Justice Roberts is only the most recent addition to the long list of republican appointees to the Supreme Court who turned on their benefactors and supported liberal positions on bellwether issues.
His twisted rationalization in support of Obamacare is probably the most mind-boggling, maddening abuse of Judicial power since Roe v. Wade.
Eisenhower publicly supported lowering the voting age to 18 in his 1954 State of the Union address.
But it was Richard Nixon who signed an extension of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 that required the voting age to be 18 in all federal, state, and local elections.
George “Dubya” Bush created the bureaucratic montrosity known as Homeland Security. A Federal organization that now is more obsessed with demonizing and stifling law abiding, patriotic citizens than in protecting our borders and countering foreign terrorists.
Because risking one's life for one's country at age 19 without being allowed to vote is the ultimate form of taxation without representation. And it can't have been in 1965 because he wasn't president then.
But in 1971, it took just over two months for the required 38 states to ratify the 26th Amendment -- the quickest ratification in history.
http://www.cnn.com/ALLPOLITICS/1996/news/9606/28/18.year.old.voting/index.shtml
Why was this a GOP mistake? A lot of 18-21 guys served under Eisenhower. I was one. He was well liked and voted for by a lot of young people.
Young people vote for the GOP when they are doing well with jobs and no wars, including both Bushs and Reagan. But Romney and McCain are war-mongerings zeros in their eyes. Their view of the future ends with war and the wallet of their supporters. Sad how the GOP dissed away their support.
There’s more, lots more: Reagan shortened the life of my patents. Newt raised the price on them so now I have to rent them rather than owning them. Bush 41 restricted the re-import of our own surplus military small arms making the surplus firearms business almost disappear. Bush 43 blew fedearl spending all-to-bleep making it easy for Obamuzzie to spend us into oblivion-—I don’t need no more steenkeeng clever Republican theeenkeeng.