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Sheila Jackson Lee: Repealing ObamaCare is unconstitutional
Hot Air ^ | 18 Jan 2011 | Allahpundit

Posted on 01/20/2011 4:35:14 PM PST by mandaladon

Via Philip Klein, I can’t decide whether she’s serious or whether this is part of the Democrats’ new kitchen-sink approach to “messaging” about ObamaCare. She might be calculating that even an argument as inane as this one is worth making in order to counter the GOP’s claims that O-Care is unconstitutional. If you’re battling over public opinion, why not frame the other side’s actions as being as illegitimate as your own? So on the one hand, maybe she doesn’t really buy this and is simply engaged in a shrewd bit of PR. On the other hand — dude. Thus do nine-month-old legislatively-granted entitlements, some of which haven’t even taken effect yet, become “rights.” If you take this idea seriously, then meaningful reform of Social Security and Medicare (which Lee presumably would describe as property for Due Process purposes) would require constitutional amendments, which in turn would utterly paralyze a process that’s already close to total paralysis. Or have I misunderstood? If she’s suggesting that some lesser process is due than a full Article V amendment, then, er, shouldn’t a repeal bill duly enacted by Congress suffice? Or is the argument here that people with preexisting conditions, say, have always had a right to coverage under the Constitution and only lately have we “progressed” to the point where we’re willing to recognize that right? In that case, why’d they have to pass a bill last year? Patients should have simply sued and let the courts “find” a right to coverage in the “penumbras” of the Commerce Clause or whatever.

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To: mandaladon

You laugh, but she and he are the right color, and you are the wrong color, and you will find that out if you go looking for a job.


101 posted on 01/21/2011 8:55:01 AM PST by ichabod1 (Hail Mary Full of Grace, The Lord Is With Thee...)
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To: Qwackertoo

Those braids are what is known as The Crown Weave, and intentionally or not hearken back to when she said “I Am A Queen And I Demand To Be Treated Like One.”


102 posted on 01/21/2011 8:58:33 AM PST by ichabod1 (Hail Mary Full of Grace, The Lord Is With Thee...)
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To: Judith Anne
I don’t know who elected her...

Hint...her constituents are every bit as smart as she is!

103 posted on 01/21/2011 9:14:13 AM PST by lonestar
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To: tet68

LOL!


104 posted on 01/21/2011 9:21:24 AM PST by stentorian conservative (Obama is sinking the boat that was built to stay afloat.)
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To: ichabod1
she said “I Am A Queen And I Demand To Be Treated Like One.”

Well, actual monarchs or royalty are raised/trained for the duties and responsibilities of the position. That includes learning things such as courtesy, proper comportment and protocol of which Ms. Lee is seriously ignorant.

105 posted on 01/21/2011 9:46:27 AM PST by ELS (Vivat Benedictus XVI!)
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To: manc

I thought Lynn Woolsey was stupid.


106 posted on 01/21/2011 11:04:56 AM PST by Son-Joshua (son-joshua)
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To: mandaladon
Look at her reasoning....if her warped view of the Fifth Amendment were followed fully, then she would also have to repeal Roe v. Wade...which she obviously supports in full:

Voted YES on expanding research to more embryonic stem cell lines. (Jan 2007)
Voted YES on allowing human embryonic stem cell research. (May 2005)
Voted NO on restricting interstate transport of minors to get abortions. (Apr 2005)
Voted NO on making it a crime to harm a fetus during another crime. (Feb 2004)
Voted NO on banning partial-birth abortion except to save mother’s life. (Oct 2003)
Voted NO on forbidding human cloning for reproduction & medical research. (Feb 2003)
Voted NO on funding for health providers who don't provide abortion info. (Sep 2002)
Voted NO on banning Family Planning funding in US aid abroad. (May 2001)
Voted NO on federal crime to harm fetus while committing other crimes. (Apr 2001)
Voted NO on banning partial-birth abortions. (Apr 2000)
Voted NO on barring transporting minors to get an abortion. (Jun 1999)
Endorsed Recommended by EMILY's List of pro-choice women. (Apr 2001)
Rated 100% by NARAL, indicating a pro-choice voting record. (Dec 2003)
Expand contraceptive services for low-income women. (May 2006)
Emergency "contraception" for rape victims at all hospitals. (Sep 2006)
Rated 0% by the NRLC, indicating a pro-choice stance. (Dec 2006)
Ensure access to and funding for "contraception". (Feb 2007)
Focus on preventing pregnancy, plus "emergency contraception." (Jan 2009)
Supported funding contraception and UN family planning. (Jul 1999)

Yet another communist hypocritical moron.

Yet she keeps getting elected. No wonder they think Americans are all Homer Simpsons.

107 posted on 01/21/2011 11:48:10 AM PST by Paul Ross (Ronald Reagan-1987:"We are always willing to be trade partners but never trade patsies.")
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To: ELS

Oh, I could tell you a story of how Queen Shelia “michelled” the queen of Thailand long before anyone knew who queen moochel was. The Royal Family of Thailand have a long interest in science and health, for the good of their people. The Queen of Thailand was in Houston and was at a luncheon in her honor.

Shelia was invited. She was an hour late, and she showed up with a camera crew. The queen was seated on a dais, as no one is supposed to sit at the same level as the queen. Queen Shelia charged right up onto the dais and then put her hands all over the real Queen and got in her face.

The Ruchirawat family are among the most gracious and pleasant people in the world, and the Queen smiled and accepted the insults without any indication that she had been insulted. Her staff, though, and her subjects in attendance, who choose to kneel or protrate themselves before the King and Queen, out of love, not out of law, did not appreciate it at all.


108 posted on 01/21/2011 11:56:32 AM PST by ichabod1 (Hail Mary Full of Grace, The Lord Is With Thee...)
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To: Ev Reeman

Sounds like you are from her area.

Tell me, do you think she’s really dumb or does she just play dumb?

I mean, a BA from Yale and a JD from U of Virginia? That was before AA really took hold. So I have to wonder-—is she putting on some kind of act to try to fit in with the peasants?


109 posted on 01/21/2011 11:57:00 AM PST by Scanian
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To: ichabod1

...“I Am A Queen And I Demand To Be Treated Like One.”

???

Wow...it’s hard to believe that she used to be a man!


110 posted on 01/21/2011 12:48:53 PM PST by equaviator ("There's a (datum) plane on the horizon coming in...see it?")
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To: Caipirabob

She is perfectly representative of her constituency...

__________________________

I’m suprised that Houston is this nuts


111 posted on 01/21/2011 2:04:29 PM PST by I_Like_Spam
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To: I_Like_Spam
I’m suprised that Houston is this nuts

Houston is chock full o' New Orleans pond scum since Katrina, don't forget. They never left the warm, pleasant free lunch in Houston to return to their native wet, unpleasant free lunch in Chocolate City.


Frowning takes 68 muscles.
Smiling takes 6.
Pulling this trigger takes 2.
I'm lazy.

112 posted on 01/21/2011 2:24:12 PM PST by The Comedian ("Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice" - B. Goldwater)
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To: ichabod1
"Unconstitutional" is such a very big word to be used by such a very little drooling libtard.


Frowning takes 68 muscles.
Smiling takes 6.
Pulling this trigger takes 2.
I'm lazy.

113 posted on 01/21/2011 2:32:57 PM PST by The Comedian ("Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice" - B. Goldwater)
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To: Texas Eagle

” the Heights”

100% homosexual.


114 posted on 01/21/2011 3:08:40 PM PST by MeanWestTexan (Beware Obama's Reichstag Fire.)
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To: mandaladon

According to which Constitution? The Martian one?


115 posted on 01/21/2011 3:58:49 PM PST by Slippery Jim
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To: All; mandaladon

She’s insane. She represents the Houston area of Texas. That’s somehow fitting.


116 posted on 01/21/2011 4:45:49 PM PST by newzjunkey
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To: Jean S

Did Cavuto actually tell her “YOU’RE MAKING THINGS UP!”

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!

That man’s got cajones, that’s all there is to it! ;-)


117 posted on 01/21/2011 5:44:59 PM PST by pillut48 (Israel doesn't have a friend in President Obama...and neither does the USA! (h/t pgkdan))
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To: CIDKauf

>Is it really unconstitutional to repeal a bill that’s unconstitutional? I’m confused.<

maybe it is that double negative rule or something?


118 posted on 01/21/2011 7:26:28 PM PST by Munz (All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent.)
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To: mandaladon

Her verbiage is clearly unconstipational..


119 posted on 01/21/2011 11:01:58 PM PST by sheik yerbouty ( Make America and the world a jihad free zone!)
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To: sheik yerbouty

She’s beyond the valley of the super stupid


120 posted on 01/21/2011 11:03:36 PM PST by dennisw (- - - -He who does not economize will have to agonize - - - - - Confucius)
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