Posted on 01/20/2011 4:35:14 PM PST by mandaladon
Via Philip Klein, I can’t decide whether she’s serious or whether this is part of the Democrats’ new kitchen-sink approach to “messaging” about ObamaCare. She might be calculating that even an argument as inane as this one is worth making in order to counter the GOP’s claims that O-Care is unconstitutional. If you’re battling over public opinion, why not frame the other side’s actions as being as illegitimate as your own? So on the one hand, maybe she doesn’t really buy this and is simply engaged in a shrewd bit of PR. On the other hand — dude. Thus do nine-month-old legislatively-granted entitlements, some of which haven’t even taken effect yet, become “rights.” If you take this idea seriously, then meaningful reform of Social Security and Medicare (which Lee presumably would describe as property for Due Process purposes) would require constitutional amendments, which in turn would utterly paralyze a process that’s already close to total paralysis. Or have I misunderstood? If she’s suggesting that some lesser process is due than a full Article V amendment, then, er, shouldn’t a repeal bill duly enacted by Congress suffice? Or is the argument here that people with preexisting conditions, say, have always had a right to coverage under the Constitution and only lately have we “progressed” to the point where we’re willing to recognize that right? In that case, why’d they have to pass a bill last year? Patients should have simply sued and let the courts “find” a right to coverage in the “penumbras” of the Commerce Clause or whatever.
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Congress was made for individuals like Sheila Jackson Lee, allowing her to live on an income that she could not hope to make in the private sector; but, unfortunately, her gain is our loss.
I’d bet she doesn’t even know what the Constitution is and what planet it’s on.
Moron worshipers.
And it includes the jail inmates.
Has Sheila found the American flag planted on Mars yet?
I wanted to post earlier, but I couldn’t type because I was laughing so hard.
I don’t know what you’re trying to say, but unfortunately for us Texans, a district in Texas is responsible for sending that creature to Congress...
The same types who elected Conyers who recently tried to justify under the “good and welfare clause”
Damn these people are DUMB
Sheila Jackson Lee: A very ironicly strange name for who she is and what she stands for.
The thread is about a Congresswoman from Texas.
[Who elected this moron??? ]
Other morons.
Residents of Texas, I believe. Probably by way of New Orleans.
I have a modest proposal.
Let's give Sheila Jackson-Lee an IQ test. To make it fair, we should test a high schooler. I pick the school and the student.
Not fair?
If you think so, please explain why not. The idiot has been in Congress for over 15 years, fercryin'outloud!
SJL should be on SNL cause she’s Hellarious!!
That would be her spelling not mine!
I don’t know what you’re trying to say, but unfortunately for us Texans, a district in Texas is responsible for sending that creature to Congress...
Fortunately there is an opportunity this year to redraw that district and we have a somewhat better state legislature this time.
Who elected this moron. you ask? The same people that want a forever handout of POTUS Obama’s “stash”!!! Nothing further need be said. As for Ms. Lee, the engine’s running, but the battery is dead!!!
I’ve always said that the obama voters will go down in history as the dumbest voters in history.
Now the Dems yet again show how dumb they are, they elect these idiots who know nothing , speak utter crap and then they get voted in time after time from idiot voters.
Imagine if these voters were to be asked 5 questions before being allowed to vote?
They would never get any question right and therefore the left would object to it.
Gerrymandered beyond Belief..?
Texans got to do some serious legislation to get rid of democratic fun and games with legislative district shapes, do all the morons can elect someone with a similar IQ.
Yes, I know that SJL has a law degree and was a judge for about a decade.
How that is possible is fodder for another thread.
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