what we have been doing.
I continue to politic. Just called Udall's office to
voice my opposition to indefinite detention. I don't
understand how that can even be an issue. It is so
patently against our Constitution.
The Health Care Reform is causing quite a stir. In
some areas of the country the radical right have
organized such that they disrupt the Town Meetings
being held by their Congress person to answer
questions about the bill in progress. They have
been shouted down in many places.
In Denver a man had his car vandalized to the tune
of about $3000. He had fliers in his car advocating
Universal Single-payer Health Care system. Someone
is really full of hate.
There are so many myths out there and people have
been scared by them. These are orchestrated by
the right-wing of the Republican Party and it is
a real shame. I think the Republican Party is
going to go down the tubes if it continues on
it's current path. I feel sorry for moderate
Republicans. Of course there are the Blue Dog
Democrats that I would just as see move on
to the Republican party. They don't vote with
the Democrats anyway and they make it look as
though the party is not behind health care
reform.
The following are a few of the myths being
bandied about and the facts:
MYTH: Grassroots Protesters are Disrupting Town
Hall Meetings.
FACT: Lobbyist-Run Groups are Orchestrating
Extremist Mobs
MYTH: Government-Encouraged Euthanasia
FACT: The claim is "nonsense."
MYTH: Private Plans are Outlawed
FACT: Private Health insurance not banned
MYTH: 120 Million Americans will be deprived
of health care
FACT: "False"
MYTH: There is a Republican Plan
FACT: Republicans have yet to coalesce around
a single plan
We had book club on Monday at Heather's and discussed
"Olive Kittredge." It is a strange book and she is
an even stranger person. But, it was an interesting
read. Out next book is "Sarah's Key." I'm three
quarters of the way through that. It has two
intertwined plots. One current and one in the 1940s
with the terrible atrocities against the Jews. The
current plot is of a journalist who is writing a
story of the anniversary of the round up of the Jews
in Paris by the Paris police. It is well written and
hard to put down.
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In 1794, Congress appropriated $15,000 for relief of French refugees who fled from insurrection in San Domingo to Baltimore and Philadelphia, James Madison stood on the floor of the House to object, "I cannot undertake to lay my finger on that article of the Constitution which granted a right to Congress of expending, on objects of benevolence, the money of their constituents."
Constitutional limits on federal power are explained by James Madison in Federalist Paper No. 45: "The powers delegated by the proposed Constitution to the federal government are few and defined... be exercised principally on external objects, as war, peace, negotiation, and foreign commerce."
Thomas Jefferson wrote in a letter to Pennsylvania Representative Albert Gallatin, "Congress has not unlimited powers to provide for the general welfare, but only those specifically enumerated. Whensoever the General Federal Government assumes undelegated powers, its acts are unauthoritative, void, and of no force."
In a speech to the Virginia Ratifying Convention, James Madison said, "The powers of the federal government are enumerated; it can only operate in certain cases; it has legislative powers on defined and limited objects, beyond which it cannot extend its jurisdiction".
So why would healthcare even be an issue?
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