Nice try, Bob Tyrrell, but I’m not buying it. Perfume on a pig doesn’t make the pig a welcome guest at High Tea.
He must have an exemption.
Fixed it.
I’m no attorney nor am I a constitutional scholar so I rely on my instincts and put my trust in certain people. Mark Levin says it’s “destructive to our republic” and “damaged the constitution severely”. After his “laymen terms” explanation last week, I’m satisfied with my understanding and would rather not live life with rose colored glasses.
Tyrell is being uncharacteristically stupid.
Roberts did nothing to enhance his credibility or the Court’s by rendering an incoherent decision.
All of the good things that that Tyrell describes could have just as easily come about from a 5-4 decision the other way, except minus the ObamaCare.
I have described this as going for the suicide squeeze in baseball instead of a home run.
Bob Tyrell is a genius, and American spectator is a great Conservative magazine.
Don’t dismiss him so quick. You don’t have to agree 100% with everything everyone says for them to be one your side.
anfractuous - definition of anfractuous by the Free Online Dictionary ...
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an·frac·tu·ous ( n-fr k ch - s). adj. Full of twists and turns; tortuous. [From Late Latin anfractu sus, from Latin anfr ctus, winding :
According to anonymous sources, Chief Justice Roberts was for striking down the whole law before he was against it.
That sort of makes Chief Justice Roberts the John Kerry of the Supreme Court.
[What an honor.]
Didn’t “Beltway Bob” expose himself as a closeted RINO earlier this year? I can’t remember the issue.
So .....His intentions were good when he stabbed us in the back!!!!
Not buying what he’s selling. The restraint on the Commerce Clause in particular is not the silver lining people have been clinging to. If I understand correctly (and I may not - this decision is so convoluted I wonder if anyone truly understands it or its ramifications), that was part of Roberts’ individual opinion, not the opinion of the court and therefore does not change a thing.
So, I’m wondering when that ‘consent of the governed’ thing kicks in?
First, liberals will continue to use the Commerce Clause as the basis for their socialistic policies. Liberal justices will simply ignore Roberts’ writings.
Second, there should be no need for the court to affirm state’s rights. The fact that we are having this discussion demonstrates how far away we have moved from constitutional order.
Third, affirming the right of Congress to tax the lack of activity is an insanity.
Just wait until the health secretary starts issuing edicts restricting firearm/ammunition sales and telling grocers what products they may and may not offer for sale.
I think we need to apply Occam’s Razor here.
Either Roberts’ decision was some sort of super-complex piece of 10-dimensional chess that he was playing while making the pieces move with his mind.
Or Roberts’ decision was simply another example of a typical method by which our government has been granting itself exemptions from constitutional and other limitations for over a century.
I’m thinking it’s the latter.
....why would Roberts go thru all the contortions of the law when simply striking down the whole OC law would have accomplished the same thing?
IMO, Roberts should be put on a suicide watch because in my 75 years, I can't remember anyone one man plunging the US into domestic chaos and misery as did Justice Roberts...he HAS to be embarrassed and ashamed.
If he has any honor or integrity he will resign the day after Romney takes the oath of office...in an attempt to rescue his reputation and more importantly,.....make amends.
I was deemed even at a very young age to be not only illiterate but quite prone to delusions and believed strongly that Howdy Doodys puppet was real.
I even thought that perhaps he would grow up some day to be a Supreme Court Justice and uphold an African Presidents health care law, which would finally put an end to the Constitution of the United States. Even now I believe it to be true though I must be mistaken!
Another conservative decides to eat the poop cake.
http://larrycorreia.wordpress.com/2012/07/02/shut-up-and-eat-your-poop-cake/
If it takes that much mental contortion to find the good in this horrendous decision, then there is no good.
It is destructive to our liberty. Period.
Ironic, no, that it was issued right before “Independence Day”?
The Medicaid part of the ruling is not warranted as the law had no severability clause (and the anti-injunction law was turned on it's ear (it should be unconstitutional anyway)).
"Congress can now tax us for not doing something" - This is the worst affront to logic and personal Liberty in a long time. Roberts needs to resign for this alone.
Ben Arnold may have had more cause to be a deadly traitor to his country but John Roberts had no real cause other than self inflated self esteem yet with more real power to finish Ben's hate America agenda--God Damn his soul!!!