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

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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
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To: east1234

voted=vote


41 posted on 11/12/2009 8:24:55 AM PST by east1234 (It's the borders stupid! My new environmentalist inspired tagline: cut, kill, dig and drill)
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To: AD from SpringBay
After that we are out of options.

Says you.

42 posted on 11/12/2009 8:25:35 AM PST by Eagle Eye (3%)
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To: pabianice

So ... how long does everyone think it will take after this goes into effect for some patriot to defend himself through the use of arms in his own home when they come to get him????


43 posted on 11/12/2009 8:26:23 AM PST by USMA '71 ((Re-elect no one!))
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To: pabianice
Anyone jailed for not buying PelosiCare coverage is considered a political prisoner.
44 posted on 11/12/2009 8:27:17 AM PST by OrioleFan (Republicans believe every day is the 4th of July, democrats believe every day is April 15)
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To: pabianice
Do these people truly believe that the Federal Government of the United States has the power under our Constitution to force citizens to buy a product or service regardless of their desire to do so? Under what section of the Constitution is this purported power found? The "General Welfare clause", perhaps?

That's a battle I would love to bring before the Supreme Court, if only to determine once and for all that such a reading of that clause does violence to the rest of the document. It cannot be as open-ended as Congress has routinely read it, otherwise, what was the purpose of the frequent enumeration and delineation of powers throughout the Constitution? The Founders never intended this clause to be a "blank check", but rather a guideline naturally subject to all of the numerous limitations that followed.

Additionally, and as an expression of Federalism, state governments can and do mandate certain types of insurance coverage, but only to the extent that their own state constitutions allow it. The Federal government has no such power.

45 posted on 11/12/2009 8:27:20 AM PST by andy58-in-nh (America does not need to be organized: it needs to be liberated.)
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To: IbJensen

Wow.

Fantastic!


46 posted on 11/12/2009 8:28:22 AM PST by Eagle Eye (3%)
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To: pabianice

She should be jailed for sedition!


47 posted on 11/12/2009 8:29:19 AM PST by CodeToad (If it weren't for physics and law enforcement I'd be unstoppable!)
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To: bestintxas

Besides congress which exempted themselves there is also the “other” privileged class — illegal aliens who will see no jail for not buying insurance but who will have it paid for by the rest of us.


48 posted on 11/12/2009 8:29:22 AM PST by RJS1950 (The democrats are the "enemies foreign and domestic" cited in the federal oath)
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To: pabianice

What would really be “fair” would be for her to take a flying leap from a very high place.


49 posted on 11/12/2009 8:29:45 AM PST by Frenchtown Dan
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To: pabianice

To a totalitarian collectivist-statist like Nazi Pelousy, imprisoning and even humiliating, torturing, and executing counter-revolutionaries is always fair.


50 posted on 11/12/2009 8:31:14 AM PST by Westbrook (Having more children does not divide your love, it multiplies it.)
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To: RJS1950

So the other option is to revoke my citizenship?


51 posted on 11/12/2009 8:31:19 AM PST by madison10
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To: pabianice

For Christmas, I’m sending you to jail.


52 posted on 11/12/2009 8:31:30 AM PST by stayathomemom (Beware of cat attacks while typing!)
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To: pabianice

Drug eating away her brain.


53 posted on 11/12/2009 8:31:53 AM PST by Lady Jag (Double your income. Fire the government)
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To: pabianice
This is the only arrest I want to see...


54 posted on 11/12/2009 8:33:02 AM PST by reagan_fanatic (Hope....Change...Soup Kitchens!)
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To: IbJensen

Al Pacino in “The Devil’s Advocate” was warning us.

Or was he taunting us?


55 posted on 11/12/2009 8:33:08 AM PST by Eagle Eye (3%)
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To: MichiganConservative
Run for your state legislature.

States can vote to opt-out of the bill entirely. McDonnell has promised VA will do just that.
56 posted on 11/12/2009 8:33:37 AM PST by Thrownatbirth (.....Iraq Invasion fan since '91.)
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To: AD from SpringBay
There is the Senate - then there is the Supreme Court. After that we are out of options.

Soapbox, ballot box, moving box, ammo box.

57 posted on 11/12/2009 8:35:24 AM PST by IYAS9YAS (The townhalls were going great until the oPods showed up.)
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To: AD from SpringBay

Requiring people to spend money is like requiring them to work...involuntary servitude.


58 posted on 11/12/2009 8:35:25 AM PST by Tax Government (Democrats: dealers in economic crack.)
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To: IYAS9YAS; AD from SpringBay

Sorry. That should have been: Soapbox, Ballot box, Jury box, Ammo box.


59 posted on 11/12/2009 8:37:01 AM PST by IYAS9YAS (The townhalls were going great until the oPods showed up.)
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To: Thrownatbirth

Those states may be the ones to which we all move.


60 posted on 11/12/2009 8:38:55 AM PST by madison10
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