Posted on 06/18/2013 12:35:13 PM PDT by maggief
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Lee’s argument is not based on the NSA or its monitoring of the nation’s communication. Rather, Lee said, there are indications that Roberts originally intended to vote against the act, but that a public “campaign of intimidation” made him change his mind.
First, the senator claimed “the opinion was written in a way to suggest he switched his vote,” and that the dissenting opinion reads like it was originally written as the majority. He added that several news outlets reported that Roberts did change his vote, based on insider information.
Not only that, he said, but the court performed an unusual feat of “legal gymnastics” in upholding the legislation, particularly with regard to whether the fines incurred are or are not taxes. They had to re-write sections of the the bill not once, but twice.
Lee continued to say that he has “no evidence” that Roberts was being blackmailed, but said that doesn’t mean Roberts wasn’t under any kind of “direct pressure."
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The answer is, we don’t know.
And that is one of them most troubling things about this. We cannot trust our government officials, when all this data is collected and we don’t know if someone is getting blackmailed or not.
As I have said a number of times, this is corrosive...
We should avoid this situation as totally as we can.
I can’t criticize because I don’t know what he had working behind the scenes.
While I understand your “get it out there” mentality.. as someone who has worked in the media.. you have to understand these things don’t always just come together in an instant.
Did he jump the gun talking about the whistle blower? Perhaps. But that doesn’t damage his cred in my eyes one tiny bit.
This whistleblower could be killed and their family could be killed. They are being VERY careful about how they approach this I am sure.
He’s doing more than any of the keyboard commandos here on FR that’s for sure!
Thank you.
I’m just about tired of the negativity, too.
When a person is negative then they’re not paddling with me, and that means they’re dead weight and against me.
7/01/2012
The Inside Story on How Roberts Changed His Supreme Court Vote on Obamacare
Well, WHO blackmailed Roberts and Alito and Kennedy to vote against the AZ Voter ID bill? So now a STATE is not allowed to demand proof that its voters be CITIZENS??? Ridiculous. If upheld, this republic is finished.
Post 23 should have gone to you.
I guess it COULD wait for the drama queen.
Ah gotcha!
I was confused there for a second lol!
But yeah I completely understand.
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Quite frankly the doomsayers are PISSING ME OFF. Thank G-D that our founding father had more backbone. Otherwise we would still be under British rule
Well, obviously SOMETHING odd was behind the Roberts decision. POTUS was strangely super confident, and the Roberts’ opinion was the most convoluted I have ever read. Like nearly everyone else in this nation who managed to matriculate the eighth grade, I was stunned by the sheer Alice-in-Wonderland quality of Roberts’ statement. Something weird happened; I wonder if we’ll ever know WHAT?
it’s sad to say, but beck is losing his credibility.
You got it.
The people that say America is already pissed away.. are enabling those who are trying to flush the toilet.
It would be like me getting mugged.. and in the middle of the mugging someone, such as Beck jumping in to help and maybe getting the tar beaten out of him..
and a bystander, DOING NOTHING, stands idly by and criticizes Beck for trying to help me while I’m being mugged.
America is being mugged! People need to stand up and WAKE UP!
Why would the whistle-blower go to the Senate which is democrat controlled? Why wouldn't he go to the House instead? At least he would get a hearing in the House.
He didn’t go to the “Senate” per se.
He went to Ted Cruz.
Dude. Ask your doctor if a hysterectomy is right for you. My goodness! You're whinier and more histrionic than Beck himself. I can almost see the anxiety sweatdrops and salty tears falling all over your keyboard...
Just like a liberal.. you demean my attitude rather than address the actual problem.
Juan Williams is that you?
Actually I would have said your distractor was acting like an idiot ... but I don’t thing that person is acting. And it actually could be Alan Colmes or any other imbecile liberal pretending to be a conservative
Without solid evidence, this is nothing more than what was stated on this forum minutes after the 0bamascare ruling was released. It is good that a Senator is talking about it, but will there be a follow-up, or will Lee be 'SILENCED'?
Thank you. We have many moles here on FR trying to gum up the works.
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