRETARDS to say goodbye! The fiscal damage they and their special interests have inflicted on this country is getting to the point of IRREPARABLE harm. REPORT VOTER FRAUD! DEMAND TERM LIMITS! VOTE THE BUMS OUT!
Thank You Elle and I will let him know.
That’s great. See, the thing is, almost everything this administration is doing and has done is also “unconstitutional”. It’s great that we know this. Now, what the hell is anyone going to do about it? Nothing.
“We’ll elect Repubs in 2010 and Take Back The Congress!”
We HAVE repubs RIGHT NOW. LOTS OF THEM. And they’re doing what? NOTHING. They are, for the most part, staying silent on every single thing that is pissing the base off. Everything. Just like when they had the majority. And people think that electing MORE of them will magically solve the problem? They’re not listening, for the most part, and the Train of State rolls on.
Despite Breitbart’s copious heavy-lifting and all the evidence he’s uncovered, Repubs in Congress, for the most part, are doing JACK SQUAT about it! Like usual.
What? Is there NOBODY with the proper “legal standing” to do anything at all in this nation anymore? Are ALL the lawyers and judges hardcore leftists and Democrat Party Loyalists now, leaving us in the lurch completely? I just don’t understand. That’s the only explanation I can come up with which explains this NEAR-COMPLETE lack of action on the part of the so-called opposition which we elected: that we’ve reached the point in America where there are no Law-Enforcing and Legislating entities on our side any more. All the attorneys, all the judges, all the cops, all the federal Marshalls, all the EVERY POSSIBLE LEGAL AVENUE dwellers which could feasably do something about any of this are DEAD SILENT. Why is this?
What would it take? What crime by Democrats would the Republicans in this nation actually DO SOMETHING about? NAME ONE. I honestly cannot think of anything short of a re-enactment of f***ng TREBLINKA, and PROBABLY NOT EVEN THAT would get anyone to find a way to get any of these bastards behind cold iron bars. Go ahead, name a crime that the Repubs would ACT ON. They’re GUTLESS or POWERLESS, pick one, or both.
Great job Andrew Breitbart and co. Just, to what end?
There should be a massive nationwide class action suit filed if this heathscare monstrosity passes and we all know it will, no matter how it damages the country or the world's best healthcare system.
This issue needs more attention. I don't think that most people know exactly what the individual mandate will mean. It's absolutely amazing that there isn't more outrage over this. Obama ran AGAINST the individual mandate in the primaries, and bashed Hillary and John-Boy over the head with it. What's scary is that the republicans are not going to raise a stink about it, because the insurance companies have told everyone that the only way they can accept the uninsured is if everyone is required to sign up. If Snake Eyes Pelosi and her fellow travelers get reelected next year, this country will implode, and it won't be pleasant…..
Just like low life liberals to always blame someone else for their own screwups. Does this mean as conservatives, we have "open season" to BILLIONAIRE GEORGE SOROS? I think Breitbart should dedicate a series of articles into the evolution of this liberal tyrant.
OK, now then, when a political group is violating our State or Federal Constitution, who do we complain to?
Do we complain to the Atty General? As an individual citizens, would the AG have to act on the complaint? Look now, we don't have to get it exactly right, we have to get it going. We need to "Get the Glue off the shoe, and THE SHOW ON THE ROAD, ASAP.
Excellent point. Which begs the question – who is gearing up to mount the constitutionality challenge with the Supreme Court the nanosecond after this train wreck passes? This is nothing less than a political civil war to define the future shape of our nation. Why aren't we thinking about doing whatever it takes to win – like the Left always has – including playing the courts reflexively when the legislative branch fails us.
Since when did Pelosi ever care one whit about the constitution, she cares about power!
But now on to REALLY good, no I mean REALLY, REALLY GREAT news! I AM SO EXCITED ABOUT THE NEW WEBSITES. WAY TO GO BREITBART! I would comment on the site Mediaite, but their password is giving me the run around! I don't know which site excites me the most. I am so sick of education being the platform for all this progressive propoganda. I want Amerian history taught, not American trash. But perhaps I am most excited about Big Tolerance. I think one of the most discriminated groups in America is conservative blacks, now they will have a site to express their views and the site can give some real momentum to their cause and show the dismal result that all this progressive stuff has had on the black community.
As proposed, individual mandates to carry health insurance and other aspects of national health care reform are unconstitutional. To read more about the individual mandate, health insurance and their relationship to the United States Constitution, I have itemized and linked all recent articles, commentary, white papers, video and etc. on the subject at:
http://healthcarereform.homestead.com/
I, for one, will be happy to call their bluff — there's no way I can afford to spend 11K/year for a luxurious federally-designed HMO.
Come get me.
I agree. Obama has to at least show a birth certificate or he's not my President in any way. It is not legal to follow the orders of an illegal President nor is it illegal to remove an imposter commander in chief from his position.
MOST OF YOU FOLKS DON'T REALIZE YOU'VE ALREADY LOST THE BATTLE…THESE THUGS HAVE THE COURT SYSTEM RIGGED AND READY TO UPHOLD OBAMACARE, CAP-N-TRADE, MORE STIMULUS SQUANDERING AND MORE TAKE OVER OF THE INDUSTRIAL BASE IN AMERICA….AND WAIT TILL YOU SEE WHAT THEY DO WITH THE IMMIGRATION QUESTION…..
obama mama you're a genious, you have the best post on this whole page and I love you. I want your children, for breakfast and I want to go back packing with you. You can be my mama anytime
oh come on buttkin everyone knows jesus is just a campfire story
If this thing passes, the first thing I'm going to do is drop my insurance, refuse to pay the fine, get arrested, and take it to the supreme court. I'm not being sarcastic about that. I'm very serious.
They don't read the bills, and they certainly have not read, nor do they understand the constitution, even though they took an oath to uphold it.
When it is found to be unconstitutional and Nancy's answer of "ah so what" is taken into account should they not spend a little time in a maximum security prison?
Old crazy eyes would look good pumping iron with her new friends.
This won't end well—this shredding of our Constitution and our Liberty. In a choice between slavery for future generations or misery today for the self-less few the choice becomes clear. We will resist. I'll vote them out in 2010—but be prepared to see your birthright stolen and then the silent shackles come out. If this health care is so great why is Congress not subject to it? Pelosi is a woman not a God. God gave me the Rights of Man–not the government.
This is good news.
So, what you are saying is that if a Senator brings the Constitutionality of the Bill to order, then the courts must rule?
This is good news for universal health care.
Once Judge Sotomayor enters her majority opinion demonstrating that our forefathers envisioned all the equally created men and women of America receiving equally provided medical care, it will all be legal!
I don't see this getting done by Christmas as President Obama has asked…but it shouldn't take too long, right?
Vote them out in 2010. But be prepared for the theft of your vote and your Liberty. The shackles will be next. Resist Citizen and don't be a tool of the state. Be aware the knock on the door–they will come for you.
It will be your local sherriff or cop at the door as the uniform will lull you to not resist. The Gestapo always brought a couple of cops along to kick in the door and control the sheep. Resist.
Yes it is rigged. But we have strength and we have the 2nd ammendment to defend ourselves with. And we have the "Los Pepes" example of how to rid yourself of a tyrant. That's how the got rid of Pablo Escobar.
The Virginians of 1776 said it best "sic semper tyrannis."
Indeed — Thomas Jefferson was the original wise Latina.
"Party’s over kiddies- time to put the grown-ups back in charge… "
No it's time to throw them ALL out and vote in some REAL representatives. To this day, most of the Republicans in Congress are nothing but hot air talking porkers looking to ride the current wave of dissent to further their own agendas. NO, throw them all out!!!!
Is calling him "Buckwheat" really necessary?
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