I came accross this line today: "How many thousands of people will die as a result of a few people in robes quibling over a document written two hundred years ago?"
Apparently, the Constitution is holding America back. It is preventing us from saving lives and enacting health upon our fellow citizens. Herein, I suppose, lies our best solution: release America's constitutional government from the bonds of its constitution. We can leave it to our ever pellucid federal lawyers to explain what it means for a constitutional government to exist independently of its constitution. Afterall, they do an excellent job explaining how the same thing can be a tax and not a tax at the same time.
I suggest the following slogan for the Obama 2012 campaign: "Believe in America, Abolish the Constitution." This would be a much more informative and sincere line than the ones we hear about hope and change. What is not for the honest progressive to like?
That quote is very revealing and I think it demonstrates the general contempt that the far left has for the Constitution. What else could Obama have meant when he said during his campaign that he wanted to "fundamentally transform America"?
ReplyDeleteWhen you step back, it's rather amazing that we're even at this point, that a law so egregious as Obamacare has found itself being debated before the highest court in the land. It never should have left the planning committees to begin with, and here we are. The law represents such a grave violation of the most fundamental tenets of the constitution, and yet so many of the allegedly smartest people in America think it's perfectly fine. Remember Pelosi's reply to a reporter's query about the constitutionality of the law: "Are you serious?"
If we adopt Ruth Bader Ginsburg's "living constitution" theory, any circle (law) can be made to fit any square (constitutional provision).
"How many thousands of people will die as a result of a few people in robes quibling over a document written two hundred years ago?"
ReplyDeleteI would have been tempted to say the same thing in 1973.
Let's hope and pray that they make the right decision this time.
On a related note:
ReplyDeleteIn pushing through parts of the New Deal, President Franklin Roosevelt reportedly told one wavering congressman, "I hope you will not permit doubts as to constitutionality, however reasonable, to block the suggested legislation."
http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/294602/yes-we-can-wait-michael-tanner