Posted on 01/03/2014 4:49:02 PM PST by 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."
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
BS. This type of scenario works only if your opponent agrees to “play by the rules.” Obama and his criminal gang have demonstrated, again and again, that they have no reluctance to not follow the Constitution, knowing full well that the lapdog media will support it and that the establishment GOP will not lift a finger to oppose.
You wrote: “...but those Irish children of his...”
Damn straight! You got that right! CJ Roberts was blackmailed.
A month or so ago I was at a county hearing that went against the party I was with, though I wasn’t the principal there. Illegally, unjustly, politically correct, (we were even forced to sign a silence agreement, so obviously illegal and legally dubious that I advised the members of my party who started shyly protesting that it was meaningless and would not stand up in court.) But to my deep disappointment the members of my party went along for the slaughter like sheep, and did not want to join me in filing an appeal or a protest, so that the matter ended up in a tragedy for two families. This maybe only remotely relevant, but it illustrates how laws are ignored, broken by government down to the county level.
Well that’s the key principle.
Wow, you’re really in Satan’s cheering section aren’t you.
>> Have NSA (or Snowden) release all of the transcripts
Funny you suggested that. I’ve been thinking about the lack of dirt Snowden delivered on the worst offenders — the politicians.
Possible, but the Mid-Term Elections are not here yet. And perhaps, perhaps, Obama is the better secret chess-player here - if indeed Roberts is such - and his ultimate goal is socialized medicine and this mess is deliberately contrived to destroy the multi-party insurance network , throw everyone out in medical coverage limbo, and generate a demand from the masses for government insurance.
He should have stuck with the other conservative judges. I don’t trust him.
What a load of crap. Roberts bent over forwards for the executive branch. He did what he was expected to do to preserve the uniparty’s power. End of story.
Imagine, someone who believes that when Satan is thrown head to head with God, God will win?
His job isn’t to help the GOP or the democrats. His job is to evaluate the cases brought before the court based upon the law and the Constitution.
Thanks for posting the printer friendly version.
Interesting article. Food for thought.
I’m with you. The two things seem to be mutually exclusive.
Thanks for the ping. I think this outcome still remains to be seen.
Just because the U.S. Supreme Court found the individual mandate in the ACA constitutional on those grounds, it didn't mean the ACA was constitutional in its entirety. There was always going to be further legal challenges based on different legal arguments that could not be brought at the time because they related to provisions of Obamacare that hadn't even taken effect yet.
A better example is the Sherman Sliver Purchase Act, repeLed in a year after people saw how stupid it was.
That says it all right there.
I’ve said some of these same things all along, I just stopped saying them on FR because no one will ever be convinced there was any more to Roberts decision than being a bastard/communist/idiot who was being blackmailed by the gay media, or something.
We’ll just wait and see how it unfolds.
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