When a Congressman or Congresswoman starts a new term in the House of Representatives they take the following oath of office. It is short, sweet and anything but difficult to understand:
It’s pretty clear what the focus of this oath is: to defend and bear allegiance to the Constitution of the United States. Easy as pie. Now, watch this video of Rep. Kathy Hochul (D-NY) at a recent townhall in her congressional district:
That entire video is pretty appalling, but the most incredible part, however, comes at the start of the video when Rep. Hochul is asked what part of the Constitution, the document she is vowed to defend, gives Congress or the President the right to force a private organization to pay for anything such as contraception. The room erupts in disbelief after Hochul says, “Well, basically, we’re not looking to the Constitution on that aspect of it.”
And that, ladies and gentlemen, is a window into the mind of a liberal. The Constitution that Democratic representatives were sworn to protect didn’t matter when Obamacare was passed with the unconstitutional individual mandate in it, and now the Constitution doesn’t matter when it violates one of America’s deepest held convictions of freedom of religion.
After that rather disgusting answer, Rep. Hochul kept on digging. “A decision has been made by this Congress,” she said, “that American citizens are entitled to health care.” But apparently Americans are not entitled to the First Amendment. Rather, this Congress has deemed something an entitlement, and thus it is. No discussion, no holding them accountable, that’s just the way it is going to be.
That is a creep towards totalitarianism every American regardless of party should be suspicious of and hostile to.
I wish it didn’t, but it gets worse. Many conservatives have said from the start that Obamacare is nothing if not a foot in the door for government control of the health care industry. Perhaps nothing has made this so obvious than Hochul’s answer to why the government doesn’t just mandate free band-aids and cancer screenings to boot. Her reply revealed her true intentions: “Well, clearly more work needs to be done.”
It starts with mandating every American buy insurance. Then they start mandating small things such as contraception. Then it’s cancer screenings. Next, they act shocked at the skyrocketing cost of health care as if the reason why wasn’t obvious. Then they just nationalize health care altogether. And it all could be avoided if Representatives like Hochul actually stayed true to their oath.
