Professor Richard Epstein, one of the nation’s great thinkers, has an essay on the bullying that is integral to the federalization of health care called the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (Obamacare). “Just what allows the feds to order individual firms to supply goods for free simply because government officials believe that these services are essential?” he asks.
There is no such constitutional authority, but Obama and his minions won’t allow any law to get in the way of their authoritarian desire for control.
Epstein’s essay provides an excellent history of the erosion of the Constitution’s limits on government power.
As you know, Obama says he was a “constitutional law professor” at the University of Chicago. That’s like a bat boy saying he was “on the Yankees.” Epstein has commented that while he was a lecturer at Chicago Law, Obama never participated in any of the great discussions that the thinkers on the faculty engaged in all the time. He was content to cloister himself in his little Alinskyite thought-world. If you wanted to scare Obama out of his mind, tell him that Richard Epstein is going to ask the questions at one of the presidential debates.
