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Pelosi: Healthcare law guarantees 'life, liberty, pursuit of happiness'
The Hill ^ | March 21, 2012 | Pete Kasperowicz

Posted on 03/22/2012 1:17:14 PM PDT by C19fan

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said Wednesday evening that the 2010 healthcare law, which prompted complaints from conservatives that Democrats far exceeded their constitutional authority, actually helps people meet the goal outlined in the Declaration of Independence, which promotes mankind's rights to "life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness."

Speaking on the House floor, Pelosi called on her colleagues to remember "what our founders put forth in our founding documents, which is life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. And that is exactly what the Affordable Care Act helps to guarantee."

(Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Front Page News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: constitution; corruption; declaration; fraud; liberalfascism; obamacare; pelosi
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What an embarassment this witch is. The fool can't differentiate between negative (real) and positive (free stuff) rights and our founding documents were about negative rights.
1 posted on 03/22/2012 1:17:26 PM PDT by C19fan
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Great! Then can I assume that Pelosi will live under the same healthcare plan as the rest of us? Will her kids and grandkids also?


2 posted on 03/22/2012 1:19:15 PM PDT by crosshairs
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Why did she exempt herself and her party?


3 posted on 03/22/2012 1:21:32 PM PDT by FroggyTheGremlim (Conservative patriots, Rise up!)
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Future historians will shake their heads in amazement.


4 posted on 03/22/2012 1:21:54 PM PDT by gundog (Help us, Nairobi-Wan Kenobi...you're our only hope.)
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It kills the unborn, that is not protecting life, it forces everyone into a government plan that is not liberty and it takes citizen’s money from them by force and that is the opposite of the founders meaning of pursuit of happiness. SO once again Orwellian speak from the wicked witch of the west.


5 posted on 03/22/2012 1:21:53 PM PDT by DaveyB (Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. -John Adams)
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“Great! Then can I assume that Pelosi will live under the same healthcare plan as the rest of us? Will her kids and grandkids also?”

Don’t hold your breath. I am speechless and I don’t dare write my feelings about that....Person. To do so would get me banned from here. GRRRRRRR!


6 posted on 03/22/2012 1:23:15 PM PDT by mongo141 (Revolution ver 2.0, just a matter of when, not a matter of if!)
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To: DaveyB

Pelosi is a much a scholar of the Founding as she is a Catholic theologian.


7 posted on 03/22/2012 1:23:41 PM PDT by C19fan
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Good GOD she is so full of s##t


8 posted on 03/22/2012 1:24:34 PM PDT by Marathoner (Obama has his own 9-9-9-plan: $9.99 a gallon at the pump.)
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Substitute “guarantees” with “sacrafices” and you get to the truth.


9 posted on 03/22/2012 1:25:26 PM PDT by cotton1706
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It guarantees them alright. It guarantees that they will become a privilege to be given or taken away by government bureaucrats.


10 posted on 03/22/2012 1:28:09 PM PDT by Bryanw92 (Sic semper tyrannis)
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Actually it’s more like slavery. No self-respecting doctor will work under those conditions. Not to mention the taxpayers who do all the work to pay for those who contribute nothing. It is slavery of a portion of the population.


11 posted on 03/22/2012 1:30:26 PM PDT by formosa (Formosa)
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It’s just the nature of liberals to pervert everything that they touch.


12 posted on 03/22/2012 1:32:33 PM PDT by NurdlyPeon (I guess Newt is the best choice of the lot right now.)
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Why would anyone make such outrageous stmts in that venue KNOWING they were patently false? Its VERY easy to verify and think thru. The only idea that comes to mind is she thinks no one else knows they’re false, she doesn;t know any better or her grip on reality is tenuous. You just dont lie on that level w/o some big problems behind the scenes. Slick WIlly was the same way as is Barry Soetoro and ORomney. DC is populated w/ these types and few in fly over country seems to get it. The laugh is on us folks.


13 posted on 03/22/2012 1:33:00 PM PDT by 556x45
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Pelosi obviously thinks that only the Federal Government can enforce “life, liberty and pursuit of happiness.” You and I aren't capable of doing these things because we don't know what the government definition is of “life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.” I submit that if you ask a random sample of exactly 1,000 Americans from all walks of life what their view of “life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness” is, you would get exactly 1,000 different answers. That is why central planning (health care in this instance) by socialists never works.
14 posted on 03/22/2012 1:37:14 PM PDT by immadashell
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This woman is seriously sick. Scary.


15 posted on 03/22/2012 1:37:36 PM PDT by pieceofthepuzzle
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She belongs in a mental health ward somewhere. She has totally lost her mind.

Somebody should have told her when she meets with Obama , don’t swallow-———any of his BS.


16 posted on 03/22/2012 1:37:58 PM PDT by Venturer
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apparently after passing it she still doesn’t know what’s in it.


17 posted on 03/22/2012 1:39:16 PM PDT by cableguymn (Good thing I am a conservative. Otherwise I would have to support Mittens like Republicans do.)
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It’s not liberty if you are forced to do something, like buy health insurance.


18 posted on 03/22/2012 1:40:19 PM PDT by IM2MAD
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I wish I had the opportunity to be on the floor of the house when this revenant known as Pelosi makes these kinds of idiotic statements and just give it a big Biotch Slap to the back of the head with a two by four!


19 posted on 03/22/2012 1:42:01 PM PDT by Red_Devil 232 (VietVet - USMC All Ready On The Right? All Ready On The Left? All Ready On The Firing Line!)
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Our rights were not given to us by Nancy Pelosi nor any government. They were given to us by God. They cannot be granted by man nor taken away by man. Liberals like to twist the Constitution into meaning anything they want it to. They think everything they want for free is a “right”.

And I suppose the right to life doesn’t apply to the unborn in Nancy’s world either. These people do not even make logical sense. Every time I look at that woman I see the Mad Hatter.


20 posted on 03/22/2012 1:44:52 PM PDT by conservativegranny
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