Posted on 04/02/2012 2:31:40 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Right before our eyes, American conservatism is becoming something very different from what it once was. Yet this transformation is happening by stealth because moderates are too afraid to acknowledge what all their senses tell them.
Last week’s Supreme Court oral arguments on health care were the most dramatic example of how radical tea partyism has displaced mainstream conservative thinking. It’s not just that the law’s individual mandate was, until very recently, a conservative idea. Even conservative legal analysts were insisting it was impossible to imagine the court declaring the health-care mandate unconstitutional, given its past decisions.
So imagine the shock when conservative justices repeatedly spouted views closely resembling the tweets and talking points issued by organizations of the sort funded by the Koch brothers. Don’t take it from me. Charles Fried, solicitor general for Ronald Reagan, told The Washington Post’s Ezra Klein that it was absurd for conservatives to pretend that the mandate created a market in health care. “The whole thing is just a canard that’s been invented by the tea party . . .,” Fried said, “and I was astonished to hear it coming out of the mouths of the people on that bench.”
Staunchly conservative circuit judges Jeffrey Sutton and Laurence Silberman must have been equally astonished, since both argued that overturning the law would amount to judicial overreach. Yet moderate opinion bends over backward to act as if this is an intellectually close question...
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ROFL!!!!
Extra large barf bag required...
government not being able to tell people how to spend their own money is somehow a right wing coup??
So if we don’t give government new dictatorial powers we are somehow moving far radical right??
Crack pipe journalism.
I don’t even know where to begin with this blithering idiot. I wonder who has to remind him to breathe.
Commies latch on to any dissenting opinions on the right to exploit.
ObamaCare is a 2700 page communist coup. America gets it.
This guy is writing for the brie-and-Chablis circuit. He's not going to convince anyone else.
!! Conservative idea !!??
The antithesis of Conservatism!
"insisting"? "impossible to imagine"? Give us one name.
Apparently, Kagan texted the results of Friday’s secret SCOTUS vote on ObamaCare and he is talking tough because he knows they have decided it is UN-Constitutional!
Now, he is trying to save the rest of the package from the Mandate!?!?!?
Now they make up straw man arguements so they can show how smart they are in knocking them down.
These frigging nitwits think it is a done deal. I don’t think they will kill it, Kennedy will cave and Breyer is a senile moron will cave.
Charles Fried, solicitor general for Ronald Reagan (who is also and Obama voter\supporter) How the heck did that happen?
They tell us about themselves, by what they accuse us of. They accuse us of a ‘stealth coup’. A coup is exactly what they have been executing. A socialist stealth coup.
FUBO.
The left media will continue to proclaim that the individual mandate was a “conservative idea” because it puts the guilt on their opposition. This is very important to the socialist revolutionary cause. The same way that it is important for leftist socialists to force YOU to pay for their crap, NPR, PBS, food stamps, Planned Parenthood etc etc. It makes you guilty too.
There... fixed it....
The WaPo comments section on this article is populated largely by the mentally ill. These people are deeply disturbed, yet strangely arrogant and smug about it. It’s as if they’ve all contracted a horribly disfiguring disease, but when they look in the mirror, they all say, “Yeah, bit looks good on ME.”
Was this idiot ever issued a brain? I don’t think he has ever had one from day one.
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