The so called silver lining” is what separates the republicans from conservatives.
Good News for republicans politically
Bad news for conservatism and America
That’s how I see this
“...despite overwhelming evidence that current immigrants — including Latinos — are assimilating at rates that are as high or higher than previous immigrants from Europe.”
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1) Define “assimilating”.
2) Post your SPECIFIC “evidence”.
There is a silver lining to the court decision if (a) the voters of the US wake up and move in the direction of freedom and (b) elected officials actually move in the direction of freedom.
Roberts put a major roadblock in the way of the Left by preventing the use of the commerce clause as a basis for further encroachment.
He also exposed ObamaCare to future action by the people and congress.
But will we take action? That is the question.
A turd sandwich by any other name, is still a turd sandwich, enjoy the chit.
The Roberts opinion is the Wickard of our generation.
You will recall that Wickard v. Filburn, 317 U.S. 111 (1942) “vividly re-imagined” the Commerce Clause so that it covered a farmer growing a crop for his private use on his own land. In this case the fact that he was growing grain to feed to his own livestock and because he was not going to put that grain on the market, he was somehow possibly going to have an effect on interestate commerce and that gave the federal government the nexus for regulating the crop.
Wickard plagues us today. Most recently in Gonzales v. Raich (2005), where a the Court ruled that a person, growing marijuana on her own property with her own soil somehow was engaged in interestate commerce.
In Raich, the court said, “Congress can regulate purely intrastate activity that is not itself ‘commercial,’ in that it is not produced for sale, if it concludes that failure to regulate that class of activity would undercut the regulation of the interstate market in that commodity.”
Now we have an expansion of this treasonous logic, for if government can wrap anything in an activity that can be taxed, then it too is legitimate, no matter how extreme.
I would point out that taxes must only be levied for legitimate government functions, and those come from the enumerated powers. In this ruling, the Court stated that ObamaCare could not be justified under the ever-elastic Commerce Clause. In doing so, they admitted it was not found in the enumerated powers. But since it was suddenly a tax, the tax could be levied and the law could stand.
So, in my opinion, this ruling is treasonous because it devises an end run around the Ninth and Tenth Amendments. Every Justice who approves of that reasoning must be impeached. (but of course, nothing will happen)
We now need to call a Convention to redefine the relationship of the self-funding, self-legalizing Leviathan State with its citizens. We must throw this Beast back in the chains from which it has now escaped lest we end up being swallowed by it.
There is only a “silver lining” if at this point, the Republicans choose to do the right thing and get out there to WIN in November. Not only the White House, but the US Senate as well, and as many state and local races as can be done out there.
If ever there were a fetch upside the head, wake-up call, it was made known yesterday. I was surprised by the unusual interpretation of the meaning of the “Obamacare” law, now declared a “tax”, despite the denials concerning that same designation back during the time it was being rammed through the House and Senate.
Now, the ball is back in the conservative Republicans’ court. There will be no help from nominal “blue dog” Democrats, as party discipline is stronger than good common sense. And there is for sure very little help to be expected from the establishment Republican elite, who have spurned the various overtures from the T.E.A. party again and again.
What we face, is not merely a rival for power (which is how the establishment Republican elite sees this) but a completely antithetical and contrary point of view. Theoretically, in the syllogism, there is the thesis, the antithesis, and after compromise, the synthesis. Only, the third step never occurs. The antithesis demands total surrender without compromise, so thesis is never actually tested.
This has been what we have getting from the “progressives” for the past hundred years so, going back to at least the time of Teddy Roosevelt, and perhaps longer than that. It is time and past time to end this belief that the change only can ratchet one direction.
Just because there was a “change”, does not mean the change was good or beneficial in any lasting way.
You want to know what the silver lining is?
We are slaves.
WOOHOO ENJOY YEAH LET’S THROW A ****ING BLOCK PARTY!