Posted on 07/02/2012 11:26:31 AM PDT by jazusamo
SCOTUS Ping?
In a just and sane world, Sowell would be on the Supreme Court.
And Ann Barnhardt would be PRESIDENT!!!
Thanks for the ping
Thanks for the ping jaz.
Says it all.
I can honestly say, he is one of the smartest men on the face of the earth.
There are many speculations as to why Chief Justice Roberts did what he did, some attributing noble and far-sighted reasons, and others attributing petty and short-sighted reasons, including personal vanity. But all of that is ultimately irrelevant. What he did was betray his oath to be faithful to the Constitution of the United States.
Says it all.
Fixed my tag.
” - - - How far do you bend over backwards to avoid the obvious, that ObamaCare was an unprecedented extension of federal power over the lives of 300 million Americans today and of generations yet unborn?”
VERY well said!
Thank you, Dr. Sowell. In this one sentence, you have summarized all of my threads and thousands of comments that I have made in the past year.
Agreed, and welcome to the Sowell ping list, you’re on.
I am curious, however, if ObaMao's side even argued that it was a tax, in direct defiance of what they did when the law was implemented.
If they did not, then Robert's ruling is all the more absurd because it is being based on reasoning not even offered in ObaMao's power grab defense.
Whatever legal justification may be used to allow this Administration and only one Party in the House and Senate to impose such a coercively oppressive government "taking" of "the People's" earnings, will go down in the history books of future generations as a major return to the government-over-people ideas which preceded 1776 and 1787! Make no mistake about it, future generations will see this as the period when the light of liberty was about to be extinguished.
"But how is ... legal plunder to be identified? Quite simply. See if the law takes from some persons what belongs to them, and gives it to other persons to whom it does not belong. See if the law benefits one citizen at the expense of another by doing what the citizen himself cannot do without committing a crime. Then abolish this law without delay, for it is not only an evil itself, but also it is a fertile source for further evils because it invites reprisals." - Frédéric Bastiat
Of the Administration, one might conclude:
"The person who used political power to force others to conform to his ideas seems inevitably to become corrupted by the power he holds. In due course he comes to believe that power and wisdom are the same thing and, since he has power, he must also have wisdom. At this point he begins to lose his ability to distinguish between what is morally right and what is politically expedient." - Ben Moreell
Tom Sowell is my hero.
But, but, but wait!
Just wait’ll we hang the “it’s a tax” meme around the presidents neck in November! - that’ll show em!
Well, and the democrat state run media just need to keep hammering Joe and Judy SixPack with the “ it wasn’t a tax until the EVIL republican Chief Justice made it one” narrative.
How will Romney defend a false promise of repeal when all the democrats can rightly say that “Romneycare was first!”.
What a disaster. I cannot believe this happened in my lifetime. They got it without having to fire a single shot.
El Dictator Obozo to John the traitor, "Hey Justice John, Nancy is really great in bed isn't she, and her pictures of you in bed with her are ready to go on You Tube if you don't vote for us!"
A question for all of us: "When and how did Pelosi know that her side would win?"
Excellent!
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