Pelosi's response to constitutional authority - "Are you serious?"

[Anti Federalist]

When Asked Where the Constitution Authorizes Congress to Order Americans To Buy Health Insurance, Pelosi Says: 'Are You Serious?'

Friday, October 23, 2009
By Matt Cover, Staff Writer

(CNSNews.com) – When CNSNews.com asked House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) on Thursday where the Constitution authorized Congress to order Americans to buy health insurance--a mandate included in both the House and Senate versions of the health care bill--Pelosi dismissed the question by saying: “Are you serious? Are you serious?”

Pelosi's press secretary later responded to written follow-up questions from CNSNews.com by emailing CNSNews.com a press release on the “Constitutionality of Health Insurance Reform,” that argues that Congress derives the authority to mandate that people purchase health insurance from its constitutional power to regulate interstate commerce.

The exchange with Speaker Pelosi on Thursday occurred as follows:

CNSNews.com: “Madam Speaker, where specifically does the Constitution grant Congress the authority to enact an individual health insurance mandate?”

Pelosi: “Are you serious? Are you serious?”

CNSNews.com: “Yes, yes I am.”

Pelosi then shook her head before taking a question from another reporter. Her press spokesman, Nadeam Elshami, then told CNSNews.com that asking the speaker of the House where the Constitution authorized Congress to mandated that individual Americans buy health insurance as not a "serious question."

“You can put this on the record,” said Elshami. “That is not a serious question. That is not a serious question.”

http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/55971

[ForLiberty-RonPaul]

YouTube - Pelosi - "Are You Serious"

[jkr]

yep.

we are serious.

BY WHOSE AUTHORITY?

[JenH88]

then later her aid or secretary said it would fall under interstate commerce.. funny... i cant even buy insurance from other states..

you know what she meant "are you serious? its just a piece of paper. we have power to control whatever we want"

[Working Poor]

She has to go...

[HOLLYWOOD]

I don't know if anyone is aware of that grand old Propaganda PR scheme that Pelosi and Minions staged at the Capital Building yesterday.

She closed down visitation and access around that section of the Capital and had the area fenced off at a distance so no objections could be heard by their rigged Health Care Junket scheme.

The Botox Queen ranks up there with all the rest of the worst.