[mkjessup]

Tyrrell (like many others) is trying like Hell to convince everyone that Roberts pissing down our neck is actually liquid sunshine for which we should be grateful.

I call bullsh*t on THAT.

[The Shrew]

In order to accept Tyrell's argument one has to accept that Justices Thomas, Scalia, Alito and Kennedy conspired with the Chief Justice to politicize the supreme court. One also has to believe that Chief Justice Roberts was able to snooker Justices Kagan, Ginsburg, Sotomayor and Breyer.

Sorry my credulity is strained.

TS

[Anima Mundi]

We may as well have Julia Roberts, with all this concern he has for his image.

[Anima Mundi]

If the Government can call something a mandate and collect it by then calling it a tax, the individual should be able to call something a tax and then not pay it because it is an unauthorized mandate. Makes as much nonsense.

[SuziQ]

We can bitch and moan all we want, but if we don’t get to the polls and vote Obama and the Democrats out of office, we can only expect WORSE things down the road.

[MikeNJ]

It is possible that Chief Justice Roberts voted to uphold Obamacare as a result of either blackmail or a credible physical threat to himself or his family.

Given the stakes involved, and the amorality of the stakeholders, neither of these possibilities are beyond credibility.

If so, he did what prisoners-of-war sometimes do when making statements after torture. They say things in a way that makes it clear that they are under duress and do not believe what they say.

Similarly, Roberts could have been sending a coded message through the irrationality of his decision, that, despite his vote, he did not believe Obamacare was constitutional, while at the same time sabotaging his own decision in subtle ways.

[Del Rapier]

Trying to explain the actions of a man with no convictions as part of a grand ruse,is nice but it doesn’t change reality.It is an easy approach to take,given the world we live in,it is fairly painful in the long-term as it becomes harder and harder to justify that individual’s actions.

[Freedom_Is_Not_Free]

Worthless, inaccurate analysis that completely disregards the government’s brand new power to tax inactivity — what you don’t buy, what you don’t do.

No discussion that this power to tax inactivity is NO WHERE granted in the Constitution.

Tyrell = epic fail, moron, no credibility.

[BuckeyeTexan]

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