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.
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Yes indeed!
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!!
Yep, that’s about it. We need to work hard between now and November!
“That’s undoubtedly what Roberts is telling the nation: Your job, not mine. I won’t make it easy for you.”
Time to impeach the moron.
We can stop the ObamaCareTax with whats in pave now.
All Roberts and the Supreme Court had to do was either find the law Constitutional or unconstitutional. Period. What he did amounts to psycobable.
WHAT YOU SAID!! And, I'm also getting more and more pissed off with each passing day.
Yea me too.
It’s settling in very bitter.
Which moron, Roberts or Obama?(At this point, either one is OK by me)
Does that mean the fact Thief Justice roberts is a duplicitous jackass who actively refused to do his job had nothing to do with it?
Exactly. Roberts screwed the pooch, AND, the American people. He can regain integrity by admitting he did wrong, and resigning. Obama won’t have time to replace him before he is thrown out on his commie arse.
Why did he do it? Because he carries two identities. Jurisprudentially, he is a constitutional conservative. Institutionally, he is chief justice and sees himself as uniquely entrusted with the custodianship of the court’s legitimacy, reputation and stature.Really? Because by ignoring his own understanding of the illegitimacy of the law, he has damaged the stature of the Supreme Court immeasurably and irredeemably. It makes no sense at all.
Krauthammer himself says he'd have ruled differently.
There is nothing positive about the Roberts ruling, including his motives - whatever they may have been. Achieving a bad result by doing the wrong thing - deliberately - is wrong.
You don't have to be a lawyer or a judge to understand that. John Roberts is either a very bad justice or a very bad man, or both.
It appears as though Roberts may have a large cult following. According to the Yahoo front page, Roberts’ ruling has made ObamaCare very popular with “Republicans and independents”.
That Miers nomination is looking better and better all the time.
Nope, Roberts nullified the Constitution with this ruling. It will take 2 more Conservatives on the Court to isolate this bastard. No Conservative issue is ever going to get fair hearing as long as the lefty gang of five is there. They will make every lefty crackpot law and lawsuit legal and dismiss a Conservative law and lawsuit as political. This ruling FUBAR any fair hearings in the future.
Sure thing!
I guess the “republicans and independents” they talked to were relieved to learn it was just a tax and not a penalty.
Then why did Roberts re-write the legislation in the first place?
My head is going to explode thank goodness I have free health care now. All hail Obama
4 dissenting justices knew this was judicial activism. An appeals court knew this was judicial activism. We know this is judicial activism. Hell, even the 4 dissenting libs knew this was judicial activism.
Roberts knew the law, none better. He knew this was a commerce clause case, he even said it was, but he amended the law to make it a tax case.
The only ones who don't know that this is judicial activism are the Krauthammers and others who are defending this despicable ruling.
He has 2 minor children adopted from Central America. The Democrats were researching and questioning their adoption records even when he was up for confirmation. It wouldn’t be a stretch to consider that the Democrats did something or said something to threaten his family.
His switch from “unconstitutional” to “constitutional” at the last minute also suggests he was forced, coerced or just bribed.
I wouldn’t be surprised it if comes out he was threatened, his kids might be deported as illegally adopted, say they were bought from a baby broker, or something like that, in order to force him to change his vote.
List o the senate seat that are contested can be found at WIKIpedia. Good chart. We need to get to work.
Changing his vote alienated the conservatives on the Court, screwing the pooch on protecting his inner Rodney King.
Not upholding the Constitution (what happened to the lack of a severability clause in the legislation) and actively rewriting law from the bench shot his legitimacy and legacy with conservative Americans for years to come.
And Roberts is A D A. He opened a door for congress to pass outlandish laws if they have a tax applied!!!
Well, yes, and no...
“Nope, Roberts nullified the Constitution with this ruling. It will take 2 more Conservatives on the Court to isolate this bastard.”
Right in context but have to think that getting folks that actually read the Constitution on the Court or getting Judges that not only understand the Constitution but rule as such would be a great advance! A very great feat it seems these day... Not sure that we can find the great minds of Scalia or Thomas. Of course the liberals continue to label their opinions as Conservative instead of looking at the ruling.
Until we git rid of the elective “be subservient to the Liberal establishment” we can NOT achieve freedom.
Sometimes I think we are doomed anyway!
well put explanation.
On October 3, President Bush nominated Harriet Miers to replace O'Connor. However, Miers withdrew her acceptance of the nomination on October 27 after encountering widespread opposition."
Great, another reason to hate Bush. Well, actually, I’m beginning to think that much is deserved! A Republican, progressive Republican, is worse that any other Republican.
AMEN!!
Its not Roberts job to anoint winners and losers based on his thought process. He is to rule over constitutionality. He is epic fail. Some could argue his behavior was treasonous.
“Which moron, Roberts or Obama?”other
Brother of another color.
If Obamacare had been repealed the economy would have responded in a very positive way. Don’t you think the White House would have take all the credit?! How many voters would realize that the resulting resurgence was IN SPITE of the administration.
I would have certainly preferred that it had been repealed, but you look for whatever bright side you can.
If the GOP can retake the Senate and repeal this monstrosity, then we come out of it with a fully repudiated Democratic Party and a Commerce Clause that has been reigned in by the Supreme Court.
We really have to get together and fight this in public opinion! Roberts made a pubic opinion regarding a very political statement! This has transformed the Supreme Court into a Constitutional court into a political court!
We the people still have the final say! It may not be apparent yet, but we do have the power to change not only this ruling but several others of the unconstitutional courts.
While I am livid with this decision, I am open to rebellion.
And by the way, the bill passed both houses of congress without a single Republican vote - it was not a bipartisan effort.......
If the system is “whatever gets elected is constitutional”, then where is the checks and balance?
Especially with nowadays - what gets elected is based on lies.
Thanks Roberts!
That is my suspicion too...
I would not be surprised, given how the thug Obama and his minions act.
...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.
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