Posted on 07/01/2012 7:29:54 AM PDT by Kaslin
I would caution my fellow conservatives on the frustration they may be enticed to express at Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts. It is unwarranted, and it is unwise.
The reason I state such is that it is my firm belief that the Roberts' decision on the Obamacare mandate will without question bring about ultimate doom to the government control of healthcare, and through the best means possible--not judicial activism--but through the democratic process.
In boxing terminology no one has pulled a "rope-a-dope" this effective since Muhammad Ali himself. In doing so, it is clear that John Roberts duped the liberal wing of the Supreme Court into agreeing with him on calling out President Obama as legislatively dishonest, while assisting the conservative wing of the court into dismantling punitive measures against the states, and greatly limiting the ability of the legislature to use the powers of the commerce clause of the constitution to quietly take over people's lives.
Yes, conservative friends there are many silver linings in Thursday's odd verdict but let me assert merely four here:
1. Obamacare has been outed--by the authoritative voice of the nation's highest court-as a fraud. Yes the administration pitched it as a "penalty," as something that would not carry with it the burdensome label and politically repulsive thought of a tax. But Chief Justice Roberts seduced the four Obama supporters on the bench into agreeing that President Obama had in fact lied to the nation all through his 2008 campaign. Promising tax-cuts for 95% of the nation (a promise wrapped in a lie all its own), he has instead raised taxes--primarily on middle class families to the tune of $1.7 trillion dollars for the next decade. (And THAT'S just the starting point!) A tax, and nothing but a tax, is the only way the mandate funding could be understood in order for President Obama's only domestic initiative to survive. So a tax it is...
2. The commerce clause has been severely restricted. Roberts sided with the conservative wing of the court in asserting rightly that the Congress can't wander into a grey area of regulation, by attempting to force behavior of the population through manipulation of the commerce clause. The court rightly examined and asserted that the legislature has no right to legislate what people choose not to do. Punishments can not be levied on inaction. And if they attempt to do so, they must come in the form of a tax that the nation has recourse to change and remove through the electoral process.
3. The true cost to America's middle class was unveiled. Hiking taxes by close to $5 billion, with an additional $5 billion in medicare cuts, didn't close the loophole, no matter how much President Obama attempted to argue that it would. In reality the middle class families of America--already under assault by a horrible economy with limited prospects of improvement--will be forced to fork over another $1.7 trillion in forward looking deficits. Yes the families who earn $60-$90,000 per year will be the ones who make too much to qualify for the low income freebies, and not be making enough to be able to afford plans that they can buy in to. It will be these families who will be punitively crunched with this penalizing tax called Obamacare, and the Roberts' decision has removed the veil to allow this to be seen.
4. Perhaps the most important thing of all, the Roberts' decision will likely hand Governor Mitt Romney a 40 state victory in the upcoming elections. The Tea Party has been reignited. Grassroots groups have reawakened. And the roar of 2010 will be a distant memory when the voters take Governor Romney's advice and change Obamacare by removing President Obama.
To be very candid, I was more worried about the political outcomes of the case, had the justices thrown out the law all together in essence neutralizing one of the most glaring differences between the two sets of solutions being offered in this election cycle.
Instead we've been given an HD-retina-screen level upgrade in seeing the differences starkly and in greater contrast.
Re-elect President Obama and it will be the full implementation of the biggest small-business-killer ever invented by the Congress--Obamacare. Choose another path and you will set a course for the complete repeal of Obamacare, and the beginning of a new day for small business owners across the nation.
The choice is simple.
And John Roberts was the secret weapon that made it all happen, by outthinking everybody, and staying true to the Constitution.
Overall, not a bad outcome!
Good point. Isn't this bill like 2700 separate laws bundled together as one law?
Mark Levin: absolutely lawless. . . a brutal assault on individual sovereignty.
Only 51 Senators are needed to offload this thing. We conservatives need to first concentrate on regaining the Senate and defeating Obama Those are entirely doable.
After spending yesterday in a funk, I was encouraged to see the so-called “bounce” for Obama on the heels of the USSC ruling has come and gone.
Let`s push to get the pro-Obamacare thugs out of office. That`s Job One. If there`s nothing else Roberts has done, it`s much more clearly defined the issue. It`s a ****ing TAX, and GOPers need to make that point succinctly and clearly.. that they will push to repeal it.
Chief Justice moved beyond role of Constitutional interpreter to playing King Solomon. In the immediate term, this is a further defeat for Constitutional law. Even if Roberts had voted with the minority, it does not solve the political strife that brought us to this point.
As we move forward in the next 4 months, if the GOP cannot take the side benefits of this decision to political victory, we deserve to go down. Roberts’ decision will always be viewed as political, but he is correct that Obamacare is a beast born of politics and can only be killed by politics.
After we deal with our outrage over the decision, we have to embrace the opportunity that this decision and the Wisconsin recall defeat (victory for conservatives) brings to us. Either we fight and defeat liberalism, or we go down to defeat as a nation and a culture. Roberts and the Left of the court may be the near-term villains, but we always need a villain to kick us into action.
What will doom Obamacare is the bankruptcy of the US because of Obamacare. Then we'll want Greece to bail us out.
Thank you for the link, and for the warning. I like Levin and downloaded for listening later... too bummed for our country right now even though it’s a beautiful morning.
Ok, let's see if I understand; We traded the immediate end of ObamaCare now for "ultimate doom" of ObamaCare at some unspecified point in the future... which is way better.
Justice Roberts just expanded the tax power to absurd and unprecedented levels. Congress now has the power to inflict on every individual American any sort of regulatory penalty it pleases, so long as it calls it a tax and has the IRS collect it. It’s an outrageous power grab by the feds.
Jhon Roberts is a POS lowlife fascist, he represents to lowest of pretenders. While pretending to support the US Constitution he betrays it at the very time he needed to stand tall.
We cannot allow this law to stand and we must be sure that no Bush is ever in the WH again.
I have no respect for the SCOTUS whatsoever, they are every bit as corrupt as the US COngress.
“We have to remove the trash...”
As if we weren’t already working on that? So, what? Roberts decision means we have to keep doing what we were doing? Great.... thanks John.
“Kevin McCullough is the Baghdad Bob of Townhall.com.”
Another RobberBot article.
>>> Good point. Isn’t this bill like 2700 separate laws bundled together as one law?
yes... and it’s worse than that... because an extraordinary amount of power is vested in the secretary of human services. Most of which is entirely discretionary and intentionally vague.
The intent again is to OVERLOAD the system.
While most of it is truly unconstitutional, there is so much of it to fight that you cannot fight any of it.
That is why SCOTUS MUST RE-HEAR this and deal with it properly. Otherwise, the entire law stands by fiat.
I’ll put it this way. When Robert’s changed the dominate definition in the law after-the-fact he made all our laws look irrelevant. There are many criminals, including the Administration, who would like their bank robbing charges, that led to prosecutions, to be changed after-the-fact to unauthorized withdrawals on appeal. We all know that will never happen and likewise he never should he have changed the definition. Nothing makes it or Roberts right.
You're right, Justice Roberts set precedent, but he did so by ignoring precedent. As is evident from this decision and about every liberal decision of the past 75 years, only conservatives care about precedent. Liberals are busy making a revolution and precedent is their enemy, at least usually. So, precedent is not binding on liberal justices. Conservatives have to start playing by the same rules. There is no stare decisis now, there is only the brute force of a 5-4 vote. Constitution? Without stare decisis, it's a dead letter. We need to accept this terrible fact.
Please, Kevin McCullough, don’t pee on my leg and then try to tell me it’s raining.
Seems to me that the “conservative” intelligentsia really aren’t that intelligent.
If they were they would have figured out forty-eight hours ago that no one is buying this claptrap.
But no, it just keeps on coming.
The commerce clause has been severely restricted.
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I think that, with time, people are going to understand just HOW important this is.
It’s a pretty good bet that anyone trying to paint a smiley face on the Roberts court decision is little more than a Republican cheerleader.
All in all your post is very well said
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