No flames... just defeat. You cannot paint this awful decision as anything but evil.
LLS
He not only ducked his responsibility as the Chief Justice of the supreme court to PROTECT Americans from unconstitutional laws but he established an EVIL precedent that will be used to justify government mandates over our behavior in the marketplace for decades to come.
Yet.
The American public gets what they deserve for electing this imbecile and the others that go along with him.
Sadly the rest of us must suffer along with them.
I keep thinking it took Carter to Get us Reagan, But to paraphrase another Senator: Mitt Romney is no Reagan.
The SCOTUS had no problem canning some of FDR socialism programs even though he and the democrats won in landslides
Why should this have been diffrent
Roberts was wrong period. He cannot be trusted with lives of hard working Americans. He is as evil and corrupt as any creature who haunts the halls of Washington. There is no silver lining to this except the realization that we will now have to take extreme measures to limit the governments power to tax and enslave citizens of this country. Make no mistake Roberts knew exactly what he was doing and that he made a decision that may destroy the lives and livelihoods of millions of good people.
Problem is Mr. Inactivity directly benefits from this ruling, the inmates in the Labor Camp suffer.
Gee...I don’t know.
I wonder if his epilepsy medication had anything to do with his “decision”.
As with all meds, it has side effects.
(remember, the swearing-in of Bath-House Barry had to be re-done...)
In concept I think you are right....but Robets isn’t our daddy handing us a good spanking for being such fools...
He should have killed it and in his decision handed out a ass whopping to us fools ....
The thing was constitutional or it wasn’t
It’s as simple as that...
There is nothing that gets the Am people riled more than tax issues. We fought the Revolution because of unfair taxes. Roberts knows this. He’s just thrown fuel on the fire.
Power to the people! /s
For Roberts to take it upon himself to TRY AND FIND A WAY TO MAKE OBAMACARE WORK is one of the biggest farces ever to come from the SCOTUS. This case was about the Commerce Clause.. Why didn't Roberts try just as hard to find taxing someone for their inactivity UNLAWFUL?
YOU HAVE TO BUY SOMETHING TO BE TAXED, DON'T YOU, YOU DUMBAZZ ROBERTS? FUJR!
No you are dead on right. I too wish it would have been struck down, but as I said on another post at 10:30 this morning...
Yes. Roberts and the Libs, contrary to common wisdom of most of my fellow Freepers, have FORCED the American Public and the Congress to either poop or get off the pooper.
The Dems do not want us off the pooper, lest they be up to their neck in poop.
So FINALLY we either have to develop a spine or be ruled by fiat. There is no longer an excuse possible.
Conservative business will now terminate many lib employees or pay dearly.
Conservatives will now defriend and defamily themselves of liberal influence or be an active participant in their own demise.
Honestly, I’m glad this happened for the reasons above. The country NEEDED a slap in the face. Now it can do the right thing and correct it’s error or fall/fail utterly.
NO MORE EXCUSES.
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It has been the fault of our congress since 2010 for not defunding and obstructing this mess. They had the cover of a pending SC ruling to do NOTHING. That cover no longer exists. Now they must represent as is their job or pay at the polls. But the idiots of this country allowed this entire mess, no, CAUSED this entire mess to begin with through our own inaction and now we all have to live with it.
Roberts, through a bad error, may have really done the best thing possible. Forced our reps and the people’s hand and MADE us do OUR jobs.
Flame away naysayers. I don’t really care what you think to the contrary.
You will get flamed, but good for you for thinking.
I’ve come to the conclusion today that far too many FReepers can’t even read, much less think. Lots of hysterics, too little reason.
I don’t like this decision, either, but we don’t yet know the full ramifications.
Perhaps this massive piece of legislation is, indeed, constitutional, but just bad law. The courts aren’t supposed to write law. Roberts tossed bad law back at the people responsible for it.
I’m hearing that, because he ruled it a tax, it is now a budgetary/financial matter, which can be amended or repealed through reconciliation, which can be done by a plurality of 51 senators, not the 60 super majority.
Interesting angles yet to be discussed.
We can’t rely on the most educated Supreme Court to do their job so we’re going to hand it over to the American Idol watching folks who believe in aliens.
the Courts are supposed to (as in their sworn duty) protect us from the unconstitutional actions of the legislature and the executive. This court has not done its duty. Roberts is a traitor and should be treated as such
It is interesting to me that tax bills are supposed to start in the “House”. this bill started in the Senate, so I find the ruling wrong on that basis.Roberts convoluted ruling that a “penalty” was a tax forgot to mention this constitutional rule. I am hoping others see it and appeal it.
You are missing the point. The Supreme Court’s job is not to weigh in on whether it is a good bill or not.
The SC role is to decide whether the bill is constitutional or not. Unless someone can show me where the bill references taxes and followed procedures for bills involving taxation then the bill as written is clearly unconstitutional.
Instead of attacking each other over something we have zero control over, get out there and DO SOMETHING.
I would like to have seen a total overturn of Obamacare, but it didn't happen. Move on and do what we have to do to get it repealed. No amount of bitching on freerepublic is going to make the SCOUTS say "oops my bad" and change it.
The November vote is more important now then it ever has. Unfortunately the only choice we have is Romney. (Those primaries look more important now don't they.)
America is now little more than an open-borders land mass populated by cretins and parasites who have absolutely no respect for the military and who vote for big government to confiscate money from their neighbors and “redistribute” it to them in exchange for their votes. It is not an America worth defending anymore. That America no longer exists.
The parasites outnumber the hosts now, and there’s no going back. The Democrats have won. Republican politicians are relegated strictly to big-mouthing about how they will do this and do that, but in the end they are nothing more than Democrat-lite. Between the two parties the difference is merely a matter of how fast the swirling water takes America down the toilet, but the destination is the same regardless.
There’s no point hanging onto the past and getting agita over what some cowardly piece of sh** named “John Roberts” does. The place is already dead anyway. America had a great run and I will remember it fondly for what it was.
So my advice is for decent conservatives everywhere to throw some cold water in your face, arm yourself to the teeth, and figure out how to shamelessly grab back every last government dime you possibly can before the parasites gobble it all up. Every man for himself.
FRegards, and good luck,
LH