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White House Says No 'Veracity' to Argument That Forcing Individuals to Buy Health Insurance Is Unconstitutional

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Posted by Fred 2009-10-30 00:00|| || Front Page|| [1 views ] Top

#1 The Congressional Budget Office has said that the federal government has never before in American history forced Americans to purchase any good or service. To my untutored mind, forced contributions to Social Security and Medicare by payroll deduction amount to the same thing.

Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2009-10-30 00:20|| 2009-10-30 00:20|| Front Page Top

#2 I guess the 9th and 10th amendments mean nothing.

Posted by OldSpook 2009-10-30 01:54|| 2009-10-30 01:54|| Front Page Top

#3 The Constitution does not tell the government what it can do, it tells it what it cannot.

THIS, it cannot.

Posted by newc">newc 2009-10-30 02:59|| 2009-10-30 02:59|| Front Page Top

#4 Amendment XIII

Section 1. Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.

Section 2. Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.

We don't need no stinking Constitution.

Posted by Procopius2k 2009-10-30 08:15|| 2009-10-30 08:15|| Front Page Top

#5 Importantly, there is no constitutional clause forbidding a tax of first born sons, that will be thrown into cauldrons of boiling tar to honor Cthulhu, so that he will turn the oceans to blood, so clearly if congress cannot create that law in conference committee, then Obama can do so by Executive Order, or at least in a Presidential Signing Statement attached to a Health and Human Services appropriations bill.

Posted by Anonymoose 2009-10-30 08:52|| 2009-10-30 08:52|| Front Page Top

#6 One man's veracity is another man's truth.

Posted by AlmostAnonymous5839">AlmostAnonymous5839 2009-10-30 10:28|| 2009-10-30 10:28|| Front Page Top

#7 Let them pass it in a hurry then before Barry has a chance to pack the Supreme Court.

Posted by Abu Uluque 2009-10-30 10:51|| 2009-10-30 10:51|| Front Page Top

#8 So Baghdad Bob Gibbs is now a Constitutional law expert? Can the govmint force you to buy condoms or an abortion or a refrigerator or a hair transplant or boob job. I don't think so. If they try to push this I see trouble on the horizon.

Posted by JohnQC 2009-10-30 10:52|| 2009-10-30 10:52|| Front Page Top

#9 Who actually uses a word like veracity in conversation, when truth will do?

Lawyers and pretentious academics.

Posted by Glavins Gonque7951 2009-10-30 11:35|| 2009-10-30 11:35|| Front Page Top

#10 Sounds like Gibbs is channeling that Damon Wayans character, Oswald Bates.

Posted by Mitch H.">Mitch H. 2009-10-30 13:16|| http://blogfonte.blogspot.com/]">[http://blogfonte.blogspot.com/] 2009-10-30 13:16|| Front Page Top

#11 Or maybe Norman Bates.

Posted by Glenmore 2009-10-30 13:18|| 2009-10-30 13:18|| Front Page Top

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