Yes, Madame Speaker, We are serious

No one's life, liberty, or property is safe while the legislature is in session. -- Mark Twain

To me it looked like a gang war. Groups of individuals lining up one one side or the other of some ill defined crucial territory; and inflicting violence on whoever gets in the crossfire. Unfortunately, there are 308,214,746 of us in the crossfire. Like the Crips and the Bloods, these gang members do not respect any of us or our property. Their's is a turf war where diktat politics is the goal, and our wealth is the ammunition.

The law stands against just about every action of the Crips and the Bloods, who have, incidentally, staked out turf in Washington DC. Apparently, more gangs have found a home there. What Congress is doing now is almost certainly unconstitutional. That is, against the fundamental law of the land. Still, it continues. The cops seem powerless.

Try telling a Blood that setting fire to a car is illegal. He'll probably ask "are you serious?".

So, when Nancy Pelosi was asked what the constitutionality of mandated health care was, she responded the same way.

My thought is that, yes, it's a very serious question, and one that really needs to be answered. No self respecting Crip is going to care what the law says about holding up liquor stores, but we should expect more from our elected representatives.

Hot Air has a good analysis of it here, and asks the question: "How difficult is it to cite the clause that enables Congress to impose a mandate on its citizens to spend money on anything but a tax?" Then explains how difficult it would be.

Sometime, very soon, the electorate is going to get serious on crime -- starting with the beltway..