Phil Hare’s “I don’t worry about the Constitution”
Saturday I posted that I had heard on the radio that Congressman Phil Hare of the 17th District of Illinois was recorded stating he doesn’t worry about the Constitution in regard to the nationalized healthcare legislation. Tonight, a news story about the incident and a link to the video that is on You Tube:
From http://www.foxnews.com/
“Congressman: ‘I Don’t Worry About the Constitution’ on Health Care Overhaul
Confronted by an angry Tea Partier with a camera Thursday, an Illinois congressman said in front of several constituents at a town hall that he doesn’t care whether the new health care law violates the Constitution, as some critics have claimed.
In a video posted on You Tube, Adam Sharp of the St. Louis Tea Party asked Rep. Phil Hare which part of the Constitution authorizes the government to mandate that all Americans buy a private product such as health insurance. The Illinois Democrat replied, ‘I don’t worry about the Constitution on this.’
‘Jackpot, brother,’ Sharp said.
Hare cringed in disgust and said, ‘Oh please. What I care more about, I care more about the people dying every day who don’t have health care.’ (And yet people die every day whether or not they have healthcare or healthcare insurance. No hospital in this nation is legally allowed to deny any person care! Who is he kidding? Himself? And yet he supports the MURDER of unborn babies that happens on a MUCH, MUCH larger scale every day and in fact will increase under this law because it will be paid for with federal government funds!!!—my addition)
‘You care more about that than the U.S. Constitution that you swore to uphold?’ Sharp shouted back.
‘I believe it says we have the right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness,’ Hare countered.
When an observer pointed out that those words come from the Declaration of Independence, Hare said, ‘Doesn’t matter to me. Either one.’
When Sharp pressed Hare to answer where in the Constitution government is granted the authority to mandate the purchase of health insurance, Hare said he didn’t know.
‘But at the end of the day, I want to bring insurance to every person that lives in this country,’ Hare said. (Bring or require? Is he going to pay for it or require others to pay for their own as well as for other people? Why should people who choose to live a healthy life style be forced to support people who have chosen to live an unhealthy lifestyle? Isn’t the government, in fact, penalizing the wise choices of some to subsidize the unwise choices of many? Is that the reverse of what it should be?)
Sharp said the law won’t do that.
The confrontation was the latest example of Democrats going off message in their sales pitch to Americans of the virtues of the controversial health care law.
Sen. Max Baucus, D-Mont., chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, said the health care law would address the ‘maldistribution of income in America.’
‘Too often, much of late, the last couple three years, the maldistribution of income in America is gone up way too much, the wealthy are getting way, way too wealthy and the middle income class is left behind,’ Baucus said after the Senate passed a ‘fix it’ bill to make changes to the health care law.
‘Wages have not kept up with increased income of the highest income in America,’ he said. ‘This legislation will have the effect of addressing that maldistribution of income in America.’”
Watch a three plus minute video of the encounter at:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=k2iiirr5KI8
From http://biggovernment.com/
“Within one week of ObamaCare being crammed through the Congress, we had Rep Jesse Jackson Jr. admitting that programs would need to be cut to pay for it and we had Sen. Max Baucus admit that it was really a wealth re-distribution plan.
Now we have Rep. Phil Hare admitting that when it comes to health care ‘reform,’ he doesn’t ‘worry about the Constitution.’”
The You Tube video may also be accessed from this site. Again:
http://biggovernment.com/
This is the oath that Phil Hare and all members of Congress are required to state:
“I, Phil Hare, do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion; and that I will well faithfully discharge the duties of the office on which I am about to enter. So help me God.”
TAKE BACK THE NATION! GIVE ME LIBERTY, OR GIVE ME DEATH! TAKE BACK THE NATION!
Saturday I posted that I had heard on the radio that Congressman Phil Hare of the 17th District of Illinois was recorded stating he doesn’t worry about the Constitution in regard to the nationalized healthcare legislation. Tonight, a news story about the incident and a link to the video that is on You Tube:
From http://www.foxnews.com/
“Congressman: ‘I Don’t Worry About the Constitution’ on Health Care Overhaul
Confronted by an angry Tea Partier with a camera Thursday, an Illinois congressman said in front of several constituents at a town hall that he doesn’t care whether the new health care law violates the Constitution, as some critics have claimed.
In a video posted on You Tube, Adam Sharp of the St. Louis Tea Party asked Rep. Phil Hare which part of the Constitution authorizes the government to mandate that all Americans buy a private product such as health insurance. The Illinois Democrat replied, ‘I don’t worry about the Constitution on this.’
‘Jackpot, brother,’ Sharp said.
Hare cringed in disgust and said, ‘Oh please. What I care more about, I care more about the people dying every day who don’t have health care.’ (And yet people die every day whether or not they have healthcare or healthcare insurance. No hospital in this nation is legally allowed to deny any person care! Who is he kidding? Himself? And yet he supports the MURDER of unborn babies that happens on a MUCH, MUCH larger scale every day and in fact will increase under this law because it will be paid for with federal government funds!!!—my addition)
‘You care more about that than the U.S. Constitution that you swore to uphold?’ Sharp shouted back.
‘I believe it says we have the right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness,’ Hare countered.
When an observer pointed out that those words come from the Declaration of Independence, Hare said, ‘Doesn’t matter to me. Either one.’
When Sharp pressed Hare to answer where in the Constitution government is granted the authority to mandate the purchase of health insurance, Hare said he didn’t know.
‘But at the end of the day, I want to bring insurance to every person that lives in this country,’ Hare said. (Bring or require? Is he going to pay for it or require others to pay for their own as well as for other people? Why should people who choose to live a healthy life style be forced to support people who have chosen to live an unhealthy lifestyle? Isn’t the government, in fact, penalizing the wise choices of some to subsidize the unwise choices of many? Is that the reverse of what it should be?)
Sharp said the law won’t do that.
The confrontation was the latest example of Democrats going off message in their sales pitch to Americans of the virtues of the controversial health care law.
Sen. Max Baucus, D-Mont., chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, said the health care law would address the ‘maldistribution of income in America.’
‘Too often, much of late, the last couple three years, the maldistribution of income in America is gone up way too much, the wealthy are getting way, way too wealthy and the middle income class is left behind,’ Baucus said after the Senate passed a ‘fix it’ bill to make changes to the health care law.
‘Wages have not kept up with increased income of the highest income in America,’ he said. ‘This legislation will have the effect of addressing that maldistribution of income in America.’”
Watch a three plus minute video of the encounter at:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=k2iiirr5KI8
From http://biggovernment.com/
“Within one week of ObamaCare being crammed through the Congress, we had Rep Jesse Jackson Jr. admitting that programs would need to be cut to pay for it and we had Sen. Max Baucus admit that it was really a wealth re-distribution plan.
Now we have Rep. Phil Hare admitting that when it comes to health care ‘reform,’ he doesn’t ‘worry about the Constitution.’”
The You Tube video may also be accessed from this site. Again:
http://biggovernment.com/
This is the oath that Phil Hare and all members of Congress are required to state:
“I, Phil Hare, do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion; and that I will well faithfully discharge the duties of the office on which I am about to enter. So help me God.”
TAKE BACK THE NATION! GIVE ME LIBERTY, OR GIVE ME DEATH! TAKE BACK THE NATION!
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