Posted on 08/04/2014 3:46:34 PM PDT by jazusamo
Pathetic McD video at link.
(CNSNews.com)- Speaking at an event hosted by the Physicians for a National Health Program - Western Washington last month, Rep. Jim McDermott (D-Wash.) said the Affordable Care Act was "in the 'trying everything else' phase," and compared those who supported it to the Normandy invasion during Operation Overlord.
"Winston Churchill once said you can count on Americans doing the right thing, but only after they’ve tried everything else, and we are presently in the 'trying everything else' phase," McDermott said, speaking at the PNHPWW annual meeting entitled, "Health Care is a Human Right: Making it Real in Washington State."
"And I think you should understand that those of us who backed the ACA was the best that we could get. We got ourselves on the beach at Normandy, and we've been fighting the Huns who have been trying to drive us back into the sea ever since," he continued.
McDermott also criticized House Republicans for their attempts to repeal Obamacare, saying, "They do not want this entitlement for all Americans, this right for all Americans to become a reality," he said.
An advocate for a single-payer healthcare system, McDermott is also the author of H.R. 1200, the American Health Security Act of 2013, which calls for a single-payer system and recognizes health care as a right.
The logic is illogical.
McDermott should be in prison.
McDermott is the guy who leaked to the ny times an illegally taped private phone call between Boehner and gingrich. I believe he had to pay a 6 figure fine.
That the Bush Administration capitulated remains my biggest foreign policy gripe I have with them.
He absolutely should.
It wouldn’t surprise me if he was, he marches to a different drummer and it’s not American.
“We got ourselves on the beach at Normandy, and we’ve been fighting the Huns who have been trying to drive us back into the sea ever since,” he continued.”
Ok, I’ll play your game, Mr. McDermott. I guess I’m a “Hun”. Well, in this scenario, the Huns have moved the divisions from the Pas de Calais to Normandy prior to the invasion.
You’re not getting off of the beach.
McDermott, I’m of German descent, and I am offended by your use of the word “Hun”.
It’s OK for you to use that word, but if I say “Jap”, or “Gook”, or something similar, you would say I’m a racist.
It’s your hypocrisy that offends me, not the word itself.
I don’t know if you’re a racist, though it wouldn’t surprise me, but there’s no question that you are an a*****e.
OK. Didn’t the huns help bring down the Roman Empire? and Rush is ensconced in the “Attila the Hun” chair..
“Health Care is a Human Right: Making it Real in Washington State.”
Human beings need water and food far more often than they need health care.......why aren’t water and food free?
Bump & Bump
McDermott might have something there. Answer me this: Who FUNDS the prestigious Attila the Hun Chair at the EIB University?
As mentioned in related threads, with the exception of the federal entities indicated in the Constituiton's Clause 17 of Section 8 of Article I as an example, entites under the exclusive legislative control of Congress, the states have never delegated to the feds, expressly via the Constitution, the specific power to regulate, tax and spend for intrastate public healthcare purposes. This is evidenced by the following excerpt from a Supreme Court case opinion.
”State inspection laws, health laws, and laws for regulating the internal commerce of a State, and those which respect turnpike roads, ferries, &c. are not within the power granted to Congress [emphases added].” —Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.
“Congress is not empowered to tax for those purposes which are within the exclusive province of the States.” —Justice John Marshall, Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.
And for those federal Democrats and RINOs who argue that if the Constitution doesn’t say that they can’t do something then they can do it, the Supreme Court has address that foolish idea too. Powers not expressly delegated to the feds, expressly via the Constitution, are prohibited to the feds.
”From the accepted doctrine that the United States is a government of delegated powers, it follows that those not expressly granted, or reasonably to be implied from such as are conferred, are reserved to the states, or to the people. To forestall any suggestion to the contrary, the Tenth Amendment was adopted. The same proposition, otherwise stated, is that powers not granted are prohibited [emphasis added].” —United States v. Butler, 1936.
So what Rep. McDermott needs to do if he wants citizens to have federal government healthcare coverage is the following. McDermott needs to rally Congress to propose a healthcare amendment to the Constitution to the states for ratification. And if the states choose to ratify McDermott's amendment then Congress will have the constitutional authority that it needs to regulate, tax and spend for public intrastate healthcare purposes and Rep. McDermott will be a hero.
We had health care here in WA state before the abomination of 0care, it’s really screwing up the system in my view.
Being driven back by the Huns?
I WISH we were that effective!!!
“You’re not getting off of the beach.”
And he’s sure as hell not getting up the Pointe du Hoc bluffs, either.
Yep...boehner chased him thru the courts for years and finally won.
McDermott used to be quoted all the time in the media before this happened. You hardly hear from him anymore.
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