The New York Times
By KEVIN SACK
December 28, 2010
The legal challenge to the Obama health care act has invigorated a dispute as old as the Constitution about the framers’ most nettlesome grant of power, which gives Congress treacherously broad authority to pass laws “necessary and proper” to carrying out its assigned responsibilities.
The cases, which are presumed to be headed to the Supreme Court, center on whether Congress’s power to regulate interstate commerce is so expansive that it can require citizens to buy health insurance. But as the litigation advances, the “necessary and proper” clause is taking on greater prominence in briefs and oral arguments, with the Obama administration asserting that it shelters the insurance mandate and state officials arguing that it buries it.
Because the facts are novel — the courts have never addressed whether Americans can be penalized for not buying something — each side has managed to glean what it wants from the Supreme Court’s most recent guidance.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/29/health/policy/29legal.html?_r=1&hp
The neocons have established a new, lower performance level for America’s politicians. If one cannot perform up to an established level, then the possibility exists that one can bring the performance level down to where one can perform. And America’s ombudsmen(voters) may well “sign off” on such a transition.
Having a group of politicians, who have shown little or no talent for the successful management of domestic or foreign policy put their “mark” on America’s Constitution is the ultimate stupidity of America’s ombudsmen(voters). But the Constitution does appear to be the goal of America’s neocons. And finally they may get help from the CURRENT VERSION OF AMERICA’S SUPREME COURT.
Ex-President George W. Bush, who America’s ombudsmen may now have taking a liking to, was quoted as giving this description to America’s Constitution: “It’s just a goddamned piece of paper”.
Can anyone imagine giving the THREE STOOGES the task of tampering with America’s Constitution?
A fool and his country may have already parted.
[FactCheck.org gave comments on “ Bush on the Constitution” which made “FactCheck.org” appear to be “OpinionCheck.org”]
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