Posted on 06/29/2012 9:04:57 PM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach
Many conservatives are feeling betrayed by the chief justice's vote to uphold Obamacare. But there's a counterintuitive case to be made that John Roberts's decision is largely a victory for conservatives.
Every time I visit Washington, D.C., I am struck by a single, terrible thought: It is not just that conservatives are losing the various battles over big government, but they have been losing the war for generations. The most conservatives are ever able to do is tinker at the margins – and celebrating small victories like lowering marginal tax rates is a sign of just how low our sights are set.
Why has this happened? After all, this was a country founded in direct opposition to unlimited governmental power. How have we arrived at a point when the feds can do just about anything they want?
It is because, at critical moments in the nation’s history, the advocates of limited government were on the losing side of the political equation, and the opposition was very effective at consolidating its victory. Not only did big government advocates implement policy changes, they also brought about huge structural innovations to the way the government functions.
The progressives of the early 1900s managed this with the 16th Amendment, legalizing the income tax and opening up whole avenues of power that had been previously off limits. The political genius of that move must be admired: The left got its hands on the government for a relatively short period of time, but it sure made hay while the sun was out. We’re still paying the price today -- quite literally. Similarly, the New Deal took advantage of a national emergency to ram through ......
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our hope?....to be able to seat new judges who actually think the constitution means something...
then a revist to this crap decision...
...the authority to enact laws necessary and proper for the regulation of interstate commerce is not limited to laws governing intrastate activities that substantially affect interstate commerce. Where necessary to make a regulation of interstate commerce effective, Congress may regulate even those intrastate activities that do not themselves substantially affect interstate commerce.
Scalia concurring in Raich
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Both Roberts and Scalia are complicit in killing the Tenth Amendment.
Wait, wait, Help is on the way LOL
There were also some short-sighted new House members who last year were telling the MSM that they didn't care if they were re-elected. I know that resonated with a number but I thought it was kind of silly. The Republicans may have held off a few bills with the house but they accomplished nothing got nothing passed through Obama that he didnt demand, To go home after just that and give Pelosi power back after just this one term would be a complete waste.
Even if Republicans get power, what will they have the guts to actually do?
I do not condemn anyone! That is not the duty of humans...but it seems obvious that this man betrayed us.
If Roberts in reality thought he was putting in motion the type of Machiavellian scheme you’re positing there’s only one conclusion - he’s insane. He’s a megalomaniac who believes in the god-like prescience of his own intellect. There’s a simpler explanation, he’s just a statist. There’s no shortage of them running around Washington; the GOP loves statists so much that they decided to nominate one for president this year. Roberts may be a confused socialist at times, but in the end he believes in unlimited government and rules accordingly.
LOL thanks for the laugh. Anyone that believes that is a ignorant fool.
Injustice Roberts has clearly presented to the world his view of government.
The evil Roberts clearly and without any shades of gray states that he firmly believes that in all matters the State is superior and more important than the individual.
The more I learn about this decision the more I loathe that contemptible vile, very evil man. Roberts deserves nothing but our scorn, contempt and ridicule.
He anti-Constitutional, anti-Liberty decision will guarantee unneeded misery for tens of millions of Americans.
At this moment I loathe this subhuman more than I loathe those on the left.
Battered Conservative syndrome:
"Please officer, don't lock Bob up. He didn't mean to smash my face in. He's really good-hearted. Really he is! It's just sometimes that medication he takes for his epilepsy kicks in and then he just wails on me. Sometimes with a chair. But he really don't mean nuthin' by it."
"It's pro'lly my fault really, officer. I musta did sumthin.' I deserve it. Bob's really not a bad person."
It’s a little simplistic, but consider that Liberals and Progressives run for office and get elected with the stated goal of changing government, making it bigger and more powerful. Conservatives run for office and get elected with the vision of government as the Founders envisioned it and maintaining tradition.
Put this way, it’s easy to see how they have an easier job of gaining support to ram through their ideas of change - it’s core to their mission. It’s harder to always play defense, to rally the same amount of support to keep things the same, and much harder to roll things back.
The point is that a very good case for impeachment could be made. Certainly a better case than can be made for the Constitutionality of Obama care.
It comes down to the philosophy of hanging horse thieves. You don't have to hang too m,any of them before the others decide to tow the line! If their were actual consequences meted out to these bad apples, and Roberts is now the biggest, the bad apples would self correct.
Kagan should also be impeached for NOT recusing herself. This is a blatant act of conflict of interest. Text book as a matter of fact.
I guess the thing I think is...”actions speak louder than words”....
"The Federal Government may enact a tax on an activity that it cannot authorize, forbid, or otherwise control."
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"Where necessary to make a regulation of interstate commerce effective, Congress may regulate even those intrastate activities that do not themselves substantially affect interstate commerce."
I try to be optimistic too...
however, its almost as much a reach to think there is anything good about this ruling as it was for Roberts the Evil to make up law to get to the ruling...
pubs never get absolute compliance when a pub president trys to get a judge in ....
those rats though...they manage to stick together and cover the SCM with constant critique....
Bork would have saved us.....
ROBERTS S A PROGRESSIVE LIKE BUSH AND newt and of course MYTH....
More likely, he would have screwed us if he'd voted on Heller...
The Second Amendment states somewhat ambiguously: "A well-regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed."
The first part of the Amendment supports proponents of gun control by seeming to make the possession of firearms contingent upon being a member of a state-regulated militia. The next part is cited by opponents of gun control as a guarantee of the individual's right to possess such weapons, since he can always be called to militia service.
The Supreme Court has consistently ruled that there is no individual right to own a firearm. The Second Amendment was designed to allow states to defend themselves against a possible tyrannical national government.
Now that the federal government has stealth bombers and nuclear weapons, it is hard to imagine what people would need to keep in the garage to serve that purpose.
Bork, footnote, Slouching Towards Gomorrah
There is no room for that on the SC. The other 4 libs are just crazy political hacks.
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