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Obama's constitutional malpractice: Health care plan would make the Founders sick
The Washington Times ^ | March 24, 2010 | Editorial

Posted on 03/24/2010 7:13:58 PM PDT by Abakumov

The states fighting Obamacare in court are concerned with more than just health care. At stake are two fundamental views of the nature of the Constitution. In one, government power is limited. It enables and supports human liberty, serves as a referee to keep the game fair and punishes criminals who break the law. In the other view, government is a coercive mechanism that aims at perfecting a social vision in which personal freedom takes a back seat to the utopian plan where the ends justify the means.

The lawsuits arising from the government health care takeover will help to clarify these issues. They will force the government to justify its actions in terms that will be acceptable not only to the courts, but also by the people. Whether or not the states prevail, it is doubtful that the Obama administration and the Democrats in Congress will be able to satisfy the public that their rights and liberties, not to mention health and pocketbooks, have to be sacrificed in pursuit of this particular vision of paradise.

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


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Government
KEYWORDS: bhosocialist; commerceclause; obamacare; tyranny

1 posted on 03/24/2010 7:13:58 PM PDT by Abakumov
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To: Abakumov

American patriots are rolling in their graves including my father who fought in World War II and in the Korean War. God help us all.


2 posted on 03/24/2010 7:15:51 PM PDT by ExTexasRedhead (Clean the RAT/RINO Sewer in 2010 and 2012)
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To: ExTexasRedhead

Mine did too. Probably better he passed on before seeing the country in such peril.


3 posted on 03/24/2010 7:17:47 PM PDT by Abakumov
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To: Abakumov
Bummer scrod over America then crowed at the dazed, sodomized country that this is what change looks like.

(image courtesy salamander)

4 posted on 03/24/2010 7:18:06 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (I am in America but not of America (per bible: am in the world but not of it))
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To: Abakumov

Anyone who’s studied Constitutional Law knows which option the document was founded Liberals like Obama live a lie by selectively using parts of this great document to further their unconstitutional programs. They know what it means and what its intent is. So they either distort it or ignore it, which just goes to show how truly evil they are. It’s a great document and the Founders were great visionaries. Anyone with a brain would appreciate this. Clearly Obama and his minions are lacking one.


5 posted on 03/24/2010 7:19:48 PM PDT by A_Former_Democrat
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Oh they have brains, inhabited by very small, evil souls. Evil destroys things even at the peril of destroying itself.


6 posted on 03/24/2010 7:24:43 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (I am in America but not of America (per bible: am in the world but not of it))
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To: Abakumov

This is the best analysis of this issue that I have seen so far. After reading this article I am even more convinced that these lawsuits can not lose, provided the current Supreme Court remains as it is.


7 posted on 03/24/2010 7:50:39 PM PDT by Sarah-bot (The bloom is off the fart blossum)
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To: ExTexasRedhead
American patriots are rolling in their graves including my father who fought in World War II and in the Korean War.

Ironically, most of the flags the lefties are burning were made in Korea!!

How sick and sad is that?

Our national ensign, with thirteen stripes to identify the original colonies...

the white to represent the purity of the idea...

and the red to display the blood we would spill to achieve it...

joined with 50 stars rampant on a field of blue to show our unity.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Obama just pissed on all of that!!

8 posted on 03/24/2010 7:54:40 PM PDT by Nitro
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And the sobs who voted for the bastard shit on it also.

I hate them worse than I do obama. obama I just dislike. The traitoris [sp?] paristic sobs that voted for obama I purely despise.


9 posted on 03/24/2010 7:58:56 PM PDT by sport
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And the sobs who voted for the bastard shit on it also.

Look Sport, I love your passion...

but go easy with the hate stuff...

hate the ideas, not the people so much...

that will just get you side-tracked and maybe into trouble.

Remember, the country we are trying to save actually accepts those ideas...

I guess we just never expected any Americans to really fall for it.

You see, the ones who elected Obama and are waiting for a free ride, will be the first to go down in flames!!

When he is done destroying the country there will be nothing left for anyone!!

10 posted on 03/24/2010 8:21:13 PM PDT by Nitro
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We wouldn’t have half our problems if congress had to go through the same security clearance as our military does.
Most of these people would not be able to get on the ballot.


11 posted on 03/24/2010 9:35:07 PM PDT by Lera (Government does not solve problems; it subsidizes them. - Ronald Reagan)
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