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To: Wharf Rat who wrote (599704)	2/2/2011 9:24:05 PM
From: Brumar89	1 Recommendation Respond to of 1572391

Yes, I will laugh at the idea marijuana is growing cells in your brain ... or curing emphysema or any of the other stuff you've posted.

To: Wharf Rat who wrote (599704)	2/2/2011 9:35:24 PM
From: Brumar89	1 Recommendation Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1572391

Liberal commentators agree the democrats made an enormous mistake writing Obamacare bill: newsbusters.org LAWRENCE O’DONNELL, HOST: Joining me now is Jonathan Turley, professor of constitutional law at George Washington University. Jonathan, thanks for joining us tonight. JONATHAN TURLEY, GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY: Hi, Lawrence. O’DONNELL: Jonathan, the Democrats made a mistake of not writing into the law that the bill is what they call "severable," meaning if courts find bits of it unconstitutional, they can simply sever those bits from the rest of the law. Democrats insist that severability is implicit in this kind of law. Who’s right? TURLEY: Well, first of all, it was a colossal mistake not to have a severability clause in this legislation. It’s a standard clause in bills. It is not clear why it was kept out. Some people say it was a blunder. Other suggests and I know you know, there’s some suspicion that it might be a sort of game of chicken, that they wanted to make clear, if you take out the individual mandate, you are risking the entire bill to sort of give these judges a bit of sticker shock. But either way, it was a mistake. It opened the door to allow a judge like Judge Vinson to strike the entire act. Now, it is certainly true that you do not need a severability clause for a judge to sever provision. And, in fact, that’s exactly what Judge Hudson did in the Virginia. He was encouraged to strike down the entire law of Virginia and he chose not to. I agree with that decision. I think he did the right thing there. But, the Democrats really laid themselves open in how they drafted this act. Judge Vinson is not, you know, totally out of line in saying that severability was put at issue when they did not include the clause. The interesting thing is the severability clause was in an earlier draft of the legislation and was removed. Something that Judge Vinson notes in his opinion. O’DONNELL: I can tell you, Jonathan, that’s exactly the kind of mistake that occurs at the staff level when they are in these panic writings, last-minute writings of the legislative language of these bills - - things that they intend to be in there like a severability clause can easily slip out in the word processing. Read more: newsbusters.org ht DMaA Those Dem Congressmen who mocked the idea of reading the bills they voted on ... the Speaker who said we have to pass the bill to find out whats in it ..... yes, they were stupid. I guess they hadn't smoked enough weed. LOL