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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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KEYWORDS: constitution; deathpanels; healthcare; lee2mars4ever; obamacare; palin; previouslyposted; searchisyourfriend; tnb; twodayoldstory; whyisthisbreaking
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To: mandaladon

Congress was made for individuals like Sheila Jackson Lee, allowing her to live on an income that she could not hope to make in the private sector; but, unfortunately, her gain is our loss.


42 posted on 01/20/2011 5:08:32 PM PST by windsorknot
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To: mandaladon

I’d bet she doesn’t even know what the Constitution is and what planet it’s on.


43 posted on 01/20/2011 5:10:06 PM PST by InvisibleChurch (slip or be sleppy)
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To: Anti-Bubba182
Cavuto Catches Dem (Jackson Lee) Faking Obamacare Repeal ‘Victim’ Live on Air
January 19, 2011
44 posted on 01/20/2011 5:11:04 PM PST by Jean S
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To: unixfox
Morons?

Moron worshipers.

45 posted on 01/20/2011 5:11:18 PM PST by EGPWS (Trust in God, question everyone else)
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To: Texas Eagle

And it includes the jail inmates.


46 posted on 01/20/2011 5:16:12 PM PST by screaminsunshine (Surfers Rule)
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To: mandaladon

Has Sheila found the American flag planted on Mars yet?


47 posted on 01/20/2011 5:21:22 PM PST by Red Steel
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To: mandaladon

I wanted to post earlier, but I couldn’t type because I was laughing so hard.


48 posted on 01/20/2011 5:23:42 PM PST by Right Wing Assault (Our Constitution: the new Inconvenient Truth)
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To: alancarp

I don’t know what you’re trying to say, but unfortunately for us Texans, a district in Texas is responsible for sending that creature to Congress...


49 posted on 01/20/2011 5:23:49 PM PST by Alan Rumack
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To: mandaladon

The same types who elected Conyers who recently tried to justify under the “good and welfare clause”

Damn these people are DUMB


50 posted on 01/20/2011 5:32:59 PM PST by A_Former_Democrat (The Rodney King Riots: Courtesy of ABC, CBS, NBC & CNN)
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To: mandaladon

Sheila Jackson Lee: A very ironicly strange name for who she is and what she stands for.


51 posted on 01/20/2011 5:36:42 PM PST by MestaMachine (islam - Hostis hvmani generis - Enemy of the human race)
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To: alancarp
The US should secede from California.

The thread is about a Congresswoman from Texas.

52 posted on 01/20/2011 5:37:12 PM PST by Lurking Libertarian (Non sub homine, sed sub Deo et lege)
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To: mandaladon

[Who elected this moron??? ]

Other morons.


53 posted on 01/20/2011 5:37:54 PM PST by KansasGirl
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To: mandaladon
Who elected this moron???

Residents of Texas, I believe. Probably by way of New Orleans.

I have a modest proposal.

Let's give Sheila Jackson-Lee an IQ test. To make it fair, we should test a high schooler. I pick the school and the student.

Not fair?
If you think so, please explain why not. The idiot has been in Congress for over 15 years, fercryin'outloud!

54 posted on 01/20/2011 5:39:21 PM PST by Publius6961 ("In 1964 the War on Poverty Began --- Poverty won.")
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To: mandaladon
There should be a law against electing brainless idiots like Sheila Jackass Lee. She must come from a district full of derelicts who are dumber then she is.
55 posted on 01/20/2011 5:47:49 PM PST by peeps36 (America is being destroyed by filthy traitors in the political establishment)
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To: mandaladon

SJL should be on SNL cause she’s Hellarious!!

That would be her spelling not mine!


56 posted on 01/20/2011 5:49:25 PM PST by Batman11 (Sarah Palin: "Illegal immigrants are called illegal for a reason!")
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To: Alan Rumack
I don’t know what you’re trying to say, but unfortunately for us Texans, a district in Texas is responsible for sending that creature to Congress...

Fortunately there is an opportunity this year to redraw that district and we have a somewhat better state legislature this time.

57 posted on 01/20/2011 6:00:47 PM PST by The Theophilus
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To: mandaladon

Who elected this moron. you ask? The same people that want a forever handout of POTUS Obama’s “stash”!!! Nothing further need be said. As for Ms. Lee, the engine’s running, but the battery is dead!!!


58 posted on 01/20/2011 6:04:16 PM PST by JLAGRAYFOX
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To: mandaladon

I’ve always said that the obama voters will go down in history as the dumbest voters in history.

Now the Dems yet again show how dumb they are, they elect these idiots who know nothing , speak utter crap and then they get voted in time after time from idiot voters.

Imagine if these voters were to be asked 5 questions before being allowed to vote?
They would never get any question right and therefore the left would object to it.


59 posted on 01/20/2011 6:04:54 PM PST by manc (Shame on all who voted for the repeal of DADT, who supported it or never tried to stop it. Traitors)
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To: Publius6961
Can you say...

Gerrymandered beyond Belief..?

Texans got to do some serious legislation to get rid of democratic fun and games with legislative district shapes, do all the morons can elect someone with a similar IQ.

Yes, I know that SJL has a law degree and was a judge for about a decade.
How that is possible is fodder for another thread.

60 posted on 01/20/2011 6:08:32 PM PST by Publius6961 ("In 1964 the War on Poverty Began --- Poverty won.")
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