[muawiyah]

Time for the people to get rid of Patrick Murphy. He’s admitted now that he and his associates are total failures at leadership.

[airborne]

25 year old children?

Only in DC can that make sense.

[Magic Fingers]

““This fight shows what’s wrong with Washington,” Murphy said.”

Bush’s veto is one of the few right things in Washington lately.

[ari-freedom]

hmm I guess Bush is tired of being a “compassionate” conservative when dems have congress

[callisto]

The expansion would be funded by a 61-cent increase in the federal excise tax on cigarettes and other tobacco products...

Congress wants YOU to smoke! They've gotten themselves in quite the oxymoronic quandry since they want to count on tobacco dollars to support the program yet they consistently deride and regulate the product as bad for one's health. The Heritage Foundation conducted a study on SCHIP and tobacco funding demonstrating that 22 million new smokers would be needed by 2017to fund thei proposal.

[CowboyJay]

Good news, indeed!

[Lancey Howard]

So, 25-year-old “children” from families making $80,000/year can’t force me to buy their health insurance for them? Good. Thankfully, Bucks County Republicans will show up at the polls next election and get rid of that simple p.o.s. Murphy.

[freekitty]

I don’t know who these congress critters are representing; but it sure ain’t us.

[RSmithOpt]

Ahhh them silly Dims...there so effective at producing sound legislation while in power in office. ,/sarc

Reminds me of a pouting 4 year old when told to clean up his/her room before they can play and then go to Micki D's. They go back and pick up 2 more toys and then want their way and cry until they get it.

What is it with their (the Dims) incessant need to constantly grow government with every working day when in session?

[Amendment10]

Given that the federal Constitution says nothing about health care, the 10th A. automatically reserves government power to address health care issues to the states.

10th Amendment: 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.

In fact, Jefferson reflected on the Founder's division of federal and state government powers by noting that the Founders had trusted the states, not the federal government, with the care of people. See for yourself.

"Our citizens have wisely formed themselves into one nation as to others and several States as among themselves. To the united nation belong our external and mutual relations; to each State, severally, the care of our persons, (emphasis added) our property, our reputation and religious freedom." --Thomas Jefferson: To Rhode Island Assembly, 1801. ME 10:262 http://tinyurl.com/onx4j

So regarding Congress's attempt to override the President's veto of the health care bill, Congress actually had no business trying to exercise non-existent federal powers by making the bill in the first place.

This post (<-click), while addressing a tax related thread, attempts to show in general how the health care bill is a consequence of FDR's 10th A.-ignoring establishment of his New Deal programs, in my opinion.

(If anybody feels inclined to comment about the post referenced above, please do so in this thread.)

On the other hand, the people can always exercise their Article V powers to amend the Constitution to properly authorize the feds to manage health care. But until the people choose to do so, health care remains a state power issue.

The bottom line is that the people need to wise up to the very serious of widespread corruption in the federal government, particularly where the 10th A. protected powers of the states are being ignored, a consequence of FDR's dirty politics. The people need to quit sitting on their hands and petition lawmakers, judges and justices who are not upholding their oaths to defend the Constitution, demanding that they resign from their jobs.

[stevem]

Congressman Patrick Murphy, D-8, said Wednesday that he was fed up...“This fight shows what's wrong with Washington,” Murphy said. “While dozens of Republicans in the House and Senate as well as 43 governors from across America support health care for children, far too many of my Republican colleagues refused to break from George Bush and do what's right.”

Sounds to me like there are a few Reoublicans left with leadership potential. Maybe Murphy should just quit.

[Freee-dame]

Another victory for Pres. Bush over the inept congress certainly didn’t get much publicity. This is the first that I have learned about it.

[Recovering_Democrat]

Reid & Pelosi are miserable failures.