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Posted on 06/29/2015 1:17:50 PM PDT by jazusamo
Many people are looking at the recent Supreme Court decisions about ObamaCare and same-sex marriage in terms of whether they think these are good or bad policies. That is certainly a legitimate concern, for both those who favor those policies and those who oppose them.
But there is a deeper and more long-lasting impact of these decisions that raise the question whether we are still living in America, where "we the people" are supposed to decide what kind of society we want, not have our betters impose their notions on us.
The Constitution of the United States says that the federal government has only those powers specifically granted to it by the Constitution — and that all other powers belong either to the states or to the people themselves.
That is the foundation of our freedom, and that is what is being dismantled by both this year's Obamacare decision and last year's ObamaCare decision, as well as by the Supreme Court's decision imposing a redefinition of marriage.
Last year's Supreme Court decision declaring ObamaCare constitutional says that the federal government can order individual citizens to buy the kind of insurance the government wants them to buy, regardless of what the citizens themselves prefer.
The Constitution gave the federal government no such power, but the Supreme Court did. It did so by citing the government's power to tax, even though the ObamaCare law did not claim to be taxing.
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Thanks, Jaz! I was sitting on the edge of my seat, waiting for my, ‘Dream Date’ to weigh in on this.
Be back after I read it all, print it out, make copies and leave it in random spots where the LefTards hang out in town.
*GIGGLE* :)
Outstanding, my FRiend! ;-)
Our leaders need to do more than merely denounce this atrocity.
They should respond just as should if the ruling were an order to implement Nazi Germany’s death camps and start rounding up Christians and Jews.
They should publicly state they will not comply with this immoral, unlawful ruling. Period.
And anyone in any office who attempts to enforce this violation of the first amendment will learn the reality of the second.
They’re not liberals. They’re totalitarians in liberal clothing, espousing “tolerance & diversity” only insofar as their views garner enough sociopolitical power to eviscerate the opposition.
Uh...that’s what I said. They just use the facade of “liberal” (see classical definition if you’re confused) to garner tolerance of the intolerable until they can shove it down everyone’s throats.
Except that it is too late even not to nominate/elect a moderate GOP.
The whole fed process is geared to diminish your and my legal votes.
“Supreme Court will come right out and say that “state’s rights” are unconstitutional”
I am certain that we mostly agree, but states and governments do not have rights. They have powers. The idea that governments have rights was introduced to obfuscate what actual rights are, and to deny rights to individuals.
As was many things, the mangling of the language in favor of leftist false assumptions has become common.
If it is time to hide your guns, it is time to use them.
Why would it bother them? No one in DC cares about the phrase or thinks it means anything.
Ted Cruz is standing on the tail of the Snake..
The snake does not like it..
Ted Cruz absolutely is and I love it.
If it’s time to hide them it’s time to use them.
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Piecemeal but the pieces will be falling pretty rapidly now. There seems to be a culminating point, a deadline as it were, of the end of next year. I expect a climax of some sort next summer when even the densest will know that the Republic is dead or the Left is dead, not temporarily beaten in elections or court decisions, but dead.
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I’mbetting the Left will be dead. They really pushed too far, too hard. Long live the Republic.
That’s the thing about slippery slopes, you see. When you slide all the way to the bottom, nobody denies that getting there was the intent all along.
Tenth Amendment bump - especially in these times.
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