Sen. Ben Nelson (D-NE): Dahh, I don’t know where in the Constitution it says we can make you buy health care from us, ’cause I’m not a constitutional scholar
(No Ratings Yet)
Loading ...
Email This Post
Print This Post
DOH! Damn hayseed!
From CNSNews.com by Edwin Mora dated 11/11/2009 entitled, “Sen. Ben Nelson: ‘I’m Not Going to Be Able to Answer That Question’ of Where Constitution Authorizes Congress to Force Americans to Buy Health Insurance“:
Sen. Ben Nelson (D-Neb.) told CNSNews.com that because he is not a constitutional scholar he was “not going to be able to answer that question” of where specifically the Constitution authorizes Congress to mandate that individuals purchase health insurance.
{What a crock, ‘because I’m not a constitutional scholar’, what a joke. It’s because it’s not there MORON!} “Specifically, where in the Constitution does Congress get its authority to mandate that individuals purchase health insurance?” CNSNews.com asked Nelson.
“Well, you know, I don’t know that I’m a constitutional scholar,” said Nelson. So, I, I’m not going to be able to answer that question.”
The senator then turned away to answer another reporter’s question.
{Nelson needs to go make in excess of $145K somewhere else, NOT at our expense. THROW THE BUM OUT!} Both House and Senate versions of the health care bill would require that Americans buy health insurance.
{Think about that for a moment. It is the death knell for freedom in America.} In 1994, when Congress was considering a universal health care plan proposed by then-President Clinton that included a mandate that all individuals purchase health insurance, the Congressional Budget Office studied the issue and discovered that the federal government had never in the history of the United States mandated that individuals purchase any good or service.
“A mandate requiring all individuals to purchase health insurance would be an unprecedented form of federal action,” said the CBO. “The government has never required people to buy any good or service as a condition of lawful residence in the United States.”
In an analysis published this July, the CBO said that an attempt to justify a mandate that people buy health insurance by using the Commerce Clause—which gives Congress the power to regulate commerce “among the several states”—raises a “novel issue.”
“Whether such a requirement would be constitutional under the Commerce Clause is perhaps the most challenging question posed by such a proposal, as it is a novel
{TOTAL BS!} issue whether Congress may use this clause to require an individual to purchase a good or a service,” said the CBO.In a recent interview with CNSNews.com, Sen. Orrin Hatch (R.-Utah), a longtime member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, said that it was “not constitutionally sound” for Congress to mandate that individuals buy health insurance.
{Once in a while Hatch says something correct…now let’s see how he spins it the other way as well – his favorite tactic.} “But here would be the first time where our [federal] government would demand that people buy something that they may or may not want,” said Hatch. “And, you know, if that’s the case, then we didn’t need a ‘Cash for Clunkers,’ all we had to do is have the federal government say you all got to buy new cars, no matter how tough it is on you. You know, they could require you to buy anything. And that isn’t America. That’s not freedom. That’s not constitutionally sound.”
Hatch said that if we let the federal government begin forcing us to buy things we may not want to buy without having a clear constitutional justification for doing so “we’ve lost our freedoms, and that means the federal government can do anything it wants to do to us.”
{WOW! I’m impressed, Hatch didn’t waffle. Incredible, particularly since Hatch has been voting for crap for years which in aggregate stifled our freedoms.} Here is the transcript of CNSNews.com’s interview with Sen. Ben Nelson (D.-Neb.):
CNSNews.com: “Specifically, where in the Constitution does Congress get its authority to mandate that individuals purchase health, health insurance?”
Sen. Ben Nelson (D.-Neb.): “Well, you know, I don’t know that I’m a constitutional scholar. So, I, I’m not going to be able to answer that question.”
To Red Pills home page. The image used in this post was obtained from HERE and is basically unaltered. This article, excluding the material cited or the material which is included herein but written by other authors or material covered by other copyrights, is copyright © 2009, by Gary Shumway. Permission is hereby granted to reproduce and distribute it electronically and in print, other than as part of a book and provided that mention of the author’s web site www.redpills.org is included. (Email notification is requested.) All other rights reserved.
Gary Shumway is the author of Winging Through America and SCUBA Scoop.
Email This Post
Print This Post
Why is anyone suprised that these idiots don’t know the constitution? We don’t teach it in our schools. We don’t require our courts to uphold it. We don’t have any respect for anything it says. Why are we surprised that our elected “leaders” have no idea what it means when they swear to uphold its mandates?
By the way, I think it is mandatory for folks over 65 to have Medicare coverage. Is that not forcing me to buy something I might not want?
I’m not surprised, Frank. And I’m likewise not surprised that our elected politicians seem to have totally forgotten that they were elected to represent US. More and more, it seems that they thumb their noses at their constituents and do and say whatever the hell they want. And that’s the best of them. They seem to realize that we have no recourse but to elect one or the other so they might as well get away with whatever they can for as long they can and the consequences be damned. It’s not like they go to jail for their impolitic actions. So what that they serve one term and get voted out. They are laughing all the way to the bank and we have to wait and see what the next dirtbag does to us. I think if Diogenes were around today he’d either throw his lamp into the Potomac or set himself on fire with it.