John Roberts will go down in history as one of the biggest sell outs in American history and is the perpetrator of a treacherous decision that aids the phony president in his goal of destroying America. Our court's system is strictly political from the top down and needs a drastic overhaul.
Due to his wrong-headed rewriting of Bozocare he allowed this piece of garbage to be enacted as a 'tax'. I believe Roberts is a coward who was easily brow beaten and threatened by Obama who no doubt had "something" on Roberts.
Judge Roberts did do one odd thing, which we may appreciate in the end. By declaring it a tax....you merely need fifty-one votes of the Senate to agree, and then the House agreement, and it’s finished.
You have to see the other side of this. The President and his campaign team fully expected this to be taken down, and it was to be the number one topic for the November election of 2012. By Robert’s vote....it never got anywhere in the election topics. And, at least half of the Democratic Senators will admit in public that the present plan won’t work.
It may be November of 2014 before enough folks are in position, but this whole thing is falling apart.
the original bill, as deemed passed by nancy pelosi and her running dog lackeys had IRS administering the penalties ~ presumably because IRS could inexpensively determine if folks were buying qualifying health insurance.
the good news is that as a tax the republicans can prevent the democrats from using filibuster rules to stop a republican majority senate from pulling the plug.
make sure you blame Roberts for what he did ~ not for what's in that bill. it started as a bad bill. it's still a bad bill. its implementation will be bad. the people involved in the implementation and management are bad. bad bad bad bad bad all the way around.
you can always count on the democrats to come up with unworkable cr*p
Along with targeting conservative groups, let’s not ever forget that Jews who support Israel and Catholics were also targeted!!!
I’ve never understood the excusing of John Roberts. Finding a silver lining in his ruling or admiration of his cleverness or long term thinking, etc.
It seemed fairly simple to me. The supporters and crafters of the bill put forth from the get-go that the mandate fine was a penalty for non-compliance, not a tax. It was governmental power under the commerce clause that they rested their authority on, to foist this on America.
Roberts didn’t need to seize on the “shazaam, it’s a tax after all” argument. All he needed to do was join with the four justices in striking it down.
Then we would not have it.
And I and a majority of Americans would have dropped to our knees and exclaimed, thank you God, and thank you five justices for saving this nation from this ABOMINATION.
If you don't know what you are trying to do, the chances of doing anything useful are very poor.
When the Democrats, fresh from a 520-18 ass-kicking in the electoral college, decided to remove Nixon, everything they did, everything they said, every investigation, every leak, every committee hearing, every motion - all were designed with a single goal in mind, and they succeeded brilliantly.