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Chief Justice Roberts, You Fox You
The American spectator ^ | 7-5-12 | R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr.

Posted on 07/05/2012 6:46:08 AM PDT by afraidfortherepublic

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To: afraidfortherepublic

Is that the “happy dead pig in the sunshine” that I have heard so much about?


21 posted on 07/05/2012 7:02:24 AM PDT by Ditter
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To: afraidfortherepublic

I was deemed even at a very young age to be not only illiterate but quite prone to delusions and believed strongly that Howdy Doody’s puppet was real.

I even thought that perhaps he would grow up some day to be a Supreme Court Justice and uphold an African President’s health care law, which would finally put an end to the Constitution of the United States. Even now I believe it to be true though I must be mistaken!


22 posted on 07/05/2012 7:02:34 AM PDT by IbJensen (If you don't read the newspaper you are uninformed, if you do read the newspaper you are misinformed)
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To: Houghton M.

>> Causa finita est. <<

A brilliant post!

(In fact, if you hadn’t used the novel spelling “straigt” I might have called it the best POST to date about the recent SCOTUS ruling!)


23 posted on 07/05/2012 7:05:21 AM PDT by Hawthorn
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To: afraidfortherepublic

Another conservative decides to eat the poop cake.

http://larrycorreia.wordpress.com/2012/07/02/shut-up-and-eat-your-poop-cake/


24 posted on 07/05/2012 7:08:32 AM PDT by Little Ray (FOR the best Conservative in the Primary; AGAINST Obama in the General.)
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To: afraidfortherepublic

If it takes that much mental contortion to find the good in this horrendous decision, then there is no good.

It is destructive to our liberty. Period.

Ironic, no, that it was issued right before “Independence Day”?


25 posted on 07/05/2012 7:10:26 AM PDT by iceskater (The clock is ticking....November's coming.)
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To: afraidfortherepublic

Hey Bob, what if we all go to the polls and Obama still wins? Sorry, Roberts screwed us.


26 posted on 07/05/2012 7:10:41 AM PDT by surrey
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To: afraidfortherepublic
Judge Roberts succumb to political correctness and considered the “image” of the court above and before the actual rule of law.
27 posted on 07/05/2012 7:11:55 AM PDT by TexasCajun
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To: sand88

Little Tommy Daschle must be so proud of Bob for this hugh and series effort to get that bright red lipstick on this pig and its consort, Roberts. But then globalists of a feather ... have their useful idiot sycophants.


28 posted on 07/05/2012 7:12:43 AM PDT by MHGinTN (Being deceived can be cured.)
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To: afraidfortherepublic
The Commerce Clause is in suspension only until the 'rats get their 5th dogmatic Justice.

The Medicaid part of the ruling is not warranted as the law had no severability clause (and the anti-injunction law was turned on it's ear (it should be unconstitutional anyway)).

"Congress can now tax us for not doing something" - This is the worst affront to logic and personal Liberty in a long time. Roberts needs to resign for this alone.

29 posted on 07/05/2012 7:13:30 AM PDT by Paladin2
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To: B.O. Plenty
...he HAS to be embarrassed and ashamed.

No, he's in Malta teaching a course. Methinks he should just stay there and apply for asylum.

30 posted on 07/05/2012 7:15:40 AM PDT by afraidfortherepublic
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To: afraidfortherepublic
Rationalizing the vain,cowardly, and , as J Rob well knew, constitutional immunity from stupidity repercussions, CJ Robert's infamous treacherous destruction of our US Constitution is an exercise in futility from any angle...

Ben Arnold may have had more cause to be a deadly traitor to his country but John Roberts had no real cause other than self inflated self esteem yet with more real power to finish Ben's hate America agenda--God Damn his soul!!!

31 posted on 07/05/2012 7:16:55 AM PDT by Happy Rain ("With one appallingly stupid ruling SCCJ Roberts converted tax lawyers into defense attorneys.")
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To: afraidfortherepublic

The real determination of whether Roberts was crafty or sold us out will never be made if we succeed in taking the White House and both houses of Congress and the folks in Congress have the stones to pass a full repeal by using reconciliation to get it though the Senate (or mirable dictu we get 60 Senate seats), so in way, I hope we never find out.

But, while Obamacare is law, there are is still a manifestly unconstitutional provision lurking in it, but one not addressed in the suits the SCOTUS ruled on a week ago: the IPAB provision which attempts to bind future Congresses, and thus is prima facia unconstitutional. The same provision could also be challenged on the basis of the precedent in (of all things) Roe v. Wade, where the “reasoning” had nothing to do with abortion per se, but with government intrusion into the “private” patient-physician relationship. The IPAB is nothing but one huge intrusion of government into the “private” patient-physician relationship.

If a suit on either basis reaches the SCOTUS and Roberts leads a majority to invalidate Obamacare, notes it contains no severability clause and tosses the whole thing into the ashbin of history, he would indeed have out-foxed the left by establishing a precedent that limits Federal coercion of the states and the expansion of the Commerce Clause.


32 posted on 07/05/2012 7:17:17 AM PDT by The_Reader_David (And when they behead your own people in the wars which are to come, then you will know. . .)
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To: afraidfortherepublic

I’m surprised that none of the source article commenters have ripped Tyrrell for buying Roberts’ dicta re: the Commerce Clause as binding precedent.


33 posted on 07/05/2012 7:18:40 AM PDT by Charles Martel (Endeavor to persevere...)
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To: afraidfortherepublic
More wishful thinking from another Roberts apologist.

Lets assume thing are as the author assumes. That would mean that every time Democrats won an election, they would pass all of these compulsion-by-tax laws requiring folks to buy "widgets." The Republicans win the next election and repeal the taxes and the compulsory buying . . . Democrats win later, etc., etc. . . . Wow! What a wonderful recipe for a completely unstable economy. Businesses wouldn't be able to forecast beyond the next election.

No, sorry Mr. Tyrrell; Roberts screwed the pooch on this one--as well as the nation.
34 posted on 07/05/2012 7:19:02 AM PDT by Sudetenland (Member of the BBB Club - Bye-Bye-Barry!!! President Barack "Down Low" Obama)
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To: afraidfortherepublic
Nice try, Bob Tyrrell, but I’m not buying it. Perfume on a pig doesn’t make the pig a welcome guest at High Tea.

Very well put!

35 posted on 07/05/2012 7:19:22 AM PDT by Tau Food (Tom Hoefling for President - 2012)
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To: Houghton M.
"John Roberts is the spawn of Satan and a demon straigt from hell. He is a traitor. He is evil incarnate."

Not only that, it's all W's fault. I'm not kidding.

36 posted on 07/05/2012 7:19:46 AM PDT by Paladin2
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To: Little Ray

Brilliant! That reminds me of Octavia Spencer’s chocolate pie in The Help.


37 posted on 07/05/2012 7:20:45 AM PDT by afraidfortherepublic
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To: ontap

—So .....His intentions were good when he stabbed us in the back!!!!—

I think of it as shooting a lame horse. We’ll thank him later for offing us more quickly.


38 posted on 07/05/2012 7:20:47 AM PDT by cuban leaf (Were doomed! Details at eleven.)
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To: Dr. Sivana
>>> All of the good things that that Tyrell describes could have just as easily come about from a 5-4 decision the other way, except minus the ObamaCare.

Exactly! Especially considering his third point.

“Thirdly, the Congress can now tax us for not doing something, but this power is not nearly so dangerous ....”

Tell me again, how teh “I WON” president and “We have to pass it to read it” Pelosi cheat, lie and bribe the whole time to get the bill passed against the consent of majority citizens?

And Mr. Tyrrell think they will somehow be more restrained in the future?

39 posted on 07/05/2012 7:21:00 AM PDT by Sir Napsalot (Pravda + Useful Idiots = CCCP; JournOList + Useful Idiots = DopeyChangey!)
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To: afraidfortherepublic
After reading endless commentaries like this, my general sense of the ObamaCare decision is as follows:

1. The case before the Supreme Court was probably brought prematurely, since the most destructive provisions of ObamaCare aren't even in force yet (and therefore can't legally be contested).

2. The Court's ruling is actually problematic for ObamaCare in other areas. The ruling is filled with landmines that can be exploited by individuals or groups in future legal challenges. For one thing, if ObamaCare is a "tax" then by definition there are enormous loopholes that would likely apply to tax-exempt organizations (religious or not).

3. As more and more provisions of ObamaCare are implemented, there will be additional legal disputes related to specific provisions (First Amendment grounds, the ability of HHS to grant waivers in an arbitraty fashion, etc.).

4. ObamaCare is not likely to remain in its current form by 2014 anyway, since the financial numbers aren't going to work and too many members of Congress are going to be running away from it.

40 posted on 07/05/2012 7:22:24 AM PDT by Alberta's Child ("If you touch my junk, I'm gonna have you arrested.")
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