The only active role I want to see the GOP take is the role of repealing every dotted i, crossed t, and dangling participle of this lousy law. Looks like there may now be more than enough of them in both chambers to do so in 2013 – with President Romney putting his signature to it.

Washington (and many politicians) infatuation with “legacy building) is distasteful. Absolutely least important consideration of all should be how one want future historians to rank one’s contribution to society. Do it for your fellow man, not yourself.

Disagree in part with your take on the Chief Justice. He acted without regard to his personal standing – however right or wrong I believe his ruling is.

The Supreme Court had a golden opportunity to come through for the American people and put this monstrosity to bed once and for all. I figured that if anyone was going to cave, it would be Kennedy. I really didn’t buy the rumors suggesting that Roberts might be the one to flip on this one. I guess I learned a thing or two today. Roberts blew it big time, and I don’t see how his reputation EVER recovers from this one – not just with conservatives, but with a clear and decisive majority of Americans.

This ruling alone qualifies Roberts to be the second coming of David Souter in my book, regardless of how he rules on anything else from now on.

Shameful.

When a moderate justice like Kennedy sides with Scalia and Thomas on an issue as huge as ObamaCare – yet Roberts sides with the big government liberals on the court – that should tell Erick all he needs to know about the judicial philosophy of Roberts.

And to suggest that Roberts intention was to throw the legislation back to congress doesn’t pass the smell test either. Because if that were the case, wouldn’t it have been more wise to throw out the entire law and then let congress rewrite something better ?

Mew

Roberts could have got his point across in his opinion even if he correctly struck this monstrosity down in its entirety.

How does a tax have standing in SCOTUS?

in addition, what happened to no taxation w/out representation? Raise my taxes w/out telling me exactly how/what/when? BS.

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There was a simple solution to the problem you talk about (uninsured people’s inability to afford insurance). The government could have changes the Insurance Regulation to force Insurance companies to put ALL self-employed and self-insured people in a group and give them group rates, using the same calculations used for big employers. There I solved the problem in under 2,400 pages!

The above does not force those who do not want insurance from buying it, they can continue to pay the higher costs associated with not having insurance.

3) Really, you interpret “the right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness” as meaning “all Americans should have a right to healthcare”??!!! Really?! Wow, that is a first. It says… Life, not good health. Or perhaps we should all be kept on life support FOREVER since the we have a right to life…not death. Can’t wait to hear how you interpret ‘pursuit of happiness’!

I’m with the majority here, disgusted with all three branches of government. But I don’t blame the government, I blame ‘we the people’ because we enable them. ‘We the people’ have for far to long remained silent, while the government socialised our children, perverted our society, twisted the constitution and brainwashed/bought the masses. This has all happened slowly so as not to catch anyone’s attention. I’m afraid my like minded posters that when you speak of this decision with your friends/coworkers and family you will mostly get, “so what’s the big idea” followed by the glossing over of their eyes as you try to explain it to them.

Any suggestions on other Countries we can migrate to? Starting to look like a viable option!

We don’t need community organizers to get out the vote, if we each get the word out to people we know, we can get more voters registered who will vote these devils out.

Ntrepid
Proud Redstate Member since April 2006

This bill was railroaded through Congress and if you think Democrats were ever going to allow Republicans to have any say in it, well then, I have some beachfront property in Oklahoma I’d like to sell you.