Constitutional Attorney of the Day: Hillary Clinton
Competition is always tough for Idiot of the Day here at damnum absque injuria but if this story is accurate, it definitely rises to the challenge:
I actually think that it’s unconstitutional, what the insurance companies are doing.
Mrs. Billary did not elaborate as to whether she believes the insurance companies in question own slaves or engage in bootlegging, the only two ways a private company could violate the Constitution if it wanted to.
‘Hat tips: Uncle and Sean Brainstead.
February 28th, 2008 at 8:39 pm
Oh, you must be using the written part of the Constitution. That’s sooooo 19th century.
March 1st, 2008 at 4:09 pm
I think if a private actor takes on a function of the state in certain circumstances they can be held to have violated the Constitution in a Bivens-type action. But of course Hillary thinks insurance is a core Government funtion.
March 2nd, 2008 at 7:07 am
This is hardly something new. The Democrats, thanks in part to John Edwards, are seeing populism as a great means to win votes. Well, populism requires an evil “them,” who are stealing money that’s rightfully ours, and taking away the rights taht are just naturally ours, damn it!
But what populism also requiers is an ignorance of economics and the law. Don’t expect the lovely Mrs Clinton to pay any attention to what she should have learned in law school if such would get in the way of her pandering for votes.