Asked Where Constitution Authorizes Americans Buy Health Insurance, Pelosi : 'Are You Serious?'

CNS News ^ | 10/23/2009 | Matt Cover

[dblshot]

Ironic in that insurance companies are restricted from selling across state lines but the interstate commerce clause is being used to justify mandates. Pelosi sounds like the Queen in Alice in Wonderland

“There is no use trying; one can’t believe impossible things.” (Alice)

“I dare say you haven’t had much practice. When I was your age, I always did it for half an hour a day. Why, sometimes I’ve believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.” -Queen

[KarlInOhio]

Suppose they will use the same argument to force the Amish to buy insurance?

It is against the general welfare of the people of the United States for the Amish to use horses to plow their land instead of using the more productive diesel powered tractors. They must upgrade or their land will be confiscated.

< /I wish it was sarcasm>

[MrB]

They do indeed believe they are intelligent and moral enough to do just that.

Notice that the only time they bring up anything about the Constitution is when they might find a way to thwart something a Republican is proposing.

[La Lydia]

The woman obviously thinks she has been elected queen of the universe. She can’t imagine any government demand being unreasonable. She thinks that she knows how to run our lives. She is Exhibit A in the story of why our country is going to hell.

[MrB]

It’s simply

There are Elitists and Individualists.

The Elitists are in power now.

Get them out - out of the GOP and out of the government.

[Seruzawa]

Democrats ARE fascists, Godwin’s Law notwithstanding.

A rose by any other name still smells the same. And a turd is a turd no matter how much one tries to polish it.

[Dewey Revoltnow]

Your days are numbered Nance. Your days are numbered.

[Doohickey]

On the shared responsibility requirement in the House health insurance reform bill, which operates like auto insurance in most states...

In which states are residents who do not own automobiles obligated to purchase auto insurance?

[SoFloFreeper]

You will obey your Masters.

[allmendream]

One needn’t have auto insurance (or a drivers license)to own and operate an auto; just if you want to operate it on the governments roads. The analogy to a health insurance mandate breaks down there, we acknowledge that they own, built and maintain the roads - do they similarly own, build and maintain we the citizenry?

[joe fonebone]

"argues that Congress derives the authority to mandate that people purchase health insurance from its constitutional power to regulate interstate commerce. "
well now, since it is illegal to sell health insurance across state lines right now, this is NOT an interstate commerce issue......it is a states rights issue dingbat...jeez, can she not formulate a coherent argument

[SoFloFreeper]

Well, not only that, but it is a STATE decision.

We can’t lose the strong federalist argument against BO’s plans, either.

[Westbrook]

> Suppose they will use the same argument to force the
> Amish to buy insurance?

We know some Apostolic Lutherans who live in Massachusetts. They have large families, but, like the Amish and Mennonites, do not believe in things like health or life insurance, which they deem as depending on the world instead of depending on God.

Like the Amish and Mennonites, they always pay their own medical bills, if necessary, with the help from others within the Apostolic fold.

Thanks to Mitt Romney’s mandatory health insurance law, they have to pay a fine for not having health insurance.

[MrB]

Did you see the Tennessee thread yesterday?

They are pushing the idea of a federalist boycott of all unconstitutional federal laws/regs/mandates.

[jiggyboy]

The press release states that Congress has “broad power to regulate activities that have an effect on interstate commerce.

Then the sky's the limit. You MUST buy a "whatever" this year, because if you don't, it will have an effect on The Whatever Company, which is involved in interstate commerce.

[kennedy]

You will find it in the New and Revised Constitution.

It is in the emanations from penumbras section, right below the freedom from religion clause.

[MrB]

Any group (not dependent on the gov’t) that tends to have large families WILL be targeted by the left.

[Daisyjane69]

This would be because we have elected historical, political, and morally bankrupt power hungry morons.

The older I get, the more I understand why they want the Second Amendment to go away.

[LeonardFMason]

“In order to answer the question, the Speaker would have to actually know the contents of the document in question.”

Has there ever been anyone as dumb ass stupid as Speaker Pelosi? She is as sharp as a bowling ball. BOWLING Ball that is!!!!!!

[MadelineZapeezda]

The press release states that Congress has “broad power to regulate activities that have an effect on interstate commerce.

WE WISH THE HEALTHCARE INSURANCE WAS INTERSTATE, BE-OTCH!!!