Posted on 06/29/2012 12:04:52 PM PDT by Kaslin
Listening to Romney’s tedid, hesitant response to this travesty yesterday reaffirms what I have always believed.
he is not the man to lead the charge.
We cannot look to anyone else to do the work of WE THE PEOPLE. Right now, I am at a loss to be able to figure out where to start.
Tea Party rallys: of course!
Get conservatives out to vote in November. YES!
Work hard to support conservative Senate candidates and try to take back the Senate and keep the House. Now we’re talkin. I can and will do that.
Communism is going to bankrupt us pretty darn quick. Look at Greece. Look at Europe. The great unraveling is beginning there, but it will be here soon enough. And when it comes this whole rotten fraudulent criminal enterprise called the federal government will come down with it. The Day of Reckoning is coming. It won’t be pretty and it won’t be easy. It will probably get violent. But in the end I believe there will be men and women who will rebuild this republic on its true Constitutional foundation in order to preserve life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. And I hope to live to see that day.
I am literally sick also.
In my mother’s lifetime she has seen us grow into a wonderful Christian country that mostly used its power for good to a Godless socialist hellhole where the lowest common demonitor will be the benchmark. We haven’t even hit bottom yet but I figure we must be getting there when I look at Drudge and see naked zombies eating other people or influental gay activists being arrested for child porn - some involving one year old children being sodomized. Self reliance and decency has been transformed into begging the government to redistribute your fellow citizens money - and getting away with whatever you can because it’s your “right”.
I don’t see how we can get our country back without a war.
I heard him.
And yes, I’ve been sick again since yesterday. 2 hrs sleep last night.
I despise these people and damn those media fools that tried to spin it and give me pablum about how effing brilliant Roberts was. Horsecrap.
Thank God the TV is in the repair shop. In fact, the longer I am without it the less I want it.
“I heard most of his show today. He was rather downbeat. Quite atypical of him. But I suspect he knows like we all do that if Obamacare stands, it’s the end of America.”
This is just a reminder of what we all realized in November 2008.
America has shifted left.
The public is filled with uneducated parasites. A rapidly growing dependent class.
Obama is a Marxist, and his reign will leave the country in tatters.
Obama will be re-elected.
We all knew and posted that in November 2008. This SCOTUS decision just drove home the point, again.
It’s not ObamaCare, it’s how the taxing power has been expanded.
Don’t maintain your weight or exercise? Pay a tax.
Don’t want to take certain courses in college? Pay a tax.
Don’t want to have just one child and help “save the planet”? Pay a tax.
Don’t want to (fill-in-the-blank). Pay a tax.
Don’t want to live your life the way the government wants you to? Pay a tax.
The federal government now has the authority to use its taxing power to coerce its citizens to live their lives according to the government’s vision.
I would have rather had it justified under the commerce clause than this expansion of the taxing power. This is dangerous—not many people have realized just how dangerous.
Yes he did, along with thousands of us who at one time or another trusted our Republican Presidents and reps.
And I am sure he knows it now.
We are backed in a corner, as usual.
We all know the only way to get DC to give up their power is to TAKE it from them.
Allow me to do the “Goodfellas” version:
Don’t maintain your weight or exercise? F You...Pay Me!
Don’t want to take certain courses in college? F You...Pay Me!
Don’t want to have just one child and help “save the planet”? F You...Pay Me!
Don’t want to (fill-in-the-blank). F You...Pay Me!
Don’t want to live your life the way the government wants you to? F You...Pay Me!
Rush is right and wrong on this. Of course this is a travesty. Of course this is a fraud. And of course when all is said and done it will mean socialized medicine and anything else the PTB want to shove down our throats.
But where he is wrong is in not seeing the clear win. Because what Chief Justice Arnold did in one little ruling is lay bare the nature of what we’re dealing with: a game that is completely rigged. We cannot win the game playing under the existing rules. If we want to win we need to either change the rules or pick up our marbles and leave. Or both.
The truth may make you sick, but it will also set you free.
I think there actually is one, but there is no way I’m going to say why, publicly.
Yeah. That day draws closer, and I eagerly await it. It's our only hope.
I listened to Rush’s show at work and caught the first few minutes of Hannity in the car on the way home (my commute is really short), and Hannity brought up something that made me go “holy ***t” and reevaluate the ruling.
Rush was wondering why Ginsburg wrote a dissent on her own victory. The reason? Long-term, they just got the screw job of all screw jobs. Roberts slammed the door shut on coercive use of the Commerce Clause (whicn could be defended with a Senate filibuster) and forced that ObamaCare and all similar tactics rely on tax law.
This is significant because repeal of taxes can *never* be filibustered. When repeal passes the House on the 11th, there *will* be an up-or-down vote in the Senate—it *cannot* be filibustered. So in that sense, Roberts was right—every time the Dems try something underhanded like this, we’ll now always have a fair chance to take it out on their hides—they won’t be able to rely on Senators from a few blue states. They wanted to be able to have NY, NJ, CA, et. al. be able to thwart the will of everyone else, but now that avenue is closed to them.
Roberts screwed their long-term plans BIG time.
Initially, from 1990 to 1993, Souter tended to be a conservative-leaning justice, although not as conservative as Antonin Scalia, Clarence Thomas or William Rehnquist. In Souter's first year, Souter and Scalia voted alike close to 85 percent of the time; Souter voted with Kennedy and O'Connor about 97 percent of the time. The symbolic turning point came in two cases in 1992, Planned Parenthood v. Casey, in which the Court reaffirmed the essential holding in Roe v. Wade, and Lee v. Weisman, in which Souter voted against allowing prayer at a high school graduation ceremony. In Planned Parenthood v. Casey, Anthony Kennedy considered overturning Roe and upholding all the restrictions at issue in Casey. Souter considered upholding all the restrictions but still was uneasy about overturning Roe. After consulting with O'Connor, however, the three (who came to be known as the "troika") developed a joint opinion that upheld all the restrictions in the Casey case except for the mandatory notification of a husband while asserting the essential holding of Roe, that a right to an abortion is protected by the Constitution.
After the appointment of Clarence Thomas, Souter moved to the middle. By the late 1990s, Souter began to align himself more with Stephen Breyer and Ruth Bader Ginsburg on rulings, although as of 1995, he sided on more occasions with the more liberal justice, John Paul Stevens, than either Breyer or Ginsburg, both Clinton appointees. O'Connor began to move to the center. On death penalty cases, worker rights cases, criminal rights cases, and other issues, Souter began voting with the liberals in the court. So while appointed by a Republican president and thus expected to be conservative, Souter came to be considered part of the liberal wing of the court.
Roberts is probably on a David Souter career path at this time. What is it that seduces these guys to the anti-Constitution side? Are they simply weak-willed or weak-minded and thus easily swayed?
Well, at least he'll have Obamacare to fall back on.........
He doesn’t “know” any such thing and neither does anyone else.
THe world is upside down.
Even though there is no reason to imagine it, we can expect Obama to win in 2012.
That's what I thought until I remembered that George W. Bush was the one who chose Roberts in the first place.....
We (the whole world) are at the precipice of an unwinding of biblical (literally) proportions.
This is just one piece of the puzzle, though that is not where I was going with that last comment.
Yesterday I would have agreed with Rush. But after thinking about it I think it could turn out ok. Roberts basically said that if voters are stupid enough to put these idiots in office, don’t expect us (SCOTUS) to clean the mess. It’s up to the voters to do that. I hate the ruling but hey, I can hope for the best.
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