News: Pres. Signs H-Care Insurance Mandate-212 Years Ago! - Paul J. O'Rourke - Open Salon

All that Tea Bagger talk about how it's supposedly unconstitutional to mandate that people get health insurance? Yeah, um, tell that to the original "socialist" President, John Adams, who made all sailors - even the private company employed ones - sign onto the plan.

Seeing as he had some say into the original framing of the Constitution, I think he had a better sense of what is or is not constitutional than your average racist southerner. Right?