Posted by
Steve on Saturday, November 07, 2009 10:40:54 AM
Clarity! That is what the Democrats are planning today in their vote on Obamacare. Those who believe in the Constitution will vote no. Those that do not believe in the Constitution of the United States will vote in favor. It is as simple as that.
The bill they are voting on is unconstitutional on so many levels that I cannot possibly do them justice in a short column. Also, I am not a good enough Constitutional scholar to adequately discuss the various issues involved in each individual clause. All I can go on are the words of the Constitution itself. I believe that the Founding Fathers put those words in exactly that order so that there would be clarity for all time. That we are having problems with the words is a symptom of a greater problem in our culture. We need to get back to look at what the words meant in 1781 and then make provisions for our greater technology. That does not mean change the meaning of the word. It just means that if it talks about freedom of the press, it means the electronic press as well as the print press. That kind of accommodation is perfectly acceptable. It does not change the meaning of the words, just allows that if they wrote it today they would have allowed for our greater technology.
That being said, I do not think that the “Commerce Clause” that the Democrats hang their hat on is something that was intended to be a major force in the Constitution. It is in the preamble to the section it is included in. If they intended it to be one of the main guiding principles, they would have included it in the body of the document, not the preamble. I believe that any law passed that uses the “Commerce Clause” as its basis is not necessarily unconstitutional, but most likely outside of the constitution. That, in effect, nullifies almost all of the Democrat introduced laws since 1932. They grabbed onto the “Commerce Clause” and are trying to run a truck through the hole.
Steny Hoyer is now trying to say that the “Commerce Clause” allows the government to require you to purchase health insurance. That is just nonsense. If the government can require you to purchase health insurance, what else will they require you to purchase. At that point, they can run your entire life. They can make you buy a car, a home and anything else they want. You would be required to purchase it because of the “General Welfare” part of the “Commerce Clause”. If you are still reading you can see how idiotic this position that Steny Hoyer is taking. But, he has to take that position in order to justify the passage of the Obamacare legislation.
The vote today will weed out the wheat from the chaff. The wheat will vote to kill the unconstitutional bill. The chaff will vote to pass the bill. Anyone who votes to pass the bill should be barred from holding public office again until they can pass a class in Constitutional Law taught by a “real” Constitutional lawyer like Hugh Hewitt or Neal Boortz. I am sure that there are plenty of real Constitutional lawyers in this country. We have an artificial Constitutional lawyer in the White House. He has no clue about the Constitution. I am not a Constitutional lawyer and I know more about the Constitution than our current occupant of the White House does.
Watch how your member of the House votes on the Obamacare legislation today. If he/she votes for the bill, never vote for that person again. If that person votes to kill the bill, the legislator is worthy of further votes in the future. You would have to evaluate them on other criteria to determine if they should be retained, but on the Constitution, they get a passing grade.