Posted on 06/29/2012 12:04:52 PM PDT by Kaslin
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.
The Supreme Court has just become irrelevant. It is now merely another political branch. The court’s complete disregard of our constitution has relegated us to Banana Republic status.
He knows the Republicans will not repeal it, he knows.
Don’t be sick. Don’t cry. Don’t let laughing dems get to you.
Now is the time to fight.
This is only the latest travesty in a long line of travesties brought to you by the con artists in businesses suits in the District of Criminals.
Nobody wants this crap. Even the Obama kids because they now have to pay for it.
Chief Justice Roberts, writing for the Court, held while the “individual mandate is not a valid exercise of Congress’s power under the Commerce Clause and the Necessary and Proper Clause,” it is valid as an exercise of the taxing power granted the federal government by the Constitution.
One practical effect of today’s ruling is that by removing the ObamaCare scheme from its safe and secure Commerce Clause mooring, the Supreme Court has rewritten the law and converted the individual mandate into a tax, thus placing it within the authority of Congress to define.
This is judicial activism at its finest. The Supreme Court was so determined to endow the federal government with unlimited power and to toss the notion of enumerated powers onto the scrap heap of history that it was willing to effect a fundamental change to the law as enacted by Congress and the President.
Today, the U.S. Supreme Court not only re-wrote ObamaCare, but it simultaneously united the power of making and interpreting law into their own unelected hands.
They can't. I can already hear the caterwauling and boo-hoo anecdotes of "cutting" health care for every imaginable victim group.
It has been said “that we get the government we deserve!”
This isn’t about cutting free care, it’s about selling care at inflated prices and deflated service levels. If the GOP had an ounce of gumption left to shout this from coast to coast, of course.
—I have heard some say there is NO silver lining to this at all. —
I think there actually is one, but there is no way I’m going to say why, publicly.
sadly...he was right on every point...
I really wanted some hope this morning...
the only hope I have is that this ruling is so unusual, leaves so much left undecided, so bizzare, that IF we can get a pub prez and senate, we could get a 3-4 more actual conservative judges in there to revisit this travesty and overturn it....
God save us all...
ONWARD TO VICTORY!
Taxes are used in many ways to affect what we buy. It's constitutionally acceptable to tax the purchase of undesirable goods to promote the sale of desirable goods, even when the decision as to what are desirable and undesirable goods is a political matter. However, we do not tax the simple failure to purchase "desirable" stuff. Nor should we.
The decision has given future Congresses a large bucket of worms with which to fish for votes and to do just about anything they wish, far beyond what the Commerce Clause permits.
I felt that way yesterday. I grieved all day and then it hit me, “NOW IS THE TIME for all good men to come to the aid of their country.” Survive, live, fight another day.
they don’t have to fund it....they can pass a law stating no one can be forced to buy something...and they can manuever to dump it since Taxing authority has to originate in the House....
Me and you, Rush. I’m still sick. And angry. My country is being taken away from me.
Good.
I hope is stays ill for a long time.
He did a lot to make this happen.
Yes, this will now become another “untouchable” in American politics, because the spineless Republicans (as a whole) in Congress will stutter and stammer but never risk their precious “careers” to oppose it. I don’t know why anyone would think differently, it’s happened with every single expansion of government in our history. We keep trying to make the way clear for representatives to oppose these things, electing Tea Party politicians and such, but once they get there, someone takes them into a room and gives them a shot or shows them pictures or something, because they never fail to become co-opted. Representative government is NOT working anymore.
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