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?"
As Chief Justice he is by his actions very aware that we are in the era of the Roberts Court. He wants to be seen as the umpire, as he said in his confirmation, not a player for either team.
I suspect he views the pattern of the Congress over the last 40 years or so of dumping all the hard issues on the SC to decide so that the politicians can avoid responsibility of their actions is BS.
He took the biggest case to date in his tenure to tell the Congress to grow up and do their job..
If the thing is a tac then it is time to impeach and remove the kenyan commie klown for granting avoidance of the taxation to those he chose to, because he does not have the power to grant that waiver if it is a tax passed by house, seante and he signed into law. Get that halfassed commie queer out of the White House! He is breaking the laws and violating the Constitution. ... OR, perhaps when the pirate Roberts swore little barry bastard commie in the second time, he didn’t make the oath something to protect and uphold the Constitution?
I can’t disagree with the anger of those like Mark Levin who have blasted this decision as lawless on the part of CJ Roberts. I totally agree with you that this leaves us no alternative but to fight and maybe win, or just complain and definitely lose.
Politically, if we can’t capitalize on the gifts that this decision gives us, we deserve to go down. No question that this is nothing less than another heaping turd on top of the shitpile Obama has fed us on the immigration executive order, the Arizona decision and Big Sis’s treason, Keystone pipeline and on and on.
One thing is for sure - there is another unemployment report coming next week, there is further financial disaster in Europe, and there are for sure more companies not hiring on account of this disaster. Can we use this situation to push for a major turnover in Congress and kick Obama out? Or do we just give up and let our country complete its suicide? The Constitution was not intended to be a suicide pact. It only becomes one if we let it.
He’s being Paid, after taking a Sacred Oath to Uphold and Defend the Constitution, to exercise his assumed expertise On the Constitution and extant case law and existing precedents, to Uphold and Defend the Constitution.
One of the statements made by Chief Justice Roberts in the ruling: “It is not our job to protect the people from the consequences of their political choices.”
That seems like a really strange comment to make in a ruling of this magnitude. It almost seems like a hidden message.
I told my husband tonight we will not be able to feed our family, our house, our cars, etc... It will be like that for everyone else.
If one is against judicial activism, I think one would have to agree with you.
That wasn’t Roberts’ job. His job was to uphold the Constitution. He did not. Neither did Kagan, the wise latina, Ginsburg, and the other doofus.
And it’s up to US to make Congress do their job. Honestly, we’ve become to complacent with our Congress critters. This needs to stop today. You’ve summed up what’s been weighing on my mind all day.
Good post.
Denial just ain't a river in Egypt.....so you're saying then that Scalia got it wrong?
“Conservative business will now terminate many lib employees or pay dearly.”
We should all be looking at what areas of commerce we should support. Have a JP Morgan account? Get out. Jamie Dimon was an early supporter of Obama. Eat Ben & Jerry’s? Change brands. Do you use Progressive insurance? Change companies. How about your doctor or lawyer or hometown banker? Are they liberals? Find other professionals. Look at where you spend your hard earned dollars! Do not subsidize these people! Oh and one more thing....stay away from companies that operate on the government dole, including GE and others of their ilk. Buy another brand of appliance.
I know, it's weird. And it begs the question, why have a Supreme Court at all?
If you're not going to act a a Constitutional check, then we don't need you, Lump on a Log Roberts.
But if we still have conservatives not backing Romney, we will only get 58. We need Romney to do really Good.
Conservatives who are not 100% behind Romney are abandoning their conservatism and will help keep ObamaCare.
Dah? Obama.
That's why Rush, Levin, Palin, and Reagan, in his grave, support Romney. The grownups will get Romney Elected! It's Romney vs Obama. Who's better for America?
It may be "constitutional" under the legal scrutiny it faced in this case, but there will be endless future challenges based on legal arguments that can't possibly be made right now because nobody has the legal standing to challenge them. The first time someone is forced to pay the "fine" for failing to obtain insurance coverage, a whole different can of worms will be opened that will involve arguments of arbitrary and capricious application of the law, violations of the commerce clause, violations of the First Amendment, etc.
“It is not our job to protect the people from the consequences of their political choices.”
He’s right on that much. I’m tired of people whining. They can get off their satchel asses and vote right or pay the price of voting for liberals and ‘moderates’. Get off their asses and make the current office holders do what we elected them to do.
And if America burns, it’s their own damn fault. Not mine.
You realize Reagan lost the Senate in ‘86? About the same timetable as Bush. Historically, we were overdue for losing the Congress in ‘06. Historically, we were supposed to lose big in ‘02. And in ‘04. It’d be a good thing to stop blaming Bush like a certain Kenyan-American.
He took the biggest case to date in his tenure to tell the Congress to grow up and do their job.
Roberts did not do his job we hired and pay him for.
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