Yes, I know: you’re looking at the screen and nodding slowly, as you would towards somebody who has blurted out an ‘insight’ that everyone else in the room had had five minutes ago.
(CNSNews.com) – When asked where specifically the Constitution authorized Congress to mandate that individuals buy health insurance, Sen. Jack Reed (D.-R.I.) said that he “would have to check the specific sections” but said that it was like making people “sign up for the draft.”
And in fact I had already worked said insight out a while ago. But… sometimes you just have to come out and repeat the obvious, dammit.
Via Dan Collins‘ Twitter.
Moe Lane
Crossposted to RedState.
This exactly what I was talking about Monday. I’ve talked to many politicians who write laws, but skirt the question of constitutionality, and push it towards the courts. We should have a safeguard to prevent unconstitutional bills from ever being presented for a vote.
Here’s my take:
http://www.redstate.com/susananne/2009/11/10/congress-and-the-3-rs/
Constitutional illiterates?
Hell, yeah!
THE REVOLUTION WILL BE APP’D
http://naturalfake.wordpress.com/2009/11/11/the-revolution-will-be-appd/