Don’t mean to be a downer to anyone. Just a shout out about what’s on my mind hoping you guys can talk me off the ledge. You guys are doing an OK job but I’m still not convinced otherwise. I probably need a beer and a John Wayne movie.
Smartest advice I've heard all week. Week is young yet.. but still...
Take a deep breath.
And at the end of it all? You're gonna be as dead as I will be, and then the sun blows into a red giant and eats Terra.
We're made out of stardust, we go back (eventually, after billions of years) to stardust.
Sometimes we just have to take a step back and get a little perspective.
You are a walking dead man, just like me. Get over it. I did. ;)
/johnny
Well, of course, you need a beer or six. We all do.
On it’s face, the Arizona decision does seem incorrect. However, it’s not the Court’s role to force Zero to enforce the law on the books when that was not the issue presented to the Court. That’s a political issue, at least until it is properly framed for review.
I read what seems like a good idea on a thread earlier today: Why doesn’t Arizona sue ICE et al., for the costs it has incurred due to Zero’s refusal to enforce the law? Otherwise, it seems to me, it’s up to Congress to force the executive to protect our borders as provided by law.
I am not nearly as pessimistic as some about Obamacare passing muster. The mandate is obviously unconstitutional. Even a caveman or cavewomen or cavechild or cavehound could figure that out. As for the rest of the law, I have no idea what SCOTUS will do.
Although Scalia’s dissent in the Arizona case is compelling, I think one could reasonably argue that the Court determined that it’s the feds job to protect our borders under the Constitution. Extrapolating that decision to the upcoming Obamacare decision, seems to me, the Court is following, or attempting to follow, Constitutional dictates, which bodes quite poorly for the individual mandate. The CC clause cannot justify the mandate.
Now, I will go get a beer.