The Liberal's Endless Quest for Power

Among the arguments, albeit flimsy ones, made by those who favor a massive and unprecedented govern-ment reform (read that “takeover”) of our nation’s health care system is that the preamble to the Constitution and its “commerce clause” empower the government to do so.

Our Founders, being the wise realists they were, knew that they, or any other humans, were incapable of creating a perfect union. So in the preamble to the Constitution they said their goal in establishing it was to form a “more perfect” one, one that among other things would “promote the general welfare.” Italics added.

To most of us the word “promote” means to encourage and nurture; the word “general” means overall and nonspecific.

With those clear-cut and straightforward definitions in mind, could anyone but a power grabbing liberal suppose that the preamble authorizes our government to start its own insurance company?

Okay, so much for the preamble argument. Now, let’s turn our attention to the Constitution’s commerce clause. This is what it says: “The Congress shall have the Power…To regulate Commerce with foreign Nations, and among the several States, and with the Indian Tribes.”

Now, I know liberals are weird. They go well out of their way each day to demonstrate that, but can’t they see any difference between regulating commerce and engaging in it? And can’t they see any conflict of interest in the regulators competing directly with the privately owned commercial enterprises they are authorized to regulate?

I am not a Constitutional scholar. I’m just an old guy who lives out in the middle of Nevada. But I think it’s quite clear that what our Founders were saying in the preamble and the commerce clause falls far short of what Barack Obama, Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi and their over zealous gang of meddlers and manipulators now are reading into to those terse and unambiguous passages.

Certainly there is nothing in them to suggest that government may step in and compete with lawfully run businesses just because it believes they are failing to adequately meet the public’s needs.

And didn’t the Founders make it clear that they were creating a “limited” government, a government that would “secure the Blessings of Liberty?” That’s also in the preamble.

Maybe I’m missing something here, but it would seem to me that permitting the federal government to continue arrogating power to itself is not the way to secure liberty!

With so much written in the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution and the Bill of Rights about restraining government and advancing freedom, why is it that liberals always choose to overlook what is so obvious? What morbid need drives them to search frantically and endlessly for nonexistent powers in obscure places? Are they all suffering from diseased minds or are they intentionally and craftily attempting to transform the government of the United States into a socialistic regime?

Please think it over. I think I see a pattern of abuse emerging here.