Roberts Rules: What the Health Care Decision Means for the Country

Time ^ | June 29, 2012 | David Von Drehle

[trekdown]

For legal buffs, the virtuoso performance of Chief Justice John Roberts ... not only shielded his branch of government from charges of rank partisanship with his ruling but also granted partial immunity to Obama from the indictment that he spent the first year of his presidency fiddling over an unconstitutional overreach while the economy was burning.

[trekdown]

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[skeeter]

Puke. It’d be interesting to see the cover TIME had ready in case Roberts ruled the other way.

[Jack Hammer]

What it means for the country is plain enough: a long, slow descent into European-style Marxism, with attendant economic stagnation, coupled with the further erosion of personal liberties and a rise of the Police State.

Happy, America? You voted for him, now take the consequences.

The supreme irony is that it’s been handed to the nation on July 4th, the anniversary of American exceptionalism, by a disaffected radical from Kenya who was allowed to take the oath of office despite constitutional sanctions, and a vastly corrupt, self-serving and lily-livered, do-nothing congress.

[Ken H]

I see this Time writer fails to grasp the absolute genius in Roberts plan to destroy the left and bring back small government.

Roberts, you magnificent bastard!

[winner3000]

I didn’t expect the liberals to have the final 5th crucial vote they needed to completely destroy the Constitution. They seem to have already found it.

[rurgan]

Roberts and Obama have destroyed freedom in the U.S.. They have expanded government size and power as never before. That is the opposite of what is needed as government already is too large and does too many things(Anyone that doesn't agree with this is a democrat/marxist).Hey dumb democrats: socialism/government doesn't work and socialism enslaves all of us.

Government at all levels needs to be tremendously reduced immediately or we will not survive: Your share of the federal debt is already over $100,000 and exploding . The IRS and EPA need to be abolished immediately . The 100,000 pages of government regulations choking businesses need to be instantly eliminated. How to do this? My proposal is : (anybody have a better plan put it out there): The states need to secede from the union. And then those states write a new constitution that proclaims that the federal government’s only roles are in defending the country from Foreign threats like illegals and china. Never will it be allowed for government at any level to get involved in schools, healthcare, or welfare or charity.99% of what governments do know should be abolished and illegal. The only thing the government could have a small role is in roads as they already ruined that So governments should only deal with police(local), military , border control, customs( federal), roads( states), courts at all levels (only to protect individual and property rights )and only a sales tax and tariffs allowed at any level of government. That means an EPA,IRS, government schools, HUD,HHS , dept of energy,income tax, property taxes are always illegal(never never will any politician even propose legislation that would deal with any of this as it would be illegal).

Democrats really believe that the people who run the department of motor vehicles or government schools (Like a high school principle etc.) will be able to provide the cutting edge technology and diagnostics to save our lives.

[Sivad]

Roberts Rules of Odor

[Know et al]

And, I was worried about Obama getting one or two more USSC appointments. Oh well.