Let the reactions of these wise “pundits”, like George Will as you mention, and Krauthammer, be a lesson to us all.
They are the political chattering class and they are part of the problem.
I read how Roberts was “protecting” the image of the Supreme Court with his silly, and probably illegal, action. I read that Roberts threw himself on his sword-can you imagine anybody stupid enough to express such a thing?- to save the country.
The political chattering class, yes even the so-called conservative ones, did not see the emperor has no clothes. Only we, the common people, with the common sense the political elite and their chattering class do not have, see the absurdity of what happened last week.
Our legislators passed an outrageous piece of legislation that nobody wants, that was passed through bribes and incentives to certain states and not others, that the public tried desperately to stop by electing a Republican to replace Ted Kennedy then in 2010 rang some clocks with the country’s collective outrage.
So we wait for the Supreme Court to do their little tiny job, a great job when you think about it, a lifetime job protection for just reading a document and interpreting....AND THEY DO NOTHING!
Well Roberts changes the law from a mandate to a tax, thereby effectively re-writing the law which the SC is NOT supposed to do, and we’re all out here in la-la land, bitter and feeling more than a little tyrannized.
Our gubmint is run amok folks, that’s all.
Time for us, the common people, to do what we got to do.
First, let’s eject those always wrong conservative pundits, Will, Krauthammer....time for them to go.
Then we’ll talk.
We need to get out and canvass for Tea Party candidates who will overturn the law/tax and furthermore we need to sign the petition to pass the Anti-Mandate Amendment in order to make it all the harder for Congress and the Supremes to simply ignore the Constitution.
A new amendment prohibiting the taxing of non-commerce might buy Americans a couple more generations of freedom before another future Roberts type decides to fart that up is down and black is white.
ok, watching Nancy Pelosi and I must tell my Nancy Pelosi story.
For I knew Nancy when she was but a young adolescent wearing the perfectly pleated skirts of a Catholic high school.
I know Palin called Pelosi and idiot but it’s deeper.
Pelosi is the daughter of Mayor Tommy D’Alesandro, former and very corrupt Mayor of Baltimore. The D’Alesandros ruled Baltimore, easily, and the D’Alesandros did what they do.
My father was a shop steward in Baltimore local Carpenters union 101. As such he got the job of remodeling the D’Alesandros Little Italy home. I went with my Dad to help him sometimes and Nancy would come home from school.
D’Alesandro was a great fan of the Baltimore construction unions and no wonder. Come election day, the union guys, especially the electricians, would go to the voting place and somehow would zap all the voting machines to make them read whatever D’Alesandro wanted them to read.
Nancy was a spoiled brat child. I’d watch her throw stuff across the room when her mother told her no for something. She’d go pout to her father who always gave her her way. I was only about 11-12 years old but I despised her, thought she was nothing but a brat. Heaven forbid I should ever talk to her, which I had to once in a while, because she’d lift up her nose and act all snooty.
The voting machines were old-fashioned things, I don’t know how they worked, but the union guys always made them read the way that would keep the D’Alesandros in power. Nancy’s brother was also very active in Baltimore politics in the day.
Pelosi’s not an idiot. She’s used to getting her way and she moved cross country to be somewhere else where she could rule and ignore to suit her, her children, all the D’Alesandros....and if the little guy benefits, well so okay but Pelosi could care less about that.
The idiots in the Pelosi story are those who voted for her. She’s just enjoying the benefits is all.