No!
There seems to be a silver lining in what Roberts actually did. I don’t think he did this to benefit Obamacare at all. I think he realized that if he threw it out, the democrats were going to push harder to get this legislation passed. What Roberts did was left it to the states.
Look at what the states are doing.... Many are not going to abide by it. The House is ready to bring it back to the House and repeal it as now it is a tax and not a penalty. They will have many democrats on their side since many are up for re-election. I think we need to just watch this! He also gave the government in no uncertain terms that they were not allowed to use the commerce clause in this manner - its a flat out tax. This makes Obama a liar in chief. This is payback time for Roberts.
He thought long and hard about this decision - lets give it time to fully sink in. I don’t think we should be going for his head at this time. He may have just saved us.
I have pretty strong feelings about this. There is something there that he did that definitely was not in BO’s favor.
Oh, yeah, the “silver lining”, or as they say, received ideas (Krauthammer, Will, et al. Yawn!) And Mr Roberts was so devilishly clever that he fooled those 4 liberals on the court, and they still don’t know better and will never know what hit ‘em.
well...another thought...he should resign??? and the supreme court should disolve...why? because chief justice roberts, in my mind, seems to prefer the voters to make decisions, he explained he felt the need to defer to the masses/voters (lord help us)...so should the voters then decide all issues???? if so, where does the supreme court come into play?
roberts indicates they are irrelevant???
Instead, Roberts tried to make the Left's case for them in a way that he thought was slightly compatible with conservative ideals. Problem is, the Left is composed almost entirely of such unscrupulous liars and revisionists that they shouldn't have much trouble obscuring or otherwise getting around the fact that 0bamacare is primarily a government power grab pack of tax increases which they are fundamentally for, anyway.
Instead, Roberts tried to make the Left's case for them in a way that he thought was slightly compatible with conservative ideals. Problem is, the Left is composed almost entirely of such unscrupulous liars and revisionists that they shouldn't have much trouble obscuring or otherwise getting around the fact that 0bamacare is primarily a government power grab pack of tax increases which they are fundamentally for, anyway.
So he deserves credit for upholding an unconstitutional bill by concocting a convoluted opinion that was so tortured and absurd that Justices Alito, Kennedy, Thomas and Scalia declined to sign it?
I don't think so.
It's worth taking a look at the bill ~ we have a few months when it is still legal (before it's repealed) so we might find out who is stealing what!
You just know it's going on with this crowd.