The majority opinion of Roberts . . . was just what this country needed.”
Are you drunk? The Democrats told Roberts “Write anything you want, as long as we win.” Everything but the holding is arguable orbiter dictum.
If you think I’m packing your a!! with birdlime, remember this date when you receive your IRS letter.
For those of us who actually pay taxes to pay for such things as Air Jordan’s and prime cuts of Wagyu beef, our slice of pie just got a lot thinner.
This is good news all right : for musicians, ‘free -spirited ‘ bums and navelgazers. Democrats in other words. I ‘d suggest you go make a pot of coffee, but then you would be a wideawake drunk. Or a Democrat.
Many can’t see past a single election cycle, a presidential term, or the 111th/112th/113th Congress.
There is no short-term or long-term silver lining. Only a political necrophiliac could see something attractive in this corpse of a ruling.
This is no longer about Obamacare or even the repeal. It’s the legal precedence and expansion of the gov’t to regulate behavior and tax/fine any unapproved/approved action and inaction. This ruling is now case law and that’s how the majority of the Judicial system works (only a minority will actually look to the Constitution or develop their own, personal ruling). Regarding the Constitution, we have seen it die in the Executive and Legislative branch and have been watching it wither in the Judicial. Now it is “no more”
The only good in the long-term is if you think this is a call to arms or rebellion of states...not to the voting booth.
May John Roberts live a half-life, a cursed life.
Thank you. The "arguments" of so many beltway geniuses (Will, Krauthammer, the American Thinker) claiming that throwaway dicta constitute some kind of "win" are as tortured, amateurish and ultimately incomprehensible as Roberts' opinion itself.