NY Democrat Rep. Kathy Hochul Admits at Raucous Town Hall: “Basically, We’re Not Looking to the Constitution” when it Comes to ObamaCare Mandates – Raw Video 2/24/12

The Founders never expected the United States to be a global superpower, Brian, and were living in a pre-industrial age. I would suggest to you that the Louisiana Purchase, the Mexican War, the steam engine, and Sam Colt’s perfection of the assembly line [you could throw the transistor into that list, since microchips are bunches of tiny transistors] have done more to create a world that horrifies me than anything couched in the subjunctive, even if I agreed with the case so made.

Anyway, it depends on which Founder you mean. Jefferson believed in limited government, but didn’t mind exceeding his Constitutional authority to buy Lousiana from Napoleon by spending money without Congressional authorization [Napoleon, by the way, didn't really own it]. Washington warned against foreign entanglements, but didn’t object when Adams enlarged the Navy to fight the Barbary Pirates; and the Navy, since it allows us to project power anywhere, has probably done more to make us an international power than anything else, aside from our enormous resources.

And I would argue that becoming an international power, which led to today’s national security apparatus, has done more to endanger indivdual liberty in the country than any document, however wise and prescient.

It”s much like Lincoln said: ” I claim not to have controlled events, but confess plainly that events have controlled me.” 

It was me he asked the bible-contraception question.  It’s an irrelevant question to this discussion because the Catholic religion indicates it is immoral so forcing Catholics to provide is against the First Amendment.  As far as saying the Bible has no proscription against abortion, that is preposterous unless you either ignore the commandment “you shall not kill” or you ignore science which indicates the person inside the womb is in-fact a human-being and never came out an elephant.  

Ah – you have those verses down so well -  great work Brian!

I agree. Thanks for sharing your views.

Great to have you stop by, Knc. Hope you come back often!

She is just one of so many democrat sleezes who want a communist/socialist country. Our fore fathers would turn in their graves if they could hear this crap.

Well Hochul finally responsed to the media after this being headline news for 1 week!  She said she misspoke and should have said under Article 1, Congress makes the laws.  Um, a few problems.  She didn’t mention which section of Article 1.  The HSS Mandate was a creation fo the Executive branch, not Legislative.  And the rest of the Constitution explains what the Federal Government and Congress can and cannot do (i.e. you cannot make a law saying that the President has no authority).   Good grief – what kind of leaders do we have that give there people kindergarten concepts around how the country is supposed to work?

This has been going on too long, it’s a good start but our law enforcement has a long way to go.

When someone hides behind religion to do or say something that is wrong we should stand up and point it out (right the wrong).

When I was a kid I lived in Utah, and the Boy Scouts was taken over
by Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (FLDS
Church). This, so called religion, practices underage polygamy, they
send the boy s off on missions to divide the underage sisters among the
dirty old men of the clan. Now when these underage girls get pregnant,
these same dirty old men, send them to the state to get their welfare
checks. You should see some of the palace homes that are paid with
welfare checks. By the way this is the newest religion that was created
right here in United States of America.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9iisl-xH3Xs