[adorno]

If it is your opinion that giving the Federal government the power to tax whatever they want, however much they want for whatever reason they want until a more intelligent Chief Justice helps overturn said ruling is 'playing chess at a high level', then perhaps you play using only the rooks.

The rooks, by themselves, won't create a situation for checkmate.

Roberts is putting the Queen in check, while rendering the rooks and bishops helpless, and the King is a couple of moves from being toppled.

Creating outrage amongst the people, while he takes the heat, is a huge risk, but, ruling on the "mandate" alone would not have been enough for people to learn the lessons that, big government is destructive government. Obama needed to go; the democrats' control of congress needed to go, and Obamacare needed to go. What needs to go, after Obama and the democrats are removed, is the big spending and the big taxing, which is more likely to occur with democrats in office. When the people are angry, they tend to remove the biggest rascals out of office. So, perhaps Roberts had that in mind when he ruled they way he did, even as he knew that he would become the biggest antihero in Supreme Court history.

[madison10]

Wish I had your faith in what Roberts was supposedly trying to do. At first I thought it was a chess game, too, but then thought that was being entirely too optimistic.

[Resettozero]

Perhaps he is every bit the scoundrel as many posters on FR and elsewhere are convinced. But I appreciate your delay in condemning what Roberts has done in this matter. We simply don’t know yet how this all plays out; but we will know for sure within a fairly short passage of time.

Thanks for your level-headed post.

[superloser]

So, perhaps Roberts had that in mind when he ruled they way he did, even as he knew that he would become the biggest antihero in Supreme Court history.

That would explain the reported expressions on his face when he read the verdict. Allegedly he was nearly in tears and red-faced.

If all of this is true, it explains much.

[prairiebreeze]

It’s amusing to watch posters like you twist themselves into pretzels in order to justify Roberts actions.

This is nothing noble in what Roberts did. I sincerely believe that he was either bought, blackmailed or was fully intimidated by the thought of being “Borked” in DC for the rest of his career and decided that it would be easier for him to deal with the angst of the nation’s conservatives than the libtards and their media machine.

[lag along]

You are entitled to that view and you certainly express it well -\\I do suggest you stick to tiddlywinks or pocket pool.

The chief justice of the supreme court - no matter how convoluted his rationale is - is not playing games or gotcha with politics.

His authored decision in the plurality is a marked departure from concepts of limited government, states rights, tax authority, enumerated powers, and general welfare.

The fact that it was (in dicta at least) 8-1 that the federal government can enact a one payer health care system is a giant leap. Scalia. et al all agreed the government can permissibly enact a one- payer government health care system today.