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Pelosi: Obamacare Will Be Upheld ‘Because I Know the Constitution’

May. 31, 2012 7:57pm Mytheos Holt

WASHINGTON (AP/The Blaze) — Top congressional Democrat Nancy Pelosi said Thursday she was confident that US President Barack Obama’s health care reform would be upheld by the Supreme Court, saying the law’s constitutionality was “ironclad.”

A decision from the high court is due in June, and legal experts have been scrupulously studying just how the nine justices might rule on one of the most important cases in decades.

“Six-three,” Pelosi, the Democratic leader in the House of Representatives, told reporters, referring to her prediction of how the justices will vote in favor of upholding Obama’s signature legislative achievement.

“I know the Constitution,” she elaborated. “The bill is ironclad. Nobody was frivolous with the Constitution and the health of the American people in writing the bill.”

“That’s where my confidence springs from: the merits of the bill and the nature of the Constitution,” she added. “The makeup of the court? Well, we’ll see.”

Pelosi, a 25-year veteran of Congress, has routinely predicted a 6-3 ruling on the controversial law, which Republicans in the House and Senate hope to see struck down on the grounds that it is unconstitutional.

Pelosi has been dismissive of this question ever since the bill was put in front of Congress. When asked by a CNS Reporter where the Constitution granted Congress the ability to mandate purchase of health insurance back in 2010, Pelosi infamously replied “Are you serious?”

The comprehensive reforms provide greater medical coverage for the poorest, insurance for all Americans regardless of health condition and insurance for 32 million Americans who lack coverage.

But critics are particularly opposed to the law’s linchpin requirement mandating that nearly every American be insured.

They argue that the so-called individual mandate of the law is a violation of the US Constitution’s Commerce Clause, which gives Congress the power to regulate interstate trade.

Republican Mitt Romney, who will square off against Obama in November’s election, has pledged to repeal the law — which he and other Republicans have nicknamed “Obamacare” — should he win the White House.

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ContinentalArmy
Posted on May 31, 2012 at 11:57pm
Pelosi, you damn dumb ass! Not against the Constitution? Anything that is Mandatory is a Direct Violation of the Constitution! Well if it’s held up by the SCOTUS then as far as I’m concerned you Commie ass holes can stick it where the sun don’t shine! Mandatory seatbelts are in Violation! That’s just one example! There are plenty more but too many to list! Screw You and this Admin.!!!!!!

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LetsBeSmartAboutThis
Posted on May 31, 2012 at 11:33pm
Say GOODNIGHT, Nancy.

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southernORcobra
Posted on May 31, 2012 at 11:33pm
now I feel better because last time she made such a prediction the dems got their head handed to them

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zoro51
Posted on May 31, 2012 at 11:20pm
YOU cowzilla NAZI PELOSI the one who said we need to PASS obama care to find out whats IN it.. GIO TO HE$LL BITCH! god damn socialist suck up RECALL THE SOW FIRE NAZI PELOSI

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F_This
Posted on May 31, 2012 at 11:12pm
When you die of old age, hopefully from a long battle with bone cancer, I will personally drive all the way to California and piss on your grave.

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- TyrannyNoMore
  Posted on May 31, 2012 at 11:23pm
  If you are going to drive all that way, you should at least make it worth the trip and drop a big old deuce instead …..I’m just saying……
  
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Attila_the_Hunney
Posted on May 31, 2012 at 10:58pm
There is nothing in the Constitution about providing “free healthcare” to freeloading people. There are, however, directives for dealing with traitors… NANCY.

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Omaof19
Posted on May 31, 2012 at 10:47pm
Which constitution definition, 1,2, or 3??? Me thinks 3.
noun
1a body of fundamental principles or established precedents according to which a state or other organization is acknowledged to be governed: Britain lacks a codified constitution
(the Constitution) the basic written set of principles and precedents of federal government in the US, which came into operation in 1789 and has since been modified by twenty-six amendments.
historical a decree, ordinance, or law.

2 [mass noun] the composition of something: the genetic constitution of a species
the action of forming or establishing something: the constitution of a police authority

3a person’s physical state as regards vitality, health, and strength: pregnancy had weakened her constitution
a person’s character: the individual’s constitution is commonly described as his nature

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WISEPENNY
Posted on May 31, 2012 at 10:46pm
I thought Kagan recused herself. That leaves 8. If it’s a 4-4 tie it’s upheld. It looks like another dog and pony show, only this time in the SCOTUS. I suspect it has been the game plan to intimidate the judges into producing a tie. It’s kind of like Pontius Pilate symbolically washing his hands in public when he relented to the pressure of the Sanhedrin. Same deal here, history repeating itself. Throw the Trojan horse into the mix and you have the biggest crime of betrayel and injustice ever comitted since the crucifixion of Jesus Christ!

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Wolfgang the Gray
Posted on May 31, 2012 at 10:45pm
I wonder how many signatures on a petition it would take for Webster to put Pelosi’s photo in the dictionary next to the word IDIOT? How would she know it is Constitutional anyway since she never read the thing?

If the Supreme Court declares Obamacare Constitutional (including the mandate), then I will have lost the last shred of respect for the government. The left keeps saying they want a revolution. I’m just about ready to say “Bring it on!” We can split the country in two, let the leftist, dependent on big government leaches and lazy all be in one new nation and those that stand for the Constitution, Freedom, and Liberty in the other. Then we can build a wall between the two nations and anyone climbing over that wall will be making the last step of their lives. We can then sell toilet paper with Pelosi’s face on each square. I understand peace and political diversity, but how far are we going to bend over backwards to appease those that have no respect for our Founding Fathers and just want to turn us into Cuba?

“We have to pass the bill so that you can find out what is in it.” – Nancy Pelosi

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- TyrannyNoMore
  Posted on May 31, 2012 at 11:20pm
  When Pinocchio lied, his nose grew.
  
  When Pelosi lies, her eye balls sink further into her Botox riddled skull !
  
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Maxim Crux
Posted on May 31, 2012 at 10:31pm
James Madison, “If congress can apply money indefinitely to the general welfare, and are the sole supreme judges of the general welfare, they may take the care of the religion into their own hands; They may take into their own hands the education of children, establishing in like manner schools throughout the union; they undertake the regulation of all roads, other than post roads. In short everything from the highest object of state legislation, down to the most minute object of policy, would be thrown under the power of congress; for every object I have mentioned would admit the application of money, and might be called, if Congress pleased, provisions fir the general welfare.

James Madison speech at the first United States Congress on the general welfare clause.

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deimos
Posted on May 31, 2012 at 10:27pm
nancy, a closed mouth gathers no feet.

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Bananacaster
Posted on May 31, 2012 at 10:24pm
The only thing Nancy knows for sure is when the vodka runs out!

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marcus_arealius
Posted on May 31, 2012 at 10:09pm
OK, here’s one for thought, What would you get if Joe Biden and Nancy Pelosi had a child?

I just had the dry heaves and now a headache, someone else complete this please…

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marcus_arealius
Posted on May 31, 2012 at 10:06pm
Pelosi is proof that when you get to a certain level of stupid, you’re too stupid to know you’re stupid.

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Carlinpa
Posted on May 31, 2012 at 10:03pm
After hearing this, we can all rest assured the law will be voted Unconstitutional according to the Political Maxim ” Anything a liberal asserts to being the truth or a fact it is without question that the complete opposite is in fact the truth or fact.”

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Stiggs
Posted on May 31, 2012 at 10:02pm
This from the woman who led the charge to pass this healthcare bill so we can find out what’s in it, eh? This from the woman who claimed the Occupy movement as the democratic grassroots response to the TEA party…until they started committing violent crimes, eh?

Every time she opens her mouth and inserts her foot, she reminds me of how pathetic the people are that the WH occupant surrounded himself with…and I smile, broadly, knowing how we will all be reminded of these statements closer to November’s Election Day.

America’s coming home in November!
Obama – OTD 2012 (out-the-door)

But that’s just my opinion…

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random357
Posted on May 31, 2012 at 9:51pm
If pelosi knows the Constitution then I know everything there is to know in the universe.

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OKNative
Posted on May 31, 2012 at 9:41pm
They had to pass it to know what what in it! Then, and only then, whether it was Constitutional!

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snufy
Posted on May 31, 2012 at 9:32pm
Yea, well, Queen Pelosi has no idea of what the U S Constitution is. Just like other liberals, she bends the laws and makes idiotic false statements to suit their own agenda. I have never heard of any of them to say that they were wrong after reading the Constitution.

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ncbob
Posted on May 31, 2012 at 9:30pm
Hey genius, would it be too much trouble to ask you to site the article of the Constitution that authorizes the Federal Government to force a private citizen to buy anything? It is beyond any doubt that every Founding Father fought this kind of tyranny with ever fiber of their being. Therefore, since you have such a brilliant Constitutional mind, we’d all be very interested to know where in the Constitution can be found this little oversight by our Founding Fathers?

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flipper1073
Posted on May 31, 2012 at 9:30pm
Oh, an Nancy I know the Constitution Too.
an there ain’t a Damn thing in it about
Government Run HealthCare.

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ALL4FREEDOM
Posted on May 31, 2012 at 9:26pm
Ah, so she knows the Constitution, does she? According to Mark Twain, it ain’t what we don’t know that hurts us, it’s what we know for sure that just ain’t so.

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pissantno.10
Posted on May 31, 2012 at 9:25pm
need bloomberge here to pass a law nancy has been drinking to much of something

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DEFCON4
Posted on May 31, 2012 at 9:24pm
Dear Nancy, the only thing Ironclad is your Face…………

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flipper1073
Posted on May 31, 2012 at 9:23pm
I think Nancy is right on the numbers
wrong on the direction. 6 to 3 against
Obamacare.
Ginsberg , Kagan , Sotomayor
being the dissenters.
Kennedy an Breyer going with the Conservatives.
Just my Guess from the questions asked.
in oral arguments.

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