Rick Saunders <retro_...@yahoo.com> wrote: > Today, Robert Gibbs lamented some of the offensive signs at > Bachmann's anti-health bill rally (of which there were some, but > not enough to even fill out HuffPo's 12 Most Offensive > slideshow):
> "Imagine just a few years ago had somebody walked around with > images of Hitler."
Silly liberals. They had no idea how horrible the Holocaust was. The gassing of entire families, the slow deaths by starvation, the stacks of bodies, the stench of death everywhere. "What's the big deal?" they asked. But then the teabaggers set them straight. They displayed a poster with the words "National Socialist Health Care" with a picture from Dachau of bodies stacked up like firewood. And then the liberals understood. "Wow," they said, "if this Holocaust thing was anything like Democrats trying to make health care more affordable for more Americans, it must have been really bad!"
Spartakus wrote: > Rick Saunders <retro_...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> > Today, Robert Gibbs lamented some of the offensive signs at > > Bachmann's anti-health bill rally (of which there were some, but > > not enough to even fill out HuffPo's 12 Most Offensive > > slideshow):
> > "Imagine just a few years ago had somebody walked around with > > images of Hitler."
> Silly liberals. They had no idea how horrible the Holocaust was. The > gassing of entire families, the slow deaths by starvation, the stacks > of bodies, the stench of death everywhere. "What's the big deal?" > they asked. But then the teabaggers set them straight. They > displayed a poster with the words "National Socialist Health Care" > with a picture from Dachau of bodies stacked up like firewood. And > then the liberals understood. "Wow," they said, "if this Holocaust > thing was anything like Democrats trying to make health care more > affordable for more Americans, it must have been really bad!"
It's not quite that bad. It's simply unconstitutional.
>Spartakus wrote: >> Rick Saunders <retro_...@yahoo.com> wrote:
>> > Today, Robert Gibbs lamented some of the offensive signs at >> > Bachmann's anti-health bill rally (of which there were some, but >> > not enough to even fill out HuffPo's 12 Most Offensive >> > slideshow):
>> > "Imagine just a few years ago had somebody walked around with >> > images of Hitler."
>> Silly liberals. They had no idea how horrible the Holocaust was. The >> gassing of entire families, the slow deaths by starvation, the stacks >> of bodies, the stench of death everywhere. "What's the big deal?" >> they asked. But then the teabaggers set them straight. They >> displayed a poster with the words "National Socialist Health Care" >> with a picture from Dachau of bodies stacked up like firewood. And >> then the liberals understood. "Wow," they said, "if this Holocaust >> thing was anything like Democrats trying to make health care more >> affordable for more Americans, it must have been really bad!"
>It's not quite that bad. It's simply unconstitutional.
Judging from Boehner's reading of what he called the Preamble to the Constitution (it was actually the Declaration of Independence) they may well believe it is unconstitutional.
On Nov 7, 8:04 pm, Galen Hekhuis <ghekh...@earthlink.net> wrote:
> >It's not quite that bad. It's simply unconstitutional.
> Judging from Boehner's reading of what he called the Preamble to the > Constitution (it was actually the Declaration of Independence) they > may well believe it is unconstitutional.
It's a simple question: Where in the Constitution is Congress granted the power to force Americans to buy something as a condition of being an American? Go on, do go on.
>> >It's not quite that bad. It's simply unconstitutional.
>> Judging from Boehner's reading of what he called the Preamble to the >> Constitution (it was actually the Declaration of Independence) they >> may well believe it is unconstitutional.
>It's a simple question: Where in the Constitution is >Congress granted the power to force Americans to buy >something as a condition of being an American? Go on, do go on.
I don't know, but if they can constitutionally ban marijuana I imagine they can find it somewhere. But at least I do know the difference between the Declaration of Independence and the U.S. Constitution, something you think the Republican House Minority Leader might also know. Apparently not. (Did you hear them screw up the Pledge of Allegiance too?)
On Nov 7, 6:17 pm, Rick Saunders <retro_...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> On Nov 7, 8:04 pm, Galen Hekhuis <ghekh...@earthlink.net> wrote:
> > >It's not quite that bad. It's simply unconstitutional.
> > Judging from Boehner's reading of what he called the Preamble to the > > Constitution (it was actually the Declaration of Independence) they > > may well believe it is unconstitutional.
> It's a simple question: Where in the Constitution is > Congress granted the power to force Americans to buy > something as a condition of being an American? Go on, do go on.
It would seem to violate the 24th Amendment's prohibition on poll taxes, as well as the 10th Amendment's prohibiting the federal government from exercising any powers not explicitly granted to it by the Constitution and its Amendments.
Although the 24th Amendment says that poll taxes are prohibited as a condition of voting, a mandatory health care tax would include criminal penalties for those who refuse to pay it, and those convicted of crimes are typically denied the right to vote.
|
