Posted on 03/25/2012 5:47:00 PM PDT by Jean S
WASHINGTON -- Here's a thought that can't comfort President Barack Obama: The fate of his health care overhaul rests with four Republican-appointed Supreme Court justices.
His most sweeping domestic achievement could be struck down if they stand together with Justice Clarence Thomas, another GOP appointee who is the likeliest vote against.
But the good news for Obama is that he probably needs only one of the four to side with him to win approval of the law's crucial centerpiece, the requirement that almost everyone in this country has insurance or pays a penalty.
(Excerpt) Read more at oregonlive.com ...
Anthony Kennedy is the most powerful man in America.
26 States are bringing this case to the SCOTUS. That is some heavy-duty artillery.
When will SCOTUS announce its decision?
A post wasted on Freepers.
The Supreme Court is only one way to destroy the travesty that is Obamacare.
We can kill it via the political process if the judicial doesn’t work.
We can kill it with state nullification.
We can kill it by not complying.
I just read somewhere online that a decision should come by mid-summer.
Now after at least 3 golden opportunities they aren't willing to risk a "government shutdown" by completing their repeated solemn promise to the people of the US!!!
They have already flinched!!! They're more scared of a failed POTUS than they are of the people who sent them to the dance!!!
I think it will be argued from a Contract Law perspective. A contract is null and void when entered into under duress. The government requiring you to enter into a contract with a health insurance company under the threat of penalty is duress. Therefore, Obamacare is illegal under Contract Law. (As far as being unconstitutional, that goes without saying, regardless of what a few folks in black robes say)
Why the aitch Kagan isn’t forced to recuse herself I’ll never know.
The Supreme Court is only one way to destroy the travesty that is Obamacare.
We can kill it via the political process if the judicial doesn’t work.
We can kill it with state nullification.
We can kill it by not complying.
It’s going to have to come to that, but I hope that SCOTUS doesn’t become complicit in the tyranny.
I see us in a dictatorship today.
This is a joke, correct? If not, you don't know what a leftist is.
Dictator Baby-Doc Barack has ALWAYS ignored The US Constitution, ESPECIALLY with Obama”care.”
The cancer of Obama”care” now extends to Obama last week choosing a “Public health expert” for the World Bank Presidency.
_______
The major problem with THE NINE SUPREMES is that they are chosen for political reasons by the POTUS, and then they vote as an un-accountable democracy, for a Nation that is NOT a Democracy, but a REPUBLIC.
As a result, THE NINE SUPREMES commonly vote 5 to 4 on most issues. Constitutionality is seldom a consideration, and their up-coming ruling on Obama”care” will prove my point.
Now is the time to stand and deliver to address our grievances to the dictates of the Left.
Oppose the dictates of Dictator Baby-Doc Barack!
Our ONLY chance to ABOLISH Obama”care” rests with THE NINE SUPREMES, because Romney will be defeated by Obama.
IMHO, if Romney is anointed as the RNC Nominee, THE main issue in the National Election, Obama”care,” will be taken off the campaign table. Hence, Romney will not only lose, but suffer another crushing, and sadly typical, RINO defeat.
To those who want poster ideas, here are a few ideas for demonstration posters:
Obama”care” was robo-signed by Congress, and is therefore illegal.
Obama”care” was 2700 pages long, and is still being written, but not by Congress: witness the forced contraception coverage recently added by HHS Regulators.
Obama”care” has caused “The Catholic Spring.”
Obama”care” reduces competition, and therefore is illegal by the 1890 Sherman Anti-Trust Law.
Obama”care” is designed to be a US Federal Government monopoly, with no competition.
Obama”care” also is illegal according to the US Constitution, because it violates our freedom of choice.
Will THE NINE SUPREMES notice any of these three violations? I seriously doubt it.
Impeached Bill Clinton proved that the US President is above US Federal Law, so anything that the President wants he gets, regardless of the Federal Laws that he has violated.
What are your thoughts on the article?
We need a Republican President and Senate and for Ruth Ginsburg to go to go where all dogs go so we can be done with this 5-4 crap.
Sorry, harsh, what can I say.
According to an editorial I just read from the Tampa Bay times the ABA says 85% of Supreme Court Experts they polled think Kennedy will be a little bitch and uphold Clement Attlee’s wild ride.
http://www.tampabay.com/opinion/editorials/article1221580.ece
http://mobile.latimes.com/p.p?a=rp&m=b&postId=1165037.
If Scalia doesn’t vote with us that would be super lame.
If you think what ails Amerika will be solved politically at the ballot box, you are delusional.
There’s no fix to giving imbeciles the right to vote except letting it collapse and starting from scratch.
Doesn’t matter what happens in November, the sooner the collapse happens, the sooner we can pick up the pieces and take out the trash.
Obama is a direct result of the transformation over the last 100 years of America from a republic to a democracy, in which every one has the right to vote.
It’s all over but the shouting, the collapse is inevitable:
Our Founding Fathers and others speak out
Democracy: a government of the masses. Authority derived thru mass meeting or any other form of direct expression. Results in Mobacracy. Attitude toward property is communist - negating property rights. Attitude toward law is that the will of the majority shall regulate, whether it be based upon deliberation or governed by passion. prejudice and impulse without restraint or regard to consequences. Results in demogogism, license, agitation, discontent, anarchy.
Republic: Authority is derived thru the election by the people of public officials best fitted to represent them. Attitude toward law is the administration of justice in accord with fixed principles and established evidence, with a strict regard to consequences. A greater number of citizens and extent of territory may be brought within its compass. Avoids the dangerous extreme of either tyranny or mobacracy. Results in statesmanship, liberty, reason, justice, contentment and progress. Is the standard form of government throughout the world.
Benjamin Franklin: When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.
Alexander Hamilton, Federalist Papers: We are a Republican Government, Real liberty is never found in despotism or in the extremes of democracy...it has been observed that a pure democracy if it were practicable would be the most perfect government. Experience has proved that no position is more false than this. The ancient democracies in which the people themselves deliberated never possessed one good feature of government. Their very character was tyranny; their figure deformity.
John Adams: Democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide.
Thomas Jefferson: A democracy is nothing more than mob rule, where 51% of the people may take away the rights of the other 49%.
James Madison: Democracies have ever been spectacles of turbulence and contention; have ever been found incompatible with personal security or the rights of property; and have in general been as short in their lives as they have been violent in their death.
John Quincy Adams: The experience of all former ages had shown that of all human governments, democracy was the most unstable, fluctuating and short-lived.
Thomas Jefferson: The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not.
Benjamin Franklin (maybe): Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote.
James Madison: Democracy was the right of the people to choose their own tyrant.
John Adams: That the desires of the majority of the people are often for injustice and inhumanity against the minority, is demonstrated by every page of the history of the world.
Thomas Jefferson: All, too, will bear in mind this sacred principle, that through the will of the majority is in all cases to prevail, that will, to be rightful, must be reasonable; that the minority possess their equal rights, which equal laws must protect, and to violate would be oppression.
John Witherspoon: Pure democracy cannot subsist long nor be carried far into the departments of state - it is very subject to caprice and the madness of popular rage.
James Madison: We may define a republic to be - a government which derives all its powers directly or indirectly from the great body of the people, and is administered by persons holding their offices during pleasure for a limited period, or during good behavior. It is essential to such a government that it be derived from the great body of the society, not from an inconsiderable proportion or a favored class of it: otherwise a handful of tyrannical nobles, exercising their oppressions by a delegation of their powers, might aspire to the rank of republicans and claim for their government the honorable title of republic.
John Marshall: Between a balanced republic and a democracy, the difference is like that between order and chaos.
Oscar Wilde: Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.
Winston Churchill: The best argument against democracy is a five minute conversation with the average voter.
Sydney J Harris: Democracy is the only system that persists in asking the powers that be whether they are the powers that ought to be.
G. K., Chesterton: Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.
George Bernard Shaw: Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.
Dr Laurence J Peter: Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.
Alan Coren: Democracy consists of choosing your dictators after they’ve told you what you think it is you want to hear.
Karl Marx: Democracy is the road to socialism.
And there you have it. I have nearly 500 quotes from our Founding Fathers to clearly debunk the retarded liberals that say we are a Democracy.
Posted by Mark Harvey aka Snooper at 12/01/2008 02:19:00 PM
Its Not the Government its 4 Black robed Jackasses that should not even be listening to any of this Crap,4 Aholes are going to Pass Judgement on such a Fundemental issue to our Freedom is BS
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.