The rats keep forgetting we now have the Internet. Gruber would have been better off keeping his mouth shut.
FR: Never Accept the Premise of Your Opponent’s Argument
As mentioned in related threads, regardless what activist justices and the corrupt media want everybody to think about the constitutionality of Democratcare, it remains that the Supreme Court had historically clarified that the states have never amended the Constitution to expressly grant Congress the specific power to regulate, tax and spend for intrastate public healthcare purposes. This is evidenced by the following excerpts from case opinions.
”State inspection laws, health laws, and laws for regulating the internal commerce of a State, and those which respect turnpike roads, ferries, &c. are not within the power granted to Congress. [emphases added]” —Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.
“Congress is not empowered to tax for those purposes which are within the exclusive province of the States.” —Justice John Marshall, Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.
“Inspection laws, quarantine laws, health laws of every description [emphasis added], as well as laws for regulating the internal commerce of a state and those which respect turnpike roads, ferries, &c., are component parts of this mass.” —Justice Barbour, New York v. Miln, 1837.
“Direct control of medical practice in the states is obviously [emphasis added] beyond the power of Congress.” –Linder v. United States, 1925.
And for those federal Democratic and RINO lawmakers who argue that if the Constitution doesn’t say that they can’t do something then they can do it, the Supreme Court has addressed that foolish thinking too. The Supremes have clarified that powers not delegated by the states to the feds, expressly via the Constitution, are prohibited to the feds.
”From the accepted doctrine that the United States is a government of delegated powers, it follows that those not expressly granted, or reasonably to be implied from such as are conferred, are reserved to the states, or to the people. To forestall any suggestion to the contrary, the Tenth Amendment was adopted. The same proposition, otherwise stated, is that powers not granted are prohibited [emphasis added].” —United States v. Butler, 1936.
So if Mr. Gruber wants Democratcare to work then he needs to do the following. He needs to encourage Congress to propose a healthcare amendement to the Constitution to the states. And if the states choose to ratify Mr. Gruber's amendment, then Congress will have the specific power that it has always needed to establish Democratcare and Mr. Gruber will be a hero.
Mr. Gruber sounds a little light in the loafers.