A Dictator in the making.
Posted on 12/24/2009 1:49:48 PM PST by Jim Robinson
According to CNSNews, Senator Diane Feinstein (D-Calif.) said that Congress has the authority to mandate that people buy health insurance and that there is no constitutional limit on Congress’ power to enact such mandates, adding that this unlimited authority stemmed from the Commerce clause of the Constitution.
If this were true, then the congress has no constitutional limits whatsoever. On anything. If they can regulate private citizens as interstate commerce, then they can "regulate" anything and anyone. This makes the entire idea of constitutional limits null and void.
The federal government can require and mandate that all citizens purchase:
Health insurance. Home owners insurance. Renters insurance. Auto insurance. Life insurance. Retirement insurance. Mortgage insurance. Credit insurance. Liability insurance. Legal insurance. Towing insurance. Auto repair insurance. Product insurance. Airport life insurance. Rental car insurance. Pet health insurance. Pet liability insurance. Pet burial insurance. Marriage insurance. Fire insurance. Earthquake insurance. Flood insurance. Burial insurance. Etc, etc, etc, and any other product or service it chooses.
And French food on Tuesdays.
Earmark:
Guns are hereby banned by the congress per the interstate commerce clause.
Sez who?!?!
Sez who?!?!
I'm loading up!
the sick part is that she has 5 years to go before she’s up for election!
A Dictator in the making.
Senator Diane Feinstein is very confused.
Up hers. She is a clear and present danger. Unacceptable.
this is gonna be interesting
Stock up on ammo before she regulates it out of existence.
We need to hold Congress in contempt....especially Pelosi. Defy ‘em!
Another brilliant, intellectual, holier-than-thou, Democrat genius speaks.
IMHO
Sez Senator Diane Feinstein. Isn’t this fun?
If we weren’t living in Bizzaro World, citizen’s rights advocates on the Left would be up in arms over this statement.
Hey ACLU, how does it feel prostituting your principles for your party?
We are only 2 Supreme Court appointments away from proving her right.
The individual mandate is not authorized by the Commerce Clause. Most of those advocating the Democrats’ bill say that Congress can pass this legislation pursuant to its power to regulate interstate commerce. That argument is incorrect, because there is no interstate commerce when private citizens do not purchase health insurance.
The left has prostituted the so-called commerce clause for decades, claiming it gives them absolute authority to do ANYTHING to ANYBODY. And republicans are not much better when it comes to screwing the American people. Time to take up arms and head to DC, people. In fact, it’s PAST time.
Yeah, so what's your point?
* The Commerce Clause only covers matters where citizens engage in economic activity. The last time the Supreme Court struck down a law for violating the Commerce Clause, in United States v. Morrison (2000), the Court did so on the grounds that the activity in question was not an economic activity.
* The Commerce Clause only extends to persons or organizations voluntarily engaging in commercial activity. Government can only regulate economic action; it cannot coerce action on the part of private citizens who do not wish to participate in commerce. In the most expansive case for Congress’ power to regulate interstate commerce, Wickard v. Filburn (1942), the Court upheld the agricultural regulation in question against a wheat farmer who earned his entire living from growing and selling wheat, making him a willing participant in interstate commerce.
* The Commerce Clause requires an actual economic effect, not merely a congressional finding of an economic effect. When the Court struck down the Violence Against Women Act in United States v. Morrison (2000), the Court noted that although the statute made numerous findings regarding the link between such violence and interstate commerce, it held that those findings did not actually establish an economic effect. Therefore the various interstate-commerce findings in the Senate version of the “Obamacare” legislation do not make the bill constitutional.
I’m getting prepared. Hopefully, the day is coming when they feel the sting of “wonderment and happiness” of true American patriots.
It seems that the ammo purchase “spike” has been going on for over a year now.
Hell, we're not even allowed to buy insurance across state lines.
I dare her.
The sad part is, the Supreme Court will agree.
bttt
Not all states have recall laws...but CA does, that is how liberal Arnie got elected. The states that have the laws need to start recalling their elected officials and kick them the hell out. And the states that don’t have the laws need to hurry up and pass one. This is the easy way of ridding this country of these pests.
Senator Diane Feinstein is very confused.
P:erfect example of why this country is great. Any moron can go on to be a U.S. Senator ;)
Merry Christmas Jim and to all at FR.....
If ObamaCare is upheld, we’re already there.
It regulates us (we the people) as if we were interstate commerce, ie, wheat, corn, cotton, cattle, sheep, potatoes, horse manure, chicknchit.
They can confiscate your income in the form of taxes.
Section 8 - Powers of Congress
The Congress shall have Power To lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises, to pay the Debts and provide for the common Defence and general Welfare of the United States; but all Duties, Imposts and Excises shall be uniform throughout the United States;
To borrow money on the credit of the United States;
To regulate Commerce with foreign Nations, and among the several States, and with the Indian Tribes;
To establish an uniform Rule of Naturalization, and uniform Laws on the subject of Bankruptcies throughout the United States;
To coin Money, regulate the Value thereof, and of foreign Coin, and fix the Standard of Weights and Measures;
To provide for the Punishment of counterfeiting the Securities and current Coin of the United States;
To establish Post Offices and Post Roads;
To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries;
To constitute Tribunals inferior to the supreme Court;
To define and punish Piracies and Felonies committed on the high Seas, and Offenses against the Law of Nations;
To declare War, grant Letters of Marque and Reprisal, and make Rules concerning Captures on Land and Water;
To raise and support Armies, but no Appropriation of Money to that Use shall be for a longer Term than two Years;
To provide and maintain a Navy;
To make Rules for the Government and Regulation of the land and naval Forces;
To provide for calling forth the Militia to execute the Laws of the Union, suppress Insurrections and repel Invasions;
To provide for organizing, arming, and disciplining the Militia, and for governing such Part of them as may be employed in the Service of the United States, reserving to the States respectively, the Appointment of the Officers, and the Authority of training the Militia according to the discipline prescribed by Congress;
To exercise exclusive Legislation in all Cases whatsoever, over such District (not exceeding ten Miles square) as may, by Cession of particular States, and the acceptance of Congress, become the Seat of the Government of the United States, and to exercise like Authority over all Places purchased by the Consent of the Legislature of the State in which the Same shall be, for the Erection of Forts, Magazines, Arsenals, dock-Yards, and other needful Buildings; And
To make all Laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into Execution the foregoing Powers, and all other Powers vested by this Constitution in the Government of the United States, or in any Department or Officer thereof.
~~~~~~I don’t see it? or am i a dumb conservative
“Constitution? We don’ need no stinkin’ Constitution!”
~~Love and Kisses, Your Masters in Congress.
The Second Amendment is very handy for limiting the abuse of the governed.
I guess that is how she got away with her own personal legislation to give billions to FDIC, who then gave a huge contract to her husband.
Feinstein can mandate money to her family member because of commerce clause.
Of course that is what the commerce clause is for.
you can lead a horse to water...but you can’t make him drink...
Not only that this bitch is a carbunkle on the A$$ of America, we all should be sick of her and her putz associates.
Screw her! Take back America!
WTF?
If I said what I really wanted to say about the FineSwine and her ilk, you’d ban me for sure.
These people have so overstayed their welcome. By about 30 years.
So, is everyone ready to bend over for our new masters???
Then, the SCOTUS can declare any legislation/executive orders that were put in place to be FRAUDULENT and VOID, as he was not LEGALLY able to sign them into law, and then Congress can un-wind the mess, hopefully, and get back to a Constitutional-based government.
However, I doubt we can get ENOUGH Conservative Republicans elected in 2010 to get that done.
"But whether the Constitution really be one thing, or another, this much is certain - that it has either authorized such a government as we have had, or has been powerless to prevent it. In either case, it is unfit to exist."
Lysander Spooner
“WE ALL DECLARE FOR LIBERTY; but in using the same word we do not all mean the same thing. With some the word liberty may mean for each man to do as he pleases with himself, and the product of his labor; while with others, the same word may mean for some men to do as they please with other men, and the product of other men’s labor. Here are two, not only different, but incompatible things, called by the same name——liberty. And it follows that each of the things is, by the respective parties, called by two different and incompatible names——liberty and tyranny.”
-——Abraham Lincoln, 1864
Pelosi has pumped so much botox into that face of hers that some of it has pickled her brain.
Our Constitution does NOT allow for complete control of citizens in regards to requiring them to purchase government hellcare.
The greatest battle for the survival of this nation is not fought in Iraq, Afghanistan or elsewhere but right in the US Congress where our most dangerous enemies lurk.
It will. Rest assured of that.
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