Never Before

The New York Times ^ | March 21, 2012, 9:00 pm | LINDA GREENHOUSE

[Jeff Chandler]

The constitutional challenge to the law’s requirement for people to buy health insurance — specifically, the argument that the mandate exceeds Congress’s power under the Commerce Clause — is rhetorically powerful but analytically so weak that it dissolves on close inspection. There’s just no there there.

[Jeff Chandler]

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"Yes! Yes! Oh let me taste your tears, Linda! Mmm your tears are so yummy and sweet! Oh, the tears of unfathomable sadness!"

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[the invisib1e hand]

There’s just no there there.

never before has such a specious collection of syllables been passed of by even the NYTimes as pertaining.

[APatientMan]

LINDA GREENHOUSE: Please, rule me. I only desire freedoms that require no responsibility from me. Bahhh, bahhh, bahh...

[EQAndyBuzz]

I got as far as Linda Greenhouse.

[Panzerlied]

Greenhouse passes gas.

[Popman]

I wasted my time reading this pablum thinking there might be an rational intelligent argument presented.....to justify the court not overturning Obamacare....

I guess I was expecting too much from a libtard...

[jeffc]

This just scares me. There’s too many people in this country now that sincerely believe there is no limit to the government’s power. Too many people think the Constitution is out of date. I think they should just go make their own country and leave us alone.

[End Times Sentinel]

Not just stupid, but ape-like ugly to boot.

[LibLieSlayer]

That is what one looks like when satan sucks their soul from them.

LLS

[E. Pluribus Unum]

If the Commerce Clause was intended to allow the federal government to take over everything, why did the founders go to all the trouble of listing its limited enumerated powers and granting all other power to the states or to the individual?

The answer is that the Commerce Clause was never intended to trump all.

[the invisib1e hand]

[WeatherGuy]

You mean to tell me that Linda Greenhouse is for ObamaCare?? The Linda Greenhouse. Is that what you're saying? Well, I guess that settles it then. Only one question.

Who's Linda Greenhouse?

[Rennes Templar]

Note on the NYT website:

“Beginning in April, visitors to NYTimes.com will have access to 10 free articles per month instead of 20.”

[RagingBull]

Ladies and gentleman, I believe we have found the literary equivalent of pink slime finely textured bovine feces.

If you eliminate the fillers and extenders, the only points seem to be:

1. It's unprecedented, but Congress has previously done unprecedented things, so therefore it's ok. (Everything the first Congress did was unprecedented, no?)
2. Since it's 1/6th the economy, Congress can "basically do whatever it wants in the health care sector" (Is it also ok to jail anybody who criticizes government health care?)

[AAABEST]

[Jeff Chandler]

Could eat a corn cob through a picket fence ugly.

[Retired Greyhound]

I got as far as Linda Greenhouse.

You displayed great courage and patience.

I didn't make it past "New York Times".

[Retired Greyhound]

This just scares me. There’s too many people in this country now that sincerely believe there is no limit to the government’s power. Too many people think the Constitution is out of date. I think they should just go make their own country and leave us alone.

It can't be said any better than that.

[IMR 4350]

She definitely has the left wing stupid look down pat.

[sforkjoe57]

Never before? How about never again. As in never again should a government enjoy a level of police state power that allows rounding up dissidents, loading them in box cars, and hauling them to the gas chambers. Roe vs Wade permits an arbitrary standard for “living human being” so dissidents can be declared “not living” by the police state allowing their imprisonment and execusion without benefit of trial.