Queen Botoxia had this to say on the 2nd anniversary of Obamacare:
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said Wednesday evening that the 2010 healthcare law, which prompted complaints from conservatives that Democrats far exceeded their constitutional authority, actually helps people meet the goal outlined in the Declaration of Independence, which promotes mankind’s rights to “life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.”
Speaking on the House floor, Pelosi called on her colleagues to remember “what our founders put forth in our founding documents, which is life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. And that is exactly what the Affordable Care Act helps to guarantee.”
Well, Nance, as long as we’re plucking random phrases from the D of I and hotgluing them to Obamacare, here’s a few more choice nuggets from the document you so obviously revere that might be more appropriately attached to this President and his sundry legislations:
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“Life is death! Liberty is oppression! Happiness is misery!”
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* whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it
* a long train of abuses and usurpations
* a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism
* repeated injuries and usurpations
* the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States
* refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good.
* forbidden his Governors to pass Laws of immediate and pressing importance
* utterly neglected to attend
* the sole purpose of fatiguing them into compliance with his measures
* his invasions on the rights of the people
* exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without
* obstructed the Administration of Justice
* sent hither swarms of Officers to harass our people and eat out their substance
* subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution
* abolishing our most valuable Laws and altering fundamentally the Forms of our Governments
* works of death, desolation, and tyranny
* Cruelty & Perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the Head of a civilized nation
* excited domestic insurrections amongst us
* Our repeated Petitions have been answered only by repeated injury
* deaf to the voice of justice
* A Prince, whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people.
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Huh…
I guess Nancy was right about the Declaration of Independence applying, just not which parts.
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