I had to fight to urge to spit when this evil socialist hag had the nerve to categorize the passage of the Health Care Takeover of 2009 2010 as honoring to the Declaration of Independence and the Founders of this nation. I don’t think I could ever get hit in the head enough confuse an increase in dependence on government as “Honoring” the Charter of our Freedom and the men who set our rights to paper.
Of course, I say this with the full understanding of the fact that rights aren’t really rights if I have to rely on government shaking me and my fellow citizens down to provide them. “Rights” are rights if they would exist without government. Government can take rights away, but they cannot “give” them to me. My rights come from God.
Of course, this means judging on both what we have seen and heard. I have made my judgement. The Constitutional Scholar who “loves this country” so much that he has to “fundamentally change” the relation between the government and us by growing the debt to unsustainable levels, making we the people purchase health insurance, and taking over one-sixth of our economy doesn’t love this country. He loves what he wants to make it.
I can’t look the other way while he and his fellow travellers usurp power they were never meant to have, and do so while proclaiming it to be for our own good. Like many of my friends who served this nation in uniform, I also took an oath, and it also requires me to support the Constitution of the United States.
I will oppose these actions with every fiber of my being. I will do everything I can peaceably, and if they remain determined to subvert the law and enslave the people of this nation, then I too, will have to remain resolute.
“General Welfare” means for everyone’s benefit, not for a few people’s benefit. You don’t decide to fix something for a few by changing it for everyone, and then sticking us all with the bill. Especially not for something that is not for the federal government to act upon at all. The Ninth and Tenth Amendments could not be more clear.
The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people.
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The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.
For too long, the Federal Government constantly pushed the envelope of its power through the Commerce Clause, the Necessary and Proper Clause, and the General Welfare clause, with nary a shove back from the people or the individual states. Indeed, one might think that the Civil War abolished these amendments. However, if mandating that you must buy government approved health insurance, as part of a scheme that can only end with private carriers going out of business and leaving the government as the sole provider of health insurance coverage is a legitimate exercise of the power granted to the federal government, then the Ninth and Tenth Amendment mean nothing.
Those who actually know what the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution mean have no intention of letting these people fundamentally change the only free nation on earth. We were unconvinced by the lies peddled leading up to this vote. We will remain unconvinced when you tour this country trying to sell us what you already bought for us, like hucksters of old selling stock in the Acme Barn Door and Widget Oil Company. We will remain unconvinced when you pack up your offices and go back to your home districts, praying you will be granted anonymity.
My Triumph Over The Peasants Is Complete!
Thanks to ACE, via Nice Deb.
Hear, hear! And such.
In times such as these, I rely on the wisdom of Thomas Paine and ignore the idiocy of Nancy Pelosi.
After the trial, can I shoot her? Huh, can I please?
I don’t wish to shoot Pelosi, I wish to draw and quarter her, and take her severed head on a pike to let the vultures pick at the remains.
I continue to be amazed that people persist in referring to the current occupant as a “Constitutional Scholar.” I see no evidence at all that he is a scholar. He has published absolutely nothing at all. There has been an intensive effort to uncover his published work, and I think they have found a poem or two; that’s it. To further apply the adjective “Constitutional” is just a joke; the man does not know what this document is. He is against every concept contained in the Constitution. Thus as a Constitutional Scholar, as on so many other things, he is a genuine fraud.
As observed in the post, the nation has sat quietly for so very long while the federal government has run over the Constitution that it is now an open question as to whether the Constitution can in fact be enforced. Even if the Supreme Court were to declare the entire health care bill unconstitutional, the Court would have to rely on the Executive to enforce that decision. Whether Obama would respect a Court decision or not is very much open to question. He has respected nothing else about America, so why should we expect him to respect that? We live in turbulent times.
Honestly, I don’t see how people don’t break out in giggles when Pelosi speaks. She appears borderline
retardedearly stage dementia.BiW, many states are passing laws to do with the mandate on purchasing insurance.
I say big whoop, what difference will those laws make when the insurance companies are driven out of business? Shouldn’t they be going after the bill as a whole….like taxing businesses into oblivion?
Imbeciles like Stretch Pelosi have no shame and are as arrogant as the day is long. They have no problem parading their ignorance like the snoopy balloon in the Macy’s thanksgiving parade.
When they call Obama a constitutional scholar they never specify which one. My guess is it’s Zimbabwe’s