Why should he?
The idiots that passed the damned thing didn't.
Did you forget Pelosi? "We have to pass it to see whats in it" or is that an inconvenient truth??
Justice Scalia doesn't think he should read the complete 2,700 pages of Obama's health care. Should he read every page before making a decision?
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During the oral arguments over the health-care law, Justice Scalia
got big laugh lines when he expressed horror that anyone would actually
expect them to read the 2,700-page law:
"You really want us to go through these 2,700 pages? And
do you really expect the Court to do that? Or do you expect us to — to
give this function to our law clerks? Is this not totally unrealistic?
That we are going to go through this enormous bill item by item and
decide each one?"
Seriously, this is the biggest case in years (decades?), and he's
horrified that he might actually have to spend a few days reading it?
This is about what the typical law student reads every week. And Justice
Scalia can't be bothered?
Let's remember what's at stake here:
To be clear, the Affordable Care Act is a very long bill,
and it includes far more than just a provision requiring people to buy
insurance. It has expanded insurance coverage for millions of people by
allowing young adults to stay on their parents’ insurance plans until
26, and it prevents insurance companies from denying someone coverage
because of a pre-existing condition. Scalia is brushing off a bill that
could dramatically expand affordable health insurance to the 50 million
Americans who are currently uninsured — that is, so long as the Supreme
Court does not strike down the entire law. (source)
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Farnsworth 2012/04/06 01:16:30
Yup. A second Obama term is as about as bad as it can get.
I have some very bad news for the president though, I just hope he takes it better than Al Gore did, you know. I mean Al's kids are grown, Barak's are not, and the girls kind of need their dad around, and not go off the deep end.
I keep my focus on who steps into the arena, not people who are related, or know them. And children are off limits. Aside from the fact that the girls are just girls, and they are not in public office, it distracts from what their father is doing in the elected office he occupies.
And although they are used, personal attacks are below the belt as far as I am concerned. Unless something is made an issue, then it is out of bounds. Sandra Fluke is a perfect example. Until she testified in front of the thrown together committee for the media, she would have been a private citizen, but she entered the arena on the premise of birth control being unaffordable, and being portrayed as a dirt poor law school student. Once she did that, she became a tool of the Administration, and fair game.
"Do not try to teach a pig how to sing.
It annoys the pig, and it wastes your time."
LMAO
USE your VOICE or LOSE your VOICE so your (children)DAUGHTER'S have a VOICE and FREEDOM of CHOICE!
Was it not the HOUSE (John Boehner)had everyone read the Constitution word for word. The Justice's need to give President Obama the same respect and read the whole 2,700 pages.
If the health care law is overturned, do you not think we will believe if they had read the ENTIRE BILL they may have a different outcome. It's a very IMPORTANT BILL and before it's overturned the Justice's need to realize the NEGATIVE affect it will have on WOMEN,ELDERLY,CHILDREN and the POOR!
If the Mandate is Unconstitutional... WHICH IT IS.....THE WHOLE THING IS TOSSED....see...there's this little thing called a NO SEVERABILITY CLAUSE....that means ...one part Unconstitutional...THE WHOLE THING UNCONSTITUTIONAL......GET It NOW ???
Sorry you are among thE DIMWITS who weren't paying attention when THE SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE at the time..NANCY PELOSI SAID ..." WE HAVE TO PASS IT SO WE CAN CAN...SEE WHAT IS IN IT ..".....THAT WAS OK WITH YOU wasn't it ???
Our turn now......enjoy DEFEAT !
If the Mandate is Unconstitutional... WHICH IT IS.....THE WHOLE THING IS TOSSED....see...there's this little thing called a NO SEVERABILITY CLAUSE....that means ...one part Unconstitutional...THE WHOLE THING UNCONSTITUTIONAL......GET It NOW ???
Sorry you are among thE DIMWITS who weren't paying attention when THE SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE at the time..NANCY PELOSI SAID ..." WE HAVE TO PASS IT SO WE CAN CAN...SEE WHAT IS IN IT ..".....THAT WAS OK WITH YOU wasn't it ???
Our turn now......enjoy DEFEAT !
Any bill too preponderous to read should be scrapped or take out all the excess pork. Something like this they assume will pass gets every hairbrained bit of legislation they want passed but know wouldn't otherwise get there. Should be illegal to pass laws on us that they don't read. This stuff is never going to apply to them so they don't care if it works, just like SS and Medicare. Vote them all out and start over. Demand new rules.
The problem is people are passing bills that are 2,700 pages of law-speak that no one can read so people can put just about anything in them. Why not just make it shorter? Do we really need an 8 million word tax code? Please go look at our tax code and tell me that bureaucracy makes sense.
Why do we want MORE bureaucracy in our life, especially in our healthcare?
Shouldn't take more than a few pages.