The Justices At The Des Moines Register

Just a reminder of who sits on the Des Moines Register's Editorial Board:

Laura Hollingsworth is the Register's President and Publisher. She has a bachelor's degree in communication and is a Gannettoid lifer.

Carolyn Washburn is the Register's Editor and Vice-President. She has a degree in something from Indiana University and has been in the newspaper industry since 1984.

Linda Lantor Fandel is the Editorial page editor for the Register. She has a political science degree with honors, and also studied Russian in graduate school.

Rox Laird is an Editorial writer and beta male for the Register. He has a bachelor's degree in journalism from ISU.

Andie Dominick is an Editorial writer for the Register. She has a bachelor's in English and a master's in creative writing from ISU.

So it was rather amusing to read the Register's Editorial today concerning the 18 (and counting) states that have filed lawsuits against the Federal government over the Constitutionality of the individual mandate to purchase health insurance in the recent health scare reform bill, and other issues that will surely bankrupt states.

It's funny how they brush it off so easily:

These lawsuits are as much about politics as anything. Almost all were filed by Republicans.

Oh yes, Republicans. Those evil, mean, racist, spitting, teabagging, Faux News-watching, capitalist pig Republicans!

And then the Register's Justices wrote in their opinion:

But politics aside, the constitutional questions about such a mandate have long been the subject of debate - many years before Congress started talking about this. The courts should finally settle the matter.

Yes, they should.

Bring it on!

Because if the courts hold that Congress can require Americans to purchase something, under threat of fine by the IRS and possible imprisonment, that means that Congress can require you to purchase anything.

Anything.

Do you really want that door left open so far, Register Justices?

Then the Justices hedge their bets with:

Is the mandate unconstitutional? We'll see. Is it necessary? No.

Yes, is the mandate unconstitutional? How the hell should Laura, Carolyn, Linda, Rox, or Andie know with their creative writing and political science degrees? They certainly wouldn't know the answer to that.

I wonder when the last time any of these dimwits read the Constitution?

Gee, that would be a good question for some troublemaker blogger to ask them some time.

To them, I'm sure, they regard the Constitution as a "living, breathing document" that they need to beat the hell out of to see what's in it: "Maybe if we hit it harder with a baseball bat, Socialized medicine will ooze out of it, free for everybody!"

Actually, they don't care if the individual mandate gets thrown. Why, Obamacare has all sorts of other lovely things in it designed to destroy the private insurance industry in a few years while bankrupting the country.

Right, Justices?

I'm sure all of you Register Justices read the Obamacare bill after Congress passed it and Obama signed it. Correct?

Oh, you didn't?

And you haven't read the Constitution either?

Do you Register Justices read anything?

Maybe we the people should stop reading your monopoly, corporate newspaper, the same way you people have stopped reading the Constitution, the bills going through Congress, and complete scams of legislation that get passed by the Iowa Legislature.