Posted on 11/01/2009 10:17:57 AM PST by John Semmens
White House Spokesman Robert Gibbs dismissed arguments that there is no Constitutional mandate for requiring people to purchase health insurance.
“The President’s opponents are tying themselves in knots over arcane notions of ‘enumerated powers’ and ‘rights supposedly reserved to the people’ when the issue is as simple as can be,” Gibbs asserted. “I’m no Constitutional scholar, but as I read the document, President Obama is the nation’s Supreme Commander. And if the Supreme Commander gives an order, everyone is obliged to obey it—’game over.’”
Gibb’s statement was backed up by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif) who maintains that the issue of whether there is a Constitutional mandate for compelling people to buy health insurance is “not a serious question. We are a sovereign government. That means we can make laws and the people must comply.”
Pelosi added “I don’t see any difference between taxing people to fund a government delivered service and requiring them to go out and buy that service from a private firm. We already force people to fund Social Security. We forced people to pay bailouts to private banks. We force them to pay for innumerable special projects in every appropriations bill. Why are the so-called conservatives belatedly raising a Constitutional issue over health care when that horse left the barn long ago?”
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Keeps gettin’ harder and harder to tell the satire from reality!
I’m gonna bill you for my heart attack Semmens!!!!
Or I will have to read the thread title after the author’s name! LOL!
Sing it loud, honeys! The more people hear this the better.
oooh, Supreme Commander? Is that what he was elected as? And the ‘separation of powers’ and ‘checks and balances,’ those are also arcane? Bill of Rights? Constitution? Oh, I see — we WANTED that....
Unn-uh, Mr. Gibbs. You all are on the wrong side of history.
oooh, Supreme Commander? Is that what he was elected as? And the ‘separation of powers’ and ‘checks and balances,’ those are also arcane? Bill of Rights? Constitution? Oh, I see — we WANTED that....
Unn-uh, Mr. Gibbs. You all are on the wrong side of history.
Although this is “satire,” it’s so close to being actual reality that the two are indistinguishable!
Damnit! Got me again.
These people can not be that stupid. 0bama must a large stash of crack for all to smoke.
President Obama is the nation’s “Supreme Commander”?
Come again, Mr. Gibbs?
Oh SHOOT! Sarcasm! What was that email joke that came by, re Obama jokes: “Liberals don’t think they are funny, and conservatives think they are true.”
hahah.
Almost got me--again!
Great stuff, John!
Great one John
As usual, John, an excellent piece. I’m dreading the day when there will be no need for your satire, as it will all be fact.......
Sure they could be.
Our knowledge is limited, but stupidity is boundless.
LOL ;-)
Zieg Heil!
GA....got me!!!!
Way to go! It puts it all in perspective for even the dullest of minds. Using their own words against them is a very good strategy.
“Keeps gettin’ harder and harder to tell the satire from reality”
Neither reality nor satire, more like prophecy. I think he got his hands on a press release that they were scheduling for next month.
When I saw "Gibbs" it was over... hook line sinker... gulp.
I guess when they think “commander-in-chief” or “supreme commander” they think Lenin and Mao, not George Washington or Ronald Reagan.
I was screaming at the computer and then saw where it came from. I will have to blame you for my future heart attack one day, you do it to me everytime. LOL
Every politician that votes in favor of this Health Care Reform bill needs to be punished. The voters must take away their jobs. They need to feel the sting of our anger.
“White House Spokesman Robert Gibbs dismissed arguments that there is no Constitutional mandate for requiring people to purchase health insurance.
“The President’s opponents are tying themselves in knots over arcane notions of ‘enumerated powers’ and ‘rights supposedly reserved to the people’ when the issue is as simple as can be,” Gibbs asserted. “I’m no Constitutional scholar, but as I read the document, President Obama is the nation’s Supreme Commander. And if the Supreme Commander gives an order, everyone is obliged to obey it—’game over.’” “
Where in the Constitution does it say “Supreme Commander” over the people? Where in the Constitution does it say the President makes law?
This would mean the President is an elected dictator.
Oabama and his fellow Marxists can kiss my ass!
Arm up! They Are!
“Supreme Commander”??? Where does Gibbs get THAT idea? Folks, we need to throw these ignoramuses under the bus. Maybe where Obama grew up, in Indonesia, there was a “Supreme Commander” but not in this country!
Oops -you got me on satire!
“Supreme Commander”
NOTHING in the Constitution says the President is the “Supreme Commander”. That phrase isn’t even used in the Constitution.
Hey Gibbs - he ain’t an effing KING, you moron. Although I know he thinks he is.
No, it’s against my human rights, a****
The Constitution means nothing to you evil libturds.
This show how stupid she is and how stupid she thinks Americans are.
As it stands now buying insurance from a private firm is NOT REQUIRED and we’re NOT SUBJECTED TO A FINE for not getting insurance.
As of now we can decide to save our money to use for health care ourselves, i.e. HSA, or buy private insurance. It's know as a CHOICE. That's not the same. Now you want to tax that also. The party of eternal taxes and quick death, in that order.
They are ALL getting too comfortabel using the word “sovereign”.
>arcane notions of ‘enumerated powers’ and ‘rights supposedly reserved to the people’
*sigh* - THIS is exactly what’s wrong with the government; it is unchained from the very Constitution written and enacted to bind it down.
I agree. It took me a paragraph or two before I noticed where this came from. It’s really bad when you read this stuff and think there’s even a possibility it could be true.
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