SCOTUS Ping?
In a just and sane world, Sowell would be on the Supreme Court.
And Ann Barnhardt would be PRESIDENT!!!
Says it all.
” - - - 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.
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
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.
Excellent!
What he did was betray his oath to be faithful to the Constitution of the United States.
” - - - Many in the media and in academia have joined the shrill chorus of those who claim that the Supreme Court does not show proper “deference” to the legislative branch of government.”
Hmmmmmm, - - - - this “shrill chorus” must not have been reading their own public opinion polls on what the public “deference” is to our sorry, incompetent, pathetic, public servants in the US Congress who have not even passed a Federal Budget in over 3 1/2 YEARS!
Hence, Traitor John Roberts was not licking the boots of The Liberal Agenda Media who owns these public opinion polls.
Traitor John just might, could be mentally unstable due to his frequent epilepsy seizures.
Traitor John had a seizure of the brain which resulted in Dictator “You Lie” Obama seizing 1/6 of the US Economy.
Have an early Fourth of July, everybody!
Indeed a well written & articulated article Dr. Sowell.
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He betrayed is oath to the Constitution, but like Obama, he put the responsibility on others.
In his ruling he held the American people responsible for electing politicians who passed Obamacare.
He then held them responsible for getting rid of Obamacare by electing those who will get rid of it.
Some have seized on this clever twist and proclaimed, he’s right!
No, he’s wrong.
He had a responsibility to meet when it came before him in the office he now holds.
He tried to deflect his responsibility onto others who came first, or who will have the chance to act last.
It doesn’t work that way.
But how slimey to try that, Mr. Chief Justice Roberts.
How beneath the dignity of the office and the oath you swore.
“Few of the great tragedies of history were created by the village idiot, and many by the village genius.”
That’s a keeper.
Wow. As usual, the good Dr. Sowell says all that needs to be said about a subject. I, too wish he were on the SCOTUS or in the White House.
When the battle came, his powerful brain was as useless as a gun in a French soldier's hands.
Well thought piece, as always.
