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bookmarking for later
VERY interesting theory and possibly very true.
hmmm... i don’t know...
Yes John Roberts, it IS your job to protect us from tyranny even if 51% of America votes for it. That’s the beauty of the design of our system .
If anyone has insiders knowledge of how incompetent and corrupt the current administration really is - you'd figure it to be the SC.
If the authors thesis is accurate, it would kind of be like setting out poison for rats to eat so they die.
He declares the blackmail theory to be the easiest to dispense with, but ultimately just dismisses it as suspicion and rumor. His only argument against it is the idea that the anti-Bush crowd would have dug this up during the nomination process and scuttled it. Yeah, because it would never occur to a Democratic operative that having such blackmail material in their back pocket against a Supreme Court justice would come in handy in the future.
Apart from that, the author doesn’t even attempt to refute the allegation that the adoptions were illegal. Maybe he can’t because the adoptions were private and he wouldn’t have access to any information that would settle the matter one way or the other, but by not even bothering to make that point, he’s not exactly steering anyone away from such speculation.
We will only know the thinking of Roberts when/if he writes a memoir. Right now he’s not talking, which demonstrates a degree of self-control on his part.
In the meantime, it seems a reach of fancy to hope that the collectivist Dems won’t like the dog food they served up in O Care. They are unable to learn from mistakes, and they believe the answer to their dog food is more dog food.
A pity the Slimes never had the same inclination to probe for a certain birth certificate, or college transcript or...
If Roberts had the balls why wouldn't he counter-blackmail Soetoro? There continues to be a mountain of crap available for Roberts to pursue to quash any attempt to neutralize him.
For there to be merit to that theory we have to credit Roberts with wide and forward thinking.
After reading the article, I believe the author is saying that Roberts knew the law was unconstitutional. But Roberts ruled in the law's favor anyway because he feared the backlash that would follow.
And the author seems to be okay with that.
If that theory is correct, then Roberts has violated his oath of office and should be impeached.
As an aside, has anyone noticed you do not hear Rush say that anymore.
However, the thing that I wonder about, that this bad (and it was a BAD decision from a Constitutional perspective, as Justice Scalia so ably documented in his dissent) decision avoided, is the outcry from the LEFT. Just imagine the reaction by the LEFTIST government/media complex to a SCOTUS decision that overturned 0bamacare at its 'infancy'. And within a few months of a POTUS election. It would have made Roe v Wade and Bush v Gore look like pillow fights in comparison.
no matter the reasons - it is possible to see that from 2010 until 2020 conservatives have the BIGGEST OPPROTUNITY to show why government is not the solution. In 2010 hundreds of state legislators came into the process via the Tea Party. Even in 2012 people like Cruz and Lee got elected because of the Tea Party - the next WAVE in 2014 could be 8 senators and 15 house members. In 2016 the president will either be a Tea Party favorite or must face a congress made up of the Tea Party. IT’S ALL GOOD
Not much to all this. The trend is toward a social democratic society. The voters obviously know what they want and can and will vote for it.
You will hear much about Democratic Economic Populism like it’s a good thing.
Sometimes, in other words, we just have to learn things the hard way. We can only hope that the learning is not coming too late.
If this guy is right, the pain America is experiencing will be worth the lesson. Although I also believe our spiritual health must needs experience a revival, too.
So little we know, so much we can speculate....and in the meanwhile, the peasants lose healthcare, get held up by higher premiums that deplete their savings and suffer for what?
So Roberts watches an episode of Decoded, verifies it with an episode of Conspiracy theory, turns around in a circle three times holding a stuffed owl, and we all go on double secret probation?
The author is correct that Roberts ruled the limit to using the Commerce Clause.
He ruled the Individual Mandate was a tax. If you don’t like the tax, vote your representative out.