Earlier today, Senators Jim DeMint (R – SC) and John Ensign (R – NV) raised a Constitutional Point of Order against the Democratic health care bill. This will force the Senate to vote tomorrow on the Constitutionality of the proposed health care reform. Sentator DeMint issued this statement:
Forcing every American to purchase a product is absolutely inconsistent with our Constitution and the freedoms our Founding Fathers hoped to protect… This is nothing more than a bailout and takeover of insurance companies. We’re forcing Americans to buy insurance under penalty of law and then Washington bureaucrats will then dictate what these companies can sell to Americans. This is not liberty, it is tyranny of good intentions by elites in Washington who think they can plan our lives better than we can.
It is interesting to see the alarm at this proposed health care reform. While I certainly agree that the bill is heinous in its violation of individual liberties, I am not surprised that something of this sort has come to pass. Though our country has never been perfect in practice, there was at least a time when Americans understood liberty. We seem to have lost that understanding and, as an inevitable result, are seeing our freedom threatened like never before.
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