When Asked Where the Constitution Authorizes Congress to Order Americans To Buy Health Insurance, Pelosi Says: 'Are You Serious?
http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/55971
When Asked Where the Constitution Authorizes Congress to Order Americans To Buy Health Insurance, Pelosi Says: 'Are You Serious?'
Friday, October 23, 2009
By Matt Cover, Staff Writer
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) (AP Photo/Lauren Victoria Burke)
(CNSNews.com) – When CNSNews.com asked House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) on Thursday where the Constitution authorized Congress to order Americans to buy health insurance--a mandate included in both the House and Senate versions of the health care bill--Pelosi dismissed the question by saying: “Are you serious? Are you serious?”
Pelosi's press secretary later responded to written follow-up questions from CNSNews.com by emailing CNSNews.com a press release on the “Constitutionality of Health Insurance Reform,” that argues that Congress derives the authority to mandate that people purchase health insurance from its constitutional power to regulate interstate commerce.
The exchange with Speaker Pelosi on Thursday occurred as follows:
CNSNews.com: “Madam Speaker, where specifically does the Constitution grant Congress the authority to enact an individual health insurance mandate?”
Pelosi: “Are you serious? Are you serious?”
CNSNews.com: “Yes, yes I am.”
Pelosi then shook her head before taking a question from another reporter. Her press spokesman, Nadeam Elshami, then told CNSNews.com that asking the speaker of the House where the Constitution authorized Congress to mandated that individual Americans buy health insurance as not a "serious question."
“You can put this on the record,” said Elshami. “That is not a serious question. That is not a serious question.”
'Are You Serious?'
That is what you say when you can't answer the question.
I can't even watch this
I can't even watch this idiot... it will make me way too mad...and the Americans who voted for her are just as dumb!
A prudent man foresees the difficulties ahead and prepares for them; the simpleton goes blindly on and suffers the consequences. Proverbs 22:3
A prudent man foresees the difficulties ahead and prepares for them; the simpleton goes blindly on and suffers the consequences. Proverbs 22:3
Matthew 10:34 Think not that I am come to
send peace on earth: I came not to send peace,
but a sword.
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That's right America! One way or the other, you WILL be forced to pay for the insurance companies' bad bets in the derivatives markets.
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Interstate vs Intrastate
“Constitutionality of Health Insurance Reform,” that argues that Congress derives the authority to mandate that people purchase health insurance from its constitutional power to regulate interstate commerce.
I thought health insurance was intrastate?
If that is their interpretation of the "regulate interstate commerce" Pelosi must believe the Federal government's powers are unlimited.
A Republic, If You Can Keep It
A Republic, If You Can Keep It
Is this the swearing thread?
Is this the swearing thread? oops
HAHAHAHA
She's a crack-head.
At this point they might as well come out and just say something like:
"Look guys - the Constitution's a nice historical relic, but it has no real meaning anymore."
- Because you know that's what they believe.
Didn't Bush say that pretty much but with some profanity?
something like, "the Constitution is just a --- -------- piece of paper."
"What was taken from the boomers, it ain't there, what was taken from the X'ers it ain't there, what is being taken from their great, great, great squared grandchildren it ain't there. Some generation just has to have the guts to quit passing it on." Me
*May the only ones to touch your junk, be the ones you want to touch your junk.*
Yes he did
And that would be her point.
The antiwar left used to ask, "Where's the outrage on the right for Bush tearing up the Constitution?"
Blaming Obama for what Bush did isn't earning anyone any respect.
Where was Ron Paul before the election? Eating lunch by himself. I'm not knocking him, It's like, since the election, it's wonderful Ron Paul has awakened the right, unfortunately, these newly awakened, who have not done any work for the past thirty years on antiwar, civil rights, ending the war on drugs, are developing, and that's great, except.. all they got is RP.
If the rEVOLution is not bigger than RP, if it has no room for Ralph Nader, who has been fighting corporatism and the government that grows it for 50 years, it will not grow, because it's going to be too busy reinventing a wheel, MSM can control through the manipulation of human EGO that gets in the way of revolutions.
To beat a duopoly, you have to have your own duopoly. My leaders are Ron Paul on the right, and Ralph Nader on the left. The left in general is as bigoted about Ron Paul as the right is for Ralph Nader.
And when it comes to debating Democrats, the fact I voted for Nader four times, I DID TELL THEM SO, that this was going to happen, that Obama was just another Bush.
WE ARE GOING TO WIN!
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That 'woman' doesn't care about the Constitution
She is evilness impersonated.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2127966/posts
I'm sure she and Rahm Emmanuel have a lot of fun together while destroying the United States from within. There allegiance lies with the State of Israel and ONLY the State of Israel, not the US Constitution.
Reasonable Response
CNSNews.com: “Madam Speaker, where specifically does the Constitution grant Congress the authority to enact an individual health insurance mandate?”
Pelosi: “Are you serious? Are you serious?”
CNSNews.com: “Yes, yes I am.” QUOTE
She and the Congress can do whatever they want unless the Supreme Court stops them by ruling it unconstitutional. That's the real world
Too many people are living in a fantasy world where they think the Constitution means what it actually says. Not so, it means what the Federal Courts say it says.
The Constitution is a dead letter, has been for a long time.
Why do people keep fighting this losing battle? You and I don't get to say what the Constitution means.
I think it is only as dead as you allow it to be...
So let them pass it, and we will see if it holds muster in the court system...
http://blogs.wsj.com/law/2009/06/22/on-the-constitutionality...
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~Mark Twain
Always remember:
"It does not require a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority keen to set brush fires in people's minds." ~ Samuel Adams
Stay IRATE, remain TIRELESS, and set those BRUSH FIRES everywhere you go and in all you do!
despondency
Wasn't the Constitution a casualty of the civil war?
Yes along with the deaths of 650,000 Americans and the
liberties of all the people.
" The force of a correction is equal and opposite to the deception that proceded it"
B. Bonner
"Since 1789 the only government on Earth that has the power to crush the American people`s liberties across the board is the government of the United States"
Robert Higgs
Notice all the repetitions here
Imagine how, in her shock and awe moment, dumbfounded by the chutzpa of this upstart CNSNews reporter, (i.e. a true 1st amendment representative), asking Her,(a public servant under the constraints of an oath to a Higher Power), to give ANY account towards her oath-bound source of ANY authority, (i.e. the Constitution of the United States, that narrowly defines the SCOPE and LIMITS of her power), that she couldn't help but repeat herself, "Are you serious? Are you serious? !!!
Imagine the reporters' amazement at hearing such a lame response from the third person from the executive seat, if God forbid, anything should happen to the first two. “Yes, yes I am”, repeatedly underscores the simplicity of the CNS reporters' obvious answer to Pelosis' evasive rebuttal question.
"Pelosi then shook her head before taking a question from another reporter." "Shook her head?" What is this but a non-verbal repetition by which she declared, " I think that I can get away with not answering that question AT ALL, because I think I'M more powerful than you." ?
Finally, as her spokepersons' repeatedly replys; “'You can put this on the record,' said Elshami. 'That is not a serious question. That is not a serious question.'”
Sorry, Ms. Elshami, but We the People reserve the right to refuse your definition of what's serious, seriously!
For my part, whatever anguish of spirit it may cost, I am willing to know the whole truth; to know the worst and provide for it. - Patrick Henry
Articulate, Precise, & Accurate~
EXCELLENT POST - PromiseKept!
Thanks for your encouraging words
I couldn't help seeing an obvious pattern here.
The only way Pelosi and her ilk can get away with this is when the press gives them a pass.
When such a foundational question is thrown away as unworthy of being answered, and when the rest of the press that witnessed their exchange, said nothing...it is these sorry examples of 1st Amendment record-keeping that deserve contempt, not the CNS news reporter whom she dissed.
The interstate commerce clause is once more rung up the flag pole to see if we will salute it, but it is such a outrageous stretch that only the most corrupt will lend their names to this fascist power-grab.
Thanks, nmlifestyles, for bringing this thread to light. Does nm stand for New Mexico?
For my part, whatever anguish of spirit it may cost, I am willing to know the whole truth; to know the worst and provide for it. - Patrick Henry
Every question after that one
should have been the same question until she was forced to answer.
I always wondered if all
I always wondered if all those who actually vote for idiots like Pelosi actually believe the Interstate Commerce Clause was written to allow this kind of usurpations, or if they're just doing their partisan little thing and cheering her on because she's on "their" side, facing down the evil Bush and Rush.
If Nancy Pelosi could be
If Nancy Pelosi could be dragged through a swimming pool of rusty needles and AIDS blood while being spoon fed dog s**T it would not even begin to approach a measure of justice for what this woman has done and intends to do.
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Truth is treason in an empire of lies.
Wow Doc
I love horror films/books. Ever think of writing the next sequal to SAW. I am envisioning this. Who can we get to play Pelosi.....? Oh I know! Pelosi!
Oops that was supposed to be fake needles, blood, and dog s**t.
And the crazy part is that
And the crazy part is that I'm actually a very compassionate person. I guess that I just have trouble having sympathy for the bride of Satan for some reason. You know, we ARE living in a horror film and the government is the thing in the hocky mask.
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Nashville, TN
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Truth is treason in an empire of lies.
And the mask must stay on until we're all chipped
BTW, you shouldn't feel any sympathy for the psychopathic spawn of Satan, they certainly feel no empathy, guilt or remorse.
Doc
you're so kind ~
I think they are all high in San Francisco -
perhaps that's why they keep electing this disgusting piece of flem.
betty
Who in the hell
keeps electing this woman!!
I can't believe
Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other. — John Adams
that people at the DP still believe that there are fair elections: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K7tjnuG-l6g. The NWO would never have been possible if there were....
There can be only one permanent revolution - a moral one: The regeneration of the inner man. — Tolstoy
"The body is but a vessel for the soul,
A puppet which bends to the soul's tyranny.
And lo, the body is not eternal,
For it must feed on the flesh of others,
Lest it return to the dust whence it came.
Therefore the soul deceives and despises."
Sounds to me more of a case
Sounds to me more of a case of Pelosi not knowing the seemingly simple answer.
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Sycophant
How's the farming going Nancy?
Got bees? Or are they extinct in your area too.
You are part of the enablers of the super preditor blind rhino beast.
Believe it or not Nancy, I believe you are severly detached from nature, and that is the definition of insanity.
As far as I'm concerned, you should retire yourself to plan B.
And never forget, “Humans, despite our artistic pretensions, our sophistication and many accomplishments, owe the fact of our existence to a six-inch layer of topsoil and the fact that it rains.”
Lets let her hear from
Lets let her hear from us.
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For those outside of her district
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For those who can help elect John Dennis
http://www.house.gov/pelosi/contact/contact.html
See my earlier post if you need some inspiration.
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No connection to reality
What does she care?
she's one the the Richest Politicians in the Country..Like KENNEDY rich.
Two vineyards in NAPA .
Zinfandel Lane Vineyard in St. Helena and Skellenger Lane Vineyard in Napa.
So don't buy that crap..You'll end up looking like a California raisin.
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