Posted on 01/20/2011 4:35:14 PM PST by mandaladon
Via Philip Klein, I cant decide whether shes 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 GOPs claims that O-Care is unconstitutional. If youre battling over public opinion, why not frame the other sides actions as being as illegitimate as your own? So on the one hand, maybe she doesnt 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 havent 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 thats already close to total paralysis. Or have I misunderstood? If shes suggesting that some lesser process is due than a full Article V amendment, then, er, shouldnt 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 were willing to recognize that right? In that case, whyd 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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Why is this blooming idiot still an elected official?
That picture is priceless!
We will all get to see Sheila before the State of the Union address. She elbows and tromps on her colleagues and anyone who gets in the way of her photo-op with the President as he enters the chamber. It is a big deal for her, for whatever reason.
They had to gerrymander a lot of crazies to elect her.
Right! We need to send her up there to Mars to take care of the flag she believes is there! Her district must be full of idiots like her!
Sheila Jackson Lee - living proof that liberalism is a mental disease.
If she actually believes this, then UVA needs to ask her to return her law degree.
Oh, and her district is only a couple blocks away from me on two sides, and it doesn’t surprise me at all that they’d elect someone as dumb as her.
C'mon now, ya gotta make it fair....
But my money's still on the kid!
This retard is in a safe district that will always re-elect her. So she knows she can say any ol dumbass shyte she wants.
Nah... she was looking for her feed bag.
I live in Houston with that idiot. What a blemish on the city. Thank G*d I don’t live in that district.
Sheila is so stupid she stayed up all night to study for a blood test.
REPEAL OBAMACARE!
Tune: "Marion" ("Rejoice, O Pilgrim Throng")
Repeal Obamacare!
Repeal, reject, undo!
Declare it dead and pull the plug,
Before the bill comes due.
Repeal! Repeal!
Repeal Obamacare!
The bill Obama signed
Would take a year to read,
But Nancy rammed it down our throats,
And so did Harry Reid.
Repeal! Repeal!
Repeal Obamacare!
Now watch our health care costs
Rise high and higher still;
Obama spreads the wealth around
And makes us pay the bill.
Repeal! Repeal!
Repeal Obamacare!
Repeal, and do not fear
Obama's veto pen;
And when he sends back what we pass,
We'll pass it once again.
Repeal! Repeal!
Repeal Obamacare!
Repeal Obamacare!
Repeal, reject, undo!
And come November 2012,
Repeal Obama too!
Repeal! Repeal!
Repeal Obamacare!
DemocRats are like the projections in a 3-level-deep dream, as in Inception. You keep knocking them off, and they keep appearing from nowhere with crazy ideas.
DemocRats are like the projections in a 3-level-deep dream, as in Inception. You keep knocking them off, and they keep appearing from nowhere with crazy ideas.
OK I dislike elitists as much as the next person, but when did we go from them to useful idiots being elected? Seriously, is this woman literate? You cannot read the Constitution and come to that conclusion. We must seriously question the judgment of people who elect baffoons to public office. Maybe they7 need some sort of cognitive test at the very least?
Apologies. I get her and Maxine Waters mixed up all the time. I still think that we'd be better off without California, though.
OK I dislike elitists as much as the next person, but when did we go from them to useful idiots being elected? Seriously, is this woman literate? You cannot read the Constitution and come to that conclusion. We must seriously question the judgment of people who elect baffoons to public office. Maybe the candidates need to take some sort of cognitive test at the very least?
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