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Silky: Government will ban smoking and force you to see the doctor

Well thank God (insert deity du jour here) that the Breck Girl knows a thing or two about freedom! I always get a kick out of Democrats pretending to be more about freedom than anyone else, despite their insatiable appetite to grow government and have it impose on our freedoms. Instance #1:

Edwards has advocated a nationwide ban on smoking in public places while Hillary said she would rely on local governments to enforce their bans. When asked if a Federal ban would be constitutional, Edwards said he would need more time to think about that.
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“When are we going to have somebody who will stand up to these drug companies and insurance companies who are running this country,” Edwards added. “Sooner or later somebody is going to have to fight them.”

What a moron! “Is a smoking ban constitutional? I don’t know, but who cares? That’s why we have liberal activist judges! Plus, I’ve already made my riches off of the tobacco industry, so who needs them now? Sure, it’ll hurt the people in my home state of North Carolina, but those rubes rejected me at the ballot box, so screw ‘em!”

Also, “let’s fight the drug companies, so they won’t make any more life-saving drugs!” Friggin’ brilliant, Silk.

Instance #2:

Democratic presidential hopeful John Edwards said on Sunday that his universal health care proposal would require that Americans go to the doctor for preventive care.

“It requires that everybody be covered. It requires that everybody get preventive care,” he told a crowd sitting in lawn chairs in front of the Cedar County Courthouse. “If you are going to be in the system, you can’t choose not to go to the doctor for 20 years. You have to go in and be checked and make sure that you are OK.”

But whatever you do, do NOT call it socialized medicine!

Apparently, Silky Pony has found that spot in the Constitution that says government is allowed to compel you to see the doctor. That’s a neat trick, considering the rest of the Constitution is all about the things that government is not allowed to do to you.

Besides, I thought the left supported your “right to die”? I guess maybe they do, so long as the nanny-state government signs off on it first. Or, as Jon Henke notes:

John Edwards says the “right to choose and the right to privacy are fundamental constitutional rights”. On the other hand, he also says you’re going to go see the doctor when he tells you to see the damned doctor if you know what’s good for you…

Which one of John Edwards’ two Americas gets a freedom of choice and privacy that extends beyond the uterus?

First he’ll mandate (no Barney Frank “weekend plan” jokes, please) that you see the doctor, then eventually he’ll require that you get your diet and exercise approved by the feds. After all, why stop with the doctor visits if we’re talking “preventive medicine” here, right? How Orwellian of him.

September 4, 2007 - Posted by crushliberalism | big government, economic ignorance, hypocrisy, John Edwards