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The Spectacle Blog
It keeps coming. And will for some time, one suspects.
This from Mark Levin from his Facebook page. Written commentary elaborating on the Commerce Clause, not from the radio show.
Meanwhile, Chief justice Roberts goes to Malta… joking about the need to be in an “impregnable fortress.”
One suspects few conservatives find his amusement amusing.
C. Vernon Crisler | 6.29.12 @ 3:08PM
He needs to be impeached, then tarred and feathered, as our Revolutionary ancestors used to do to sundry miscreants.
RCV| 6.29.12 @ 6:17PM
Of course. that's what you and Newt think should be done to all judges whose rulings you don't like. So much for a constitutional republic!
C. Vernon Crisler | 6.29.12 @ 10:00PM
RCV, what is "constitutional" about Judge "Taney" Roberts' decision? He did not pass judgment on the Constitutionality of Obamacare as it was written; he revised it so that it could meet Constitutional standards.
He violated the separation of powers by acting as a legislator when the Constitution requires him to act only as a judge. You're right in one sense though: with Roberts' evil decision, so much for a constitutional republic!
RCV| 6.30.12 @ 12:11AM
Right. He should be impeached for coming to the same conclusion on a legal issue that the majority of duly appointed and confirmed members of the United States Supreme Court did. That sounds like an impeachable offense, doesn't it?
I'm glad our Framers were prescient enough to invest our judiciary with lifetime tenure to protect their judicial independence from the pitchfork crowd! Thank you for your wisdom, James Madison and friends!
C. Vernon Crisler | 6.30.12 @ 1:27AM
James Madison would be appalled by what Justice "Taney" Roberts did. He and the other framers never gave judges the power to rewrite legislation; only to interpret it.
The liberal judges are, of course, mere judicial robots who could care less about Constitutional jurisprudence.
aware| 6.30.12 @ 10:51AM
Maybe, but anti-Federalists Federal Farmer and Brutus wouldn't have been surprised or "appalled" since the Court turned out just as they said it would.
RCV| 6.30.12 @ 6:44PM
Who cares?
aware| 7.1.12 @ 10:51AM
Only those who, unlike you, understand what liberty is and understand the pathology of the State. No better slavery than the kind where the slaves don't even know they're slaves, slave.
RCV| 7.1.12 @ 5:21PM
If you really see yourself as a "slave" you are a very sick guy. You ought to be very grateful you were born into a country that is free and prosperous, where you choose your government, where you can instantly communicate your distorted views of reality to millions of others with the push of a button and not the slightest fear of retribution. "Slave" indeed! What a pathetic whiner...
aware| 7.1.12 @ 7:02PM
Which are you, fool or knave? "Choose your government.." You really crack me up! If I thought I had anything to do with installing the "government" we have, I'd punch myself in the face.
I didn't say "I" was a slave, I said you were. Guys like you believed them when kings said they were gods. Later on others like you believed kings when they said they were appointed by God. Now you believe them when they say "you" are king.
It's an honored family tradition with you. Carry on.
RCV| 7.1.12 @ 10:02PM
No. What they called those kind of folks in every age is "conservative". I know I'm not a slave, kid. I've exercised my own choices all my life and will conttinue to do so. Can't speak for you, but you seem a very unhappy kind of guy. Sorry.
aware| 7.2.12 @ 6:23AM
I don't happen to be a "conservative" so you'll have to try something else. And the next time you're at the DMV try asserting your "ownership" of "government" to move the process along.
I think you are a knave, which means you are in the pay of the Rulers. Nothing bad ever happens with "government" in charge, does it? Why, they do such a wonderful job we should just let them handle everything, right? What's a few hundred million dead in the last century when we are building Utopias, huh?
Statists on the right are bad enough but you statists on the left are the picture of sneering contempt for the human race. Forward, right comrade?
PCPSmokerII| 6.29.12 @ 9:38PM
But, but, but, but, don't you realize he set us up for 012? He also constrain the Commerce clause...oh wait.
Mimi | 6.30.12 @ 8:40AM
Chief Justice John Roberts made a horrible mistake...Vern is right!
The Dem's are still saying it's not a tax! If the court ruled to send it back to Congress....It would be on a street to no-where......AH...IF ONLY !
If the Dem's were smart they would make an offer to re-write the law in a Bi-Partisan way...IF they WANT a chance to win in November...otherwise they LOSE IN A LANDSLIDE !!
J Baustian| 6.30.12 @ 5:55PM
If the Chief Justice had an ulterior motive for the decision he wrote, then he needs to keep quiet about that motive for at least the next four months. He has fired up the Republican base so that it will elect a new president and a GOP congress, and then ObamaCare can be totally repealed. Then all that will be left of this decision will be the limitations on the Commerce Clause, which are extremely important in the long run.
J.C.Eaton| 6.30.12 @ 8:24PM
There is NO upside to this decision. What Roberts has done[besides following in the long and unhappy tradition of Warren,Clark, O'Connor,Souter, and[[most of the time,Kennedy]] is demonstrate how the corrupting ease of "acceptance and flattery" can be such an aphrodisiac to psuedo-conservatives. He has also demonstrated that it is too often unwise to entrust liberty to the shaky hand of a court. Particularly an oligarchic one which has for all intents and purposes, become a 5-person Congress.
Oldefarte| 7.1.12 @ 4:48PM
I was a shocked by the decisions as the rest of you, but in retrospect, I never really had much faith or cared about this SCOTUS decision anyway. Think about it....if the decision had gone the other way, don't you think that Pilosi, Schumer, Reid and the rest of the Democrats would hit the reset button and ram through another and most probably worse piece of legislative garbage? The real and only solution lies with 11/6/12, just as the reason for this welfarecare original legislation was 11/4/08. If the taxpayers/voters hadn't been so STUPID in electing this POTUS by dumbarsedly intellectualizing that WE NEED THIS HARVARD PROFESSORED COMMUNITY ORGANIZER MENTOR TO JEREMIAH WRIGHT AND FRIEND TO BILL AYERS, none of this would now be a problem, right????????
Bob Grant| 7.1.12 @ 9:42PM
First, they don't have the votes to jam down obamacare II.
Second, as insane as they are, they'd have to be REALLY insane - and very masochistic - to try that again.
Olde I disagree,
This decision, the way it reportedly played out, is the worst possible outcome. It gave the democratic party a new lease on life and another talking point for obamacare.
All obama has to do is come up with new, clever lies about the law and the media will run with it no questions asked.
They will now create this sense of inevitability about the law, that it is constitutional and already implemented, that there's no turning back. Remember when they successfully created this sense about obama himself during the '08 campaign? Well, it's happening again.
I'm not saying that will be enough to win the election because of the crappy economy and other obama failures but this clearly gives him a fighting chance.
John Roberts is a disgrace!!!
Occam's Tool| 7.12.12 @ 7:38PM
As anyone who has read me knows, I have very little respect for attorneys; however, I wish say nice things about the attorneys named "Anthony" and "The Big E" at this time. Take the nicest non-sexual, rated G, compliments you have heard in your lives, guys. Consider them said, to you, by me.
To RCV, whom I disagree with frequently on domestic policies but who I personally (and professionally) like: I have lived and worked under an NHS. The closer we get to that, the worse our healthcare will be. The current "buzzword" for the CMS is "overutilization" of services and tests. Funny thing, but I have NEVER earned a dime for a test I have ordered from the running of the test itself, and I have never seen the CMS concerned about underutilization of tests. But I have had plenty of problems in an NHS overseas in getting tests done, medications obtained, and surgery performed in a timely fashion on people who have needed it, and increasing problems under CMS paid for care getting the same.
But I think you are wrong on Obama and the Affordable Health Care Act, even though I respect your Constitutional opinions enough to ask you for a textbook reference for grammar school kids (hint, hint). In about 4 months, we will see if the US voting public agrees with you or me, because this election is going to be about two main things: 1) THE ECONOMY, and 2) The AHCA. Personally, I think Obama is going to have his ass handed to him.