Posted on 06/28/2012 1:50:25 PM PDT by Lancey Howard
I never saw this coming - Roberts lied through his teeth at his hearings and now we have another stealth socialist Democrat on the court - the new David Souter.
Pray for America. Personally, I think we're toast.
We deserve this.
That being said, read my tagline, and my profile.
The new reality... if it was touched by a bush it is evil.
LLS
I need to see the lightning bolts from heaven.
They’re long overdue.
I dunno..... My faith is wavering.
Just another car in the long train of abuses. The Founders tell us what we can do with that train.
I don’t know what the hell got into Roberts this session. When “conservative federalist” John Roberts votes with Kagan, Ginsberg, Breyer, and Sotomayor, while squishy justice Anthony Kennedy publishes a scathing dissent and says Obamacare should have been struck down in its entirety, I feel like I’m in the Twilight Zone.
I harshly criticized Ann Coulter when she was on the warpath against Roberts and insisted he was “another Souter”. Her adoring fans here balked whenever I questioned Princess Ann. The funny thing is this latest session might have actually vindicated her about Roberts, but now her fan club has gone underground because they finally had to accept their “true conservative warrior” is a Romneybot who fought tooth and nail to nominate him over conservative candidates. Only took them 4 years to admit it. lol
But really… let’s look at the track record of GOP presidents. Bush gave us Roberts and tried to give us Harriet Miers. His father gave us Souter. Reagan gave us Sandra Day O’Connor. Ford gave us John Paul Stevens. “Strict constructionist lawyer” Nixon gave Harry Blackmun, Lewis Powell, and chief justice in title only Warren Burger.
So much for those “conservative” judicial appointments paraded about every four years as THE reason to support the “lesser evil”... even if a GOP president DOES appoint a judge who starts off as a reliable constitutional conservative, there’s no way to stop them from “evolving” over the next 30 years.
We’re pretty much screwed as long as federal judges are lifetime appointees who cannot be held accountable for their actions.
Thanks for the “Roberts is a Scumbag” vanity. WAY too many “Roberts is a genius” posts going up recently.
Yes we are toast. I’m absolutely positive that if the Republicans take the White House and both houses of Congress there’ll be a lot of bluff and bluster, but they will never have the guts to repeal this.
Conservatism is dead in the country, and this decision killed it.
I am optimistic by nature, but today I believe Obamacare is the final nail in the coffin.
Roberts’ integrity was established by that act. Roberts had no authority to vet Obama, but he has an obligation as an officer of the court to report felonies. He knows that Obama solicited campaign contributions based upon his eligibility, an eligibility he never personally confirmed. Obama never claimed to be a natural born citizen. That was the subterfuge. But Obama lied when he took the oath to honor the Constitution. Until it is amended, Obama's self-prolaimed naturalized citizen status violates Article II Section 1. Whether to go-along-to-get-along, or there are still secrets in the Clinton's cache of raw FBI reports is not relevant. Roberts never was an originalist, as the media claimed. Who is so naive as to believe anything reported by the media, mainstream of not?
Everyone is pissed off, I get that. I’m not happy about it but I never put much faith in SCOTUS reversing what was (and remains) the law of the land. Take a few days to ventilate, then do yourself a favor and actually READ what Justice Roberts wrote. You may still not like or agree with it, but it’s impossible to be against judicial activism from the Left and then angry when it doesn’t happen from the Right.
Unfortunately, I did see this coming. Chief Justice Roberts is a coward (also see alternative explanation, below). He didn’t choose to do his constitutional responsibility back in January 2009 — to examine the qualifications of the president-elect before administering the oath of office.
Did you hear that he’s changing the color of the robe for the chief justice — from black to yellow!
Alternative explanation — Once we had a president-elect, in 2008 or 2009, the democrats got some unsavory info on Justice Roberts and threatened to make it public... unless he swore in the president-elect and didn’t cause the democrats any trouble.
If so, what in the seven shades of hello is Justice Roberts doing talking about it being a tax?
If my memory is correct, then Justice Roberts can no longer lay claim to impartial trier of fact because he has just become no better than a middle school referee supporting his playing son's junior varsity basket ball game.
Sorry to insult the many good middle school referees; but, you can understand where I am coming from on this one.
You mean, like the "judicial activism" the cowardly scumbag Roberts exhibited when he told Arizona to take its duly passed immigration law and go pound sand? It is one thing to know who the enemies of America are and get what you expect from them. It is another thing entirely to get stabbed in the back by somebody you thought was a friend.
I don’t like the ruling, but let’s be clear, it’s a narrow and rather hollow Obama victory that actually helps our side to argue it is a tax after all to then come back later and repeal it.
It would have been much worse if either of these two events transpired: the court upheld it based on Commerce Clause grounds OR the court stuck the mandate but not the law.
In fact, the left-wing siate has a good article up about how this frankly in the long-term benefits the conservative side more based upon the Commerce Clause issue. The tax issue is a really small argument and frankly isn’t a major expansion of federal power since it can be easily fixed in later rulings. If they had upheld it based on Commerce Clause grounds, it would have been such.
IT’S STILL A BAD RULING!!!! But, about the least bad it could be upholding the law with much good for our side as well.
It’s far from over. Don’t give up hope.
Dream on...it's over, the march to socialism is now complete.
There are threads on FR today, extolling Roberts’ virtues. It’s sickening.
I’m in AZ. So now, not only have we been told we are no longer sovereign in even a pretend-fashion (even Sheriff Joe is having a hard time figuring out a way around the latest blow). Now all of the 20-30-50 million illegals (if you count chain migration) can replace the “units” over 70 who get sick and must take the anti-Christ’s goobt pill.
The cowardly maggot “flubbed” the swearing-in and went to do it in a secret (probably Bohemian Grove-style) room with no peasant witnesses. Surely he’s been in on this overthrow all along.
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