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About your opponent saying he was relieved of duty and hes a skunk basically, a section 8, there must be something showing up up in your polling thats showing you you have to do this. youve got the rasmussen poll. all the other polls got you 15 points out. you think youre going to win this when hes running this negative stuff? >> you also saw there was another poll, id forgotten the name just after rasmussen where i closed 14 points from three weeks before. you know as well as i do, he said he w...

Section 8, whatever you want to call it. whats relieved of duty mean to you? to me it means you had a problem, mental, emotional, you couldnt do the job because they took it away from you. thats ha arlens saying about you. >> the verdict on arlen specter is hes not visit to be the united states senator. thats why hes going to be relieved of command. look, arlen specters verdict has already been made. youve seen the rasmussen poll. i can respect arlen specter for his service but not outrageous li...

Specter has done is reverted to old republican-style politics but now hes in a democratic party. let me give you a quote. i so remember as barack obama as a candidate he said i love this country too much. to let him steal another election phony assertions, swift voting. you know, they did this to max cleland who lost his limbs in vietnam. they did it to john kerry. all veterans arent going to stand for this. absolute false assertion he has made. you dont get to be a three-star admiral, get to co...

Clause. doesnt the constitution give congress the power to tax and spend for the general welfare under article one, section 8, so they can go the tax route here and say, this is therefore constitutional? >> well, the congress -- you have a point there, of course, if the congress were simply taxing people, as they are for a variety of other things including highways and the military and everything else we do, sure they can use the tax power for that. but, still the only certain things the congres...

That you will buy something is a violation of article 1, section 8 of the constitution and our commerce clause as well as a violation of the 10th amendment. so that out to be challenged. that is a healthy thing to do. we have our own unique healthcare reform in utah and the federal government is saying junk that and take ours. that seems to be an overreach and i think most everybody concerned, republican and democrat, independent alike there seems to be an overreach of the federal government or ...

Federal government to take care of their mutual needs. if the federal government is monopolizing property that state could use for the citizen and freedom and their prosperpy and theyre -- prosperity and theyre not able to make use of the property in a way theyd like to, they should turn to federal government and say youre not upholding your obligation under the constitution and were going to take the land back and use in a way to benefit the citizen and protects their rights. >> representative ...

Federal government to take care of their mutual needs. if the federal government is monopolizing property that state could use for the citizen and freedom and their prosperpy and theyre -- prosperity and theyre not able to make use of the property in a way theyd like to, they should turn to federal government and say youre not upholding your obligation under the constitution and were going to take the land back and use in a way to benefit the citizen and protects their rights. >> representative ...

Right now, were all grateful for those 15 million people that we got article i, section 8 of the constitution. >> congresswoman, can you cite a case where the federal government has ever before this bill signed today, told somebody to buy something? they had to buy it? in this case, insurance. >> well under mckaren-ferguson, of course regulating insurance across state lines and, you know, obviously in the states we have insurance companies that operate across state lines. and thats regulated bot...

For those 15 million people that we got article i, section 8 of the constitution. >> congresswoman, can you cite a case where the federal government has ever before this bill signed today, told somebody to buy something? they had to buy it? in this case, insurance. >> well under mckaren-ferguson, of course regulating insurance across state lines and, you know, obviously in the states we have insurance companies that operate across state lines. and thats regulated both at the state level and at t...

>> neil: i know, governor, you know -- you know this inside and out but im saying, the biggest thing is, you argue congress is overstepping their bounds but its not just what you can pay issue, its an intrusion on basically states rights. >> intrusion on states right but also intrusion on the uniform requirement in article 1, section 8 that says if youre going to do something, it has to be uniform across the united states. what theyre asking me to do is tax a person in idaho to pay for a gimme, ...