or not, it s not a crack pot point, it s a commonplace point that a lot of people are making, but to compare the president s behavior that to that to that of dick cheney or sarah palin is apples and oranges, they re private citizens. he s the president of the united states. tucker, i m not all i m saying is dick cheney set a tone and most republicans have followed it by relentlessly attacking the president. bipartisanship requires both sides reaching out hands and in the middle. he didn t touch the policy point. he took it immediately to the personal, she doesn t know what she s talking about. next? that s arrogant and arrogant and dumb. he s going to continue to engage on the policy merits but from a political staint megyn: it s interesting you point out you think it was it was a conscious decision, because president obama, he knows how to dodge if he doesn t want to specifically respond to hey peara pale sarah palin said x, how do you respond, they know how to handl
powers referred to as police powers. james madison the powers under the government under the constitutions are few and fine night. the powers of states government are numerous and infinite. the fact that the state governments can do that whatever policy merits has nothing to do with federal government. people mention driving example. no constitutional right to drive. the state imposes this on you as a precondition if you want to drive, yeah. only if you use public roads. if you have your own ranch and want to drive there you don t need a driver s license and you don t need insurance. has there ever been a case of the federal forcing individuals to say you must buy this product? can you recall that? never in the 200 years of our republic. this underscores how indeed revolutionary, unprecedented this is. the problem here again, we are
very persuasive when it comes to legislation like this. but each and every one of us has to look to history, look to our constituents and make the best decision we can about reforming insurance as we know it and getting some start on cost control in american health care. congressman, when you said that the president and the leadership can be very persuasive, the speaker can be persuasive, what have they done or said to you to try to persuade you? for me, it s really on the policy merits. whether we get our arms around costs. whether folks who want to keep their current insurance, get the opportunity to keep that insurance. whether real basics like banning the use of preexisting condition, banning the practice of recission where you pay for decades, potentially decades, for your health insurance. and then when you get sick, they pull it. you know, those are very important policy merits. and those are the basics of the
the country, on people that weren t prone to go out and yell about anything, was that there must be something wrong with the healthcare reform bill. whenever i hear about it, people are screaming. it is divisive, makes people hate each other. makes me have a bad feeling, even if i don t know why. how about we talk about the policy merits of the debeirut. the screams probably served to weaken support for healthcare reform. it went on for a long time, became divisive and loud. same idea in wisconsin. republicans are the ones dragging it out. you don t necessarily have to sympathize with the protesters. if people are protesting against something for a long period of time, making a big ruckus about it, then that thing is likely to become less popular. holding out as long as you can strategy by the republicans is not working. this is a new gallup poll that