Posted on 06/28/2012 6:54:37 PM PDT by Alberta's Child
Upon further review and discussion here, I've concluded that the majority opinion of Chief Justice Roberts in the ObamaCare case was exactly what this country needed. He effectively took the heap of crap that had been dumped in the halls of the U.S. Supreme Court and tossed it right back out where it belongs: in the homes and businesses of every U.S. citizen who has allowed this bunch of fools in Washington to govern us this way.
Think of it, folks ... Any obligation of the U.S. Supreme Court to deal with this idiocy went out the window the moment that dingbat Nancy Pelosi stood up on television and said: "We have to pass the bill to see what's in it."
If I were a Supreme Court justice, I wouldn't spend 30 seconds of my life reading a single legal brief in a case involving a Federal statute that was passed even though the Speaker of the House of Representatives didn't even read the damn thing before voting on it.
On top of all that, just consider this: There were 28 states that filed legal challenges to ObamaCare, either individually or jointly. How can 28 states file legal challenges to a Federal law that was passed in the U.S. Senate by a 60-39 margin? If I'm sitting on the Supreme Court and the Attorney General of, say, Pennsylvania (which is one of these 28 states) comes in for oral arguments in the case, my first and only "question" would be: "If you have such a problem with this Federal statute, why don't you take it up with Bob Casey, Arlen Specter and those nine House members in your state who passed the damn thing ... along with the idiots in your state who cast their electoral votes for that jug-eared Kenyan nitwit in 2008?"
The imbecile I was referring to is Obozo.
Bingo. This is a disaster beyond words.
“And I am paying their salaries....Why?”
Because we live under a Central Command socialist government run by both progressive parties and they hate Conservatives... that is the truth.
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The problem is, it ratifies the plan as constitutional when looked at as a tax. Which, in turn, opens Congress to the possibility of taxing people for not doing something, as well as passing tax legislation disguised as a benefit package. Finally, the legislation originated in the Senate. All tax legislation must originate in the House, making this legislation unconstitutional on its face.
What’s left is for the American people to rise up and demand repeal. The obvious way to do this is to sweep Romney into office. He’s already on record stating he’d work to repeal (not “replace”, I saw the video...) this bill on his first day in office. Also, Congressional Republicans have begun efforts to see to its repeal. Will it happen? Who knows. But sweeping Romney into the Presidency over this will be a mandate.
I was criticized yesterday for bringing this up. But I doubt that individual considered the fact that Romney was serving a single, liberal state when he signed RomneyCare into law. Now, he’s on the National stage, and if swept into office on a mandate, he’ll find it much harder (especially if the GOP is behind repeal based on their election results) to renege on his campaign promise.
But that’s where we have to go if this is to have a positive outcome. And there’s no guarantee that we’ll get there. And there’s no thanks to be given Roberts for a decision that was so political, so convoluted, just to make the USSC appear above the fray. So, yes, you’re being unreasonable.
The operative word in that comment is "might". It's now up to us. Are we up to it?
You and I pretty much agree on this (see my post #226). I’ll simply point out, as I did there, it really is up to the electorate now.
Sure, Romney has come out saying if we don’t want ObamaCare we have to vote Obama out of office. And he’ll start work on repealing it the first day in office. And Cantor has scheduled something in the House in mid-July. But if we’re going to get this done, it will have to be a mandate from the people that sweeps Romney into office. It will have to be a clear mandate, or else congress, in time, will again become the dullards they are.
What rankles me about this, is Roberts playing games when the legislation (in his own words) was clearly unconstitutional due to the mandate failing the commerce clause. This could have been a slam dunk, except he decided to play with his ruling to buck up the face of the SC. On a ruling this momentous, that’s not the time to play around. Not to mention that as a tax, it should have originated in the House. Didn’t he even realize this point?
Anyway, we basically agree, only I hold animosity over this.
Oh, I know you are. So am I. So are most others here on FR. But there’s a great unwashed out there and if we do it, it’ll have to become a campaign driven around repeal. The public will have to be washed in the promise of taxation to the point where they say “Enough!” And that’s what remains to be seen. Remember, we don’t have the MSM in our corner to get the word out.
What a lot of people are overlooking here is that this particular Supreme Court decision involved only the legal challenge that was brought by the plaintiffs in this case (the 28 states who challenged ObamaCare, I believe). The reality is that a whole host of other legal challenges to ObamaCare are looming in the future or still in play right now. The biggest one is the legal challenge brought by religious groups who are arguing against ObamaCare on First Amendment grounds (this was not part of the case that was just decided). Additional legal challenges will be brought as more and more provisions of ObamaCare are implemented. These challenges can't be brought yet because a plaintiff has to demonstrate that they've been directly affected by an unconstitutional law, and they can't make that case until these provisions are implemented.
My prediction is that the U.S. Supreme Court is going to overturn much (if not all) of ObamaCare in one of these future cases on very different grounds than what was argued in the case that led to today's decision. I also predict that Roberts will be the one writing the majority decision.
I think the dissenters in today's decision all made the right points -- but they are going to be more relevant in other cases brought by different plaintiffs and argued on different grounds.
The big news today is that Kennedy wants to overturn ObamaCare in its entirety as unconstitutional. He'd have a hard time reversing himself and walking back on that one in a future case.
Actually, doing a bit of homework it seems Roberts may have been correct in his ruling based on past case law.
See: United States v. Kahriger,Marchetti v. United States, and Bailey v. Drexel Furniture Co.
Since this is no longer a ‘mandate’ from the government, but some sort of ‘tax’ which will require a statement of self incrimination...it violates the precedence set in Marchetti v. United States.
This new aspect will need to be argued if the ‘tax’ ever get applied.
One of the problems with having the Supreme Court rule on ObamaCare in June 2012 is that most of the legal arguments against ObamaCare cannot be brought up in court ... YET.
You and I, for example, cannot file a legal challenge to ObamaCare because we don't have the legal standing to do it. The reason for this is that the most pernicious aspects of ObamaCare (the individual mandate, for example) aren't even in place yet under ObamaCare -- which means we can't even make an argument in court that we've been harmed in any way.
Imagine, for example, if ObamaCare included a mandate that everyone must be euthanized on his or her 80th birthday ... but that this measure wasn't implemented until 2025 when Social Security, Medicare and the entire U.S. government are bankrupt. We could not file a legal challenge to this provision today under any circumstances. Any Federal judge who knows the law would simply throw the case out of court by saying, in effect: "You have no legal standing to bring this challenge because you cannot demonstrate that you have been harmed in any way. Please come back in 2025 if this stupid law is even on the books at that time."
The Supreme Court decision yesterday was based on very specific challenges brought by 28 states. This is nothing compared to the other legal challenges that are in process now, and will become more numerous as new ObamaCare provisions are implemented. For example, by making a determination that ObamaCare is constitutional on the grounds that it is a "tax," the Supreme Court has made it much more difficult for some other future challenges to be upheld on different grounds (the authority given to the HHS "waivers," for example).
I believe ObamaCare is unconstitutional. I'll bet Chief Justice Roberts thinks it's unconstitutional, too. It's just that it's unconstitutional on grounds that were not the basis of the legal action that was brought in this specific case.
I predict it's going to be declared unconstitutional (if it even survives that long) on other grounds in a future court case that will be brought after more and more of the provisions of ObamaCare are implemented. The constitutionality of these provisions were never argued in this case because most of them haven't even been implemented yet.
I also predict that Chief Justice John Roberts is going to write the majority opinion in the case overturning ObamaCare. Yesterday's ruling brought him a whole lot of credibility to do this, I'd say.
Bingo. This is just one of many, many aspects of ObamaCare that haven’t even been challenged yet.
There are so many facets that cause people to become frustrated and angry. If we are going to get anything accomplished we need to get away from the rhetoric that divides and unite in action.
There are those who will work to get 0 out of office...only alternative as of now is unfortunately wmr.
BUT for those who do NOT want to activily support him there are Senate seats and congressional districts that need help.
Can proudly say we got rid of Rino Lugar and nominated a more conservative senatorial delegate here in IN. Replaced a D for an R, Todd Young for our congressional representative. Both should win easily here as well as Mik Pence for GOvernor.
OTOH for many it is too late, primaries have already determined the candidates, BUT we can support the least liberal in our own districts and/or assist candidates in neighboring districts and/or States.
We simply need to get organized and help FRiends see their options.
Am sure JR would see this as activism and help establish a place on the sidebar to promote our efforts.
You are absolutely right. I was at my Kiwanis breakfast meeting yesterday when this decision came down. A member simply interrupted our guest speaker’s presentation by saying (he was looking at his smartphone) that the SC upheld ObamaCare. Period, paragraph. You should have heard the consternation, some of us having to get up and leave the room in frustration. And there were over 40 of us in the room (though a few are more liberal...).
Ironically, our guest speaker was our state representative from Springfield (IL); a good conservative and one known to us for many years. What he came to talk about yesterday was the frustration he feels daily in the workings of the legislature, yet an upbeat assessment on how the Republicans are working cohesively to change things. And they have been successful in some areas. Sure, we have a lot to overcome here in Illinois, not to mention Washington, but it’s up to us to get the job done. We have to have the motivation, the will, and the excitement to take this fight to the next level.
As I’ve indicated in a few posts on this subject this a.m., there are some areas that we can focus on in taking this fight forward. We have to present a cohesive message to our representatives and those who are running for office, we have to make voting Obama out of office a mandate; both for Romney and Congress as a whole. And we have to hold their feet to the fire. We can do it. Our one major obstacle, IMO, is the absence of support or coverage from the MSM. But I think we can overcome that if Congress, and Romney, gets the message out about this being an election based on the largest tax increase in America’s history, and the fact that Americans, for the first time, will be taxed on their inaction.
Let’s get it done!
Waking this morning it hit me, Roberts refused to take power, instead he gave it back to the people. It is ours to wield.
The TeaParty is active thoughout states promoting more conservative candidates. (They helped IN get rid of Lugar and select Mourdock) Look to them for direction. Support the RNSC to help elect R in the Senate. Let's get a long term, actiism thread organized to let FR know where help is needed who needs support given. We got an R Senator in Mass, however weak it was better than any D. We've helped change WI and the list goes on....Now step back reload and aim . Support the most conservative of the candidates in any primary and then target and help those in any State that would further our cause. Stop eating our own. If the Senate and House seems timid, maybe it's because they do not sense our support. Let them hear from us.
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