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Pelosi: Like A Democrat Deer Caught in Hamilton’s Headlights

October 23rd, 2009

HIGH-BEAMS AND LOW COMEDY

Nanny Pelosi decided she wanted in on some of that sweet, sweet “Answering a Question With a Question”-goodness:

CNSNews.com: “Madam Speaker, where specifically does the Constitution grant Congress the authority to enact an individual health insurance mandate?”

Pelosi: “Are you serious? Are you serious?”

CNSNews.com: “Yes, yes I am.”

Pelosi then shook her head before taking a question from another reporter. Her press spokesman, Nadeam Elshami, then told CNSNews.com that asking the speaker of the House where the Constitution authorized Congress to mandated that individual Americans buy health insurance as not a “serious question.”

“You can put this on the record,” said Elshami. “That is not a serious question. That is not a serious question.”

Why does everybody in Pelosi’s office repeat themselves? Why does everybody in Pelosi’s office repeat themselves?

Pelosi’s press secretary later responded to written follow-up questions from CNSNews.com by emailing CNSNews.com a press release on the “Constitutionality of Health Insurance Reform: The Constitutionality of Health Insurance Reform”

It’s not a serious question–but you assigned lawyers to research and prepare a booklet on the subject subject?

Pelosi says it’s in the Interstate Commerce-clause. Steny Hoyer says it’s in the “general Welfare”-clause of the Preamble.

Then what does “secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity” mean for Planned Parenthood, Steny?

Every law ever written was aimed at someone’s idea of “the general Welfare”. Justice Taney thought he was promoting the general welfare when he returned Dred Scot to his owner.

It’s not their fault, really. They’ve never been asked to submit to the Constitution before and it’s a new and frightening concept for them.

I’m even beginning to think that yelling at Obama for failing to protect America is like yelling at a six-year old for failing to make a dentist appointment, open a 401k and install vinyl siding on the house.

Baby steps, people, baby steps.

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  1. Brett
    October 24th, 2009 at 09:56 | #1
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    Here's a serious question: where in the Constitution is universal suffrage mandated?
  2. Noel
    October 24th, 2009 at 14:23 | #2
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    First it establishes elections:

    The House of Representatives shall be composed of Members chosen every second Year by the People of the several States

    The Times, Places and Manner of holding Elections for Senators and Representatives, shall be prescribed in each State by the Legislature thereof

    Each House shall be the Judge of the Elections, Returns and Qualifications of its own Members,

    14th Amd:

    No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.

    15th:

    The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude--

    19:

    The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex.

    24:

    The right of citizens of the United States to vote in any primary or other election for President or Vice President, for electors for President or Vice President, or for Senator or Representative in Congress, shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or any State by reason of failure to pay poll tax or other tax.

    26:

    The right of citizens of the United States, who are eighteen years of age or older, to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of age.

    But we don't have universal suffrage. The insane, children, felons, foreigners are just a few excluded. And I say no one from beyond this solar system.

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