Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

Skip to comments.

Pelosi on jail time for no health insurance: "It's fair"
RealClearPolitics ^

Posted on 11/12/2009 8:08:40 AM PST by pabianice

Pelosi On Jail Time For No Health Care: "The Legislation Is Very Fair In This Respect"

KOMO-TV: Do you think it’s fair to send people to jail who don’t buy health insurance? Pelosi: .. "the legislation is very fair in this respect."

Video

(Excerpt) Read more at realclearpolitics.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 111th; communism; communistcoup; cwii; cwiiping; democrats; donttreadonme; fascism; healthcare; healthinsurance; idiocy; liberalfascism; lping; obamacare; pelosi; rapeofliberty; tyranny
Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first 1-2021-4041-6061-80 ... 141-147 next last
Truly "Through the Looking Glass."
1 posted on 11/12/2009 8:08:40 AM PST by pabianice
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | View Replies]

To: pabianice

There is the Senate - then there is the Supreme Court. After that we are out of options.


2 posted on 11/12/2009 8:09:49 AM PST by AD from SpringBay (We deserve the government we allow.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: pabianice

Unconstitutional.


3 posted on 11/12/2009 8:10:27 AM PST by cranked
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: pabianice

This witch should be in prison, for life.

If not prison, a mental institution for sure.


4 posted on 11/12/2009 8:10:41 AM PST by alice_in_bubbaland (Markets and Marxists Don't Mix! Audit the FED NOW!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: pabianice

Since Pelosi won’t pay for health insurance under this law, send her to jail first.


5 posted on 11/12/2009 8:10:45 AM PST by bestintxas
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: pabianice

Tyranny is fair in the world of the totalitarian.


6 posted on 11/12/2009 8:10:54 AM PST by boocoowell (Nuclear power now!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: pabianice
Our Congresscritters are covered by their own health plan. Jail time is for the Little People!

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find only things evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelogus

7 posted on 11/12/2009 8:10:55 AM PST by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: pabianice

Hmm. I’d prefer to see jail time for treasonous fascists who try to force unConstitutional legislation down the throat of the US citizens. How about that, Nancy?


8 posted on 11/12/2009 8:11:15 AM PST by Zeddicus
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: pabianice

if it is so fair, why not just do it now and spare us the health bill


9 posted on 11/12/2009 8:11:17 AM PST by blueyon (It is worth taking a stand even if you are standing alone!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: pabianice

I really believe that the botox has affected her brain.


10 posted on 11/12/2009 8:11:35 AM PST by mom-7
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: AD from SpringBay
There is the Senate - then there is the Supreme Court. After that we are out of options.

I can think of one more option.
11 posted on 11/12/2009 8:11:42 AM PST by Dewey Revoltnow
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 2 | View Replies]

To: AD from SpringBay

There is one more option. But the passing of 150 years seems to have removed the strength to do it from our DNA.


12 posted on 11/12/2009 8:12:11 AM PST by CatOwner
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 2 | View Replies]

To: pabianice

so if you cannot afford it you go to debtors jail?

Thought we got rid of those.


13 posted on 11/12/2009 8:12:31 AM PST by edcoil (If I had 1 cent for every dollar the government saved, Bill Gates and I would be friends.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: pabianice; Jet Jaguar; NorwegianViking; ExTexasRedhead; HollyB; FromLori; ...
Obama dodged this and Pelosi answers for him

The list, ping

14 posted on 11/12/2009 8:12:39 AM PST by Nachum (The complete Obama list at www.nachumlist.com)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: AD from SpringBay

Have you ever heard the word “nullification”? Are you aware of the history of the Fugitive slave act or the Alien and Sedition act? Are you familiar with the Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions of 1798? We’ve got a number of options left to us. Will we use them or will we just shrug under the chains?

Pelosi hates America and hates Americans.


15 posted on 11/12/2009 8:12:42 AM PST by MichiganConservative (Abolish the IRS, income tax, the 16th amendment and the Federal Reserve. Replace them with nothing.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 2 | View Replies]

To: pabianice

The ACLU and the millions of elite liberal lawyers are not saying anything about this proposed fascist act.


16 posted on 11/12/2009 8:12:48 AM PST by Grampa Dave (Does 0b0z0 have any friends, who aren't traitors, spies, tax cheats and criminals?)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: AD from SpringBay
There is the Senate - then there is the Supreme Court. After that we are out of options.

There's the Supreme Court for the Constitutionality of mandates and jail time.

Then there's the Supreme Court for the 10th Amendment.

17 posted on 11/12/2009 8:13:00 AM PST by Kenny
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 2 | View Replies]

To: pabianice

What’s not fair to Americans is that we’re being ruled, decisions are made for us by these twits who are supposedly representing one small congressional district. Instead of doing this they are making laws upon laws to bury us in a dreary, hateful communist world that will eventually rival the old Soviet Union.

Just consider this:

The Democratic Party (or the Communist Party, or the Party of Death) has become the Lawyers’ Party.

Barack Obama is a lawyer.
Michelle Obama is a lawyer.
Hillary Clinton is a lawyer.
Bill Clinton is a lawyer.
John Edwards is a lawyer. ;
Elizabeth Edwards is a lawyer.

Every Democrat nominee since 1984 went to law school (although Gore did not graduate).

Every Democrat vice presidential nominee since 1976, except for Lloyd Bentsen, went to law school.

Look at leaders of the Democrat Party in Congress:

Harry Reid is a lawyer.
Nancy Pelosi is a lawyer.

The Republican Party is different.
President Bush is a businessman.
Vice President Cheney is a businessman.
The leaders of the Republican Revolution:
Newt Gingrich was a history professor.
Tom Delay was an exterminator. Dick Armey was an economist.
House Minority Leader Boehner was a plastic manufacturer.
The former Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist is a heart surgeon.

Who was the last Republican president who was a lawyer? Gerald Ford, who left office 31 years ago and who barely won the Republican nomination as a sitting president, running against Ronald Reagan in 1976. The Republican Party is made up of real people doing real work, who are often the targets of lawyers.

The Democrat Party is made up of lawyers. Democrats mock and scorn men who create wealth, like Bush and Cheney, or who heal the sick, like Frist, or who immerse themselves in history, like Gingrich.

The Lawyers’ Party sees these sorts of people, who provide goods and services that people want, as the enemies of America. And, so we have seen the procession of official enemies, in the eyes of the Lawyers’ Party, grow.

Aga inst whom do Hillary and Obama rail? Pharmaceutical companies, oil companies, hospitals, manufacturers, fast food restaurant chains, large retail businesses, bankers, and anyone producing anything of value in our nation.

This is the natural consequence of viewing everything through the eyes of lawyers. Lawyers solve problems by successfully representing their clients, in this case the American people. Lawyers seek to have new laws passed, they seek to win lawsuits, they press appellate courts to overturn precedent, and lawyers always parse language to favor their side.

Confined to the narrow practice of law, that is fine. But it is an awful way to govern a great nation. When politicians as lawyers begin to view some Americans as clients and other Americans as opposing parties, then the role of the leg al system in our life becomes all-consuming. Some Americans become “adverse parties” of our very government. We are not all litigants in some vast social class-action suit. We are citizens of a republic that promises us a great deal of freedom from laws, from courts, and from lawyers.

Today, we are drowning in laws; we are contorted by judicial decisions; we are driven to distraction by omnipresent lawyers in all parts of our once private lives. America has a place for laws and lawyers, but that place is modest and reasonable, not vast and unchecked. When the most important decision for our next president is whom he will appoint to the Supreme Court, the role of lawyers and the law in America is too big. When lawyers use criminal prosecution as a continuation of politics by other means, as happened in the lynching of Scooter Libby and Tom Delay, then the power of lawyers in America is too great. When House Democrats sue America in order to hamstring our efforts to learn what our enemies are planning to do to us, then the role of litigation in America has become crushing.

We cannot expect the Lawyers’ Party to provide real change, real reform or real hope in America Most Americans know that a republic in which every major government action must be blessed by nine unelected judges is not what Washington intended in 1789. Most Americans grasp that we cannot fight a war when ACLU lawsuits snap at the heels of our defenders. Most Americans intuit that more lawyers and judges will not restore declining moral values or spark the spirit of enterprise in our economy..

Perhaps Americans will understand that change cannot be brought to our nation by those lawyers who already largely dictate American society and business. Perhaps Americans will see that hope does not come from the mouths of lawyers but from personal dreams nourished by hard work. Perhaps Americans will embrace the truth that more lawyers with more power will only make our problems worse.

The United States has 5% of the world’s population and 66% of the world’s lawyers! Tort (Legal) reform legislation has been introduced in congress several times in the last several years to limit punitive damages in ridiculous lawsuits such as “spilling hot coffee on yourself and suing the establishment that sold it to you” and also to limit punitive damages in huge medical malpractice lawsuits. This legislation has continually been blocked from even being voted on by the Democrat Party. When you see that 97% of the political contributions from the American Trial Lawyers Association goes to the Democrat Party, then you realize who is responsible for our medical and product costs being so high!


18 posted on 11/12/2009 8:14:25 AM PST by IbJensen (America being militarily and economically strong isn't enough: We must be morally strong!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: pabianice

she has literally lost her mind — to the extent she ever had one. I have suspected as much for quite a while, but this cinches the deal.


19 posted on 11/12/2009 8:14:30 AM PST by smonk
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: pabianice

I’ve heard this before:

Death to the kulaks! All power to the workers soviets! Peasants; to the kolkhoz!

And we were raised in the naive belief it could only happen here if we were conquered by the legions of Lenin. Who knew that instead of them storming our shores with guns and tanks, we would elect them into positions of power ourselves?


20 posted on 11/12/2009 8:14:32 AM PST by henkster (0bamanomics: The "Final Solution" to America's "Prosperity Question.")
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first 1-2021-4041-6061-80 ... 141-147 next last

Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson