Wow.  Today is the day they’ll look back and say ‘that’s when the wheels came off.’  Phil Hare went down in flames — where were his staffers?   The man was getting bloodied, good grief, get him out of there!  But the looks on their faces are almost as stupid as the look on Phil’s.

Yesterday, Mr. Hare had all rainbows and bunny rabbits at the Rock Island County Senior Center.  But today, Quincy was having none of it. (Click on it, you gotta see this.)

When pressed, the truth comes out.  When questioned where in the Constitution he is granted authority to mandate health care, Hare responded: 

“I don’t worry about the Constitution on this to be honest.” 

Hare then tries to recover and quotes the “life, liberty and pursuit of happiness” phrase and when corrected that those words come from the Declaration of Independence, says “It doesn’t matter to me.”

Then, when clearly asked again where the Constitution grants authority for mandated Health Care, Hare admits “I don’t know, I don’t know.” 

And now, for a brief Constitutional interlude:

“The Senators and Representatives before mentioned, and the Members of the several State Legislatures, and all executive and judicial Officers, both of the United States and of the several States, shall be bound by Oath or Affirmation, to support this Constitution[.]“  — U.S. Const., Art. VI.

When the questioner says Hare is a liar for refusing to answer how long it took him to read the 2,700 page bill three times, Hare is the one that says “nazi, communist.”  But I thought the crazy tea partiers were the ones who said things like that…  Hate speech?

Hare asks his questioner whether he is the “expert,” and the guy responds “Are you?”  Hare says “No, I’m not.  I’m the dreamer.”  He’s dreaming all right. 

And I LOVE it at the end when the guy says “You better start looking for a job…”

Amen to that, brother, amen to that.  Thank you for your service today, sir, you are a patriot.  THIS is what America is all about.  It’s guys like that who will save this country from guys like Mr. Hare.

Mr. Hare is sweating now…  (Well, he was before too, but now it’s not just because he’s phat, it’s because he’s phat and he’s gonna get run over by the health care crazy train…)

UPDATE:  Just saw this account:

Hare was asked numerous times if the bill was Constitutional and he would never answer the question.

“We could all take the easy way out,” he said, in referring to not wanting to support mandatory health care. “The goal is to insure 30 million Americans. The bill does an awful lot, some like it, some don’t like it.  Some want to repeal this bill, I will tell them that ain’t gonna happen. Let me rephrase. Go to kids, go to seniors and tell them they can’t have health care. I don’t want this repealed. We’ve worked for 106 year for this and 120 people a day die because they don’t have health insurance.”

After that comment a majority of people in the room shouted “Bullsh*t.”

You go, Quincy.  Mr. Hare’s Waterloo.