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?"
Instead he chose to stay & move the entire nation a great leap closer to slavery.
I agree with you. No way in heck anyone can afford this. We will all owe the IRS. It’s not a sustainable law. It will collapse all on its own.
And which imbecile would that be? Roberts is not an elected official. How is the US deserving of such a moron?
I only can vote for two senate seats and one house seat. I have no power to vote for more. The reason the court exists is to protect us from the vagaries of government gone wild.
The judicial precedent cannot be undone. It is now accepted law in the US--that Congress can financially punish anyone for any reason, including especially the coercion of specific individual private citizens' behaviors.
That's not republican government. That's totalitarianism. And a Harvard indoctrinated asshole has done it to you whether you realize it or not
It's Tea Party Time, and I'm hoping this is a winning issue in our coming elections.
He could have accomplished the same thing by killing ObamaCare today. Simply saying, "I don't care what the Solicitor General argues. The law was not passed as a tax. If Congress wants to, they can pass it as a tax and it will stand. But for now, it's dead."
I’m with you skeeter! There’s nothing constitutional about this law and nothing good about it.
You are dreaming. This thing will bankrupt the country before collapsing. Do you not see the take over of this country by a far left communist party??? Can you NOT see that???
I think he might very well have lit a fuse that will end up destroying it.
If you think Roberts got it right then you need to read the constitution. Unfortunatly, (or not) the Court has the obligation to interpret the words. We got an asshole for a chief justice. He’s .... oh well...
You’re going to need to paint your house green or pay the tax.
Or buy hurricane tax in Montana or flood insurance in Vermont.\
I agree that Roberts was dead wrong, formosa. Whether he’s a flaming liberal, plain stupid, or someone got to him.....I don’t know. But you are right, he cannot be trusted.
nice white flag you fool!
incredible...simply incredible.
You have to be an establishment lover...
Roberts just proved he is a progressive along with Bush and the rest over the other aholes we have been saddled with in the GOP.
Roberts subverted Judge Carter in an eligibility case, he went against Arizona and now this...really you think in any way shape or form that there is anything “right” about this decision?
Did you read the dissent? They were so obviously clear and all Roberts did was give us the Rodney King BS PC answer!
Mark said absolutely nothing good will come from this ruling. It is horrible, horrible for Liberty.
No amount of rationalizing will remove the fact that this ruling greatly increases the power of the sadistic bureaucracies that will grow to implement this and other monstrosities.
I bet they take the money first, then you have to send in proof on insurance to get a refund.
Obama is no Carter. Carter was a better man. Mitt Romney is so much better than Obama, as much as Reagan was better than Carter.
Send it back for another vote, now that it's a tax on the middle class and the poorest among us, and see if it passes!
There is likely to be a mass of further challenges as additional provisions of ObamaCare are implemented in the future. These challenges can't be brought today because nobody has the legal standing to challenge them until they are implemented.
My prediction is that the Federal government is going to spend billions of health care dollars fighting legal battles with each and every ObamaCare measure that is implemented over time. And the constitutionality of ObamaCare will be fought on all of those additional grounds, too.
Yep
Country is broke
No way is there $$$$ for this garbage
Hell we will be lucky if were are eating comes 2014
Bump. All the rest is wishful thinking and mental masturbation. He could'a done the right thing and he failed. End of story.
“I wonder if his epilepsy medication had anything to do with his “decision”.”
I don’t think it was the meds. I think the veiled threats from Obama and the NY Times simply got to the man, and he folded. You don’t want to be in a foxhole with John Roberts. He is more concerned with protecting the image of the Court as seen through the eyes of the leftist elites, rather than carrying out his oath of office. In the end I think we should redouble our efforts — the biggest challenge will be not allowing this setback to deter us. We need 51 votes, not 60. So this is doable (assuming Romney wins).
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