The Ezra ... Strikes Back.

Lol.

Posted at 6:29 PM ET, 12/22/2009

Max Baucus: The individual mandate is constitutional
One of the big right wing talking points of late has been that the individual mandate is not constitutional, because the constitution does not specifically say "the federal government may impose an individual mandate for the purposes of insuring all eligible Americans." Happily, whether things are or are not constitutional is the sort of thing Senate staff check out before putting them in bills, and in a floor statement today, Baucus laid out his staff's findings on the subject.

*wiping my eyes* "The staffers checked it out." He misstates the ("big right wing") argument, then tells us not to bother worrying about it. Is it an honest youthful ignorance, or a more frightening arrogance in thinking? Entitlement of the naive?

Btw: Don't miss him -- tonight, on Olberman! Talking health care reform...