This title could be recycled for a topic comparing Willard to Hussein. HMM!

and it shows just how insecure they become at just the hint that they might lose the judiciary as a means to pursue policy.

Let’s block ‘em in the courts, in academia, outshine their thinktanks, and deny them power.

They SHOULD be insecure. We’re smarter than they are except when we ignore our own insecurity issues. Sigh.

What a crazy statement.

bifidis on July 3, 2012 at 2:15 PM

…I don’t know where you come from…but you’re nucking futs!

Let’s assume that the Democrats wanted to call it a tax, but didn’t (they actually DID change it from a tax to a penalty) FOR POLITICAL REASONS. Fine.

If it is not the Court’s job to protect the people from the consequences of their political choices, IS IT ALSO NOT TRUE THAT THE JOB OF THE COURT IS NOT TO PROTECT ELECTED OFFICIALS IN CONGRESS AND THE WHITE HOUSE FROM THE CONSEQUENCES OF THEIR POLITICAL CHOICES?

Why should the Supreme Court provide cover for Congress? Why should the Supreme Court provide cover a President?

If Congress meant for it to be a tax, but deliberately chose to label it a penalty due to political considerations, IT IS ***NOT*** THE JOB OF THE CHIEF JUSTICE TO PROTECT THE RULING CLASS FROM EITHER THEIR OWN FOLLY (WRITING UNCONSTITUTIONAL LAWS AND HAVING THEM THEM BEING DECLARED SO, i.e., THE MANDATE IS A “PENALTY”) OR THEIR POLITICAL DECISIONS (VOTING TO INCREASE TAXES, i.e., THE MANDATE IS A “TAX”).

On whose side is the Court? It would appear the DC-Establishment and, certainly, not the people.

Roberts is now a liberal judge. He will get the invites to beltway parties…he didn’t like being ignored.

Redford on July 3, 2012 at 6:08 PM

Yep, Mrs. Roberts finally has an invite to the neighborhood bridge club. The Roberts children have been admitted to the private school of their choice. Finally they can get a plumber. The WaPo now comes in a plastic bag. All is well.

I know I’m going to be ridiculed for this but I think “today” started with the MTV generation.

NapaConservative on July 3, 2012 at 4:32 PM

What’s the MTV generation? The boomers who ran it or Generation X who grew up with it?

NapaConservative on July 3, 2012 at 4:32 PM

no argument here…I didn’t have the silver spoon but I worked hard and acquired a modest wealth (not as much as Obama but a little). now I’m wondering if I was an idiot…it would have been easier to sit back and wait for others to provide for me.

Happy Independence Day…taxation without representation…

now the opposite but I think we can fix it.

It gets really hot in the Arby’s kitchen on days like today.

slickwillie2001 on July 3, 2012 at 3:53 PM

Arby’s is an interesting choice. A sleaze-food company owned by a leverage-buyout firm named after a character in an unreadably boring Ayn Rand novel.

bifidis on July 3, 2012 at 4:08 PM

Translated: “slickwillie nailed me dead to rights!”

Just curious, Junior-wasn’t your employer the first major US fast food chain to stop putting additives in their chicken sandwiches, and the first major fast-food chain to stop using trans-fats? I guess additive-free food is “sleaze” on your planet.

Thanks so much for sharing that!

bifidis on July 3, 2012 at 3:00 PM

I guess some people discuss and argue, others just call names.

tom on July 3, 2012 at 3:25 PM

This troll/obot just destroys threads. It has no interest in learning anything nor can it discuss anything above the level of 1st grade. Very aggravating.

Some of this is probably just leftover pre-ObamaCare-decision hysteria with no place else to go.

Or it’s strategic.

Roberts folded like a cheap suit once; no reason to think he won’t do so again.

When did “yesterday” end and “today” begin? Is there anything we can do to change this? Are people around the world like this, or just in America?

thebrokenrattle on July 3, 2012 at 4:03 PM

I know I’m going to be ridiculed for this but I think “today” started with the MTV generation.

What can we do about it? Cut entitlements to a bare minimum and force people to right their own ship for survival and tell their offspring that they’re gonna die if they don’t get their act together.

Around the world is a very general statement. People in countries like Sweden, Norway and Holland are worse offenders than here, and people in other countries might be less so. But since all of the world tries to emulate us even though they officially hate us, the trends here do substancially influence the rest of the world’s population.

Obama is not worse than FDR or LBJ. he not even close to these two in expanding the power of the government.

mnjg on July 3, 2012 at 3:57 PM

Barky is far worse. He’s been operating totally outside the law and perverting the concept of America. He has thrown away all traditional allies, embraced our enemies and enemies of the West, and has generally tried to shape America into a third world sh!thole like the place he grew up in. He has lied constantly about everything and broken all of our institutions and systems so much as he was able. If America survives, there would be a Constitutional amendment made to stop another of his ilk from coming to power, but that was already in the Constitution … so there is no where to go from there, which is another reason he is that much worse.

Barky is plain un-American. He hates America and Americanism. He hates the whole West. Such a perversion we have never seen in our history, since it is only the modern population that would ever stand such a creature in in our government. America has its first foreign Emperor, which is distinctly different from having had FDR, our first American Emperor (and even FDR was restrained in ways that Barky has never been). And, on top of it all, the Indonesian is total retard and incompetent, which is the worst offense of all. It’s one thing to be taken apart by an evil genius or some amazingly competent enemy, but to be taken out by an inept boob … That’s beyond pathetic.

Barky has affected changes in America that will never be fixed and that are just plain un-American. Not just a grab for power but a distortion of our culture. We have never had to deal with anything like this and we haven’t dealt well with it – as he’s still in office when he should have been tossed out of the race the minute he violated verything about America by holding the biggest political rally of his campaign in a foreign country, for foreigners. I can’t even imagine America hosting a foreign candidate for a rally on the Mall in Washington. No one in America could have ever imagined such a thing as that insane Berlin rally … but that became part of American political tradition. It still boggles my mind that he got away with that. That is the sort of perversion of the government and culture that doesn’t go away. Irreparable damage.

But yet we not only survived FDR

mnjg on July 3, 2012 at 3:57 PM

FDR, of course, has the unique distinction of being the only individual in American history for whom a Constitutional amendment was specifically passed right after he died to never let anyone else act as he did. That was quite the statement on how “good” he was for America … It’s amazing that anyone can look at such a person, who was so out of control and power hungry that our Constitution had to be amended as soon as possible to prevent another such as him from appearing or acting on those same desires, as anything less than a threat to America and a terrible stain on our history. FDR’s rehabilitation has certainly been an exercise in revisionist history. Great men get holidays (well … they used to). Great threats get Constitutional amendments barring their behavior in the future.

Of course, the threat from someone like the Indonesian Dog-Eater had already been written into the Constitution, but none of that matters anymore …

Arby’s is an interesting choice. A sleaze-food company owned by a leverage-buyout firm named after a character in an unreadably boring Ayn Rand novel.

bifidis on July 3, 2012 at 4:08 PM

I guess that a communist like you would find Marx and Lenin writings much more interesting…Do you scum communists have any shame? Of course not.

I am not going to surrender, I have the great American spirit in me, and they are enough like me to make the necessary corrections. Anyway every generation thinks that the world would end with them and they think that the next generation is far worse…

And why you bothered becoming an American.

:O(

OhEssYouCowboys on July 3, 2012 at 3:28 PM

Yep. Americans becoming like Europeans. Ugh.

Again, in the context of winning this election, why are we continuing to bark at the moon over John Roberts?

AYNBLAND on July 3, 2012 at 2:21 PM
Because you need to know who your enemy is if you want to win the war.

Schadenfreude on July 3, 2012 at 2:22 PM

Oh, well he’s there for another 30 years and there’s nothing we can do about it. Again, what’s the point in barking at the moon over something we cannot change instead of focusing on this election?

I realize that Mark and Rush and others are beating this dead horse because they want to say “I told you so, see we can only win with Conservatives” if Romney loses but you and I aren’t talk radio hosts. Why is everyone else wasting their time on this?

Gnashing of teeth and pissing and moaning about something you can’t control is what liberals do.

It gets really hot in the Arby’s kitchen on days like today.

slickwillie2001 on July 3, 2012 at 3:53 PM

Arby’s is an interesting choice. A sleaze-food company owned by a leverage-buyout firm named after a character in an unreadably boring Ayn Rand novel.

The man created Social Security the largest and most expensive ponzi scheme in history… But yet we not only survived FDR and LBJ but we became the most powerful nation in history of mankind… Stop your doom and gloom people and go vote this November to defeat Obama and the other socialist democrats…

mnjg on July 3, 2012 at 3:57 PM

You mean the ponzi scheme that is still being perpetrated upon the People? The one that is headed towards a catastrophic collapse? That is surviving FDR?

I’d say that his Socialism is doing quite nicely, not only surviving, but basking in the glow of an America where Socialism is, once again, desired by the majority.

I agree with what Napa Conservative said, supra. The America that I grew up in, is not the America of today … and I’m only 53.

America is now a nation that is, in the majority, a nation of parasites. And, once again, that is precisely why Obamuh was elected.

What you call doom and gloom, I call reality and the cold, hard facts.

I guess some people discuss and argue, others just call names.

tom on July 3, 2012 at 3:25 PM

Apart from “whiner,” I’m still looking for any example of name-calling. I think you’re thinking of Hot Air darling Chris Christie.

Whiner.

You know, congress has had that power since before there were SUV’s and solar panels. To think that congress cannot tax something is beyond silly.

If congress does try it, they do so at their peril.

cozmo on July 3, 2012 at 3:32 PM

No, they haven’t. If Congress had this infinite taxing power, there would never have been the need for the Sixteenth Amendment.

Yeah, this proves what I said that there is no limit on Congress to tax anything as long as it is uniform throughout the United States.

mnjg on July 3, 2012 at 3:29 PM

I disagree. For an example, see: Eisner v. Macomber, 252 U.S. 189 (1920)

Let’s not beat around the bush, today’s American is vaestly different from yesterday’s American. Yesterday’s American lived their life with pride and self respect. He worked hard and fought hard for his country and his freedoms. He put value into bettering himself and to achieve noble goals while keeping his moral fibre intact.

Today’s American has all but given up on those ideals. He goes through life trying to put as little effort forth as humanly possible, banking on the “rest” of the citizenry to pull the plough and then share the crop patroitically. He is content with just getting by without an ounce of pride, or even compassion toward his fellow man.

We’ve gone from a citizenry of givers to a citizenry of takers. And the second they reach 55-60% of our population, they will irreveribly eat this country from within.

NapaConservative on July 3, 2012 at 3:52 PM

When did “yesterday” end and “today” begin? Is there anything we can do to change this? Are people around the world like this, or just in America?

teejk on July 3, 2012 at 3:46 PM

mnjg on July 3, 2012 at 3:57 PM

Y’all carry on and don’t let those who pray for salvation from old farts in robes get you down.

I’m goin’ to go watch old airplanes and explosives.

That is precisely why Obamuh got elected. Because the majority, those who voted for him, have surrendered, given up and laid down their desire for liberty, so that they may partake of the government’s compassion … and demands.

OhEssYouCowboys on July 3, 2012 at 3:37 PM

And we have the opportunity to correct this error this November. Obama is not worse than FDR or LBJ. he not even close to these two in expanding the power of the government. He may be have the worst socialist rhetoric but in no way he was able to enact as much government expansion as FDR or LBJ…Do you know the tax rate during FDR? It was 90% at the highest income… a damn 90%… The man created Social Security the largest and most expensive ponzi scheme in history… But yet we not only survived FDR and LBJ but we became the most powerful nation in history of mankind… Stop your doom and gloom people and go vote this November to defeat Obama and the other socialist democrats…