Obama of the future wrote:To hear the Republicans you would have thought the sky was going to fall on us, meteors would strike us from the heavens, earthquakes would kill us all! Well, I woke up this morning and the birds were still chirping like they always do, the sun was shining, the world still revolved around the sun. Everything was fine.

[Audience: laughter]

We have to give the Bill a chance. It's a very moderate Bill. It isn't some extreme measure. Every single Constitutional scholar agrees: the Interstate Commerce clause gives the Federal Government the power to have everyone buy and have Health Insurance because that affects interstate commerce. No one that understands the Constitution refuted that when we passed the most ground breaking legislation since The Great Society.

By the same token and with the same Constitutional authority we have set out to solve the doctor and nurse shortage. Everyone knows the medical profession has become understaffed. The simple fact is we need more people in the medical profession and so, because the profession that a person goes into affects your health insurance and all of our health care and thus Interstate Commerce and certainly affects our well-being as a country, our General Welfare for all of you that know the language of the Constitution, our Bill provides for this growing need of medical professionals by requiring those with the aptitude to become our doctors and nurses.

We need those doctors and nurses if we are to enjoy good health and the promise of the American Dream.

The demagoguery coming from the Right has to end. They've fought this Bill and the Will of the American People; and the People have had enough.

Comrade Whoopie wrote:Yeah, that interstate commerce clause was the cleverest thing FDR did. If you can't wipe out commerce entirely, the next best thing is to regulate it to death. And the best part is that the wording is so ambiguous, we can apply it to damn near anything, even stuff made and used entirely within a given State. Because where the interstate commerce clause ends, the congressional supremacy clause takes up. Federal law trumps State and local law....hehehehe, I love it. I get progressive thrills up and down both my legs.

Margaret wrote:
Every single thing, where you live, what your chosen profession is, what you do with your free time - everything - affects interstate commerce.

If this goes on, the underlying legislative precedent will not end.

[TABLE][TR][TD]

Dear Comrade Margaret,



I fear that your comment in closing
shows doubts in your mind are reposing
that all must confess
for all I know best,
so treatment for you I'm composing.

You're right that the Commerce-Clause view
with which all good Progs are imbued
is one that intends
to fully extend
my power to regulate you.

We know that creating Utopia
requires a complete cornucopiaof rules to prescribe
all facets of lives
so all share an equal Utopia.

However, we know that a few--
like tea-party folks-- will eschew
Progressivist views
that "commerce" includes
quite lit'rally all that they do.

So, therefore, to help you keep sliding
the slippery slope we're providing,
just keep your eyes closed
as downward you go
to rest in the valley provided.

And there, you no longer will be
enticed by horizons you'd see
if you had remained
on peaks above plains,
and therefore, content you will be.


-- Doctor Obama[/TD][/TR][/TABLE]

Mrs Al Czarweary wrote: All things of that contentious Bill of Rights must be legislated away to become replaced with Bill of Lefts.

Margaret wrote:

Obama of the future wrote:
If this goes on, the underlying legislative precedent will not end.

Being Left-Handed

What is going on here? A renaissance? Beautiful clever poetry? New and clever ideas? Thinking? All of you! Get yourselves to Jiffi-Lobo immediately! And follow it up with 2 liters of vodka, each. Leave the thinking for Dear Leader and the really smart ones among us like Comrades Nanski and Alan Greystinker.

Did you get your Jiffi-Lobo yet?

Czar Czar wrote:Spring has sprung
The grass is riz
I wonders where da birdies iz?