An honest democrat!

[el Gusano]

Now, when are the rest going to admit this?

[mikeydokey]

So glad we don't have honest demonicrats like that in Tennessee, that guy hasn't read the healthcare bill, hell, he's never even read the Constitution.

[printemps]

The individual mandate is not a new, radical proposal – it has been around and has enjoyed significant bipartisan support in the past. The Business Roundtable, an association of chief executives of America's largest companies, supported it in the summer of 2008. Mitt Romney defended it as "a personal responsibility principle" as he and Massachusetts' newest GOP senator, Scott Brown, backed it in 2006. Later, the Heritage Foundation held it up as a model.

The question of whether the government can force you to buy a specific good or service has never been addressed by the Supreme Court. Anything is possible with this one.

The fact low income persons are exempt from the requirement, and lower middle income persons will receive subsidies if they have to purchase insurance in the non-group market puts it in a category the justices may say is indistinguishable from FICA and OASDI.

Once you endow citizens with certain inalienable rights, you set in motion a process that's hard to stop. And to cherry pick is not what courts prefer to do.

[LimitedRecourse]

Wow...not as bad as the Georgia Representative who thinks Guam will capsize if we put too many people on one end, but pretty close.

[daworm]

Once you endow citizens with certain inalienable rightsstart handing out freebies, you set in motion a process that's hard to stop.

There, fixed that for you.