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Originally posted by DarthMuerte
So, passage of HIS signature "achievement" is a conspiracy against him??? Seriously?
How about C. It makes no sense to me.
Do you believe or do you refuse to see?
Originally posted by spinalremain
No.
The fact that the godfather of the mandate is running against Obama tells me that TPTB have covered their bases in terms of having the American people being forced to pay for health insurance.
Obama and Romney are the same guy. Perhaps one wears magic underwear and they disagree on gays, but they are both shills for their corporate masters.
Originally posted by DarthMuerte
So, passage of HIS signature "achievement" is a conspiracy against him??? Seriously?
Originally posted by charles1952
Why do you think the four Democrat justices went along with him? One defection from the four and the plot would have been foiled. Conversely, why was Roberts the only Republican in on it? Why didn't the other four vote with him?
“I am told by two sources with specific knowledge of the court’s deliberations that Roberts initially sided with the conservatives in this case and was prepared to strike down…the individual mandate,” said Crawford on CBS’ Face the Nation. “But Roberts, I’m told by my sources, changed his views, deciding to instead join with the liberals. There was a one-month campaign to bring Roberts back into the conservative fold, led, ironically, by Anthony Kennedy.”
The irony is that Roberts didn’t have to rewrite the statute in order to issue a judicially minimalist opinion. He could have done what the Obama administration asked him to do: if the individual mandate is unconstitutional under the Commerce Clause, also sever the law’s guaranteed-issue and community rating provisions, and leave the rest of the law intact.
Instead, he invented out of whole cloth a new definition of taxation that contravenes long-standing precedent. He added hundreds of billions of dollars to the federal deficit, by way of his Medicaid ruling. And he forever tarnished his legacy as a Justice, and his promise to the nation that he would serve as an umpire, and “remember that it’s my job to call balls and strikes, and not to pitch or bat.”