Posted on 03/23/2012 3:51:01 PM PDT by KantianBurke
President Bush's list of domestic accomplishments is already pretty thin. No Child Left Behind is now universally despised among conservative activists. Medicare Part D epitomized Bush's big spending ways and arguably paved the way for Obamacare. And even Bush's tax cuts are looking to be pretty temporary in nature.
The one saving grace Bush still has on the domestic front is the Supreme Court. Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Sam Alito have so far proved to be good reliable conservative votes. But all that may change after Obamacare hits the Supreme Court.
Almost everybody assumes that Justices Clarence Thomas, Antonin Scalia, and Sam Alito will side with the National Federation of Independent Businesses and find Obamacare's individual mandate unconstitutional. Justice Anthony Kennedy is the consummate swing vote. But what about Roberts?
(Excerpt) Read more at campaign2012.washingtonexaminer.com ...
Roberts is guaranteed to find Obamacare UNConstitutional. Guaranteed. This article is just trying to stir the pot. Everything hinges on Kennedy, NOT Roberts. Troll author is trolling.
0bama put Elena Kagan on the court because she’s really good at using parapsychology to brainwash people. Not joking.
This is the thinnest of gruel to judge Roberts. He wasn't on the Court for Lopez or Morrison, and the net effect of Kennedy's concurrence in Comstock was to join the majority anyway.
Another low-quality screed typical of Examiner blogs.
By the liberals who proposed them in the first place.
IMHO, go for the gusto if you propose conservative measures. You'll be hated by all the right people, and still keep your base.
I'm STILL waiting for all of the million member marches against unilateral action in Lybia. And assassinating people we don't "like". And imposing Federal noses in State conflicts.
This article is very thin legal reasoning, and finding Roberts to be the “most likely” of the conservatives to uphold Obamacare. Not that he will. I believe they reference a prisoners’ rights case?
Each Justice wil do what they do, but criticizing Bush over this article is ridiculous. Roberts has been a solid conservative Justice.
Kennedy has our future economy in his hands. I hope this guy understands that. It is also patently UNCONSTITUTIONAL
You are TOTALLY correct! 99.9% of the time it is about Kennedy. Talk about the most powerful man in the US. It is Justice Kennedy. 4-4 ties and he is the swing vote every time.
Thank God we had him as POTUS when we did!
I don’t see where the author offered any evidence to say Roberts might be on the wrong side of this (or any other) ruling.
Did you?
Neuro Linguistic Programming or NLP...obama is a master too. There was a white paper written on obamas use of it.
Sen. Ted Kennedy was the architect behind “No Child Left Behind”, President Bush just signed it.
Even if Roberts did not find ObamaCare unconstitutional so what? I do not accept the premise that a single SC case alone decides whether a SC justice is therefore good or bad. One has to look at their body of work.
George W. Bush hovers just above Jimmy Carter—well, maybe above Bill Clinton—as one of the worst Presidents in U.S. history.
That’s the thing, isn’t it? If Kennedy sees this really like a tax, like the Social Security requirement or the Medicare requirement, then we be fooked. If he sees it as the government requiring individuals to buy a consumer service, then he may very well rule that it is unconstitutional.
Nobody knows how he will approach the mandate or how he will rule on this case. I’m terrified.
Either way, this isn’t the solution. The solution is forcing the GOP run Senate and president Romney to do their part helping the House to repeal the entire law completely. Then we can go to work on them on TSA, opening up ANWR to drilling, getting Keystone built and revising the Environmental Protection Act to take away fed EPA’s regulatory power. On and on. Yes, I’m asleep and dreaming.
Just for fun, let’s assume that the SCOTUS does NOT strike down ObamaCare, then what? WE know that ~2/3rds of Americans oppose it but, what will we do if the Court upholds it?
IMO, we will do nothing. Oh, sure, we will bluster and blather about how wrong it is but, at the end of the day, we’ll bend over and take it.
Because we LACK any REAL passion for freedom; because we LACK any REAL passion for liberty; or justice; or the Constitution.
We won’t march in the streets demanding its repeal. We won’t protest on the Capitol steps. We’ll just take it.
And, somewhere, 6 feet beneath our feet, all the patriots who stood up for freedom and liberty who wrote and signed the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution will be spinning in their graves. The things they fought and died for will be flushed down the drain without a whimper.
Why?
Page 32 of the American Bar Association magazine the article references says their poll of experts said 85% of them believe Obamacare will be upheld in full, individual mandate and everything. The poll says it will be a 6-3 decision. 64% in their poll said the case WON’T have a major impact on the presidential election.
I’m going to assume this is wishful thinking and liberal bias on the part of the “experts.”
More stupidity from people like you who hate GW Bush....The thing is not even in the courts yet you are blaming Bush for what MIGHT happen
Thin gruel to be sure.
“George W. Bush hovers just above Jimmy Carter—well, maybe above Bill Clinton—as one of the worst Presidents in U.S. history.”
Dear Friend, you are smoking crack.
And the rest of you trashing GW, Shut up.
He was better than,
Clinton
Bush 41
Carter
Ford
Nixon
Johnson
Kennedy
Maybe Eisenhower
Truman
FDR
,
Which makes him just a complicit as that scumbag Teddy.
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