Tea Party Member’s “Gotcha” Moment With Dem. Phil Hare: “I Don’t Worry About The Constitution”

St. Louis Tea Party activist and budding citizen journalist Andrew Sharp talked to Fox’s Neil Cavuto about his run-in with Democratic Representative Phil Hare, during which the young man got the Congressman to say on camera that he cares more about the lives of people than finagling over the finer points in the Constitution as it applies to the health care reform bill. “Jackpot baby!” Sharp says off-camera, and it is a misspeak on Hare’s part (though if you listen closely, he says he doesn’t worry about the constitution on this…” which could be construed as the Congressman saying that he doesn’t believe there is anything in the books saying the bill is unconstitutional) and yep, he does get the Declaration of Independence confused with the Constitution when he says “I believe everyone has the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. After the Cavuto video, watch Hare’s response, in which he calls his own response to the “gotcha-type” journalism “out of context.”

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