Posted on 07/01/2012 7:57:19 PM PDT by trekdown
Obamacare is now essentially upheld. There’s only one way it can be overturned. The same way it was passed — elect a new president and a new Congress. That’s undoubtedly what Roberts is telling the nation: Your job, not mine. I won’t make it easy for you.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
...whats in pave now?
Well said sir. I really hate the attempt to turn defeat into victory.
All the 'Laws' would have sailed right through the SCOTUS with flying colors. “Ain't my job” *hic*
Everyone touts Krauthammer as some intellectual, yet he's wrong more than he's right. If you talk to people that get their news solely from Fox, they think he's never wrong and defend him vehemently.
I call Kraut a crippled MORON that probably voted for Obama.
He is liberal...a wolf in sheeps clothing. He is a traitor to his oath and a violator of 300,000,000 people. He is responsible for every government paid abortion in the future. That blood is on his hands. Ironic, isn't it....a Catholic in good standing should give us taxpayor abortion. Where is the voice of the Bishops? Where is voice of the Universal Church? Where was the fidelity to the Constitution? Where was the conscience of Roberts to have voided millions of lives to the abortuaries for reinstating the "credibility of the Court". This man is as much a sociopath as Obama. Harvard brilliance....just a litte smarter than the rest of us. We do not need any more Harvard wisdom on the courts.
Wrong. Of the majority opinion (Roberts and the four liberals) the four liberals dissented over the Commerce Clause. Roberts stood alone on that. Roberts' dicta has no limiting effect on future attempts to expand the Commerce Clause.
This article is already outdated. There was no genius move by Roberts. Neither the liberals nor the conservatives wanted to go along with Roberts. The liberals just took the easy win that does nothing to restrict them in the future.
Krauthammer's whole premise is factually wrong.
Call him Judas Roberts instead of Justice Roberts.
What Deagle said, 100% in agreement:
SORRY! This is NOT the job of the Supreme Court! They are suppose to rule on Constitutionality, not anything else!
That means that Roberts did NOT do his duty. Not only that but he disregarded his duty to the Constitution.
Anything else is just an excuse for his vote.
Yes, I am getting madder by the day!!
Or a fate worse that Breitbart.
Imagine coming into work and finding a plain brown envelope on your desk, full of pics of your kids at the day care or being dropped off at school, with a card saying, "Get the message?"
You fail to see that you are siding with Roberts.
He agrees with you. The court’s job is not to legislate. So he told the truth: the Dems lied in refusing to call a tax a tax, it’s a terrible piece of legislation, it’s not the court’s job to legislate, and those who messed it up need to fix it.
It is constitutional for Congress to tax and, apparently, to lie about it.
So the response is to do what? Vote for anyone who seeks to overturn Obamacare..........right?
That was the point.
It’s the elite “what will they say in the NY Times and at HLS” zone. Status sphere, to use the Tom Wolfe notion. People want status within the sphere where they circulate.
Roberts ignored the role of the SCOTUS is to prevent partisan temporary political winds from extreme changes to our nation. This completely rewrote the relationship between citizens to the government and granted unlimited power to congress over the states and over individuals.
Tax people for being overweight? That’s allowable.
Tax people for not voting?
The Congress does have the power to tax, of course. But there are limits on the power and those powers not expressly delegated... Well, you know the rest.
The weakness for Roberts was his concern the MSM would somehow place the Court and his Chief Justiceship as overly political or active and diminishing the respect of the Court.
Instead he’s turned the Court into a rubberstam of unconstitutional pOlivier and the left sees him as a dupe, a useful Idiot.
If Obamacare is a tax, then it is constitutional.
So he can stay “in the closet”. I think those gay rumors might just be true, and he was blackmailed about his past. That treasonous turd in the punchbowl did us NO favors. This stinks to high heaven.
So he can stay “in the closet”. I think those gay rumors might just be true, and he was blackmailed about his past. That treasonous turd in the punchbowl did us NO favors. This stinks to high heaven.
I won’t hold my breath waiting for Oblamo to appoint 2 conservative to SCOTUS.
Roberts needs to be vetted as to any personal/family gain by his vote. Perhaps a good place to start is with his international links with the likes of his friend Haass at the Council of Foreign Relations. The new world order has found another supporter.
I won’t hold my breath waiting for Oblamo to appoint 2 conservatives to SCOTUS.
John Roberts is a stinking rotten coward.
Our founders put their lifes, their families and their fortunes on the line to make sure we had the freedoms we enjoy, and Roberts pulls this stunt.
He is a despicable man.
Sure Kraut, Roberts did it so we can elect libdem Mutt. And when carbon taxes happen maybe we can turn to Olympia Snowe for relief?
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