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This is how bad it is.
By allowing the penalty included within Obamacare to stand under the federal government’s taxing authority, Chief Justice John Roberts has enshrined the policy ambitions of one Frank Marshall Davis.
In a column published on July 21, 1955 in the Honolulu Record, Davis, a long-time communist operative, who served as a close mentor to Obama, champions the idea of taxpayer funding for universal health care.
The history her is carefully and methodically unpackaged by Paul Kengor, a professor of political science at Grove City College, in his upcoming book entitled: The Communist: Frank Marshall Davis, the Untold Story of Barack Obama’s Mentor.
Kengor describes Davis as “a devoted communist” with “Pro Soviet, pro-Stalin and Pro-Mao” credentials. Kengor’s book draws from declassified FBI documents and Soviet archives. Before arriving in Hawaii, Davis also wrote for the Chicago Star, a Communist Party publication. Fellow columnists included Sen. Claude Pepper of Florida, and Charles Kramer, a Soviet agent, who was also Pepper’s chief of staff.
“In his wildest dreams, Justice John Roberts couldn’t imagine that he has fulfilled the ambitions not only of Barack Obama, but of Frank Marshall Davis and Communist Party USA,” Kengor laments, in a recent article.
Other thoughtful conservative commentators have argued that because Roberts ruled that the law did not hold up under the commerce clause he actually struck a blow for limited government over the long term. If Gov. Mitt Romney is elected president, that may yet turn out to be true.
But there’s a long history of Republican presidents accommodating big government and of Republican nominees to high court betraying constitutional principles.
Right now, it looks to me like Frank Marshall Davis is the one who was forward looking and shrewd.
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Maxwell| 7.3.12 @ 11:36AM
Looks like a must read for me, wonder if the Princeton Public Library has their copy yet?
Bill Hussein O'Stalin| 7.3.12 @ 11:37AM
A tax is something that must be paid. The penalty does not have to be paid. If it is not paid it is not a criminal offense and there are no civil penalties planned even from the IRS.
DRed| 7.3.12 @ 3:56PM
This would be an exceptionally stupid blog post if we had universal health care in America, but the fact that we don't makes it that much dumber.
Conservative Bob| 7.3.12 @ 5:24PM
What we have is a precursor designed to bring about that reality, universal healthcare and complete and total collapse of our country and way of life.
Limited constitutional government brought you the standard of living and the freedoms you enjoy. Dependency and ever declining prosperity is what the future holds unless we can repeal this Obomination.
But you keep cheering while licking the boots of your masters. You lick spittle POS.
DRed| 7.3.12 @ 5:47PM
Way to win me over Bob. Who can disagree with such a well thought out argument?
Conservative Bob| 7.3.12 @ 6:01PM
Yes dipshit like your post was meant to change minds.
I choose not to waste my time convincing whiney ass punks such as yourself of the benefit of limited government you are already lost.
I prefer to spend my time practicing shooting tighter groups because in the not too distant future, if this monstrosity is not repealed makers and takers may be conducting their debates in different fields in an entirely different manner.
DRed| 7.3.12 @ 6:14PM
I'm not the one hysterically complaining because I don't get everything I want. What sort of punk fantasies about shooting people when a political decision doesn't go his way? Not a real American, Bob, I tell you that much.
Conservative Bob| 7.3.12 @ 6:49PM
Ouch I am cut to the bone. DRed from his mother's basement cries out that in his eyes I am not a real American. Oh the shame.
Read the post again, no on fantasizing about anything. I am just observing that takers and makers are on a collision course.
Now run along and shine those boots, your master waits.
DRed| 7.3.12 @ 7:13PM
It's a shame there's no federal program for creative insults.
I've never taken a dime from the federal government, Bob. How about you?
Conservative Bob| 7.3.12 @ 8:02PM
Never taken a penny.
I have had them take an extra 100K from me thru retroactive regulations because they could... but that is another story.
I have ran small businesses all my life and played by the rules. Get up early go to bed late taking care of my own stuff and am sick to death of the government and smarmy assholes telling me I am greedy and don't give enough.... that they are entitled to free stuff at my expense because they breath the same air that I do.
Put simply I have had enough.
DRed| 7.3.12 @ 8:13PM
You on Medicare? Or do you already have private insurance?
The idea of a medical insurance mandate was dreamed up by conservatives as a way to reduce the number of people taking free stuff at our expense, Bob.
Conservative Bob| 7.4.12 @ 9:06AM
No not on Medicare I pay for my own plan.
No Dred you are confused. Maybe a republican 'dreamed up' or more like latched on to a mandate idea, but they were certainly not conservative.
Limited constitutional government operated within the limits of the constitution. If we return to that we will all prosper....