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Sen. Lincoln: Congress Can Force Americans to Buy Health Insurance
CNSNews.com ^ | December 16, 2009 | Nicholas Ballasy

Posted on 12/16/2009 3:11:22 PM PST by bogusname

Sen. Blanche Lincoln (D-Ark.) told CNSNews.com that Congress has the authority to force individual Americans to buy health insurance because the U.S. Constitution “charges Congress with the health and well-being of the people.”

The words “health” and “well-being” do not appear anywhere in the Constitution.

The Congressional Budget Office has determined that in the entire history of the United States the federal government has never mandated that Americans buy any good or service. Both the House and Senate health care bills, however, include provisions that require all legal residents of the U.S. to purchase health insurance, a provision whose constitutionality has been qiuestioned by, among others, Sen. Orrin Hatch (R.-Utah), the former chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee...

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: constitution; healthcare; killthebill; learntoread; military; obama; obamacare; palin
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To: lowbridge

Test on the Constitution? ... hell ... Test on anything.

I’ve resigned to the fact that we have an entire senate and congress full of MORONs with an IQ less than 50.

Evidently its the only place they can find employment, cause I sure wouldn’t hire them for my business ... and don’t thing many other emploryers would either.

Not enough collective intellect there to jumpstart a moron.


21 posted on 12/16/2009 3:23:48 PM PST by HiramQuick (work harder ... welfare recipients depend on you!)
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To: bogusname

They should re-institute Poll tests so we don’t elect idiots. I know, it will never happen.


22 posted on 12/16/2009 3:24:20 PM PST by mortal19440
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To: bogusname
No government on earth can force an American to do anything.

force.........thats tyranny folks.

You want to expropriate my money, then lets have hearings. There won't be any force to force anyone to do anything.

We don't need force to get rid of the likes of Lincoln. She is as good as gone NOW. We DE-ELECT her.

No force necessary.We are civilized.

She works for us. And we just fired her.

The pink slip is in the mail Lincoln.

23 posted on 12/16/2009 3:24:20 PM PST by Candor7 ((The effective weapons Against Fascism are ridicule, derision , and truth (.Member NRA))
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To: Lorianne

And the sooner the better.


24 posted on 12/16/2009 3:24:31 PM PST by Gator113 (Obama is America's First Failed Black Pres-dent.....)
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To: bogusname

Um, no government can’t. And I will say so at the back end of my gun, along will millions of others.


25 posted on 12/16/2009 3:25:23 PM PST by vpintheak (My government has named me an extremist)
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To: Lorianne
This is not going to end well.

I was thinking the same thing.

26 posted on 12/16/2009 3:26:16 PM PST by NotSoModerate
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To: bogusname

Bring an arrest warrant to my door Ms. Hotrod Lincoln...and I show you some cheap toilet paper!


27 posted on 12/16/2009 3:26:42 PM PST by Yorktownpatriot
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To: wac3rd

Blanche Lincoln was elected in 1998 and re-elected in 2004 because she was able to BS Arkansas voters into believing she was a middle of the road moderate. She’s slick, but she really screwed up this summer when she took way too long to decide against supporting a government run public option. Her dithering allowed her Repub opponents to successfully label her as a quiet supporter of government run healthcare, and despite her countless attempts to deny this Arkansas voters now do not trust her. She’s a longtime member of the NRA, part of her image as a moderate, but in 2010 she won’t be able to fool a majority Razorback voters again. See ya Blanche.


28 posted on 12/16/2009 3:28:23 PM PST by moose2004 (Stand up, speak out and stop Obamacare and GE)
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To: Psycho_Bunny

No where is it the business of the government for the ‘health and well being of the people’. But it makes for good brain washing, I guess.


29 posted on 12/16/2009 3:29:17 PM PST by Freddd (CNN is not credible.)
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To: bogusname
The DC political elite have gone insane. Unbridled arrogance, megalomania, corruption, deceit and vainglory.

There must be a severe change of course....a revolution perhaps?

30 posted on 12/16/2009 3:30:12 PM PST by Jagdgewehr (The GOP faithful want me to believe I have only two voting options......"bad" and "worse")
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To: moose2004
As a life member of the NRA, I truly respect those reps that maintain a true pro2nd amendment voting record..that said.. wouldn’t it be nice to have a PRO-FREEDOM candidate/rep on all the issues?
31 posted on 12/16/2009 3:32:03 PM PST by Yorktownpatriot
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To: bogusname
Let'em keep it up.
Not satisfied being smashed come 2010, they're bent on extinction. LOL!!
32 posted on 12/16/2009 3:34:11 PM PST by Landru (Forget the pebble Grasshopper, just leave.)
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To: Yorktownpatriot

Unfortunately Lincoln is a longtime member of the NRA purely for political reasons. Without it she would never poll well in rural Arkansas, and you can’t win Statewide elections there by just carrying Little Rock.


33 posted on 12/16/2009 3:37:56 PM PST by moose2004 (Stand up, speak out and stop Obamacare and GE)
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To: bogusname

Yet another unintended consequence of the our Civil War.


34 posted on 12/16/2009 3:42:27 PM PST by Oratam
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To: lowbridge
"There ought to be some sort of written test in which congressmen are required to correctly answer questions about the constitution before they are allowed to take office."

I wholeheartedly agree.

Lawyers have to pass the Bar to "interpret" and laws, then the ones who actually make the laws should have an exam at least as difficult as the Bar...unfortunately, most of them only to to the local "bar and grill".

The closet thing I remember in the Constitution about "well being" is to "promote the general welfare"; well that was used 50 years ago to get "welfare" passed, it appears the dems use the Constition like atheists use the Bible - selectively, and open to their own interpretation.

General Welfare is NOT health insurance...which did not exist - as we know it - when the Constiution was written.

The government cannot force people to "buy" anything in order to remain free and in good standing as a citizen. It is NOT in the Constitution.

Just like Holder didn't know the answer to the question about the Gitmo prisoners, this dem POS doesn't know what she's talking about either. She can run a dozen of her "Contitutional Lawyers" out here, but I still will not believe it.

There is a reason by those words which start the Constitution are so large, they want it understood that

WE THE PEOPLE


are IN CHARGE.
35 posted on 12/16/2009 3:45:26 PM PST by FrankR (SENATE: You cram it down our throats in '09, We'll shove it up your ass in '10...count on it.)
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To: bogusname

She is certainly going to have a hard time rounding up everyone to make them buy insurance when she is defeated in 2010 and sent ‘home’ to Virginia where she actually lives.

Arkansas will be better off without her!


36 posted on 12/16/2009 3:47:58 PM PST by kcvl
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To: kcvl

Gawd..we don’t want her kind here in Virginia!
Heck she might run for Jim Webb’s seat!


38 posted on 12/16/2009 4:01:00 PM PST by Yorktownpatriot
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To: bogusname
Sen. Blanche Lincoln (D-Ark.) told CNSNews.com that Congress has the authority to force individual Americans to buy health insurance because

...American citizens are unarmed and there is no constitution or "Bill of Rights"...OH WAIT!

39 posted on 12/16/2009 4:06:02 PM PST by Caipirabob (Communists... Socialists... Democrats...Traitors... Who can tell the difference?)
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To: wac3rd

People in Arkansas need to turn up the heat immediately. Reid is determined to jamm this damned thing thru on Christmas Day, believing people will be sufficiently distracted.

Tell Nelson, Webb, Lincoln and others that not only will we defeat each of them in 2010 and 12, we don’t appreciate having our Christmas ruined, either.


40 posted on 12/16/2009 4:07:35 PM PST by mwl8787
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