Posted on 06/25/2015 10:54:46 AM PDT by Kaslin
RUSH: Well, there's no way to spin this, folks. It's just a disaster. I think many of us are witnessing now the complete corruption of Washington, DC, meaning the objective has been to corrupt the government and success appears to be, at this moment in time, in hand. As it was pointed out to me earlier today, the left has the government that they've always wanted.
We have an authoritarian megalomaniac ruling like a monarch. The opposition bends over and, according to the high court, the Supreme Court, words, laws, really have no meaning. It's whatever the popular interpretation of the powers that be of the day want the words to mean. Now, look, folks, these days are kind of tough, host a program like this. I just want to be honest with you. I'm not surprised at the outcome.
I didn't talk about this a bunch in the future because I didn't want to appear to be pessimistic about it. But using my old philosophy of intelligence guided by experience, the outcome here was kind of foretold with the first Supreme Court decision on this, saved and rescued from obscurity and oblivion by the chief justice. It only stood to reason it was gonna happen again.
As I say, it's far easier to believe that something that has happened is going to happen again than to believe that something that hasn't happened is going to happen. Everybody has the air out of their sails over this today, but it was kind of foretold. And, you know, a lot of people are running around saying, "Well, hey, Rush, you know, it really isn't that big a deal 'cause the Republicans didn't have a plan. I mean, the extent the Republicans had a plan, they were gonna save these subsidies anyway."
That may be, but that doesn't mitigate at all what has happened at the Supreme Court, folks, the fact that the Republicans might have bent over backwards to make sure the subsidies continued, which is probably what would have happened. Nobody had a plan otherwise. The closest you can find to any Republican having a plan to deal with Obamacare being redone and obliterated, is Scott Walker. I've got an op-ed that he wrote about it. Aside from him there isn't really anybody that had a plan.
And I wouldn't be surprised if there were a lot of Republicans breathing huge sighs of relief over this, because they have been totally beaten down and they think that anything that makes the American people unhappy is going to be blamed on them, and they would rather do whatever it takes to avoid that. So in this sense, the outcome probably isn't any different regardless what the decision was. But that does in no way mitigate what's happened at the Supreme Court. That is an absolute disaster.
I mean, the chief justice took it upon himself to interpret the law again. He took it upon himself to say (paraphrasing), "This is not what they meant. What they wrote, they didn't mean this. What they meant by the state was the full-fledged federal government. Because our job here is not to disrupt things, and that would be a huge disruption." And then the chief justice also opined that Obamacare was about -- I forget the exact words -- but it was about improving markets, not harming.
That's not true. Obamacare is not about improving markets. Obama goes to the Rose Garden afterwards in the understandable victory lap and continues to tell things to people that are not true about the law. He's still saying how premiums are coming down, how all these uninsured are insured. I mean, most of the state exchanges are approaching bankruptcy. Covered California, the exchange for California, is losing five, $6 million a year. It's already bankrupt. People's deductibles have gone from 3,000 to $6,000. The premiums have skyrocketed. Everything is upside down.
The chief justice, however, taking it upon himself to interpret this law politically, not reviewing it judicially. That equals the full politicization of the court. Of course the left is running around and they're just beaming and happy and pointing out, "Hey, hey, he's appointed by George W. Bush. I mean, you guys gotta be very careful criticizing him."
This decision also -- little side note here -- makes a huge liar out of Jonathan Gruber, who was the chief author and architect of this law, because Gruber countless times over many months, specifically -- I mean, this is incredible. Gruber making speeches, making appearances, pointed out that it was purposeful to say that only could you get a subsidy through a state exchange. They purposely did not provide subsidies from the federal exchange because they were trying to apply political pressure to all the governors to sign up and create an Obamacare exchange.
So the architect is out making all of these speeches. I don't know if this was part of the so-called Republican argument at the court, but Gruber is acknowledged as the architect and the creator and the author, and he's on record countless times saying the exact opposite of what the chief justice interpreted today.
So we've got the government that the left has always wanted. We've got an authoritarian megalomaniac ruling like a monarch. The opposition, the Republicans more often than not just bend over. And according to the highest court in the land, words -- and therefore laws -- have no meaning.
What does that mean for the rule of law? If the law doesn't mean anything other than what the highest judge ruling on it says it means, then what is it worth? But, again, I have to say that, folks, look, this is not Monday morning quarterbacking in hindsight 20/20 because this is what I expected. I also expect the Supreme Court to legalize gay marriage nationwide. I think that's been in the cards as well. I understand a lot of people have been hoping that the court would put the kibosh on Obamacare. Things were not lining up that way.
A lot of people in the Drive-By Media said, "Chief Justice Roberts, he didn't say anything in oral arguments. What does that mean? What does that mean?" It doesn't mean anything. Nothing means anything is the point, anymore. And this is, by the way, what happens. You know, our society, our government, our culture, however you want to characterize it, has been evolving to this point where the Supreme Court has been granted ultimate and final authority status on everything political that reaches it.
The Supreme Court has reached this point, it's been a slow evolution where it is the final authority. When the Supreme Court speaks on something, that's it. It's like God coming to earth and answering controversial questions. Once that happens, there are no more questions. That's the way it has evolved.
So Scalia has, as usual, a really, really powerful dissent. And we learn that Chief Justice Roberts, according to Jeffrey Toobin, was laughing about it, laughing about Scalia's dissent. Scalia says, "We no longer should call this Obamacare, but SCOTUScare." So here's what the left completely understands. They understand completely the optics of succeeding and getting something to become part of society and having it accepted. And that happens to be socialism's great appeal. And then once something is in place, such as Obamacare, to use that as an example here, once it's in place, people generally don't complain.
If you failed to vote against Obama then this is on you.
You can’t shout down your conscience, try as hard as you like.
Well, you called the bottom bunk first, so I’m OK with this..
” If you failed to vote against Obama then this is on you.”
LMAO!!!!
Actually I am. It didn't work then either.
Remember the “Don’t Tred on Me Snake” well the snake now has its head chopped off by the Elitists running the government including the Supreme Court...and the Republic is dead...but like the snake we don’t realize it yet. I wonder when the reality hits of that famous star Trek line by Spock:
It’s dead , Jim.
Freegards
LEX
Oh Artcore hit me with more colorful language than that earlier. I still say the Yosemite Sam on a Dragon fraud still wins the liberal loser sweepstakes though.
Spare my your guilt rage. You backed a liberal and earned the scorn your group of lesser evils gets for pissing all over the founders country.
It was Dr. Leonard “Bones” McCoy the physician with a bit of a a Southern drawl, not Spock, who said to Captain Kirk, “He’s dead, Jim.” He was played by Jackson DeForest Kelley.
Sometimes I wonder if some of these jokers are merely terminally obtuse..........but not very often. I usually just believe they er...uh....SUCK.
Roberts is laughing because all he votes the right way and he gets to keep his illegal adoption of two Irish kids sealed.
That seems to be the in thing for lib republicans these days. Not that there’s anything wrong with that. I guess they could have been born that way.
Great work if one can get it.
That is why the TPP is a major danger as it moves us closer to a world currency which can not be deemed to be fiat as there is no alternative to it. And with no alternative, we have lost all freedom without a shot having to be fired.
I’m just as unhappy as everybody else about the “lesser of two evils” problem.
But I’m here to tell you - ALL OF YOU - that’s the world we live in. Just what the hell do you suggest we do about it?
Withdraw from the political process? Let me translate that for you: GIVE UP WITHOUT FIRING A SHOT!!
What you have to do - ALL OF YOU - is get off your dead assess and WORK for the candidate of your choice. And I don’t mean just talk about it. Go to the precinct meetings. Make phone calls. Knock on doors. Because I can assure you the other side is doing just that.
And I don’t want to hear whining about “the media.” We have the tools to do our own reporting, but nobody wants to put out the effort to go to the city council or county commission meetings where the rubber meets the road. I do, every week. I stand up and ask the bastards questions in a public meeting. They don’t like it, but that’s too damn bad for them.
Finally, if you’re not happy with the candidates who’re running, get off your dead ass and run for office yourself.
I’ve been voting since 1971, and haven’t missed very many elections, local, state, or federal. In every one of those hundreds of elections, I voted FOR THE LESSER OF THE EVILS, with one notable exception.
I had an opportunity in all those years to vote for a candidate whose views were totally aligned with mine.
I ran for a city council seat in 1982, and pulled the lever for myself - the perfect candidate.
Every other time, and I mean EVERY TIME, the other candidates were flawed.
So if you want to bitch and whine, and go hide, refuse to vote or participate, and complain how unfair life and politics is, go right ahead.
Or go do something about it.
As someone so wise once said: The only way to defeat liberalism is to give them everything they want...................
Could not agree more! Is there any reason to believe that Romney would appoint an originalist to the Court?
There’s a lot of assumptions there that are far from reality.
At this point, an image of Roberts on his knees in front of Obama would have been more appropriate.
Spell ‘em out. I’m waiting.
Not when his record was one of appointing far left judges. Which some here seem to pretend never happened so they can keep their personal farce going.
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