The HC Reform Debate We Should Be Having

Watching the circus that was the announcement of the "historic" Pelosi Health Care Reform Bill yesterday, I kept thinking about one thing:

All those people standing up there trumpeting the latest power grab by the Federal Government and not one of them could point to where Congress gets the authority to even write the bill, let alone pass it.

That's right, not ONE person there could do that because the plain and simple truth is that the authority doesn't exist in the Constitution. I've looked.  It's not in there.  Furthermore, I've read specific quotations from the Constitution's primary author, James Madison, and from his good friend, Thomas Jefferson, and you'd be hard-pressed to find where either of them even remotely hinted at the Federal Government having this kind of power over individuals.  You'd find quote after quote, essay after essay arguing how the Federal Government couldn't do something like take over the Health Care system, but nothing supporting the idea.  Not a word.

It is at this point in a conversation with a Progressive / Statist that we'd get into all the Judicial precedent, etc. where SCOTUS or lower courts ruled that the Federal Government was within its bounds under the Welfare or Commerce clauses to do this or that.  But you know what? That's their trick.  They think you're too dumb to know that those rulings were made by stacked or intimidated courts.  They fall back on the "well, we're already doing it" defense as if that makes it right.  It doesn't. Our founding document has been hijacked.

The debate we should be having is simple: Is Congress even authorized to do this?  And we, as conservatives, need to make the case over and over that they do not have this authority and pull the debate back to where it belongs.  This is about the expansion of government.  It is not about providing Health Care for all (since this bill STILL doesn't cover everyone).