Posted on 06/28/2012 6:54:37 PM PDT by Alberta's Child
Upon further review and discussion here, I've concluded that the majority opinion of Chief Justice Roberts in the ObamaCare case was exactly what this country needed. He effectively took the heap of crap that had been dumped in the halls of the U.S. Supreme Court and tossed it right back out where it belongs: in the homes and businesses of every U.S. citizen who has allowed this bunch of fools in Washington to govern us this way.
Think of it, folks ... Any obligation of the U.S. Supreme Court to deal with this idiocy went out the window the moment that dingbat Nancy Pelosi stood up on television and said: "We have to pass the bill to see what's in it."
If I were a Supreme Court justice, I wouldn't spend 30 seconds of my life reading a single legal brief in a case involving a Federal statute that was passed even though the Speaker of the House of Representatives didn't even read the damn thing before voting on it.
On top of all that, just consider this: There were 28 states that filed legal challenges to ObamaCare, either individually or jointly. How can 28 states file legal challenges to a Federal law that was passed in the U.S. Senate by a 60-39 margin? If I'm sitting on the Supreme Court and the Attorney General of, say, Pennsylvania (which is one of these 28 states) comes in for oral arguments in the case, my first and only "question" would be: "If you have such a problem with this Federal statute, why don't you take it up with Bob Casey, Arlen Specter and those nine House members in your state who passed the damn thing ... along with the idiots in your state who cast their electoral votes for that jug-eared Kenyan nitwit in 2008?"
Obamacare struck down as unconstitutional cannot be brought back to life.
Obamacare overturned by one Congress can be rammed through by the next, since it has already passed Constitutional muster.
Frankly, I would much rather have a bad law to be shown on the books to violate the constitution than not to violate the constitution.
That idiot John Souter Roberts did us no favors.
“Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want and deserve to get it good and hard.”
~ H. L. Mencken
I honestly believe that Justice Roberts is being blackmailed. Either that, or he is insane.
I guess you oppose socialized medicine, but find opposition to socialized education “cultish?”
“Every single cult leader believes in home schooling....Think about it.”
I’m not aware of any cult leader symposium on the issue, but I think it’s easier to recruit public school kids into a cult than home schooled kids. Who do you want in charge of children? Their parents or the state?
British historian Paul Johnson, who got it slightly wrong, nevertheless was commenting on Reconstruction and why, eventually the North had to pull out the troops: "The United States," he said, "after all was a democracy." Well, of course we are a REPUBLIC, but his point is that usually what the people want they get, and what they don't want---if they really don't want it (think Prohibition)---they will get rid of it. So we'll see how much Americans really dislike this abomination.
So what’s your point? Does this mean you intend to vote for Obama?
You MIGHT perhaps have a run around the web and see all the polls on this fiasco saying otherwise.
And the non political websites. Pick a few at random and see for yourself.
“I donated to Roomey today, never thought I would”
I decided to make phone calls for him (I was just going to vote for him but not volunteer). I believe he will gut or executive order this garbage away if elected, as he pledged, if we don’t get a Republican Senate.
I don’t know that his heart will be in it but he is not stupid and he will follow through on his public pledge.
Don’t blame me. I voted for Harriet Miers.
I’ve already volunteered to drive to Pennsylvania to work. I could also go to Virginia. I don’t know which is the better choice.
I think you are right.
Ooooh, Internet polls, there's a good indicator. /s
I'm sure they meant well, but they got that decision all wrong. The whole case was a disaster that never should have been decided by the U.S. Supreme Court. Having the Court get involved in a legal dispute in the State of Florida only discredited the Court itself.
The opinion in that case should have been:
This court has no authority to rule on election matters in a state that can't meet its certification deadline in a Federal election under U.S. law. All matters related to this Presidential election are to be resolved by Congress, as clearly specified in Article II, Section 1 of the U.S. Constitution.
Florida's electoral votes should have simply been tossed out, and a special election for President held in Congress as documented clearly in Article II.
Sometimes, even conservative "originalists" can get these wrong.
Then wallow in misery. Not my problem.
Bush lost the congress PERIOD
Hell the polls show he still is unpopular
That never happened to Reagan and Bush won in a landslide
in 88 right after Reagan
While we cannot know the full remifications, we do know some of them, namely that it is now constitutional to compel an action or punish a non action by putting a tax on it. Can we compel you to vote socialist by putting taxes only on those who vote Republican? Why not under this idiotic decision?
I'm not sure he got this wrong, and I suspect there will be plenty of other cases (the First Amendment challenges being brought by religious groups, for example, which are being adjudicated in the Federal courts separately) where ObamaCare will be overturned on different grounds.
“The precedent will be with us for decades”
Had to repeat your statement.
Now pardon me i have to go throw up for the 8th time today.
And i woke up so happy......
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