Let’s add a wee bit more to what Kathy Sullivan had to say….

To recap: I had put up the Rush(glad to hear that he’s doing OK in Hawaii – one never wishes ill like a heart attack on someone either from the Right OR Left) interview with the Honorable Dan Itse (NH House of Representative) where the topic was Senators being bought off with taxpayer money to pay for this abomination of a healthcare bill which, in my opinion:

will fail as it will be too much for the Federal Treasury to bear
will fail as it will be too much for the "various States" treasuries to bear
will fail at the Supreme Court for being unconstitutional

Kathy Sullivan, over at BlueHampshire decided to revert to her belittling ways, so I fisked her. That done, we’re not done as there are a couple more things to discuss:

1. Death is not the worst of evils – listening to this discredited nullification nonsense may be, however. There will not be a law in New Hampshire requiring legislative consent to the health insurance reform bill after it is signed into law, because luckily the majority of our representatives believe in our American constitution, unlike Itse.

The "nullification nonsense" of which she speaks resides in the The 10th Amendment, forgotten and ignored for all these years with a pliant Supreme Court, still has words that do mean something:

The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.

While she dismisses these words as easily as she does the TEA Party movement, the fact remains – even I, a mere mortal layman, can see that the Amendment exists. She may be right about the majority of NH Reps and Senators not wishing to vote for the Bills that Dan Itse has filed, seeing as they are Democrats and all. However, as the above cartoon intimates, Democrats are all about trying to sink the Constitution as they apply the mis-guided ideal of a ‘living Constitution" vs staying with the Founders’ Vision even as she talks a good game about defending it.

Since when is quoting the actual words of the Constitution, Kathy, not defending it (or those that wrote it)? You seem to be saying two things at the same time – which is the truth?

Far be it for me to attempt to school Ms. Sullivan in the way of the law. However, I willing to believe that the wisdom of the writers of the Constitution (each of whom I believe, have far more intelligence in their little fingernail than Kathy Sullivan, Ray Buckley, and Jeanne Shaheen combined) have a bit to say upon Kathy’s attempt to discredit this statement of enumerated powers:

"They are not to do anything they please to provide for the general welfare…. [G]iving a distinct and independent power to do any act they please which may be good for the Union, would render all the preceding and subsequent enumerations of power completely useless. It would reduce the whole instrument to a single phrase, that of instituting a Congress with power to do whatever would be for the good of the United States; and as they sole judges of the good or evil, it would be also a power to do whatever evil they please."

– Thomas Jefferson

"If Congress can do whatever in their discretion can be done by money, and will promote the General Welfare, the Government is no longer a limited one, possessing enumerated powers, but an indefinite one…."

– James Madison

"[T]he powers of the federal government are enumerated; it can only operate in certain cases; it has legislative powers on defined and limited objects, beyond which it cannot extend its
jurisdiction."

– James Madison, Speech in the Virginia Ratifying Convention

…[T]he government of the United States is a definite government, confined to specified objects. It is not like the state governments, whose powers are more general. Charity is no part of the legislative duty of the government."

–James Madison

In fact, there are a lot of others with more legal firepower than she…

…that are looking at this clause – lots of States’ Attorney General. No, not our’s; Attorney General Michael A. Delaney is one of the most appointees of Democrat John Lynch andd wouldn’t dare.

So far, there are 13 (at this time) States Attorney Generals that have decided that:

the Cornhusker Kickback mastered by Senator Ben Nelson is illegal in that it penalizes their citizens in that they have to pay for their own and Nebraskan taxes for this healthcare abomination – which it Constitutionally prohibited. Kathy, should we be forever paying their "fair share" forever? What ever happened to Obama’s "shared responsibility" and why doesn’t Senator Nelson want his constituents to pay for it (after all, Jeanne wants us New Hampshirites to pay twice)?
There is a great chance that they would succeed.

They are:

Florida – William McCollum

South Caroline – Henry McMaster

Alabama -Troy King

Colorado -John Suthers

Michigan -Mike Cox

North Dakota – Wayne Stenehjum

Pennsylvania -Tom Corbett

Texas -Greg Abbott

Virginia -Bill Mims

Washington -Rob McKenna

Utah -Mark Shurtleff

Idaho – Lawrence Wasden

South Dakata - Marty Jackley

And yes, Kathy, while they may be all Republicans, they are looking out for their States – AND, getting back to your comment about legal ability, if they didn’t think that they had a chance on this, they certainly would be risking both their political and legal reputations, would they?

We’ll probably swing back for another whack at what she wrote later on….after all, I wouldn’t want Kathy or the other Democrats think that I’m ignoring them – being all collective minded and all….