Posted on 06/28/2012 7:29:13 AM PDT by for-q-clinton
Damn!!!!
Like most Tea Partiers, I have not and will not send money, make calls, post signs for Romney.
If however Romney is smart and wants to win, he will tap into the outrage that this will bring and make this at least his second campaign issue.
Agree fully ... Sad day.
I think how they slipped around that is ... the mandate is not a tax, but the PENALTY if you don’t follow the mandate is a tax.
Extremely shaky reasoning IMO. If you follow this logic, then legal penalties of any sort are a ‘tax’. So taxes are penalties ... penalties for making a certain amount of money.
While you're busy preening others of us are figuring out how to save our country.
If it walks and quacks like a duck, it's a duck.
Obviously you did not see the Ginsberg interview. I knew this was coming and everyone else should have, she gave the signal to all the dems.
Like father like son: The first Bush gave us Souter; the second Bush gave us Roberts. The gifts that keep on giving The nextr failure of conservatism will occur when all these so-called Republicans will abandon their pledge to repeal Obamacare. It won’t happen EVER even if the GOP takes control of the House, Senate, and POTUS.
If George Washington was here, he'd either muster troops for another revolution, or seeing the vast tech superiority possessed by the tyrants, find another country to settle.
Yes, it shows Obama lied, and not only implemented the largest tax increase in history but also one that by design soaks people with incomes substantially below his promised $200,000 income floor.
This ruling also clearly indicates that the court, with near unanimity, sees limitations on the application of the Commerce Clause. This opens the door to a lot of other constitutional challenges.
Finally, I’d expect a new challenge based on the 14th Amendment’s Equal Protections clause, since the Obama Healthcare Tax must be applied in a decidedly disperate manner.
OBAMA’S HEALTH-CARE OVERHAUL UPHELD BY U.S. SUPREME COURT
5-4 decisions, with Roberts joining the court’s liberals.
Court says federal government can’t threaten to withhold money from states that don’t fully comply on Medicaid extension
CHIEF JUSTICE ROBERTS SAYS MANDATE IS NOT A VALID EXERCISE OF CONGRESS’ POWER UNDER COMMERCE CLAUSE AND NECESSARY AND PROPER CLAUSE
HEALTH LAW’S MEDICAID EXPANSION LIMITED BY U.S. SUPREME COURT -RTRS
ROBERTS, JOINED BY TWO JUSTICES, SAYS MEDICAID EXPANSION VIOLATES CONSTITUTION -RTRS
FOUR JUSTICES DISSENT, SAYING THE PATIENT PROTECTION AND AFFORDABLE CARE ACT GOES BEYOND -RTRSCONGRESSIONAL POWERS UNDER CONSTITUTION -RTRS
ScotusBlog conclusion: So the mandate is constitutional
The bottom line: the entire ACA is upheld, with the exception that the federal government’s power to terminate states’ Medicaid funds is narrowly read
The ACA is upheld as a tax, not a penalty
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/obamas-health-care-overhaul-upheld-us-supreme-court
so...will THIS be the final kick in the @$$ the sleeping drunk needs?????
we the people: the original signers @ the con-con...(politicians)
wee the sheeple: as 0’pinhead refers to us...
Semper Watching!
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Re: This proves people have lost control over their government. It’s all in the hands of power players
Leahy is quoted as saying “no one questions our authority”
Heh, so it turns out Roberts is the same kind of Democrat faggot as Souter.
Oh well... guess Congress will actually have to do something.
My observation is that most tea partiers are less stupid than you.
They didn’t say the mandate was a tax, they said the penalty for following the mandate is a tax. Slippery way around.
If it is a tax, than the court cannot make a ruling on the Constitutionality of the tax (because of the Anti-Injunction Act) until the tax is actually imposed in 2014.
Since Obamacare is now considered a tax, and if it remains on the books until 2014, I would presume that the issue of a mandated purchase can be re-addressed once someone actually has to pay out any money (as a tax) to forego insurance.
It will be harder to unravel this mess by then, but the court challenges are not over.
John Roberts will go down in infamy as forever tied to the likes of Elena Kagan, Sotomayer, Ginsburg and Breyer.
Mary, Mother of God, pray for us.
Justice Roberts - the new boogieman for the Tea Party. Haha, I can see the signs now.
There’s more to this story (IMO) on why Roberts is voting the way he is........wonder if we’ll ever know what it is.
Meanwhile, if we want this bill repealed, we know what we have to do this November (and leading up to it).
The America I was promised as a kid was just revoked. The America my father fought for was just destroyed.
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