The Constitution? How quaint! ~ By Patrice Lewis

From WorldNetDaily

By Patrice Lewis Posted: October 31, 2009 ~ 1:00 am Eastern © 2009 As our freedoms and liberties have been chipped away in the last few years, how many times have you wanted to ask a politician why? Why are you doing this? Why are you destroying our country? How can you justify trashing the Constitution in order to advance your particular agenda? A reporter finally – finally! – asked House Speaker Nancy Pelosi a version of this simple and logical question.

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 mandate that individual Americans buy health insurance was not a "serious question." "You can put this on the record," said Elshami. "That is not a serious question."

Yes, Madam Speaker, it is a serious question. In fact, it is probably the most serious question anyone could ever ask. The reason you're flustered, Nancy dear, is because you know exactly what the answer is … namely, NONE. There is no authority in the Constitution to require people to buy health insurance. CNSNews asked Senate Judiciary Chairman Patrick Leahy a similar question, and Mr. Leahy was similarly flummoxed. Both Pelosi and Leahy finally fell back upon the ol' Commerce Clause (designed to keep states from charging each other tariffs) to justify their agenda. I am frequently brought to task by (presumably liberal) readers who question my quaint theories that the federal government should adhere strictly to the constitutional limitations set by our Founding Fathers. I'll get scolded for my free-market (and therefore cruel and inhumane) stance on unconstitutional policies. For example, how could I be so heartless as to deny government-sponsored health care to poor people? Liberals, apparently, just plain don't agree with the Constitution. ("Liberal" in this case isn't restricted to Democrats; I know a whole lot of Republicans who think similarly.) Do they believe the Constitution is a "living document" whose restrictions can be tweaked or abandoned at whim? Or would they prefer to do away with the Constitution altogether? Who knows? [CLICK HERE TO READ MORE]