The Roberts Trap Is Sprung

American Thinker ^ | January 2, 2014 | Bill Dunne

[Kaslin]

One of the most overlooked aspects of the year just ended is the vindication of Chief Justice John Roberts -- a vindication that showed up as the national catastrophe known as ObamaCare got rolling. Roberts may have also doomed Hillary Clinton's chance to live in the White House again.

The chief justice, an appointee of President George W. Bush and reputedly a constitutionalist in his jurisprudence, set his diabolical trap (diabolical to Democrats) on June 28, 2012, when he joined with the four liberal justices on the Supreme Court to uphold the constitutionality of ObamaCare. Conservatives and Republicans across the land were apoplectic. But in hindsight, it appears that Roberts actually saved the Republican Party from going into a death spiral and imperiled the Democrats instead. This suggests amazing foresight, but it wouldn't be the only instance.

For example, Tevi Troy, a scholar at the Hudson Institute, made a remarkable prophecy a year and a half before the Court's decision. It was soon after the November 2010 midterm elections, in which Democrats in Congress and in state legislatures suffered huge losses. In an article in Commentary magazine, Troy wrote:

The Pyrrhic victory Democrats secured for themselves [when President Obama signed the Affordable Care Act into law] may prove not to have been a victory at all but rather an ever-roiling, ongoing, and recurring act of political and ideological self-destruction.

How's that for prescience?

When the Supreme Court ruling came down, a shocked conservative historian, Paul Rahe, cited as a cause the PR pressure that President Barack Obama had been exerting on the Court in the fevered weeks leading up to the decision. It was "an act of judicial cowardice," he fumed. But then he added, "There is, I am confident, more to it than this."

[Talisker]

Ran across this today. It’s a very interesting site.

http://jhpplnewsandnotes.wordpress.com/2012/07/07/one-stone-two-powers/

Thanks. It seems to be starting to pop up places. Maybe people will read it! LOL.

Yes, I put it on Scribd too. Just to have an alternative source out there.

[KeyLargo]

What does Obama have on Roberts? Photos of Roberts with little boys or something like that?

Jan 6, 4:02 PM (ET)

“WASHINGTON (AP) - The Supreme Court has refused a group of doctors’ request to block implementation of the nation’s new health care law.

Chief Justice John Roberts turned away without comment Monday an emergency stay request from the Association of American Physicians & Surgeons, Inc. and the Alliance for Natural Health USA.

They asked the chief justice Friday to temporarily block the law, saying Congress had passed it incorrectly by starting it in the Senate instead of the House. Revenue-raising bills are supposed to originate in the lower chamber. They also wanted blocked doctor registration requirements they say will make it harder for independent non-Medicare physicians to treat Medicare-eligible patients.

Still pending is a decision on a temporary block on the law’s contraceptive coverage requirements, which was challenged by a group of nuns.”

[KeyLargo]

Exclusive: John Roberts’ Openly Gay Cousin Will Now Be Getting Married

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/dc/exclusive-john-roberts-openly-gay-cousin-will-now-be-getting-married

[piasa]

Speaking of Hillary preceding Obama in with the ACA slogan... this date in the main article of this thread that Roberts caved and joined the leftists on the court was the same exact date Obama, using an alias, emailed Hillary about something- recall her compromised server.