[samaritan01]

Judge Vinson’s finding is irony at its sweetest. Vinson found that the rest of the healthcare bill is NOT severable; put simply if one part of the bill is unconstitutional the entire bill is null and void.

Remember Nancy Pelosi saying that we have to pass the bill so that we can find out what is in it?...I never thought I’d find myself agreeing with ‘ol Nancy however she was absolutely correct for once. She failed to read the bill and therefore failed to place a simple, standard severability clause into its text.

It also seems that John Conyers was too lazy to “Read the bill” however Judge Vinson has somehow magically examined the same bill and found a massive screw-up that was missed by the progressives. So much for leftist intellect, by the way didn’t Obama actually teach constitutional law at Harvard. Seems his students need to apply for a refund!

[MacMattico]

I thought I remember reading that in order to get those last few needed votes to get to 60 and move the bill forward, they had to put in the bill that it was not severable because those Senators thought that the mandate would make it pay for itself. If the mandate were severable, those Senators wouldn't vote for it because they thought it would quickly be removed from the bill after passage and then the bill would be unaffordable.

Of course they were morons because the bill was/is still unaffordable, but at least maybe they helped to make the whole thing unconstitutional, even if by accident!