Posted on 07/01/2012 7:57:19 PM PDT by trekdown
Obamacare is now essentially upheld. There’s only one way it can be overturned. The same way it was passed — elect a new president and a new Congress. That’s undoubtedly what Roberts is telling the nation: Your job, not mine. I won’t make it easy for you.
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Or Mitt
They'll make sure that the court is packed with squishy liberals.
We've lost the court for a generation or more.
Heh, I’m glad that the sole Liberal is getting his say here on FreeRepublic...
You should be ashamed though to call this constitutional.
Please tell me where in the Constitution it says that the Federal Government has control over Heath Care? I,m sure you can come up with an answer. We were defined as a Republic to insure States rights regarding the Federal with additional protections in place supposedly by the Constitution. Seems that those safeguards have been displaced. After all (before the 10th amendment being interpreted to allow anything) States rights are predominant!
It matters not that the Democrats lied (they do that all the time), it is a matter of whether the courts consider the law passed (regardless of how) is Constitutional or not.
That is the Supreme Courts mantle. Not to legislate, not to agree with any party, but to uphold the Constitution. If they fail to do that (according to common sense by the people) then they have not only failed, but they have overruled the government as proscribed by our forefathers.
Passing a tax is not the same as regulating one third of the nations economy. I’m sure you disagree but do you also agree that the Courts could allow control of the Automotive Industry. The only difference is how they effect others.
Neither passes normal peoples idea of the proper application of the Constitution. We are surviving unusual times as your post shows.
We are in for a massive rebellion.
Why do you and others look at this as a tax? It matters not but it is a Constitutional affront to the States. That makes it unconstitutional on its own.
The Federal Government has no authority to force States to abide to anything that is not specifically granted in the Constitution!
You miss the whole point. The bill was 100% unconstitutional regardless of whether it was called a penalty or a tax.
Either way it was going to be unconstitutional.
Instead of telling us we HAD to buy something they are now telling us that we will be taxed for NOT buying something.
Roberts just obliterated the Constitution. They’ve never been able to tax us for INACTION.
Well, you figure that out... Good that you don’t seem to care about what happens to the country.
John Roberts interpreted not the Constitution, in regard to this law, but rather he took the legislation language of the law, dismissed it, and deemed it to his own satisfaction, in order to pass the dang thing.
Where was it we saw that done, before?
Abortion comes to mind. Just another overreach of the Courts.
Yep, well put.
We have seemed to lose the scholars necessary to both read and interpret the Constitution as written.
That means that our education has failed us severely (probably so) and that common sense seems to be a failure of our leaders. The major problem is does that mean that the voters are getting so dumb that they can not elect decent leaders or does that mean that the leaders running for office are so dumb (as to the actual Constitution) that it does not matter who we elect?
I suggest the latter.
Why is she looking better and better to you? Miers was replaced by Alito. Alito did his job. He has been more conservative than Miers would have been.
Traitor Roberts had nothing to do with Miers.
Who knows what their agenda is, but it appears that they are attempting to repeat a lie enough times so that it becomes a fact.
Roberts, it seems to me, negated the Congress. What they wrote as a legislative imperative...what the legislative wording....what was the legislative history....and what was the intent...that it is not a tax.....it is not a tax on people making under $120,000...those were the political process and the reality and the selling point to THE PEOPLE....and those were defined as lies in the extreme by this ruling. His was a crass political ploy to engratiate himself to those who murmured in his ear....”you will be reveared if you do this...you will be secured in the jurisprudential history if you to this.....you will secure your legacy if you do this......Like Pacino said as the devil in “The Devils Advocate”.....”Vanity..it is definitly my favorite vice.”
Obviously our leaders “knowledge” is a reflection of the people, whose education is a reflection of our “leaders”. :)
Lost in this mutual downward spiral, we’re naturally accelerating efforts to just get the old timers “kilt off”, in order to expedite arrival at Utopia.
Sadly, there is no real resistance in sight, either. I think maybe the internet may be more responsible for that pathetic fact than we realize. We will bitch ourselves to death but never leave the keyboard. :/
Roberts is paid to uphold the United States Constitution. That is it. He failed. Epic fail!
If I read another one of these spinning gyrating cessation of common sense pieces by another talking head who is pulling sense and logic way past the point of breakage I’m gonna puke!
Roberts knows better. He is smarter than this. But yet he defied the laws of gravity. Why? Such that the other justices could not sway him back to reality. Why? Why did he do something so criminal? The only answer is that he was made to. How that was and what happened I do not know. All I know is that I’m sickened by him.
I think some are mistaken, here. SC called it a tax. Therefore, congress has to approve a new, high tax. It’s now on the record that American’s can’t be forced by the fed. gov. to purchase anything. AND it’s a matter of record that the feds can’t retaliate against states to refuse to take part in federally mandated programs.
I didn’t thing the above up, someone else did and I shared it in my own words.
There’s more to this than the mainstream media is telling. Don’t let those noodle brains get you down.
It won’t be easy with a GOP majority in the other two branched either. My whole point is that any Conservative opposition that is taken to the SC is DOA. Roberts and his gang of Marxists will stifle any dissent by Conservatives. The likes of Kraut and Co trying to justify this despicable decision is ludicrous.
You are write - absolutely - and I will completely agree with you, if it'll be "bad result" in November. Meanwhile the first visible result of his action does not look too bad.
As I pointed it out in previous post according to a Reuters/Ipsos poll: " more than half of all registered voters - 53 percent - said they were more likely to vote for their member of Congress if he were running on a platform of repealing the law, up from 46 percent before the ruling"
Those who cherish the Constitution, who feel blessed to have Founders with such great wisdom and for bestowing upon us the greatest form of government the world has known, are right to feel the righteous anger growing each day.
As each day passes my anger only grows stronger. I see these mentally unstable so called Conservatives such as CK spouting this insane pablum that this is some great decision.
Only an inside the beltway, arrogant and I mean utterly arrogant ELITIST would write what CK did.
Mark Levin in his show from last Thursday and Friday clearly explained the evils of this ruling. Levin explained how there is no silver lining in this ruling.
To the nauseating elitist CK and other insulting writers hear this: Roberts is a very evil human being who consciously and willingly made a decision that will result in horrible misery for tens of millions of Americans.
I am sick to death of these arrogant elitist trying to snow us. I truly hate them more every time I read their insane writings.
The leaders aren’t dumb. They are the foxes in the henhouse. Many of them are evil. The populace? Oh, yeah, they are as dumbed-down as they can be.
When considering America’s future, that fact, more than any other, frightens me the most.
Gee Thanks Chief Justice Roberts!
Again, sorry to say that your statements are so true!
I also do not see a precipice to this spiral. It is unfortunate but our education system is contributing to the spiral. I can only look optimistically to the future by looking at our Home education system. Sadly, I as an old timer wish better for my son.
Yes, I understand the idea of getting rid of the old folks - and actually I agree. I have never gone to the Doctor (Don’t even know who I would go to) for Medicare treatment and I wish most of elderly Americans would do the same. The cost benefit would be enormous! The advertized pre care checkups ought to be discouraged! I know I’m a devil for saying this but really, it will save money and in almost 90% of cases are unnecessary.
Elderly people (including me) should only go to the Doctor (really just emergency care) when major problem occur, not minor problems (yes that occurs almost 80% of the time).
Those that go to the Doctor for shingles, swelling, skin problems, etc., are just going for comfort. Doctors can do little for them but they always think differently. They can get reasonable relief from over the counter drugs. Please you old folks, go over the counter before you go to the Doctor. That will solve so many problems!
Not to say that TV always shows Doctors inviting all those elderly in for a visit...heh. Just ignore those creeps!
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