CNSNews asked John Conyers, Chairman of the Judiciary Committee, to justify the Constitutionality of an individual mandate to purchase health insurance.
CNSNEWS: “What part of the Constitution do you think gives Congress the authority to mandate individuals to purchase health insurance?”
Rep. Conyers: “Under several clauses. The good and welfare clause, and a couple others.”
Rep. Conyers, who has a law degree, made up this clause. There is obviously no “good and welfare clause.”
Nor can we be comforted that this might just be a slip of the tongue. The General Welfare Clause, to which he may have intended to refer, does not grant any actual powers to Congress. Rather, and contrary to popular understanding, it is a restriction on the powers granted elsewhere, preventing them from being used to advance a specific or special interest.
The disdain for which the left treats the Constitution is a direct result of the fact that it stands in the way, by design, of their deepest desires for power and control.
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The race-mongering never stops. John Conyers avoided my by no means exhaustive list of the most egregious plays of the race card in 2009, but he’ll certainly be in the 2010 edition:
Fox has obtained a letter that Rep. John Conyers (D-MI) wrote to Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton asking that she demote Rajiv Shah, the Director of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID).
It’s rare for a lawmaker to write to a cabinet secretary and demand specific action on a personnel matter.
In the letter, Conyers says that he was “alarmed and chagrined” to learn that Shah did not bring any African American staff to a meeting of the Congressional Black Caucus on Wednesday to discuss Haiti.
…“This is so serious an error in judgment that it warrants his immediate demotion to a subordinate position at AID,” Conyers wrote, noting that there was “under-representation of minorities in key positions at the State Department.”
How post-racial of him.
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Corruption at the highest levels:
House Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers Jr. has backed off his plan to investigate wrongdoing by the liberal activist group ACORN, saying “powers that be” put the kibosh on the idea.
Mr. Conyers, Michigan Democrat, earlier bucked his party leaders by calling for hearings on accusations the Association of Community Organization for Reform Now (ACORN) has committed crimes ranging from voter fraud to a mob-style “protection” racket.
“The powers that be decided against it,” Mr. Conyers told The Washington Times.
Is there any question who the ‘powers that be’ refers to?
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Since the start of the 111th Congress, the news and talk of the blogosphere has understandably focused on the misnamed “stimulus” bill. But members of Congress have been up to no good in more ways than one, and are busily proposing all many of nanny-state legislation . Here are some proposed bills you should know about:
H.R. 414: Camera Phone Predator Alert Act
Proposed by Representative Peter King (R-NY), H.R. 414 has found a problem: “Congress finds that children and adolescents have been exploited by photographs taken in dressing rooms and public places with the use of a camera phone.”
But don’t worry, Congress has also found a solution!
“Beginning 1 year after the date of enactment of this Act, any mobile phone containing a digital camera that is manufactured for sale in the United States shall sound a tone or other sound audible within a reasonable radius of the phone whenever a photograph is taken with the camera in such phone. A mobile phone manufactured after such date shall not be equipped with a means of disabling or silencing such tone or sound.”
It’s a good thing there are no actual cameras that are smaller than cell phones.
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