Posted on 06/28/2012 9:09:26 PM PDT by little jeremiah
....But while Roberts may have saved Obama's signature domestic legislation — and perhaps his reelection campaign — by siding with the court's liberal wing, he actually did it in spite of Obama, not because of him.
Roberts' opened his opinion today by declaring, unequivocally, that the individual mandate — which requires people to buy insurance or pay a penalty — is not constitutional under the Commerce Clause or the Necessary and Proper Clause. It's a direct shot at the Obama administration's defense of the law's constitutionality, which largely relied on those two clauses, which give Congress the power to regulate commerce and to enact provisions that are necessary to carry out its laws, respectively.
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Sorry, you are trying to put lipstick on a pig. This ruling was a disaster for us. There is no getting around what Roberts just did to this country. I chose not to go to the health club today. Roberts just ruled that I can be taxed for that. He is one SOB.
I don’t think it was a dead woman, unless that woman was Lady Liberty.
Roberts GAVE THEM an out ..HE brought up the idea that it’s a tax
May he rot in hell
WELL WHERE IS THE OUTRAGE FOLKS ?
WHERE IS THE MILLION MAN MARCH ON
DC /
WHERE IS THE NEW SUPER CHARGED TEA PARTY OUTRAGE..HUH WHERE IS IT ?
WHO IS ORGANIZING IT ? I HAVEN’T SEEN A WORD OF REACTION WITH TEETH IN IT
If we dont tear DC down then we deserve this
Roberts GAVE THEM an out ..HE brought up the idea that it’s a tax
May he rot in hell
WELL WHERE IS THE OUTRAGE FOLKS ?
WHERE IS THE MILLION MAN MARCH ON
DC /
WHERE IS THE NEW SUPER CHARGED TEA PARTY OUTRAGE..HUH WHERE IS IT ?
WHO IS ORGANIZING IT ? I HAVEN’T SEEN A WORD OF REACTION WITH TEETH IN IT
If we dont tear DC down then we deserve this
I know morons who still think ObamaCare will be giving them free health care in 2014. There is simply a huge swath of citizens who are hopelessly stupid. When they hear “tax”, they are going keep assuming that it’s taxes on the rich. And they’ll all be voting in November to further enable Obama.
Roberts GAVE THEM an out ..HE brought up the idea that it’s a tax
May he rot in hell
WELL WHERE IS THE OUTRAGE FOLKS ?
WHERE IS THE MILLION MAN MARCH ON
DC /
WHERE IS THE NEW SUPER CHARGED TEA PARTY OUTRAGE..HUH WHERE IS IT ?
WHO IS ORGANIZING IT ? I HAVEN’T SEEN A WORD OF REACTION WITH TEETH IN IT
If we dont tear DC down then we deserve this
The answer is probably in the FBI Files in Eric Holder’s desk.
It’s doubtful Robert’s saved Obama’s reelection, but it isn’t for lack of trying.
Easy, dude! It’s only been 15 hours since the decision. Million-man marches aren’t organized in 15 hours. Something that massive takes sometimes an entire day or two to organize!
Not enough. How about 33? And another 435 on the other side of the building.
They all need to go.
From the dissent by Alito,Kennedy,Scalia and Thomas:
"Our cases establish a clear line between a tax and a penalty: “‘[A] tax is an enforced contribution to provide for the support of government; a penalty . . . is an exaction imposed by statute as punishment for an unlawful act.’” United States v. Reorganized CF&I Fabricators of Utah, Inc., 518 U. S. 213, 224 (1996) (quoting United States v. La Franca, 282 U. S. 568, 572 (1931)). In a few cases, this Court has held that a “tax” imposed upon private conduct was so onerous as to be in effect a penalty. But we have never held—never—that a penalty imposed for violation of the law was so trivial as to be in effect a tax. We have never held that any exaction imposed for violation of the law is an exercise of Congress’ taxing power—even when the statute calls it a tax, much less when (as here) the statute repeatedly calls it a penalty. When an act “adopt[s] the criteria of wrongdoing” and then imposes a monetary penalty as the “principal consequence on those who transgress its standard,” it creates a regulatory penalty, not a tax. Child Labor Tax Case, 259 U. S. 20, 38 (1922)."
Oh My God, the king was celebrating!!!
Roberts isn’t qualified to shine Scalia’s shoes.
SORRY Cyber Liberty!
I replied to the wrong post!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NNCyEC9r_mk&feature=relmfu
Thanks for posting this. Peter Schiff is brilliant.
Everyone of us should watch this. He eviscerates this ruling, shows just how far from the Constitution Roberts had to stray to make his traitorous ruling, and even provides some strategies for challenging it.
Agreed.
Sure be nice to know where the Ginsberg threat info came from.
It would explain a few things - if true. However, not sure the enormity of this ruling would be worth it and Obama would still have had to get someone else confirmed which wouldn’t necessarily be easy.
Here is the relevent passage you are missing (among many):
The individual mandate, by contrast, vests Congress with the extraordinary ability to create the necessary predicate to the exercise of an enumerated power
What, pray tell, is the enumerated power which the individual mandate exercises?
[Hint: NONE.]
How stupid. When Nancy Pelosi is smiling, America has just taken one in the ass. I can’t stand these Beltway “conservatives” who are either lying to us, or are simply imbeciles. Bob
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