Why t you guys get this. Roberts guaranteed this election for us. We should be thanking him. Bigger picture people. It will be overturned completely I stead of by pieces... This is a good thing. Think 1994 on steroids,!!!
The bigger picture is this isn’t about Obamacare or even the repeal. It’s the legal precedence and expansion of the gov’t to regulate behavior and tax/fine any unapproved/approved action and inaction.
The only good in the long-term is if you think this is a call to arms...not to the voting booth.
I’d much rather have had the communist healthcare law guaranteed to be gone for good than make a political gamble which may or may not pay off.
It is not the SCOTUS’s role to make decisions based on potential political gain.
roberts did one and only one thing today... and if you read the dissenting opinions then you will know... roberts handed down a horrible and treasonous decision.
This election is no more guaranteed for romney than obamacare being doomed due to the oral arguments. There is a better than even chance that obama will win... and if he does... we will probably lose House seats and lose seats in the Senate. obamao is that corrupt and that powerful... your government machine wants to morph into a central command government that controls everything that citizens do. romeny may lose... because he is just that horrible a candidate. Guarantee? Don’t write a check that you can’t cash.
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No, Hildy, Laura Ingram said it best when she noted that there is no way this was a “brilliant coup” for the GOP when we are less free today than yesterday.
Roberts effectively gave to Federal government the power to tax us for absolutely anything or nothing at all. It is all at their discretion. It does not matter if the next legislature overturns the law itself. The supreme court ruled that unlimited taxation for any reason or purpose was okay as long the federal government voted for it.
The only way around that is set limits on what the government can tax us for etc. It will most likely require a constitutional convention.
Why don't you get this...he voted AGAINST Scalia and WITH Kagan.
It does no one any good to try to present this shit sandwich of a decision as an exquisite dish of caviar.
Bigger picture?
The bigger picture is that now, Congress has the power to tax anything, in any way, with no restrictions at all. Furthermore, the courts now have precedent to impose taxation directly on us, which is a power reserved only to Congress in the Constitution. The bigger picture is that our Republic form of government suffered its coup de grace today.
But he also made it legal for Congress to tax anything, and nothing at all.
Sorry, it was a bad tactical move and a strategic failure.