Posted on 07/01/2012 11:07:11 AM PDT by Lazamataz
So many "conservative" pundits have been polishing the turd that emanated from the SCOTUS on Obamacare, that I thought I'd have a go at it.
Let us leave aside the notion that somehow this will energize the conservative base, and result in a thorough trouncing of all Democrats at the polls in November. After all, now that one of the fundamental tenets in the social contract between government and her citizens - that the government cannot force commerce -- has been shredded, how does it matter? Yes, our side may prevail, but can anyone guarentee that is a permanent condition? One election that favors Democrats, and all bets are off. Any behavior can be coerced, any product can be forced upon an unwilling public.
So let's look at some other 'silver linings'.
1) We need not think for ourselves any more. The government can make our purchasing decisions for us. After all, we have busy lives, and there are too many choices. No longer do we need to concern ourselves with decisions! Thanks, John Roberts!
2) Armed with the ability to force purchases, when it is clear what purchases will be mandated, we can invest in those companies! We will get quickly rich! Well, so long as we are permitted to purchase stocks. It's likely the government will make that choice for us, now. Thanks, John Roberts!
3) The Supreme Court has come firmly down on the side of heavyhanded government dictates. We will be amazingly successful, as a nation, with a Centralized Command Economy. No longer do we need to worry about the fluctuations of the market, the government will control all that for us! We will have the wonderful successes seen in Fascist Italy, the former Soviet Union, and Cuba. Oh, wait.... well, whatever. Thanks, John Roberts!
4) We can force people to buy all sorts of things! Burial insurance, liability insurance on a personal level, and slander/libel insurance if you wish to post your opinions on the internet! Now people can sue each other a lot more, and it is clear that we need to sharply control those opinions on the internet. Thanks, John Roberts!
5) FINALLY! The Commerce Clause has been limited. Well, okay, maybe a whole new justification for social control has been created -- the power to tax -- but, hey, the limiting of the Commerce Clause makes it so... that.. uhhh.... never mind. Whatever. Thanks, John Roberts!
Wait. Now that I reread what I have written, maybe there is no upside to this, The turd cannot be polished. This July 4th, I will mourn the country I lost.
Thanks, John Roberts!
What planet are you on? The other side has been deliriously happy. I haven’t heard anyone else make the claim you made.
You can sugarcoat sh!t all you want. I’m not bitin’!
I was wondering about that.
The Commerce Clause has been limited.
You got this wrong, this ruling has no effect on the commerce clause.
I would love to see TEXAS, Arizona and Louisiana secure their borders and declare that they no longer will send any money to the Feds. Put their respective National Guard forces on the major highways to control access...and tell the Feds to stop them.
I hope that a lot more people start wondering about that.
“The great object of my fear is the federal judiciary. That body, like gravity, ever acting, with noiseless foot, and unalarming advance, gaining ground step by step, and holding what it gains, is engulfing insidiously the special governments into the jaws of that which feeds them. “ (Thomas Jefferson)
Although this particular advance was pretty freaking alarming....
“Supreme court justices can be impeached.”
Good Luck With THAT!
Has a Justice ever been impeached?
The only Justice to be impeached was Associate Justice Samuel Chase in 1805. The House of Representatives passed Articles of Impeachment against him; however, he was acquitted by the Senate.
http://www.supremecourt.gov/faq.aspx
You’ll never know if you don’t try.
An old friend recently exploded in an anti Obama rant. That wouldn’t be much of a suprise, but until now this fellow was completely non-political.
A lot of sleepers are beginning to awaken.
Good job Laz, we needed a plain talk version.
Love your Ayn Rand quote. I’m glad you posted this thread; there is no other way to look at this opinion other than a turd. It radically changes the social contract by completely destroying the concept of limited government. There is no absolutely NO limit to the power of the Federal Government. About the only “rights” we now have are procedural; all the government needs to do is get a judge to rubber-stamp something, and it is done.
Oh, and by the way, this ruling also completely guts the 5th Amendment Takings Clause. The socialists have been drooling for years over getting their hands on the pot of money sitting in everyone’s private retirement accounts. The Takings Clause was the only thing that kept their grubby hands off. That’s gone now; the Federal government is now free to “tax” those funds all they want.
Our Republic was nice while it lasted but it’s dead as a doorstop now.
Freedom and knowledge face three implacable enemies. Marxism, Islamism and environmentalism each will allow no opposition and each demands its oun “facts” and “truth”. They really can’t stand the light of day. Our opposition must first be individual and then, like minded groups. Theological, scientific and economic realities and conclusions validated by data that hasn’t been manipulated show the deceptions practiced by the true believer.
Mythbusters managed to polish a turd, but I doubt if even they could polish this one.
Only shiny when still fresh and new, with not all turds having that distinct look, regardless of how a light source is moved around, trying to achieve a glint of reflection.
Using a product such as
can maintain an illusion of shine...yet one can still see the object for what it is.
I say the turd was not produced shiny, au naturel, nor simply coated with a clear plastic or urethane spray coating upon it's exiting the orifice.
Instead, among not a little stink and much noise, it came to us decoupaged.
Though it arrived to the Court with many layers of such covering having been thickly applied already, having outer visible elements cut as they were from various sources, all combined and pasted onto the essence of the thing, making the outer layer a large confusing collage...
What Justice Roberts did in his dicta was to add his own somewhat clumsy additional decoupage, which doesn't quite obliterate the overall camouflage enough for one and all to be forced to re-identify the thing i for what it truly is, thus be forced to reject it, even as an involuntary "movement".
If those who first excreted this monstrous stinking pile continue to have their way, we will all be forced to eat it, (except for those who created/excreted it in the first place, and/or those whom "make love" with the same original orifices, both coming and going) while the Democrat hard-left and the 1st Wookie smirk at us, telling us that the ghastly creation is not what we all saw and smelt throughout the entire process, but it is instead, "peas".
I think we here can agree, regardless of what else is said about the thing, that at it's center, it is indeed still a turd.
Any disagreement we may have as to the thing's outward appearance, if you will allow, I'll just chalk up as being one of nomenclature.
Or as Bill Shakespeare might out it:
` A turd is a turd is a turd, by any other name it would smell as foul.’
`What is this I see before me? A turd? Out—out damned turd!’
http://www.supremecourt.gov/docket/PPAACA.aspx
The ONLY way we get rid of Obamacare this term is to take majorities in the House, Senate AND elect Romney President.
If Obamacare is fully enacted it will get harder to repeal as the medical system adapts to the law and the accompanying Bureaucracy entrenches itself. Eventually all that will be left is revolution or more likely empty talk about revolution.
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