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In the video, Hare claims to have read the bill multiple time. He is challenged on that score with a little math. The bill is 2,700 pages long. Calculating a minute per page to read and comprehend, just one reading would take 45 hours. Multiple readings? Puh-leeze.
Hare also could not specify where in the Constitution it gave Congress the right to force people to buy products they don’t want. The Constitution is 6 pages long.
Even the Supreme Court justices who are considering its constitutionality are loathe to actually READ the whole of the so-called Affordable Care Act.
After a lawyer suggested the justices might go through the bill and decide which parts were constitutional, Justice Scalia said, “You really want us to go through these 2,700 pages? And do you really expect the court to do that? What happened to the Eight Amendment?” (The Eight Amendment prohibits cruel and unusual punishment.)
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This “blast from the past” about Hare has me wondering what in the world has happened since November 2010. I felt so empowered and hopeful then. Now???? Romney??? I know that people are still working hard, and still mad and disillusioned, but I’m not seeing the enthusiasm and spirit that was all around in the fall of 2010. Do you think it will come back in time for November? I just don’t know. I’m worried about it.
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I am praying every day. I hope all y’all are as well. This time in our history reminded me so much of what I read in “To Try Men’s Souls” by Newt Gingrich and somebody else.
The Revolution started out like the Tea Party movement, but as time dragged on and things got hard, people dropped off, changed sides, stopped caring, etc.
That’s what Paine was talking about in The Crisis when he talked about sunshine patriots. http://www.ushistory.org/paine/crisis/singlehtml.htm
Parts of that pamphlet remind me very much of Shakespeare’s famous St. Crispin’s Day speech: http://shakespeare.mit.edu/henryv/henryv.4.3.html
When I am tempted to slack off, I remind myself of those men who crossed the Delaware and marched through a blizzard, trailing blood from their bootless feet, because they BELIEVED. We owe them our last full measure and I intend to give it.
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I have no doubts about you, dear Chrissy. You have so much stamina and dedication! I love the St Crispin’s speech! Saw a version of Henry V last summer at an Elizabethan mansion here in Richmond. Wonderful!
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My favorite rendition is from the Danny DeVito movie, The Renaissance Man. Have you seen it? Makes me goosebumpy just thinking about it.
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