Mar 08 2010
GOP Using Unconstitutional Bill To Block Health Care Reform
There must be a new Republican hero patriot for each week it seems. Last week it was Jim Bunning and now we’ve got State Senator Jill Holtzman Vogel.
Anything to obstruct health care reform, even if it’s unconstitutional:
Republican state legislator with close ties to the GOP operatives behind a slew of hardball tactics has sponsored and helped pass a bill — almost certainly unconstitutional — that prohibits the federal government from forcing the state’s citizens to buy health insurance.
The Virginia legislature last week passed legislation, based on a model created by the American Legislative Exchange Council, that declares unconstitutional any effort to require citizens to buy health insurance — as the health-care reform measures passed by both chambers of the U.S. Congress would do. In the state Senate, the effort was led by Sen. Jill Vogel.
TPMmuckraker readers may remember Vogel, formerly Jill Hotzman, from her work as a principal of Holtzman Vogel, the Washington GOP election-law firm that recently led a failed bid to undermine state laws against robocalls, on behalf of a shadowy conservative advocacy group.
Now, it appears, Holtzman is back. But the bill she sponsored would appear to itself be unconstitutional, since the Constitution’s federal supremacy clause makes clear that when federal and state law conflict, federal law takes precedence.
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Ano…Bunning was blocking because that money that was being used could have been taken out of the stimulus funds instead of adding to the deficit. I mean…thats what we don’t wanna do…add to the deficit, right? And the stimulus was created to create jobs and get the economy going again, right? Unemployment is still high so start using that stimulus instead of allowing it to gather dust.
And that bill is NOT unconstitutional, lol. Its actually the opposite. It is unconstitutional to force every American citizen to buy health insurance.
To mandate health care is unconstitutional. Read up:
http://www.heritage.org/research/legalissues/lm0049.cfm
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Actually what IS unconstitutional is a mandate requiring people to buy health insurance in the first place. Since the first unconstitutional stone has been cast by the left, no reason the right should not follow suit.
Bottom line, there are better ways to reform health care than what the left is trying to ram through now. How about starting with tort reform. Oh wait that won’t happen because the dirtbag lawyers out there are in line with the Obama ticket.
Anyone who thinks that “Health care reform” is about actual reform, and not lining the pockets of Obaman and his globalist buddies is deluded.
I’m no fan of the right or the left. I am a realist. Just follow the money. These jokers in control of our govt don’t give a hoot about the common folk. It’s ALL ABOUT MONEY and which group of thugs (be they on right or left) end up with the biggest stash!
Reform is just the platform they are using to rile up the masses. Cmon people. seriously.
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I am no constitutional scholar, but it is my understanding that the framers wanted to give more power to individual State’s and limit the role of the Federal government – quite the opposite of what you assert here.
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