the story? why did they rush to judgment? and what about the pundits who have been saying for months that the health care mandate was toast? it was an extraordinary, an extraordinarily uncomfortable television moment. ann curry bidding farewell to the today show couch. i love all of our brilliant, brilliant producers. and for all of you who saw me as a groundbreaker, i m sorry i couldn t carry the ball over the finish line. but man, i did try. was the veteran correspondent humiliated by nbc? plus, a magazine article by a woman who quit the obama administration because she couldn t juggle the demands of motherhood strikes a very deep chord. no one says any more this is no job for a woman because, a, that s discrimination. but plenty of people say this is no job for a mother. but have women in the media trumpeted this because they re all part of a privileged elite? i m howard kurtz, and this is reliable sources. let me say at the outset, it is not easy to grab
that someone is listening at that instance or any point in time. back to the supreme court. does congress have the power to force everyone to carry insurance if they opt not to? neal who covers constitutional law and covering politico for years, although i don t think i can say that. josh, you wrote about the florida judge that talks about the, quote, broccoli mandate. that somehow if this is seem constitutional, that it may open up another door. is the droodest attempt ever or is this simply a reminder that congress has had this problem in the first place? that s a big question. he it s similar to whether they should regulate inactivity. if you don t do anything, do you have to comply with what congress has forced you to do?
yew would have to could in order to support the broccoli mandate or whatever but you don t have to do when it comes to individual mandate which is trying to address the $43 billion yearly that are passed on from the uninsured from those of us that do have health insurance. shannon: i want to make sure that we get to the issue that your organization filed a brief on this week which is the issue of severability. if the court would find that the mandate is not legitimate, it is unconstitutional and it falls, can the rest of the law you survive without it. absolutely not. congress in tended to have universal cover and control costs. the individual mandate dose both of those things. if you take it out the law will not and cannot function as congress intended without it. to elizabeth s point this is, once again, the first time in our nation s history congress is telling us to buy a product. that is a very disturbing
us between interstate commerce and the conduct regulated which yew would have to could in order to support the broccoli mandate or whatever but you don t have to do when it comes to individual mandate which is trying to address the $43 billion yearly that are passed on from the uninsured from those of us that do have health insurance. shannon: i want to make sure that we get to the issue that your organization filed a brief on this week which is the issue of severability. if the court would find that the mandate is not legitimate, it is unconstitutional and it falls, can the rest of the law you survive without it. absolutely not. congress in tended to have universal cover and control costs. the individual mandate dose both of those things. if you take it out the law will not and cannot function as congress intended without it. to elizabeth s point this is, once again, the first time in our nation s history congress