It was an awful law that needs to be repealed, and don’t tell me repealing is out of the question. It isn’t.
Roberts is making a major effort to point that out to us.
This needs to be repeated over and over
Roberts agreed with the “GOP” that is was in reality a tax
That’s what they were insisting during the debate
So what is the problem when he agrees with the GOP
I am not telling you that repeal is out of the question. Not at all. Doesn’t change the fact: the ruling was awful. Good may come out of it. And yes, the voters deserve the blame. Still, Roberts justified and rewarded blatant lying from the Bench of the SCOTUS and that is terrible, period, end of discussion.
It isn't by a long shot. The Repubs are going to hold the House. Also, some of the close Senate races for Dem seats involving incumbents or candidates who supported Obamacare just became very interesting. It's not a good time to be Tim Kaine (VA), Claire McCaskill (MO), Bill Nelson (FL), Elizabeth Warren (MA), Jon Tester (MT), Tammy Baldwin (WI), or Heidi Heitkamp (ND). Sherrod Brown (OH) and Debbie Stabenow (MI) may start feeling some heat as well. They're all going to have to defend what is now defined as the most drastic tax hike in American history. Fifty-one Senate seats are needed to repeal a tax. Yesterday's SCOTUS ruling just put that number well in reach. All of us are angry. Let's take it out on those infernal Dems. Stay Angry! Donate! Volunteer! VOTE!
it’s not his job to teach the electorate a lesson, it’s his job to rule on constitutionality. Instead of narrowly ruling on that one issue, the law as written, he created his own version and concluded that it was constitutional, not what congress passed.
This is a classic liberal way of framing an argument. Don’t look at what was written or what the intention was but re-write it and decide what it the intention should be and argue that instead. This is what happened here. He dismissed the bill as unconstitutional and took it upon himself to replace the legislative branch it and declare the bill he wrote as constitutional even though the legislators insist it’s not a tax.
This is not really aimed at you but those that are looking for some tiny sliver of something positive from this huge steaming pile of regurgitated paper fiber that used to be the the most revered legislative document in the world are starting to look silly. So when Obama and the democrat majority decide to impose a federal annual ownership tax on guns, federal annual ownership tax on gas powered cars, annual ownership tax on computers and TVs who will stop them?
“don’t tell me repealing is out of the question. It isn’t.”
When is the last time a tax has been permanently repealed by the US Congress?
I keep asking that question, and none of Roberts’ supporters will answer it.