Obama set to “Slaughter” Healthcare

03/17/2010 • Uncommon Sense

As reported in this blog on many occasions in the past year the “progressive left” has treated the United States Constitution with both disregard and disdain. The President himself has said, “But the Supreme Court never ventured into the issues of redistribution of wealth and sort of more basic issues of political and economic justice in this society. And to that extent as radical as I think people tried to characterize the Warren court, it wasn’t that radical. It didn’t break free from the essential constraints that were placed by the founding fathers in the Constitution, at least as it’s been interpreted, and Warren court interpreted it in the same way that generally the Constitution is a charter of negative liberties, says what the states can’t do to you, says what the federal government can’t do to you, but it doesn’t say what the federal government or the state government must do on your behalf. And that hasn’t shifted.” In so many words, the President, who is the leader of