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So the looney left, led by Garry Trudeau, is having a tizzy over the fact that Starbuck’s is allowing customers to openly carry legal weapons in their stores.

Trudeau imagines all sorts of terrible outcomes, but they are based on flawed assumptions, and cease being funny where they become obviously untrue. Trudeau, like most liberals, loves to paint gun owners as some sort of dangerous, unstable, uneducated mob. In reality, anyone willing to exercise their Constitutional rights is almost always aware of the serious responsibilities their choices entail.

Put it another way: Is Starbuck’s suffering because of the frenzied liberal fear-mongering? Heck no. Starbuck’s has to be your community’s safest place outside of the local police station.

Who’s gonna rob a Starbuck’s these days? Only the Democrat rabble-rousers who threw eggs at their own candidate’s bus, just to make the opposition look bad.

From this article on the health care bill from the AP:

In Iowa on Thursday to trumpet the benefits of the legislation, Obama said, “We made a promise. That promise has been kept.”

Yay, one in a row. The fact that he broke an estimated 3,254 *other* promises to keep *this* one goes unmentioned.

“Five days of public comment before signing bills”? Didn’t see it.

“Negotiate health care reform in public sessions televised on C-SPAN”? Must’ve been preempted.

“New era of bi-partisanship”? Hell, he had to buy votes from his *own* party.

“Most open and transparent administration in history”? Well, we can give him this one. He didn’t promise it would be *honest*, and it’s transparently *not*.

The great legal challenge to the health care bill is both procedural and Constitutional.

Pursuant to the 10th Amendment, Congress does not have the authority to just vote themselves new powers such as it is attempting to do.

What would be needed for such a thing to happen would be a national referendum with a majority of Americans voting to modify the Constitution to say that health care is a right (which it isn’t, not least because there is no equal and opposite responsibility that can be associated with it) and that we wish to cede to the Federal government the authority to administer it.

Moreover, also pursuant to the 10th Amendment, the Federal government lacks the authority to compel citizens to purchase a given product or service. They might be able to *do* so, at least temporarily, but they are violating the Constitution in the attempt.

What’s funny is that, to get the health care piracy bill passed, the Democrats have ignored the law, bent the law, broken the law, spat on the law, twisted the law, abused the law, distorted the law, and mangled the law.

Then, if they get it through, they’ll stand up and say, “You have to _respect_ this, because it’s the _law_”.