Posted by
Steve on Tuesday, December 22, 2009 2:32:00 PM
The longer we get to look at the Democrat healthcare bill, the more we learn about how they plan to subvert the Constitution and the will of the people. Hidden around page 1000 are some provisions to make it nearly impossible to repeal the bill. A vote of 66% will be required to repeal the bill. Also, the bill requires that the board that is established has to be funded every year. That could be called a poison pill inserted into the bill to prevent sanity from being restored.
The Democrats love to say that the bill will reduce the deficit. That is only true because the taxes are implemented on day one. The actual healthcare disaster does not start until January 2013. So, for the next three years, we will be paying high taxes that can be used to pay down the deficit. That will make the Democrats look great. Then, when the healthcare bill actually gets implemented the deficits will skyrocket. If the bill was judged on ten years of taxes and ten years of healthcare, the entire bill would increase the deficit.
The Democrats healthcare bill does nothing that the Democrats say that it will. It will not accomplish anything that the Democrats laid out was a goal for them to accomplish. All the healthcare bill will do is destroy the American system of healthcare and replace it with a third world system of healthcare. For that, we get to pay much higher taxes, longer waits for health care and earlier deaths. That does not sound like a great tradeoff.
The Democrats are in such a rush to get this healthcare bill passed by Christmas. It is not going to take effect for over three years, so what is the rush? The rush is because Barack Obama wants this bill as his primary piece of legislation. Since that is his goal, the Democrats will do anything to make that happen. If the bill should not pass, then Obama would lose his primary legislative goal. After he loses his primary goal, he would essentially be a lame duck for the rest of his term.
The one question the Democrats any anyone in Congress should ask about the bill should be: “Is this bill Constitutional?” Making sure that any legislation meets the constitutional question is the primary job of a Senator and Congressman. You would think that the first question that any Senator or Congressman would ask would be to insure that the bill was Constitutional. But, since almost all Democrats believe in a “living” Constitution, they never ask the question. A “living” Constitution can mean anything at any time to anyone. To boil it down to its basics, a “living” Constitution does not mean anything.
The only Constitutional question is really, what did the original writers of the Constitution mean when they wrote each phrase in the Constitution? The commerce clause has been perverted beyond all meaning through progressive interpretations by Congress. Other parts of the Constitution have been perverted as well through precedents established in the past. Anyone with a 7th grade education can understand what the Constitution says. It does not take a Constitutional lawyer to understand what it says. It takes a Constitutional lawyer to understand all the bends and twists that have been put into the words written by the Founding Fathers. I think that a person selected to the Supreme Court should have no legal training at all. They should be able to read and understand the Constitution as written. If they can do that, they would be qualified to sit on the bench. I know that will never happen, but that would put common sense back into the Constitutionality of the Supreme Court rulings.
The healthcare bill is unconstitutional. There is no question that it is unconstitutional. The only problem is finding someone who will have standing and be willing to fight for the United States all the way to the Supreme Court. The person should be in a judicial district that would be the most likely to rule that the healthcare bill is unconstitutional. That would give us the best shot at defeating this in the courts. It would still be a long shot, but we cannot rest until we give it a try.