Frowning takes 68 muscles.
Smiling takes 6.
Pulling this trigger takes 2.
I'm lazy.
Posted on 12/14/2010 8:56:51 PM PST by Nachum
Ken Cuccinelli has not been a well-known public figure -- until now.
He's the attorney general of Virginia, who wasn't given much chance of succeeding in his lonely legal challenge to President Obama's beloved healthcare legislation designed to change whatever you believe in on that subject.
But then, oops, Federal District Judge Henry Hudson on Monday agreed with the Virginia AG, declaring a crucial part of the law unconstitutional. Full details here, including the opinion's complete text.
Cuccinelli's victory which, of course, the Democratic administration will appeal, is but one of several legal challenges to the measure wending their way through the nation's arcane legal system. Arguments resume in a similar federal case in Florida on Thursday. Nothing will be finally resolved until the Supreme Court gets it, accepts it, decides it and a lot of lawyers' financial health benefits.
(Excerpt) Read more at latimesblogs.latimes.com ...
Here. Let me put a pin in your balloon. :)
Yes, let us have the Supreme Court interpret that the 2nd Amendment requires lawful people to purchase and own a firearm. Also under the General Welfare clause, a well-armed militia being vital for the defense of the state and the country.
Damn straight, the libs would be bitching up a storm.
Better yet, force people to belong to a religion. We have freedom of religion, you are required to use that freedom, so pick a religion, pick a denomination, and start showing us proof you’re attending regularly and donating.
Man that would be sweet to watch the liberal heads melt right on television.
Aaaah, I’d already be in compliance???
Why should the government force any one to buy anything? Its about freedom and personal choice. I don’t need politicians and bureaucrats making that decision for me. I can make it for myself.
Only if it’s full auto.
That pretty much eas the understanding in this country in the 1790s.
“eas”=was
well, in order to have a well-regulated militia I say go for it.
What if Obama were born a hundred years ago in Illinois and moved to California to be an actor he could have been Ronald Reagan?
In fact early drafts of the Second Amendment DID require everybody to own arms, but had an exception for people who were religiously opposed to it.
And that is a big part of the key thinking at that time. FORCING people to do anything amounts to tyranny, not liberty.
So the phrase was dropped.
If I recall correctly, the Militia Act of 1792 did require the men to whom it was applicable to equip themselves with a firearm and other military equipment. Of course that can be traced back to other clauses in Section 8 of Article I, but arguably not the Commerce Clause.
Andrew’s a bit of a dullard.
I won’t click the slimes, but per the headline...
NO! Just tax those who expect others to defend them.
This would be the Sarah Palin version of Healthcare for America.
It would work.
“lonely legal challenge” ???
If the Florida case goes our way [and it prolly will], it’ll make 21 states ...
“Arcane legal system”.
Now just who is responsible for that?
What if I already have a gun?
What if I want to wait to buy one?
Idiot liberals.
It's a stupidly right thing to do /s
LMAO,. Sometimes you know the dork, then sometimes you are the dork.
No offense, so don't beam me with your dark-matter-eyeballs and disintegrate my finger.
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