Congress’s Constitutional Contempt Should Worry Us

The Bulletin ^ | November 17, 2009 | Walter Williams

[IbJensen]

At Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s Oct. 29th press conference, a CNS News reporter asked, “Madam Speaker, where specifically does the Constitution grant Congress the authority to enact an individual health insurance mandate?”

Speaker Pelosi responded, “Are you serious? Are you serious?” The reporter said, “Yes, yes, I am.” Not responding further, Ms. Pelosi shook her head and took a question from another reporter.

Later on, Ms. Pelosi’s press spokesman Nadeam Elshami told CNSNews.com about its question regarding constitutional authority mandating that individual Americans buy health insurance. “You can put this on the record. That is not a serious question. That is not a serious question.”

Suppose Congress was debating a mandate outlawing tea-party-type protests and other large gatherings criticizing Congress. A news reporter asks Ms. Pelosi where specifically does the Constitution grant Congress the authority to outlaw peaceable assembly. How would you feel if she answered, “Are you serious? Are you serious?” and ignored the question. And what if, later on, someone from her office sent you a press release, as was sent to CNS News, saying that Congress has “broad power to regulate activities that have an effect on interstate commerce,” pointing out that demonstrations cause traffic jams, and therefore, interferes with interstate commerce?

Speaker Pelosi’s constitutional contempt, perhaps ignorance, is representative of the majority of members of both the House and the Senate. Their comfort in that ignorance and constitutional contempt, and how readily they articulate it, should be worrisome for every single American.

It’s not a matter of whether you are for or against Congress’ health care proposals. It’s not a matter of whether you’re liberal or conservative, black or white, male or female, Democrat or Republican or member of any other group. It’s a matter of whether we are going to remain a relatively free people or permit the insidious encroachment on our liberties to continue.

Where in the U.S. Constitution does it authorize Congress to force Americans to buy health insurance? If Congress gets away with forcing us to buy health insurance, then down the line, what else will they force us to buy; or do you naively think they will stop with health insurance? We shouldn’t think that the cure to Congress’ unconstitutional heavy-handedness will end if we only elect Republicans. Republicans have demonstrated nearly as much constitutional contempt as have Democrats. The major difference is the significant escalation of that contempt under today’s Democratically controlled Congress and White House with the massive increase in spending, their proposed legislation and the appointment of tyrannical czars to control our lives. It’s a safe bet that if and when Republicans take over the Congress and White House, they will not give up the massive increase in control over our lives won by the Democrats.

In each new session of Congress since 1995, John Shadegg, R., Ariz., has introduced the Enumerated Powers Act, a measure “To require Congress to specify the source of authority under the United States Constitution for the enactment of laws, and for other purposes.” The highest number of co-sponsors it has ever had in the House of Representatives is 54 and it has never had co-sponsors in the Senate until this year, when 22 senators signed up. The fact that less than 15 percent of the Congress supports such a measure demonstrates the kind of contempt our elected representatives have for the rules of the game — our Constitution.

If you asked the questions: Which way is our nation heading, tiny steps at a time? Are we headed toward more liberty, or are we headed toward greater government control over our lives? I think the answer is unambiguously the latter — more government control over our lives.

Are there any signs on the horizon that the direction is going to change? If we don’t see any, we should not be surprised. After all, mankind’s standard fare throughout his history, and in most places today, is arbitrary control and abuse by government.

[IbJensen]

The government that is currently ruining our lives and our economy forever is contemptuous of Americans asking questions. They are so contemptuous of those questioners that they never answer the question as to do so would be to reveal them as to what exactly they are and what exactly they are doing to this once great nation.

There are very few things that are going to stop them. They already own the ballot boxes and the voters both living and dead. What they do need is a taste of their own medicine. They will have to be bodily thrown from the buildings of Congress into the Potomac River.

[MissDairyGoodnessVT]

that woman Pelousy makes my blood boil - she’s totally infuriating ......

[ronnie raygun]

She should be the first to be put on trial for crimes against the Constitution and the American people.

[gorilla_warrior]

Illegitimate political system = illegitimate government. Our one-party system will not solve the problems we face. The answer is for Free Americans to find a way to peacefully separate from the liberal fascists who control American institutions: government,the financial system, major corporations, academia, the press - far out of proportion to their numbers or popular support. Our founding documents allow - rather, they compel us to do so. Non-violent revolution, separation, and return of power to the people are the mechanisms of hope and change - not our illegitimate political system.

[cripplecreek]

The reporter should have asked Pelousey is she thought she should be tried for treason.

[muawiyah]

First thing when we gain control of the Congress is we pass a special tax that RUINS the Pelosis and strips them, their children, and their grandchildren of any wealth they might have now or in the future.

Now I know that this sort of thing is "prohibited" by the Constitution, but there's no doubt that Nancy's own justification of this piece of legislation will be sufficient to ward off all concerns.

[Man50D]

Article 1 Section 8 does not specifically nor expressly grant Congress the power to regulate health care. This is the only salient point regarding health care. People need to drive this point home with their politicians!

[mkjessup]

Nazi Pelosi and her fellow fascists are the epitome NOT of what is commonly called the 'culture of corruption' (although they are certainly corrupt), but in fact are the 'culture of Communism' for that is exactly what she and her counterparts in the Senate, and the Mugabe-wannabe in the White House are establishing in our former Republic.

Whatever checks and balances existed are virtually gone. The Supreme Court of the United States is effectively in 0bama's pocket. We will find no help there.

Only our military forces who still place their highest loyalty to our Constitution, in addition to millions of Americans who are armed to the teeth, have a chance to stop these megalomaniacs from reaching their Soviet-style goals.

[DontTreadOnMe2009]

“You can put this on the record. That is not a serious question. That is not a serious question.”

If it’s not a serous question why don’t you just answer it?

Kinda like the birth certificate huh???

[jwparkerjr]

Their contempt for the Constitution is exceeded only by their contempt for the citizen and taxpayer.

[MajorThomas]

There is no distinctly American criminal class - except Congress.

Mark Twain

I could not have said it better...

[Shady]

She is an arrogant snob who does not even belong in a garden club, let alone the Congress of the US.

[Texas Fossil]

Yes, and held accountable for falsely certifying Obozo as qualified to serve in the office of President.

She is the only person in the U.S. who certified him qualified. And she knows full well that he is not.

What a mess.

[djf]

They didn’t read the health care bill, why the hell should they read the Constitution?

Their utter contempt for the American people disgusts me.

Plus, they don’t seem to be spending too much time paying attention to previous Supreme Court decisions!

“Obviously, direct control of medical practice in the states is beyond the power of the federal government.”
Linder vs United States, 285 US 5, 1925
http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/cgi-bin/getcase.pl?court=US&vol=268&invol=5

[cripplecreek]

They definitely need to be taken down a few dozen notches.

[Sefton]

I keep recalling the scene from the original Frankenstein movie, the towns people, in mass, storming up the road with pitch-forks and torches. If enough people get mad as hell at those bastards in the Capital...

[snowsislander]

Well said, Dr. Williams.

[MajorThomas]

That she can act so brazenly certainly scares me as it should scare the daylights out of everyone. I cannot help but wonder if she truly believes she is above the law and that she can even begin to think that she can fool people into thinking she is acting without any nefarious motives e.g. simply lust for more power. When does a little girl turn into a monster. The questions is not what do we do to fix this, but, when do we act to fix this.

[Cboldt]

-- Linder vs United States, 285 US 5 (1925) --

I would count on the Supreme Court to be intellectually dishonest in its read of the constitution and precedent.

Justice McReynolds also found the 1934 GCA unconstitutional if it was applied to guns used for the common defense or by an organized militia, but in 2009, Scalia asserted that the Miller decision stood for the opposite of what it actually says.

The Linder case is about unregulated sale of morphine - I'm thinking that a later case has reversed, otherwise the entire "federal schedule" for opiates would be invalidated.

As for "forced insurance," see SS and Medicare, Ponzi schemes kept afloat by confiscatory federal taxes.

[Mikey]

What is so new about this? Congress has been ignoring the Constitution for the United States (except when it suits them) for well over 144 years.

Lincoln calls (unconstitutionally) up 75,000 militia to fight his unconstitutional un-civil war.

Zip ahead a few years and we have Wilson approving the unconstitutional 16th and 13th Amendments.

A few more years and we have FDR instituting his (raw) “new deal” thus ending our constitutional representative republic and giving us the beginnings a socialistic legislative democracy.

Every single president since the infamous FDR has called us a democracy. From that we have been given a few unconstitutional agencies, such as;

1). Boards, Commissions, and Committees,

2). Accounting and Auditing Policy Committee (AAPC) Administrative Committee of the Federal Register,

3). Advisory Council on Historic Preservation,

4). American Battle Monuments Commission,

5). Appalachian Regional Commission,

6). Architectural and Transportation Barriers Compliance Board (Access Board),

7). Arctic Research Commission,

8). Arthritis and Musculoskeletal Interagency Coordinating Committee,

9). Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship and Excellence in education Foundation,

10). Broadcasting Board of Governors,

11). Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board,

12). Chief Financial Officers Council,

13). Chief Information Officers Council,

14). Citizens Stamp Advisory Committee,

15). Commission of Fine Arts,

16). Committee for Purchase from People Who Are Blind or Severely Disabled,

17). Committee for the Implementation of Textile Agreements Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States Coordinating Council on Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention,

18). Delaware River Basin Commission,

19). Department of education,

20). Endangered Species Committee,

21). Export Administration Review Board,

22). Federal Accounting Standards Advisory Board (FASAB),

23). Federal Executive Board,

24). Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council,

25). Federal Financing Bank,

26). Federal Interagency Committee for the Management of Noxious and Exotic Weed,

27). Federal Interagency Committee on Education,

28). Federal Laboratory Consortium for Technology Transfer Federal Library and Information Center Committee,

29). Harry S. Truman Scholarship Foundation,

30). Illinois and Michigan Canal National Heritage Corridor Commission,

31). Indian Arts and Crafts Board,

32). Information Security Oversight Office,

33). J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board,

34). James Madison Memorial Fellowship Foundation,

35). Japan-United States Friendship Commission,

36). Joint Board for the Enrollment of Actuaries,

37). Marine Mammal Commission,

38). Medicare Payment Advisory Commission,

39). Migratory Bird Conservation Commission,

40). Mississippi River Commission,

41). Morris K. Udall Scholarship and Excellence in National Environmental Policy Foundationv

42). National Bipartisan Commission on the Future of Medicare National Commission on Libraries and Information ,

43). Science National Council on Disability,

44). National Indian Gaming Commission,

45). National Invasive Species Council,

46). National Park Foundation,

47). Northwest Power and Conservation Planning Council,

48). Panama Canal Commission,

49). Presidents Council on Integrity and Efficiency,

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491). Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement,
492). Bureau of Land Management (BLM),
493). National Applied Resource Sciences Center,
494). National Human Resource Management Center (NHRMC),
495). National Information Resource Management Center,
496). National Interagency Fire Center,
497). National Training Center,
498). National Wild Horse and Burro Program,
499). Minerals Management Service,
500). Environmental Studies Program Information System,
501). Offshore Minerals Management Program (OMM),
502). Assistant Secretary Water and Science,
503). U.S. Geological Survey (USGS),
504). Bureau of Reclamation,
505). Acquisition and Assistance Management Services,
506). Human Resources Center,
507). Management Service Office,
508). Office of Program and Policy Services,
509). Technical Service Center,
510). Great Plains Region,
511). Lower Colorado Region,
512). Mid-Pacific Region,
513). Pacific Northwest Region,
514). Upper Colorado Region,
515). Office of Policy Management and Budget,
516). National Business Center (NBC),
517). Office of Acquisition and Property Management,
518). Office of Aircraft Services,
519). Office of Budget,
520). Office of Educational Partnerships,
521). Office of Equal Opportunity,
522). Office of Ethics,
523). Office of Financial Management,
524). Office of Personnel Policy,
525). Office of the Secretary,
526). Office of Inspector General,
527). Office of Legislative and Congressional Affairs,
528). Office of the Solicitor,
529). Office of the Special Trustee for American Indians,
530). Office of Policy, Management and Budget,
531). Office of Environmental Policy and Compliance,
532). Office of Hearings and Appeals,
533). Office of Information Resources Management,
534). Office of International Affairs,
535). Office of Planning and Performance Management,
536). Office of Small and Disadvantaged Business Utilization.

Whether republican (with the exception of Ronald Reagan) or democrat, both continue to call us a democracy. Both continue the talk about smaller government, yet it keeps growing by leaps and bounds. Both keep talking about lower taxes but, they as with government keep growing.

This crap with Pelosi is not new. The only real difference is she is so brazen and / or so ignorant of the constitution that she actually believes the government has the duty to care for us peons from cradle to grave.

Again the only way to return to a constitutional representative republic is to stop voting republicrat and vote

Constitution Party