Tagged: The Constitution

August 26, 2011

The Constitution is Old

~by E.C. Gach Since S&P downgraded the U.S., Fareed Zakaria has been reminding people that currently, “no country with a presidential system has a triple-A rating from all three major ratings agencies.” The downgrade...

American Politics / The League

October 21, 2010

Is the insurance mandate constitutional? Of course – health care reform wouldn’t work without it!

Seriously. Even if you’re not sympathetic to questions about the insurance mandate’s constitutionality, this is just a deeply silly argument.

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Jaybird in reply to Saul Degraw on Open Mic for the Week of 4/7/2025There's a thread up on the sidebar about this!
Saul Degraw in reply to Burt Likko on Open Mic for the Week of 4/7/2025Agreed. They could just be trying to kick the can down the road to avoid the Constitutional Crisis they know i…
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