Posted on 06/29/2012 2:33:17 PM PDT by nerdgirl
While Roberts has a point that we should elect better politicians, I would argue that it is, in fact, the Court's job to protect us from time to time; framing it as protecting us from ourselves rather than from those we elect is a distinction without a difference as the members of the Court swear, as do other elected federal officials, to support and defend the Constitution, not the people.
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Lol. Yes! I really do love Quinoa. I manage to cook it using chicken broth as a base in my rice cooker, and can pass it off on the kids as “little noodlies” which they think are something cool.
Nobody sees me as a liberal though, despite my Quinoa love and the old pair of white Birkenstocks I may still have someplace from my college days :)
You don’t have to be the opposite of conservative in order to have some compassion for people trying to do the right thing in a tough spot, even if you think they’ve done the WRONG thing.
Oh, yes, he was. He hung the term “tax” on the dimocrats and their bill.
Now the election will be lost because of an “illegal” tac.
People cannot be taxed unless it is connected to their income or to the geographic area and the population.
Far smarter than Obama ever will be.
*nod* -- Agreed.
You want to know why? Well, I'll tell you; The fix is in. That's why. The Federal Government didn't just pass a Health Care Law. It took over health care. It moved in and wrapped it's tentacles around the whole damned thing. The ground is occupied. The IRS agents are hired. They have control systems in place and infrastructure and people and guns. And they're not moving. At some point this was made clear to Roberts if he was too stupid not to see it for himself.
If you're going to be so petulant to the point of pulling bunnies out of your @ss...go deeper, and look at Franken's legitimacy.
And that was singularly up to John Roberts to undo?
How about all the dip crap Americans who allowed this to be approved? Should they bear some of this responsibility, or they they all commies/socialists who should be run out of the country?
Undo? You must mean Re-do. He came up with the whole tax argument. In fact, he dismantled the government's argument and built them a whole new one from scratch.
And yes, it was his job to un-do it.
“I would argue that it is, in fact, the Court’s job to protect us from time to time”
We need to be protected from Roberts.
Maybe. But if so, I think it was more out of a misguided attempt to protect the Court’s legitimacy then because the guy loves Obamacare.
“The problem is that between voter ignorance and apathy, and the bias of much of the media, sustainable better election outcomes is a thin reed on which to hang our nation’s liberty.”
Few truths are greater, injustice Roberts just condemned us to the despotism of democracy. That is what the death of the constitution means.
“unless Congress finds a way to impose that overreach as a tax, which today’s ruling will of course make Democrats (and their occasional Republican allies in regulation) attempt to do. The good news is that imposing new taxes is near the top of the list of politically perilous pursuits.”
Won’t be difficult anymore, the democrats will simply call it a legal technicality if that. The DNC is no more incline to accept Roberts insane dictates than we are, and even less inclined to care.
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