[Taffini]

bump healthcare

[Jacquerie]

We, of course, began day one off track by rationalizing slavery into the Constitution.

The goal of the Framers was to form a government, not Utopia. Smart move.

[Jacquerie]

Professor Walter Russell Mead blogs that in the debates to ratify the Constitution, it was considered a weakness “that important laws could be passed and would operate for some time before people knew whether they were legal…”

I'd like to see a citation from the perfessor for this one.

[Wpin]

“To suggest that a nation “conceived in Liberty” can tolerate a handful of Washington bureaucrats telling several hundred million citizens what health insurance is and forcing them to buy it is beyond absurd. “

Says it all...and we who are supposed to know better are going to sit by and watch it happen. Unwilling to risk our “personal security”. Our lives are too precious to us to risk them for freedom...therefore, no matter what the court decides...America has lost.

[philman_36]

We’ve either forgotten what being American means, or we no longer care.
Not "we", Star, they or some in Congress.
Otherwise you're saying that your statement applies to yourself as well and I don't see that in this article.

Just too wide of a brush, IMO.

[Lady Lucky]

It can’t be done. We can’t apply the original operating manual. What worked for a much smaller and much more self-reliant population, will never work for 300 million and so many of them in a state of dependency (whether by public education, other indoctrination, habit, drugs, bad parenting, or government’s heavy hand on the economy).
You cannot make the turn back to liberty with these people, these weights and bonds on them, and them on us.
There would be chaos, killing, catastrophe, such to make the Civil War look like a cotillion. Nobody wants it and nobody will let it happen.

[dog breath]

Freedom is often given away for security. I am opposed to Obamacare so do not misconstrue my cynicism. National Health Care is unconstitutional but so are so many things. The government infringes upon our freedoms in so many ways, the question is whether the people are willing to accept it. If it was created in a way that was friendly toward business, not hurtful, it would have even more support and Obama would surely prevail. The politicians just ride the winds of public opinion. Issues of personal liberty seem open to the mood at the time. Social Security, forced busing, national gun laws, national drug laws, our entire system of taxation are all examples issues that have had serious problems but they came into existence anyway.