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Old 04-02-2012, 02:19 PM
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"What happened to the Eighth Amendment?" sighed, Justice Scalia the other day. That's the bit about cruel and unusual punishment. "You really want us to go through these 2,700 pages"? Or do you expect us to give this function to our law clerks?"

He was making a narrow argument about "severability"__ about whether the court could junk the "individual manadate., but pick up and choose what best of ObamaCare to keep. Yet he was unintentionally making a far more basic point: A 2,700 page law is not a "law" by any civilized understanding of the term. Law rest on the principle of equality before it. When a bill is 2,700 pages, there is no equality : Instead there is a hierarchy of priviledge micro-regulated by an unelected, unaccountable,, unknown and unnumbered bureaucracy. It is not just that legislators who legislate it don't know what's in it , nor that citizens on the receiving end can ever hope to understand it, but that even the most eminent judges acknowledge that is is beyond individual comprehension. A 2,700 page law is, by definition , an affront to self- government.

If the Supreme Court really wished to perform a service, it would declare henceforth no law can be longer than say, 27 pages.... Mark Steyn March 30the Orange County Register.

If that is were not enough consider not only the "Consitutionality" question of ObamaCare but the affect it will have on 17% of our GDP. Further that implementation of ObamaCare will materially affect the way we have been governed for 225 years.

There is ample information on the internet to counter the CBO's latest statistical data but why bother when if you can't understand how the law operates how can you do the math? But I suspect those are numbers being released by the Obama people to frighten citizens; including by the way Health Insurers.

Obama is staying true to his character and nature and has already begun a smear (partisan politic allegation) campaign against members the Supreme Court. That is he and his coharts are making claim that if ObamaCare is overturned it is because of paritsian politics. I mean it can't because its an indefensible law and not favored by the majority.

So my friends indeed watch what you wish for you just might get it.