Well, now. As Steve Martin used to say, “Excuuuuuuuse me!” All I did was ask University of Maryland political-science teacher Thomas F. Schaller a simple question: “Where in the Constitution, sir, do you see it authorized that Congress can be involved with ‘health care,’ or fund ‘health care’?” I added: “I am asking here about the Constitution, not any court rulings.” And the guy went bananas.
In a snide and snotty e-mail response, Schaller, a columnist for the Baltimore Sun who advocates federal “health-care reform,” said my “arguments” were “silly” - though I had not yet made any “argument.” He said my question was “absurd” and “irrelevant” and “bogus.” He said he always gets “a chuckle” out of constitutional originalists because, he implies, they are hypocrites who invoke the document selectively. He concludes his tirade: “So save me the insinuations that you’ve somehow caught me in a constitutional-historical trap, because you haven’t. You need a more nuanced view of how the Constitution does – and did, from its inception – work. ...” Full Piece
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