Apparently what “reality” means to the left is the government’s absolute and unhindered ability to control every decision you make, even the decision to do nothing:
U.S. District Judge Gladys Kessler’s 64-page ruling (below) takes aim at the argument espoused by many conservatives which holds that the passive act of not purchasing health insurance does not constitute an activity that can be regulated under the Commerce Clause.
“It is pure semantics to argue that an individual who makes a choice to forgo health insurance is not ‘acting,’ especially given the serious economic and health-related consequences to every individual of that choice,” Kessler writes. “Making a choice is an affirmative action, whether one decides to do something or not do something. They are two sides of the same coin. To pretend otherwise is to ignore reality.”
I’m fairly confident that the founding fathers would have retched at this idea, but what does a liberal district judge care about them. After all, the Constitution and the Federalist papers are more than 100 years old. Limited government? Unlimited government? Who can tell what those guys were talking about?
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