Way to go Keystone Progress!

They can use the words progress or progressive as much as they want. We all know that they are L-I-B-E-R-A-L-S.

At least Tom Corbett, is standing up for our Constitutional rights not to have the Federal government impose us to purchase anything. A little thing called the Tenth Amendment.It is just ashame other government elected officials who take an oath to uphold the Peoples rights are not getting involved.You are elected by the people and work for the people. Stop the partisan politics.

M2

Do you realize that the Tenth Amendment is only a part of the constitution? The interstate commerce clause is another part. Read the two together and see if you still think Corbett’s suit has any chance.

The interstate commerce clause is for commerce…not the lack of commerce. If I chose NOT to buy anything, how is that commerce?
Will the FEDS force me to buy a GM car next because they have the power to FORCE me under the Commerce Clause?? Sorry..this not the America I grew up in nor do I want for my children.

The reason, unfortunately, these lawsuits will not work is that the argument has be be made by an individual U.S. citizen filing on constitutional grounds and restraint of trade violations, not a state against federal jurisdiction. Federal govt again unfortunately, overules states rights. A good friend of mine will be filing a lawsuit, soon in just that nature and you should be hearing about it in the national news soon.

Meg

Whether you knew it or not, it IS the America in which you grew up. If it’s not the America that you want for your children, then you can argue with the founding fathers. Personally, I think they did a pretty good job and I challenge you to show me a better system anywhere in the world.

Your analogy is silly for several reasons; but it would at least make some sense if the healthcare insurance legislation required you to buy, for example, Blue Cross insurance (as opposed to the reality that you can choose whichever insurance you want to buy). Btw, have you tried owning a car in PA without having YOUR CHOICE OF auto insurance?

“They can use the word progress or progressives…we all know they are L-I-B-E-R-A-L.”

Yeah. Sooo??? Ain’t nothing wrong with that! “Liberals” got you the New Deal, Social Security, G.I. Bill, Medicare, Civil Rights legislation, minimum wage, and now healthcare reform. C-O-N-S-E-R-V-A-T-I-V-E-S recently got us two wars that weren’t paid for, trillions of dollars of deficit, and robbed the poor and middle class for the sake of the wealthiest 1-2% in this country not paying their fair share in tax cuts that also weren’t paid for. I’ll take our liberals’ record (a record that ALL Americans have benefited from, including you critics of liberals) over your conservatives’ record any damn day. No shame in calling oneself a liberal; conservative, I’m not so sure.

LOL I am an old lady of 82! This is not the America I grew up in!

Socialist will have their way with the country and the debt when the greatest generation in American dies off! (and maybe their kids)

I’ll be praying for you from heaven!
Good luck with the debt!

What was America like when Meg was growing up her first 10 years?

1928-1938- Shortly after her birth, the stock market crashed and began the great Depression, brought about by Herbert Hoover and those wonderful GOP policies they want to go back to. Fun times! What a shame that Obama’s policies prevented a second great Depression for her great grandchildren to enjoy.

Very few blacks in movies or entertainment. Plenty of segregated schools, water fountains, bathrooms and diners. Inter-racial marriage was virtually unheard of and the N-word was common.

All the gay people were in the closet, and their was a chair up against the door to keep then from coming out.

Women could vote, but were still discriminated against in job hiring. The “glass ceiling” was still brick. Women didn’t run for high political office, but they did get to work in sweatshops.

Car didn’t have seat belts. The EPA wasn’t around to test for contaminated drinking water. Children’s pajamas where flammable. Household paint had lead in it. Old people (like Meg is now) didn’t have social security and often died in poverty.

There was no interstate highway system. We were still on the gold-standard. The ignorant people didn’t believe in evolution (well, at least that hasn’t changed).

Ah, yeah… good times!

Corbett is definitely not “standing up for our Constitutional rights”. He’s politically grandstanding and trying to use the courts as his vehicle for judicial activism to stop the Federal government from employing their Constitutionally given powers.

Attn Lee

You are wrong again, a car is a choice, one can walk or ride alternative transportation, license and insurance NOT required. Health insurance bill forces and gives no choice to action, unconstitutional, but needs to be filed by private citizen, not government official.

Have you ever heard of a Poltical Whore, well meet Corbett the biggest Whore of them all. Everything he has done has been for himself and I would rather move than have him as anything as he does not know what he is doing, never did come to think about it,

Brett, the problem there is that by not getting health insurance, your inaction is taking an action that negatively affects the rest of the population when you get sick or injured and can’t afford to pay your medical bills because that cost gets passed onto the rest of us. Short of abandoning society and living off the grid, you are stuck with us.

Social contract, baby.

Oh, and Progressive is a clearer term since Liberalism is a rather broad term identifying a belief in liberty and equality, which I’d hope most Americans would be in favor of. Economic Liberalism is mostly a pillar of the Republican Party whereas Social Liberalism is fairly solidly in the Democratic camp.

Frankly, calling most Republicans “conservatives” is a misnomer as well, since most of them could more accurately be labeled as “reactionaries” since they aren’t interested in the status quo so much as returning to some fabled Golden Age.

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That fat bastard Eddie “New York” Rendell and “The Naked Gun Stunt Double” Tommy Boy Corbett best illustrate that incompetence, stupidity and the Art of Prevarication cross party lines. These imbeciles are defining us as Pennsylvanians and that must stop now!Vote as if your life depends on it, because it does….

Dear Greg K

Read the Constitution, no one if forced to participate in society, even if the others are so called dragged down, This is for better or worse the makeup of a free and constitutional state, whether you like it or not, people do not have to be responsible. AND no individual can constitutionaly be forced to buy from a PRIVATE company…lawsuit coming from that individual, coming soon, stay tuned.

Michael Morrill admits in his comment that he is a conspiracy theorist. He’s crazy. Next thing you know, he’ll be saying the moon shot was faked.