Yeah, shore thang, Johnny boy! Best wishes to your Irish kids from president Obama.
I will grant the author the possibility on every point except for one.
The act as passed is unconstitutional. Chief Justice Roberts should know that his job is like that of an umpire, calling balls and strikes. Leave the politics for the other branches.
This is a quite interesting article. It is worth the few minutes needed to read it.
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Pure horse feces. All this talk about how Roberts did this so “Well, now the sheeple can wake up!” is bogus. Once a law is enacted, it will stay enacted and now the calls for single-payer is starting. Roberts could have killed this, but those Irish children of his...
Typical bellybutton gazing BS.
No excuse.
Law rewritten on the bench has seldom had such a glaring example. In effect, Roberts single-handedly forced all Americans to face -- up front and personal -- the epic political malpractice that is ObamaCare. "It is not our job," he added, "to protect the people from the consequences of their political choices." Wow. Tough love.Nice to see the alternative view, for a change. There was a time when conservatives believed in legislative discretion (however bad it is).
Not trying to start a fight (I haven't read the decision, yet--my fault).
Interesting article and analysis ping ...
Screw the author of this article, and his psychopathic need to excuse Roberts.
I’ll come back and read this later, but there’s no lipstick applicator big enough to cover the Robert’s makeover for the Obamacare pig.
The man will forever be known for bending himself into a pretzel to grease the skids for Obamacare.
All he had to do is listen, and strike it down. It was unconstitutional. End of story...
The Obama administration argued that the fees were not new taxes, because they knew it couldn’t stand on that argument. So what did Roberts do? He declared the fees new taxes and approved the thing.
This was a uniquely ignorant thing to do. The clues were there. The Obama administration handed him his out. He completely muffed it.
So, CJ Roberts was helping us all by teaching the kids (the voters) that playing with fire (voting for Democrats) will burn you.
Sounds like CJ Roberts fans are attempting to re-establish his conservative credentials.
I will take whatever lesson we can learn from this. My family had to switch plans just this week due to OBAMACARE.
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Have NSA (or Snowden) release all of the transcripts of the phone calls between the administration and Supreme Court/staff and I might be more incline to accept the argument.
Imagine, though, if the chief justice had opined as everyone expected him to and joined with Scalia, Sam Alito, Clarence Thomas, and Anthony Kennedy (ironically the swing vote whom ObamaCare opponents were most worried about) to guillotine the law then and there. The reduction of Mr. Obama's "crowning achievement" to just a gigantic waste of time when a dismal economy was begging for attention might well have cost him his re-election five months later.
I DO imagine this...every single day.
Howls of outrage would have erupted from every Democrat/leftist stronghold -- from the White House to Congress, from Hollywood to academia, and of course from the establishment media. The din would have been relentless. The smearing of small-government Republicans as selfish meanies would be easy as pie and more effective than ever.
So what? Who cares about the "howls of outrage" from the Dims...We the People are stronger than them. We proved that with the Chic Fil A Day, and more recently, with the Phil Robertson wave of support.
Nancy Pelosi would be speaker of the House again after next November's mid-term elections. Harry Reid would certainly remain as Senate majority leader. President Obama would be striding mightily across the national stage. His promised fundamental transformation of the United States of America would continue. Hillary Clinton would be a shoe-in for the White House in 2016. And "single-payer" -- full-bore socialist medicine -- would be a slam-dunk. HillaryCare redux.
I'll have to respectfully disagree with the author on all of this paragraph - I think he's wrong, wrong, wrong on the Pelousy, Dingy, 0bammie and Billary "shoe in" projections.
Perhaps worst of all, from Roberts's point of view, the Court's great prestige would suffer. Left-leaning historians, which means most historians, would be lumping the Court's killing of ObamaCare with Bush v. Gore and Citizens United to paint the Court as a right-wing political operation.
So, as Conservatives, we live in fear of what left-leaning historians would write/say about an appropriate SCOTUS ruling? Really?
My, how different is the real reality. Democrats are looking ahead in abject terror at the November midterms. And when those results come in, when Obama's lame-duckness grows acute, it's possible to imagine conservatives and Republicans being ready to let the far-seeing John Roberts out of the dog house.
Again, I'm not so sure the author will be right about this ultimate "outcome"...I pray he is right on this one.
I read the ACA (all 2,000 pages of it). I read the full Supreme Court testimony on the ACA. I read the full opinion and dissent. There is no logical or legal justification for the Roberts decision. That law is fundamentally unconstitutional on the grounds presented before the Court. Roberts was wrong, and he’s smart enough that his error could not have been an accident; he chose to rule in violation of the Constitution.
It may be that Roberts will rule the ACA unconstitutional on other grounds in a future case, but that will not change the facts. Either for personal reasons (including perhaps blackmail), or for political reasons, Roberts failed to uphold his professional responsibility in that ruling.
Yeah, shore thang, Johnny boy! Best wishes to your Irish kids from president Obama.
I think the only good thing coming from the Roberts decision was the little reported paragraph stating that raiding Medicare to pay for Obamacare was unconstitutional.