Posted on 03/30/2012 12:08:33 PM PDT by Kaslin
If the government can force you to buy health insurance it can force you to buy healthy food, it can force you to join a gym, it can decide whether you are allowed to have kids or a snack.... all in the name of “health”.
It proves that if the government is sitting around with boatloads of money - WE THE PEOPLE ARE BEING OVERTAXED!!!
Obama’s quotes from 2008. Midway through is “good”, where he talks about how the courts weren’t radical enough, and didn’t break free from the constraints placed by the Founding Fathers. And I pray to God that Obama is losing his chance now.
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“If you look at the victories and failures of the civil rights movement, and its litigation strategy in the court, I think where it succeeded was to vest formal rights in previously dispossessed peoples, so that I would now have the right to vote, I would now be able to sit at a lunch counter and order and as long as I could pay for it I’d be okay.”
“But,” Obama said, “The Supreme Court never ventured into the issues of redistribution of wealth and sort of more basic issues of political and economic justice in this society. And to that extent as radical as I think people tried to characterize the Warren Court, it wasn’t that radical. It didn’t break free from the essential constraints that were placed by the founding fathers in the Constitution, as least as it’s been interpreted, and Warren Court interpreted in the same way that generally the Constitution is a charter of negative liberties, says what the states can’t do to you, says what the federal government can’t do to you, but it doesn’t say what the federal government or the state government must do on your behalf. And that hasn’t shifted.”
Obama said “one of the, I think, the tragedies of the civil rights movement, was because the civil rights movement became so court focused, I think that there was a tendency to lose track of the political and community organizing activities on the ground that are able to put together the actual coalitions of power through which you bring about redistributive change, and in some ways we still suffer from that.”
hahah Miss Kagan, please allow me to “shop” your house for gifts to give you. I’m sure you will be over joyed that I not only know what you want but have given you it just as “miss placed” your old one.
LoL
Yeah, but if you pound two rocks together you can create sparks. The same can’t be said if you pound two liberal brains together.
“Why is a big gift from the federal government a matter of coercion? In other words, the federal government is here saying: We’re giving you a boatload of money. There are no matching funds requirement. There are no extraneous conditions attached to it. It’s just a boatload of federal money for you to take and spend on poor people’s health care. It doesn’t sound coercive to me, I have to tell you.”
Can we have any stronger evidence this “woman” is incapable of rendering a constitutional judgment on this matter? She’s one of the prime advocates!
thank you , very much appreciated
I saw what you did there...
Federal money that we don't have is borrowed money to be later ripped off the people who make this country work.
Kagen should have recused herself. The SCOTUS will only lose credibility if they allow the opinion of this unqualified hack to stand.
Maybe she thought it came off the ‘gobmint’ money tree out behind the WH!! :)
Actually, Rush got it wrong here. This quote is from the third day of arguments which had nothing to do with the Commerce Clause or with the individual mandate. The issue was whether the expansion of Medicare was "coercing" the states.
” The wise lesbian speaks. A wise lesbian and a wise Latina, isn’t that special? “
Uh..NO
I liked her work on King of Queens.
-—Why is a big gift from the federal government a matter of coercion?——
Please make it stop. I can’t take it anymore. Really. I can’t.
Depends on the definition of “special”...
Could be like replying to “how do you like this?” with “interesting, indeed”.
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