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!
Happened to me once.
I ate three cans of sardines the day before...
Scared the shine out a me before I remembered the sardines!
Leave it to a Dem majority congress to mistake BIG PILES of droppings and leavings, for actual beef.
Package it up, have it end up in the Court, which regurgitates it...
... too bad it's what they are trying to tell is "what's for dinner".
Texas kept the option to secede when we joined the union.
Let me get this straight. The liberal elite media threatens to come out guns blazing against Roberts and the Supreme Court if Obamacare isn't upheld, and that is sufficient to make Roberts cravenly cave and crap on the constitution for Obama. But somehow after all that, we think being nice to John Roberts is the way to make him do what you want? I don't know if that theory holds up, but the GOP is the stupid party so who knows.
Yes, Slings, they can be impeached, it’s happened once.
REMOVED, however, is another story; that’s never happened.
Samuel P. Chase - The Senate voted to acquit Chase of all charges on March 1, 1805. He is the only U.S. Supreme Court justice to have been impeached.
If at first you don’t succeed...
Bluto: Over? Did you say “over”? Nothing is over until we decide it is! Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor? Hell no! :-)
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After that most strange & awful ruling Thursday, it felt like the ‘Germans’ had bombed Pearl Harbor!
That was great work for a man with his tongue planted firmly in his cheek, Lazamataz, my dear.
I don’t care what anyone says, zer0care is a turd that will never be polished, decoupaged, dressed up, obfuscated, or otherwise improved in any way. It is an unmitigated disaster that should be thrown out in toto along with the miscreants who voted for it in the first place.
What part of “The Largest Tax Increase In History” don’t people understand? A bunch of chattering, lying-fool commies who keep insisting that it is not a tax does not make it a fee. IT’S A TAX, YOU LYING SACKS OF SOMETHING THAT CAN’T BE POLISHED.
Our solution should be massive, country-wide disobedience of this foul and destructive power grab by the ruling idiots who can’t rule their own excreta, let alone a country as great as this one.
They keep giving us martyrs, of whom they have made frightening examples. It is about time that we avenged them, every last one.
Would a Turd by any other name smell as bad?
NEAT, how did you get the art effect?
Thanks for the ping!
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