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What a group of geniuses we have in the Senate.
1 posted on 11/12/2009 4:59:11 AM PST by markomalley
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Reid is a Traitor as well as an asshat.

Enumerated Powers of Congress: (And the draft IS listed, Health care insurance is NOT)

* To lay and collect taxes, duties, imposts and excises, to pay the debts and provide for the common defense and general welfare of the United States; but all duties, imposts and excises shall be uniform throughout the United States;
* To borrow money on the credit of the United States;
* To regulate commerce with foreign nations, and among the several states, and with the Indian tribes;
* To establish a uniform rule of naturalization, and uniform laws on the subject of bankruptcies throughout the United States;
* To coin money, regulate the value thereof, and of foreign coin, and fix the standard of weights and measures;
* To provide for the punishment of counterfeiting the securities and current coin of the United States;
* To establish post offices and post roads;
* To promote the progress of science and useful arts, by securing for limited times to authors and inventors the exclusive right to their respective writings and discoveries;
* To constitute tribunals inferior to the Supreme Court;
* To define and punish piracies and felonies committed on the high seas, and offenses against the law of nations;
* To declare war, grant letters of marque and reprisal, and make rules concerning captures on land and water;
* To raise and support armies, but no appropriation of money to that use shall be for a longer term than two years;
* To provide and maintain a navy;
* To make rules for the government and regulation of the land and naval forces;
* To provide for calling forth the militia to execute the laws of the union, suppress insurrections and repel invasions;
* To provide for organizing, arming, and disciplining, the militia, and for governing such part of them as may be employed in the service of the United States, reserving to the states respectively, the appointment of the officers, and the authority of training the militia according to the discipline prescribed by Congress;
* To exercise exclusive legislation in all cases whatsoever, over such District (not exceeding ten miles (16 km) square) as may, by cession of particular states, and the acceptance of Congress, become the seat of the government of the United States, and to exercise like authority over all places purchased by the consent of the legislature of the state in which the same shall be, for the erection of forts, magazines, arsenals, dockyards, and other needful buildings.


37 posted on 11/12/2009 7:32:07 AM PST by Danae (No political party should pick candidates. That's the voters job.)
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To: markomalley

They are out of control with phony power.


38 posted on 11/12/2009 7:52:35 AM PST by bmwcyle (When do they collect and jail the homeless when they don't buy their health care?)
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To: markomalley

CNS has been doing a good job asking various members of Congress about the constitutionality of this health care reform bill. The fact is, it isn’t. Forcing people to buy health care of any kind is not in the enumerated powers of the federal government. These elected officials are absolutlely clueless or simply do not care about following our Constitution.


39 posted on 11/12/2009 7:58:27 AM PST by Girlene
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To paraphrase: "You serfs are actually asking questions now?"
40 posted on 11/12/2009 8:00:20 AM PST by Sir Gawain
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Agreed...”Let me see...” Reading past that made me think I was reading something a 4th grader would have written.


48 posted on 11/12/2009 9:14:40 AM PST by gimme1ibertee ("In a time of universal deceit,telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act"-G. Orwell)
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So now I am to equate civic duty with the purchase of a service??!!

Cheez whiz, I'm living in some bizarro world.

50 posted on 11/12/2009 9:41:49 AM PST by MozarkDawg
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