Rush, Levin, Salvage all wanted her out. She would not have done this.
Today, I lost all respect for John Roberts. To portray a penalty as a tax is twisted. The fine for not buying health insurance is just that, a fine. To fine somebody for not buying something is not Constitutional. He twisted the truth to give Obama something. He’s a huge clown!
Perhaps, his desire to not be Fosterized led to his decision.
What happened to John Roberts? Lee Doren pointed to an article by Ezra Klein that may explain Roberts' thinking. If Klein is right, Roberts is thinking very long term and playing the game at a higher level than the politics of the moment.
Okay, someone tell me if I am wrong here. Roberts decided to make certain that the issue was not decided under the Commerce Clause and invented the issue as a Tax. Deciding to not appear the Court look partisan, he sided with the Liberals. In doing so, he changes their argument that the penalty was not a penalty, but a tax, thus negating the Commerce Clause argument.
I have read that Roberts wanted to roll back congressional intrusion under the Commerce Clause. So be that.
Now, since the law is a Tax, and all Tax bills need to come from the House and not the Senate, then this bill is this bill now unlawful because of that procedure taken by Harry Reid so many months ago.
So can the bill now be rolled back because from whence it came?
Roberts is a liberal. Dont be fooled, we now have 5 liberals on the SC making a majority. As far as I am concerned, Roberts is an enemy of this country and the Constitution.
I think he just couldn’t stand the heat. Doesn’t have the conviction. Lack of character. The political pressure was as high as it gets with this ruling.
It was a tail between the legs move on his part.
Something else we shouldn’t forget. Roberts was NOT Bush’s pick. Roberts was William Rehnquist’s personal pick. He mentored and groomed Roberts from law school intern to Chief Justice.
What happened to Sandra Day?
The “normalcy bias” another FReeper mentioned days ago comes to mind.
We are at the jackboot stage as Rush described and we are, everyone of us, paralyzed to resist.
Instead, we will vote for Obama II in November, and wonder why nothing changes.
God bless our WW II Americans who handed us so much, in the way of freedom and liberty, and delayed tyranny until we voted it in upon our own heads.
God forgive us.
Roberts is wearing Sandra Day O’Connors’ robe.
Simple answer is narcissism with a healthy dose of megalomania. O’Connor, Kennedy and Souter all suffered from the same malady to various degrees.
He is like Bush, will do anything to be liked.
Rush talks about Roberts being pressured then says he doesn’t believe it.
Today obama told a bunch of congress people that they were the first people trying to make this country better. I don’t know what he thought the foundiing fathers and all those who died in the revolution were doing.
Seems like there’s good evidence that Roberts DID change his vote after the opinions were already written. The question is why he changed it at the last minute.
Rush says he thinks it’s because Roberts decided he wanted to have a legacy. I can’t believe that anybody would want to have a legacy of so angering the public that they create the world’s biggest backlash vote in history. If Roberts had wanted to leave a legacy he had plenty of time to think about that; why would he put out his peers in such a rude and angering way to create a legacy of anger with the public?
No, that doesn’t make sense to me.
Roberts wasn’t one bit happy about making the change, according to what was reported about his red eyes and unhappy demeanor. It sounds like he covered his legal behind with very, very thin excuses that were not well-supported at all - like he was not even TRYING to make the case for what was supposedly his own decision.
What happened to Ginsburg’s original dissent? Scalie referred to it, but what did Ginsburg end up writing for the court? Did she just get scrapped? Did Soros tell Roberts to take what Ginsburg wrote and just tack his name to the bottom of it? Did Roberts throw something together at the last minute so he just put platitudes in there, regurgitating what Verrilli fed him at the hearing? Did Roberts actually write that opinion? When?
I believe there’s a LOT more to this story than meets the eye.
John Roberts is gay and he didn’t want to be outed.
Wow! Best analysis I’ve heard from Rush or anyone on this. Bookmarked.
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What happened to Roberts was he was appointed by George The Johnson Democrat Bush. Did any serious conservative really think Bush would intentionally allow a conservative on the USSC especially as Chief Justice? I bet he’s wringing his hands though over Alito who got by his liberal GOP insider vetting process. The USSC Court burned us twice in a week.
Anyone know what % of tax they would have to raise to pay for this historic mammoth piece of crap.