Friday, June 24, 2011

Time, Your Time is Up

Time Magazine: Constitution Doesn't Limit Government, ObamaCare Constitutional

Regular readers of Time magazine this week found in their mailbox yet another pile of leftist tripe in the vein of "the Constitution is a living document." This week's cover article by managing editor Richard Stengel is a freak show of anti-Constitutional babble including an assertion that the Constitution was not intended to limit government: "If the Constitution was intended to limit the federal government, it sure doesn’t say so...The truth is, the Constitution massively strengthened the central government of the U.S. for the simple reason that it established one where none had existed before."  Read more:


Newman and Redford

This comment to Stengel's "One Document, Under Siege"  is a starting point, but the left by now is so far off the US reservation that it's wasted effort to try.  I see a shoot-out with the Federales in this script.

Dencal26
Stengel needs to read the 10th Amendment " The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people."    Healthcare is not an enumerated power thus making Obamacare unconstitutional.  Romneycare ( which I dislike) is state run and consistent with the 10th Amendment

6 comments:

pdwalker said...

The real trick is to keep making the bold face lies, while continuing the simple trick of not teaching students what the founders did. Enstupidiate them some more and voila! "Living Breathing Document" where all those rights can be found.

Chuck Martel said...

Richard Stengel is a prime example of how a little knowledge can a dangerous thing.

Mile 66 said...

I love quoting a fellow Virginian that may have some fist hand knowledge about what exactly is limited by the Constitution.
"The Constitution is not an instrument for the government to restrain the people, it is an instrument for the people to restrain the government - lest it come to dominate our lives and interests." --Patrick Henry
I rest my case.

Jess said...

One shining thing is the abysmal subscription rate of Time magazine. When you add the illiteracy rate of Democrats, the article is presented to a vacuum.

tanstaafl said...

"If the Constitution was intended to limit the federal government, it sure doesn’t say so..."

Has this moron read the Federalist Papers ? With the corrupt European monarchies as their examples, framers bent over backwards to limit the scope and potential for growth.

"The course of history shows that as a government grows, liberty decreases." – Thomas Jefferson

Here Jefferson presages Barack Obama..."When all government, in little as in great things, shall be drawn to Washington as the Center of all power, it will render powerless the checks provided of one government on another and will become as venal and oppressive as the government from which we separated."

Jim - PRS said...

Which is a stellar example of why I canceled my subscription to "Time" a few years ago and why wouldn't wipe my heiney with that worthless rag.

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