In surfing around, these bon mots from Hot Air:
That’s the lowlight from this pitiful spectacle, in which a guy who’s famous for uttering hard truths whether or not people want to hear them endorses a guy who’s famous for telling people whatever they want to hear to win votes.
And as a person who believes that neither Obama or Romney have honored the Founders’ vision of placing Individual Freedom and Liberty as the cornerstone of American Exceptionalism, this disheartens me:
Speaking about Romney’s Massachusetts health-care program, Christie said it was “completely intellectually dishonest” to compare it to Obamacare.
Oh really? The biggest beef that Liberty minded folks have against Obamacare is the individual mandate – even Romney agrees with this, but seemingly only at the Federal level. Time after time, he has said it that Massachusetts’ decision to implement RomneyCare was a States Rights issue – that because the Constitution applies to the Federal govt, the 10th Amendment gave them the right to do what they did.
The major problem is that too many of our politicians rely on the Courts to decide if their actions are Constitutional or not. What they should be doing is adopting an attitude such that well before fingers hit keyboard, the thought should be "Does this new law philosophically honor the spirit and meaning of the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution?"
Sadly, few ever do. And it seems like Chris Christie is bending that philosophy into a pretzel for mere for political advantage.
Sigh…
