[ROTB]

We deserve this.

That being said, read my tagline, and my profile.

[LibLieSlayer]

The new reality... if it was touched by a bush it is evil.

LLS

[chrisser]

Just another car in the long train of abuses. The Founders tell us what we can do with that train.

[BillyBoy]

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.

[mmichaels1970]

Thanks for the “Roberts is a Scumbag” vanity. WAY too many “Roberts is a genius” posts going up recently.

[cydcharisse]

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.

[KantianBurke]

[stephenjohnbanker]

I am optimistic by nature, but today I believe Obamacare is the final nail in the coffin.

[Spaulding]

Lancey, had you carefully read the Constitution, as did every US Senator including Senator Obama when they signed their agreement with Pat Leahy and Michael Chertoff in hearings for Senate Resolution 511 in April of 2008, “My assumption and my understanding is that if you are born of American parents, you are naturally a natural-born American citizen,” Chertoff replied. “That is mine, too,” said Leahy.” Roberts, with some difficulty, certainly knowing the possible implications for his legacy, administered the oath of office to the president elect who told us all that he was a naturalized citizen, born to an alien father. Then they all played on the ignorance of most of us by claiming natural born citizen was not defined in the Constitution, when there are not definitions, with but one exception, “Treason”, in the Constitution, by design. They depend upon our ignorance.

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?

[bigbob]

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.

[mason-dixon]

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.

[Nip]

If I remember correctly didn't the solitor-general argue that the individual mandate wasn't a tax?

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.

[Sun]

“Pray for America. Personally, I think we’re toast.”

I’ve been praying every day, but I need to pray harder than I have. We all do.

It seems, to undo this damaage we might need to have AT LEAST a majority of CONSERVATIVE Republicans in BOTH houses, but probably a SUPER majority in both houses. We all need to volunteer, donate, call talk shows, and do whatever we can to accomplish this.