The constitution is not a vessel for personal mandate...Good Evening!

Hey there!  Hope everyone is having a good evening.

Hey, don't be alarmed, but somehow Michele Bachmann is still running for president.

No, really. Catch your breath and stop laughing. This is starting to get real. The only saving grace is that IF ,and that's a font "largest" IF, she wins the republican nomination the whole of our great nation will get to watch extreme-ism on display. She has to be a worst case scenario for the right, but what do I know...I'm just representative of a majority of the 20-30 somethings with a bit more on my mind that squabbling over a woman's right to her own body...

Which brings me to the subject of my evening inner discussion. Why do conservatives always have to play personal mandate with the constitution. Hell, why do any politicians?!

Straight from the CNN ticker - http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2011/09/05/bachmann-why-is-there-a-department-of-education/?hpt=hp_t1

Mrs. Bachmann - in front of tea party bigwigs - declared that her intentions for the department of education, possibly the only branch of government worth funding, are to sack it whole. Quoting...
"Because the Constitution does not specifically enumerate nor does it give to the federal government the role and duty to superintend over education that historically has been held by the parents and by local communities and by state governments,"
Which, I can get down with. I don't believe taxpayer money should support school districts outside of their locality. In fact I would love to see all of my income tax and property tax go straight to local education. It is not a burden the federal government should have to take on. If a community does not want to take care of its children, then it is the responsibility of the parents of those children to find a better locality. I digress...

She also makes the same points in reference to "obamacare" Again a quote
"see that the current government is acting outside the bounds of the Constitution. Probably the most obvious would be this, Obamacare and the individual mandate that is unconstitutional and is currently contained in Obamacare,"
"And when I'm working with the Congress of the United States, my guiding principle will be that the government works best when it acts within the limitations of the Constitution," she said. "The current president of the United States has failed to demonstrate an understanding."

Ok, haha.

Problem #1
The republicans control the house of representatives, they are part of this mystical government last time I checked. The individual mandate is unconstitutional, again I point I can agree on, but this leads me to..

Problem #2
However, as most tea party newbies seem to forget, not always does the government work best when working within the bounds of the constitution. A for instance, Mrs. Bachmann you would not be allowed to vote if it had worked within its bounds.  Mrs. Bachmann you also want to work within the bounds of the constitution until,
...When asked if she would try and overturn Roe v. Wade, which gives women the right to an abortion, Bachmann said she would put forth a human life amendment and do everything in her power to restrict abortions....

Problem #3
She is willing to amend the constitution to suit her own agenda. Oh how the founders would be proud...
Ma'am, you make me sick...goodnight

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