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Are you serious?

Date: 10/26/2009 11:18:13 AM

Elijah Friedeman, the Millennial Perspective

CNSNews approached Nancy Pelosi on Capitol Hill and asked her where in the Constitution does congress have the authority to force Americans to buy health insurance. Pelosi responded with disbelief.

Here's the exchange from CNSNews.com:

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."

Apparently Speaker Pelosi hadn't considered the fact that a law must be constitutional. If she has considered that thought, she obviously doesn't think it serious. She probably views it as a minor detail to be hashed out by lawyers in some back room.

Newsflash to Pelosi and everyone else in Washington: Americans are serious, dead serious, in fact, about this healthcare bill. If you won't take us seriously, then be prepared to pack your bags come 2010.

Listen to Pelosi's comments, or lack thereof, about the constitutionality of forcing Americans to buy health insurance:

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11/2/2009 10:05:09 AM
Is there some way we can impeach these idiots such as Nancy Pelosi and her cohorts for violating our constitutional rights to defend ourselves?

10/31/2009 8:14:19 PM
Pelosi is clueless about the Constitution, and about the true American Citizens. Someday in the near future she will have to face God and explain why she, Obama and their cronies pushed their evil, greedy choices on everyone, and why she went against her Catholic faith, and against the Bible. By then it will be too late for her to make amends to those she hurt through her socialistic decisions, and especially her amends to Christ. She will reap what she sows!

10/28/2009 12:19:11 PM
I hope we clean out congress in 2010 and get people in there who know something about the Constitution and care about the general public.

10/28/2009 10:22:36 AM
Yesterday, I sat in my doctor's office for my annual checkup. During our normal conversation, I asked him if the healthcare bill would affect his practice of medicine. He made the following comment. "If any the healthcare bills they are debating in congress are passed. I will retive. I currently have about a 2% margin of profit from my practice. The requirements that will be imposed by congress will put my practice at least 10% in the hole. Also, I do not want to prictice medicine if buracrats dictate what I can do and how I can treat my patients. And, most of my colligues feel the same." Just how stupid are Americans to allow the "useful idiots" in Washington to distroy our medical system, just so they can gain power over us?

10/28/2009 5:34:43 AM
IF she thinks we are not serious then wait til I (and many others) don't buy government run insurance and then take them to court for violation of our CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS!!!!

10/28/2009 12:31:23 AM
Yes! We ARE serious! 'We the People' will SHOW you how serious we really are in the next elections! !

10/27/2009 9:34:15 PM
Flush the Washington toilet.

10/27/2009 5:58:52 PM
We hired these people to help our country and it is a part time job to boot. Somewhere along the line the line I think they forgot who they work for.

10/27/2009 5:24:56 PM
Sadly, our Congress has no idea what our Constitution says their role is in governing this country. Even sadder, if the media is to be believed at all, most people under 40 are equally clueless. For those who still love this country (and if there are enough of us to have any influence), our motto should be "Re-elect no one." Neither party has provided a statesman, only self-serving politicians.

10/27/2009 12:39:40 PM
No surprises. Pelosi and many other members of Congress are completely ignorant of the Constitution they swore to protect and defend. They took the oath of office anyway because they are liars! This is the most corrupt and deceitful Congress and administration we have ever seen. It's disgraceful!! We need to boot Pelosi and a host of others to the street in 2010 and again in 2012!! Let them try to get a real job in the economy they have destroyed!! BTW Pelosi would no longer have the U.S. Air Force to serve as her personal travel agents.

10/27/2009 12:04:39 PM
Nancy Pelosi is a threat to this nation and needs to be removed from office in the next election. Trouble is, her constituents actually agree with HER!

10/26/2009 6:19:00 PM
The point of government was and is to protect the individual's rights and individual's property from oppressive rule. Unfortunately, our politicians have forgotten their history and what they should have learned in high school government and now think the point of government is to control everything to protect us from ourselves. Most of what our current government does has no constitutional authority.