Posted on 07/01/2012 7:29:54 AM PDT by Kaslin
I would caution my fellow conservatives on the frustration they may be enticed to express at Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts. It is unwarranted, and it is unwise.
The reason I state such is that it is my firm belief that the Roberts' decision on the Obamacare mandate will without question bring about ultimate doom to the government control of healthcare, and through the best means possible--not judicial activism--but through the democratic process.
In boxing terminology no one has pulled a "rope-a-dope" this effective since Muhammad Ali himself. In doing so, it is clear that John Roberts duped the liberal wing of the Supreme Court into agreeing with him on calling out President Obama as legislatively dishonest, while assisting the conservative wing of the court into dismantling punitive measures against the states, and greatly limiting the ability of the legislature to use the powers of the commerce clause of the constitution to quietly take over people's lives.
Yes, conservative friends there are many silver linings in Thursday's odd verdict but let me assert merely four here:
1. Obamacare has been outed--by the authoritative voice of the nation's highest court-as a fraud. Yes the administration pitched it as a "penalty," as something that would not carry with it the burdensome label and politically repulsive thought of a tax. But Chief Justice Roberts seduced the four Obama supporters on the bench into agreeing that President Obama had in fact lied to the nation all through his 2008 campaign. Promising tax-cuts for 95% of the nation (a promise wrapped in a lie all its own), he has instead raised taxes--primarily on middle class families to the tune of $1.7 trillion dollars for the next decade. (And THAT'S just the starting point!) A tax, and nothing but a tax, is the only way the mandate funding could be understood in order for President Obama's only domestic initiative to survive. So a tax it is...
2. The commerce clause has been severely restricted. Roberts sided with the conservative wing of the court in asserting rightly that the Congress can't wander into a grey area of regulation, by attempting to force behavior of the population through manipulation of the commerce clause. The court rightly examined and asserted that the legislature has no right to legislate what people choose not to do. Punishments can not be levied on inaction. And if they attempt to do so, they must come in the form of a tax that the nation has recourse to change and remove through the electoral process.
3. The true cost to America's middle class was unveiled. Hiking taxes by close to $5 billion, with an additional $5 billion in medicare cuts, didn't close the loophole, no matter how much President Obama attempted to argue that it would. In reality the middle class families of America--already under assault by a horrible economy with limited prospects of improvement--will be forced to fork over another $1.7 trillion in forward looking deficits. Yes the families who earn $60-$90,000 per year will be the ones who make too much to qualify for the low income freebies, and not be making enough to be able to afford plans that they can buy in to. It will be these families who will be punitively crunched with this penalizing tax called Obamacare, and the Roberts' decision has removed the veil to allow this to be seen.
4. Perhaps the most important thing of all, the Roberts' decision will likely hand Governor Mitt Romney a 40 state victory in the upcoming elections. The Tea Party has been reignited. Grassroots groups have reawakened. And the roar of 2010 will be a distant memory when the voters take Governor Romney's advice and change Obamacare by removing President Obama.
To be very candid, I was more worried about the political outcomes of the case, had the justices thrown out the law all together in essence neutralizing one of the most glaring differences between the two sets of solutions being offered in this election cycle.
Instead we've been given an HD-retina-screen level upgrade in seeing the differences starkly and in greater contrast.
Re-elect President Obama and it will be the full implementation of the biggest small-business-killer ever invented by the Congress--Obamacare. Choose another path and you will set a course for the complete repeal of Obamacare, and the beginning of a new day for small business owners across the nation.
The choice is simple.
And John Roberts was the secret weapon that made it all happen, by outthinking everybody, and staying true to the Constitution.
Overall, not a bad outcome!
If it were 5 b we were talking about, nobody would care. Does he mean 500 b or 5 tr ?
Roberts’ job was to interpret the Constitution, not to try to swing the election our way. I don’t think there is anything he can do to accomplish that. And unfortunately, he’s misinterpreted the Constitution in a way that will resound for decades, maybe centuries.
Kevin McCullough is the Baghdad Bob of Townhall.com.
Roberts’ decision on PPACA is an unmitigated disaster.
You can put lipstick on a pig, but it’s still a pig.
JR screwed America with his decision, plain and simple. He damaged the constitution very badly. He set precedent. He’s now invited to all the swanky left wing DC shindigs as a hero. That’s the only “silver lining”, and it’s only JR’s. As the dem thug said, “It’s constitutional bitches”
Punishments can not be levied on inaction. But, we can tax inaction????????????? Makes reason stare......
What in the heck is a tax, but a punishment. Taxes are the biggest punishment we have in this life. Traitor Roberts is off his meds.
I am in agreement of three things.
First, the tax “anchor” on the re-election campaign is massive and will be continually brought up. If we were in a decent economy...maybe it’d slide by, but there’s no real recovery underway at present.
Second, as a minimum...the President is now stuck with the law, a Republican House, and a likely 50-member Republican senate in 2013. If the President finds flaws or problems of any nature....he’ll have to negotiate with them to pass the fix. My guess is that a laundry list of free deals will be on the table....to include tax reform, open drilling in the Gulf, and admitting some things on the gun-running episode.
Third and final, the Medicare angle to this entire mess is probably the weakest link. If the older generation is put at risk....it’ll come back in 2014 to be a massive hit on the Democrats in the election of that year.
Pssst...John Roberts poops rainbows and unicorns....pass it on.
More intellectual masturbation.
Apparently, the right has it's share of kool-aid drinkers.
I think everyone should listen to Mark Levin Friday show..
feed://www.marklevinshow.com/rss/ilevin.xml
I never listen to Mark but I just happen to download his Friday show...warning if depressed do not listen..
Whatever Robert's intention was, the course is clear:
We have to remove the trash from the White House
We have to remove the trash from Congress
We have to remove the trash from the Senate
We have to remove the trash from the Unions
Get the idea? It's time to take out the trash or the country is finished, done for, stick a fork in it.
Some people say that when others are playing checkers, Roberts is playing chess. In this case, I think he was playing “Rock-Paper-Scissors-Lizard-Spock”. Maybe he had another seizure while writing his slap-dash findings.
Kevin, it is you that is unwise. And I also have some swampland in Florida to sell you.
This is not correct. The four doctrinairre leftists on the Court did not join in the Commerce Clause portion of Roberts opinion. Thus, Roberts, amongst the majority, was (on this issue) leading a parade and noone was following. To hold it was a tax and that Zero, therefore, duped everyone, required that it not be a penalty. But Buzzy et al wrote it was just fine as a mandate. Neither did the dissent call it a tax.
Lew is out there today saying **the only ones who will be penalized with the penalty are the (filthy-stinkin-rich) 1 percenters - and by the way, it's not a tax, it's a penalty.**
The author’s argument makes sense only if one is willing to believe that a majority of American voters will take up the cause and turn this country around.
Sadly, recent history would indicate such is not the case...
The Court has an obligation to interpret legislation in terms of the Constitution. In this case, CJ Roberts has clearly abrogated that responsibility.
As if they care about that....the bottom line is, they won, we lost, and that's that! And there is no frickin' way I would believe that Roberts is smarter than Scalia, who voted to get rid of this travesty....Roberts voted WITH Kagan, Sotomayor and Ginsburg.....'nuff said.
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