Obviously, ONLY if Romney wins, someone should either ask Roberts to quit or seriously, proceed to have him removed from office. I believe the Democrats probably won’t care one way or the other (but they obviously will if we were talking about one of “their” justices). In my view, Roberts has deliberately and calculatedly destroyed any respect we should have for the court. Every single lower court can now be as activist as they’d like - yet another precedence. He could have joined Kennedy, Alito, Thomas and Scalia and ruled that it was a tax, say that it was not written as such and ask Congress to fix it (THAT’S RIGHT, SEND IT BACK FOR THE PEOPLE TO DECIDE) - he did not and we have to live with the disastrous consequences of this in so many ways. Aside from the outright fabrication of constitutionality, did this man live in a vacuum as to how this bill became law? Does he really think that this was the will of the people? No, his job is not to protect us from our political decisions but in my view, it is to protect our rights and that of the states from being gobbled up by the federal government - a referee between ‘we the people’ and the government with the constitution as the rules. He is NOT there to make every law Congress passes be constitutional!
Anyway, who knows what other disasters will come from this Chief Justice. His decision remains inexplicable to me (and many, more learned people); the speculation about him being “gotten to” or that he is simply a wimp succumbing to political pressure does not bode well for his leadership in the future. Either of these explanations show him lacking and hence, the need for him to go.
I am listening to Limbaugh and hearing about the Jan Crawford report on this issue for the first time; I can only, as a consequence, reiterate my call for Justice Roberts to be impeached or asked to quit...