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Enough is Enough:Start over on Health Care (Obama sidesteps legislative process. Unconstitutional?)
aclj.org ^ | February 2010 | Staff

Posted on 02/21/2010 11:58:33 AM PST by Sun

Congress has intensified its efforts to force flawed, pro-abortion Health Care reform through the system - and now, President Obama, sidestepping the legislative process, says he has his own Health Care bill - a move that raises serious constitutional concerns. The Constitution requires that the legislative branch write our laws, not the President.

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TOPICS: Government; Health/Medicine; Politics
KEYWORDS: constitution; obama; obamacare; prolife
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Obama is writing a legislative bill. How can this be constitutional? There are THREE branches of govt..
1 posted on 02/21/2010 11:58:33 AM PST by Sun
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To: Sun

90% of everything the Federal government does is unconstitutional.


2 posted on 02/21/2010 12:00:49 PM PST by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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To: Sun

Congress would still have to vote on it.


3 posted on 02/21/2010 12:01:08 PM PST by mdmathis6
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Harry Reid is one of the greatest failures in Senate history. Even with a 60 vote majority, he could get nothing done.


4 posted on 02/21/2010 12:01:36 PM PST by HospiceNurse
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To: Sun

The only re-do I would accept is one that ditches the debate about health insurance and focuses entirely on how we are going to increase the number of doctors.


5 posted on 02/21/2010 12:01:42 PM PST by Brilliant
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To: Sun

Obama is set to destroy every avenue, every particle of our constitution and then set in place Sharia LAW because HE IS A MUSLIM! THIS IS HIS GOAL<HIS PURPOSE! Pray hard for America - TRUTH needs to TRIUMPH over EVIL! Don’t sit idly by - fax, e-mail, send calls and notes to every Representative, every Senator and tell them to JUST SAY NO!


6 posted on 02/21/2010 12:02:26 PM PST by princess leah (1)
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This is just a larger version of what is common practice. The Executive branch drafts and submits legislative language all of the time, as do NGO’s and other interested parties. The language has to be introduced by a Member of Congress to become a bill.
7 posted on 02/21/2010 12:03:31 PM PST by Truth29
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“Obama is writing a legislative bill. How can this be constitutional?”

And the SCOTUS will strike it down because it is unconstitutional because it is not presidential authority to do so. They need to fire a shot across Obozo’s bow either privately or publically. I prefer publically.


8 posted on 02/21/2010 12:03:39 PM PST by DarthVader (Liberalism is the politics of EVIL whose time of judgment has come.)
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***SCOTUS will strike it down***

Will the center hold? How soon will he be nominating another SCOTUS justice?

This *summit* might just be a deke. Put it off until a challenge will not be mounted by SCOTUS.

(Paranoia - it’s taking hold;)


9 posted on 02/21/2010 12:07:28 PM PST by sodpoodle (Despair - Man's surrender. Laughter - God's redemption.)
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To: mdmathis6

“Congress would still have to vote on it.”

I realize that.

But how would you feel if Justice Ginsburg wrote a legislative health bill and then Congress voted on it? There are THREE branches of govt..

Jay Sekulow is a great and successful attorney, and he feels Obama is sidestepping the legislative process.


10 posted on 02/21/2010 12:10:09 PM PST by Sun (Pray that God sends us good leaders. Please say a prayer now.)
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“Don’t sit idly by - fax, e-mail, send calls and notes to every Representative, every Senator and tell them to JUST SAY NO!”

Absolutely. The govt.-run health bill seemed dead, but the Dems don’t give up, so we better not, either.


11 posted on 02/21/2010 12:12:20 PM PST by Sun (Pray that God sends us good leaders. Please say a prayer now.)
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I’ll worry more if Obama tries to implement the monstrosity thru executive orders! Many presidents have worked thru various “committes” to craft bills in the past, but all have had to get congress to approve them.


12 posted on 02/21/2010 12:16:49 PM PST by mdmathis6
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Article I, Section 7 - Revenue Bills, Legislative Process, Presidential Veto

“All bills for raising Revenue shall originate in the House of Representatives; but the Senate may propose or concur with Amendments as on other Bills.”

Doesn’t say anything about the President originating revenue bills.


13 posted on 02/21/2010 12:24:34 PM PST by dajeeps
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I wouldnt give twenty cents on a bet on whether or not the Supreme Court will turn down a Health care Bill.

Remember the Chief Justice swore this Kenyan into office.


14 posted on 02/21/2010 12:30:11 PM PST by Venturer
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If democrats do anything unconstitutional, don’t expect to hear from Mitchie the Kid. Wouldn’t be BIPARTISAN!!


15 posted on 02/21/2010 12:35:18 PM PST by Oldpuppymax
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I posted this on another forum:

What bothers me the most in all this, is where is the strong denouncing of these Chicago thugs by Republicans? Is there not a Jesse Helms amongst them?


16 posted on 02/21/2010 12:37:59 PM PST by sasportas
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17 posted on 02/21/2010 12:40:36 PM PST by GloriaJane (Pro-Choice = Pro-Death........ Pro-Life = Pro-LIFE!)
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To: Sun

Impeach!!!


18 posted on 02/21/2010 12:43:05 PM PST by ronnie raygun (Cockblock the sock puppet in 2010)
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To: dajeeps; All

Thanks for pointing that out.

Also, even Reuters, hardly from the right, is calling it legislation:

“The legislation the White House will post on its website”

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2455279/posts


19 posted on 02/21/2010 12:57:44 PM PST by Sun (Pray that God sends us good leaders. Please say a prayer now.)
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It's becoming clearer and clearer that Obama, with his reckless spending, is trying to crash the economy as quickly as possible as a means to justify and "activate" ObamaCare.

Going to the American people to say, “we have to — we're broke,” justifies his going around a “deadlocked” Congress.


20 posted on 02/21/2010 12:57:48 PM PST by BP2 (I think, therefore I'm a conservative)
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