Posted on 06/28/2012 5:51:39 PM PDT by Kaslin
Separation Of Powers: Chief Justice John Roberts, a George W. Bush appointee, chose the case of the century to turn to the left. The lesson is loud and clear: Only elections can stop Big Government.
In the coming weeks, the Supreme Court's monumental 5-4 decision preserving ObamaCare will be parsed and picked to death by everyone from constitutional scholars to irate Tea Party activists. But however extensive the faults within the chief justice's ruling are, it's right on the money in issuing this warning to the nation:
"It is not our job to protect the people from the consequences of their political choices."
As explained in today's lead editorial, Roberts, who with the two Clinton-appointed justices and the two Obama appointees held that the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act is constitutional, fell down on the job by refusing to defend the Constitution against a power grab by the other branches of the federal government.
How wrong we in the 21st century now know Alexander Hamilton was in assuring Americans that of the three branches of government, the judiciary "will always be the least dangerous to the political rights of the Constitution," with "neither force nor will, but merely judgment."
For months, it was unjustifiably assumed that the high court would deal a huge blow to the president this election year. Instead, far from receiving "merely judgment," Obama has been given a huge political boon just when he needed it.
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Power corrupts. I tend to observe once a “Conservative” has been in DC, they tend to spoil (go native and/or become part of the problem) at or around 6 years in office. Roberts will have served as Chief Justice for 7 years as of September. Predictably right on schedule.
Two words: Litmus Tests.
Liberals claim to hate ‘em but use ‘em.
Conservatives claim to love ‘em but don’t use ‘em.
Members of the Oligarchy never run out of medicine.
No kidding, right?!?!
No kidding.
Like the old Soviet ‘Nomenclatura’.
Remember the screaming from conservatives, like Ann Coulter when Bush dared to nominate someone who was NOT an Ivy league law school graduate?
We know exactly where the traitors learned from.
Communism is insidious.
Yes, and we’re seeing it unfold before our eyes...
It’s taken them over 70 years to consolidate power to this extent and they will not go away easily.
They have infested and infected almost everything.
Instead, if Romney wins in November, the second thing he should do is publicly ask Roberts to step down because Romney has lost confidence in Roberts' judgement.
Roberts needs to be publicly humiliated and ostracized.
-PJ
It's already tipped towards the liberals with Roberts, trust me, this will not be the last time he votes with the liberals.
You’re so right. And damn the fools that allowed them to infest and infect.
“Instead, if Romney wins in November, the second thing he should do is publicly ask Roberts to step down because Romney has lost confidence in Roberts’ judgement.”
Don’t you think it would be kind of awkward for a President Romney, who as governor massed Romneycare, to step aside for voting in favor of Obamacare?
Moreover, Romney has said that he would appoint more Justices like Roberts.
No, because Romney always said that a state's power to pass a state law that extends only to the state's boundaries is a lot different than passing a law that affects everyone in every state. The economies of scale are very different between a state and a nation. Also, Obamacare will cover all the illegal aliens in every state, and be paid for only by legal residents. Romneycare only covers residents of Massachusetts, and is paid for only by Massachusetts residents.
Romney has said that he would appoint more Justices like Roberts.
That was before today's ruling. That's the point of the "lost confidence" comment.
-PJ
Then again, according to this -
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2900723/posts
Roberts’ ruling is a brilliant ploy that will destroy Obamacare by forcing those states that set up the “exchanges” to pay for it by taxing that states’ citizens to pay for it. In fact, this will be the mother-of-all-tax-increases and unaffordable.
At the same time the ruling prevents the feds from punishing states that do not adopt it.
Read that analysis again. The ruling said that states that refuse to participate cannot be penalized. The ruling *does not* say the Feds cannot funnel money to states that do participate.
Dont you think it would be kind of awkward for a President Romney, who as governor passed Romneycare...
“No, because Romney always said that a state’s power to pass a state law that extends only to the state’s boundaries is a lot different than passing a law that affects everyone in every state. The economies of scale are very different between a state and a nation. Also, Obamacare will cover all the illegal aliens in every state, and be paid for only by legal residents. Romneycare only covers residents of Massachusetts, and is paid for only by Massachusetts residents.”
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The record is four times, Romney switched, supporting Abortion, the last, putting abortion in Romneycare.
Evil is being shown for what it is in more ways then one.
Pray for conversions, especially BHO and Romney, to the last moment, God is merciful.
Why didn't he just kill it?
It does not matter if it is on the federal, state or local level, both ObamaCare and RomnetCare are Socialized Medicine.
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