Throughout the various downfalls of monarchies there’s usually one act taken by a tyrannical government – that straw that breaks the camel’s back that empowers a revolution. Today, the camel’s back was broken. The act cannot be undone. Don’t think of today as the end of America, think of it as the empowerment of a real movement to take back America.
If I was Romney I’d have one of my lawyer friends write a simple bill that repeals the ACA and does nothing else. I’d then spend the next few months showing that bill to every group I spoke to, with the promise to send it to the House my first day in office and demand a vote within the week. I’d send copies to every R running for the House and the Senate and urge them to promise to vote to pass it when it arrives in their chamber.
With that groundwork, when the R’s take the majority of both houses this fall, they would have a clear mandate to do just that.
I think there are those on the SCOTUS that heeded Obama’s threat that by standing against his will they risk rendering themselves irrelevent.
I think they managed to do so anyway. Too many people adopted the attitude that at the end of the day, the SCOTUS had our backs and wouldn’t allow something really awful to happen, so it was ok to just phone it in when it came to picking elected officials. I hope that all those people learned a valuable lesson today.
In effect, the SCOTUS said “you get the government you deserve”. Well, I’m sure what egregiously horrible thing I did to deserve what happened today. 30 years ago my parents bought me to the US (legally…waited for permission, became resident aliens, kept steady jobs and paid taxes without government assistance, learned English, assimilated the American culture) to get away from the oppressive Soviet government. Today I wonder if it was worth the effort.
blarg, Over the years the stated role of the Supreme Court was to protect American citizens from the overreach of government by ruling on the Constitutionality of laws through judicial review. Now, Roberts has stated that’s no longer a role they’re willing to perform. If that is the case and they are unwilling to rule against elected officials, then there is no longer a need for this Supreme Court and they should be disbanded immediately.
I think what we’re all overlooking here is that by writing the majority opinion, he stated that Obamacare is NOT constitutional under the commerce clause, and it is simply a tax despite how it was sold and marketed. In a sense, Obamacare under the commerce clause has been struck down by the supreme court. The Democrats have been bending over backwards to not have this Obamination labeled as a “tax” because then the citizens would see it for what it really is – the biggest tax increase in the history of this planet.
Now that the covers have been thrown back on this TAX, maybe having it exist as a tax increase is exactly what we need to throw the bums that passed it out of office for lying to us that this was not a tax increase. Also, I believe that according to the The Anti-Injunction Act says the constitutionality of a tax can’t be challenged in court until someone actually has to pay it…so maybe this is just the slow wheels of justice? Obamacare can be challenged as a tax after 2014. I don’t now. Unfortunately, unlike lying to Congress, lying to voters is legal.
I stand corected – apparently the SCOTUS ruled that the Anti-Injuction Act doesn’t apply so it CAN be challenged as a tax…but I guess they already upheld it as constitutional so why would they do that??
As a tax bill, Obamacare was written in the Senate and “deemed” to have passed the House, without an actual vote. The Constitution says that all tax bills must originate in the House or Representatives, which this bill did not. Maybe that’s what’s being set up here?
Throughout the various downfalls of monarchies there’s usually one act taken by a tyrannical government – that straw that breaks the camel’s back that empowers a revolution. Today, the camel’s back was broken. The act cannot be undone. Don’t think of today as the end of America, think of it as the empowerment of a real movement to take back America.
Brilliantly stated SoB. A founding father could not have been more eloquent.
Well the stock market seems to be responding well… by falling off a cliff. http://money.cnn.com/data/markets/
If I was Romney I’d have one of my lawyer friends write a simple bill that repeals the ACA and does nothing else. I’d then spend the next few months showing that bill to every group I spoke to, with the promise to send it to the House my first day in office and demand a vote within the week. I’d send copies to every R running for the House and the Senate and urge them to promise to vote to pass it when it arrives in their chamber.
With that groundwork, when the R’s take the majority of both houses this fall, they would have a clear mandate to do just that.
Personally, I think that SCOTUS just gave us the greatest gift the Right could ever want.
I think there are those on the SCOTUS that heeded Obama’s threat that by standing against his will they risk rendering themselves irrelevent.
I think they managed to do so anyway. Too many people adopted the attitude that at the end of the day, the SCOTUS had our backs and wouldn’t allow something really awful to happen, so it was ok to just phone it in when it came to picking elected officials. I hope that all those people learned a valuable lesson today.
In effect, the SCOTUS said “you get the government you deserve”. Well, I’m sure what egregiously horrible thing I did to deserve what happened today. 30 years ago my parents bought me to the US (legally…waited for permission, became resident aliens, kept steady jobs and paid taxes without government assistance, learned English, assimilated the American culture) to get away from the oppressive Soviet government. Today I wonder if it was worth the effort.
Rambo is great, but his voice is one step below chipmunk tenor there.
Gin is sin…Affordable care is a bear? at least we don’t have to amend to rescind.
blarg, Over the years the stated role of the Supreme Court was to protect American citizens from the overreach of government by ruling on the Constitutionality of laws through judicial review. Now, Roberts has stated that’s no longer a role they’re willing to perform. If that is the case and they are unwilling to rule against elected officials, then there is no longer a need for this Supreme Court and they should be disbanded immediately.
I think what we’re all overlooking here is that by writing the majority opinion, he stated that Obamacare is NOT constitutional under the commerce clause, and it is simply a tax despite how it was sold and marketed. In a sense, Obamacare under the commerce clause has been struck down by the supreme court. The Democrats have been bending over backwards to not have this Obamination labeled as a “tax” because then the citizens would see it for what it really is – the biggest tax increase in the history of this planet.
Now that the covers have been thrown back on this TAX, maybe having it exist as a tax increase is exactly what we need to throw the bums that passed it out of office for lying to us that this was not a tax increase. Also, I believe that according to the The Anti-Injunction Act says the constitutionality of a tax can’t be challenged in court until someone actually has to pay it…so maybe this is just the slow wheels of justice? Obamacare can be challenged as a tax after 2014. I don’t now. Unfortunately, unlike lying to Congress, lying to voters is legal.
I stand corected – apparently the SCOTUS ruled that the Anti-Injuction Act doesn’t apply so it CAN be challenged as a tax…but I guess they already upheld it as constitutional so why would they do that??
As a tax bill, Obamacare was written in the Senate and “deemed” to have passed the House, without an actual vote. The Constitution says that all tax bills must originate in the House or Representatives, which this bill did not. Maybe that’s what’s being set up here?