http://Patricia-Sullivan.com

Based on the situation in her district (FL-8), Patricia has a very good chance of winning. Her opponent, Alan Grayson, will have a difficult time due to the makeup of the district (fairly conservative). He won in 2008 due to presidential coattails, ACORN voter drives, and a weak incumbent with unsavory baggage.

Grayson is an in-your-face liberal who specializes in throwing insults at Republicans whenever he can get the spotlight.

“Direct control of medical practice in the states is obviously beyond the power of Congress.” –Linder v. United States, 1925. http://supreme.justia.com/us/268/5/case.html

Also noteworthy is the fact that the USSC has appropriately established the case precedent that Congress cannot lay taxes in the name of state power issues.

“Congress is not empowered to tax for those purposes which are within the exclusive province of the States.” –Chief Justice Marshall, GIBBONS V. OGDEN, 1824. http://supreme.justia.com/us/22/1/case.html

So not only is Obamacare constitutionally unauthorized, but the corrupt Congress has never had the power to lay taxes in the name of healthcare in the first place.

What a mess! :^(

What’s going on is this. Regardless that Reid and Pelosi wrap themselves in the general welfare and commerce clauses (Article I, Section 8, Clauses 1 and 3 respectively) to promote constitutionally unauthorized federal healthcare, Thomas Jefferson’s writings indicate the following about Reid and Pelosi’s claims. His writings indicate that their PC interpretations of these clauses are perversions of what the Founders had actually intended with respect to the federal government’s limited powers. See for yourself.

“For the power given to Congress by the Constitution does not extend to the internal regulation of the commerce of a State, (that is to say of the commerce between citizen and citizen,) which remain exclusively with its own legislature; but to its external commerce only, that is to say, its commerce with another State, or with foreign nations, or with the Indian tribes.” –Thomas Jefferson, Jefferson’s Opinion on the Constitutionality of a National Bank : 1791. http://avalon.law.yale.edu/18th_century/bank-tj.asp

Note that Jefferson also clearly explained the general welfare clause in the document referenced above, emphasizing the importance of constitutionally express powers in order to limit the powers of the federal government.

Reid and Pelosi’s perversions of the general welfare and commerce clauses actually got started in constitutionally clueless FDR’s administration. More specifically, by 1942, Socialist FDR had managed to nominate eight pro-big federal government, outcome-driven justices to the USSC.

And the goal of FDR’s showcase of state-sovereignty ignoring justices was evidently the following. Their goal seemed to be to simply ignore pro-state sovereignty constitutional statutes like Article V and the 10th Amendment when they interpreted (perverted) the general welfare and commerce clauses in Congress’s favor when deciding pivotal state-sovereignty related cases.

The bottom line is that Reid and Pelosi are unthinkingly carrying the torch of FDR’s perversions of the Founder’s intentions for the general welfare and commerce clauses to try to justify constitutionally unauthorized federal healthcare.

Every vote, everywhere, would be politically relevant and equal in presidential elections.

The bill would take effect only when enacted, in identical form, by states possessing a majority of the electoral votes–that is, enough electoral votes to elect a President (270 of 538). When the bill comes into effect, all the electoral votes from those states would be awarded to the presidential candidate who receives the most popular votes in all 50 states (and DC).

The Constitution gives every state the power to allocate its electoral votes for president, as well as to change state law on how those votes are awarded.

The bill is currently endorsed by over 1,659 state legislators (in 48 states) who have sponsored and/or cast recorded votes in favor of the bill.

The National Popular Vote bill has passed 29 state legislative chambers, in 19 small, medium-small, medium, and large states, including one house in Arkansas, Connecticut, Delaware, Maine, Michigan, Nevada, New Mexico, North Carolina, and Oregon, and both houses in California, Colorado, Hawaii, Illinois, New Jersey, Maryland, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Vermont, and Washington. The bill has been enacted by Hawaii, Illinois, New Jersey, Maryland, and Washington. These five states possess 61 electoral votes — 23% of the 270 necessary to bring the law into effect.

See http://www.NationalPopularVote.com

Every vote would not be equal under the proportional approach. The proportional approach would perpetuate the inequality of votes among states due to each state’s bonus of two electoral votes. It would penalize states, such as Montana, that have only one U.S. Representative even though it has almost three times more population than other small states with one congressman. It would penalize fast-growing states that do not receive any increase in their number of electoral votes until after the next federal census. It would penalize states with high voter turnout (e.g., Utah, Oregon).

Moreover, the fractional proportional allocation approach does not assure election of the winner of the nationwide popular vote. In 2000, for example, it would have resulted in the election of the second-place candidate.

There’s the bill. Go fact check them with the thought in mind of how people can take advantage of it. It indeed says that you can’t deny anyone, and does not specify that the recipients of benefits must be US citizens.

Section 1158 talks about cutting medicare. Hell, it even talks about using the Social Security fund to supplement the healthcare bill by drawing from the same sources.

If you and this kind of web site are the future of America then the Taliban just won. Good Lord, guys. Grow up!

http://phoebeswisdom.wordpress.com/2009/09/10/september-11-2001/

Furthermore, check your facts. Madame Tussauds isn’t owned fully by a Dubai company, it’s majority owner is the Blackstone Group.

Devin Norris – Conservative Grassroots From Down In The Trenches