Chief Justice Roberts Is A Genius

[GuyPinestra]

So...a branch of government thats supposed to be impartial and not partisan was partisan.

what a wonderful day for America....and yet everyone else will be to busy looking at the smaller picture.

Actually, I don't see what Roberts did as partisan at all. He upheld the Constitution, which is his overriding duty, he took some teeth out of the Commerce Clause, which has needed dental work for DECADES, and he defended the 9th and 10th Amendments.

Not a bad day's work, really...

 

[Amelia]

Chief Justice Roberts Is A Genius « White House 2012

This is also Krauthammers perspective.

Chief Justice Roberts actually ruled the mandate, relative to the commerce clause, was unconstitutional. That’s how the Democrats got Obama-care going in the first place. This is critical. His ruling means Congress can’t compel American citizens to purchase anything. Ever. The notion is now officially and forever, unconstitutional. As it should be.

Next, he stated that, because Congress doesn’t have the ability to mandate, it must, to fund Obama-care, rely on its power to tax. Therefore, the mechanism that funds Obama-care is a tax. This is also critical. Recall back during the initial Obama-care battles, the Democrats called it a penalty, Republicans called it a tax. Democrats consistently soft sold it as a penalty. It went to vote as a penalty. Obama declared endlessly, that it was not a tax, it was a penalty. But when the Democrats argued in front of the Supreme Court, they said ‘hey, a penalty or a tax, either way’. So, Roberts gave them a tax. It is now the official law of the land — beyond word-play and silly shenanigans. Obama-care is funded by tax dollars. Democrats now must defend a tax increase to justify the Obama-care law.

Finally, he struck down as unconstitutional, the Obama-care idea that the federal government can bully states into complying by yanking their existing medicaid funding. Liberals, through Obama-care, basically said to the states — ‘comply with Obama-care or we will stop existing funding.’ Roberts ruled that is a no-no. If a state takes the money, fine, the Feds can tell the state how to run a program, but if the state refuses money, the federal government can’t penalize the state by yanking other funding. Therefore, a state can decline to participate in Obama-care without penalty. This is obviously a serious problem. Are we going to have 10, 12, 25 states not participating in “national” health-care? Suddenly, it’s not national, is it?

Ultimately, Roberts supported states rights by limiting the federal government’s coercive abilities.

Yeah, Krauthammer got it right.

I read somewhere that this ruling that Obamacare is a tax makes it easier to repeal requiring only a simple majority since it is a tax based program.

At any rate, this gives the GOP a major issue in the fall elections as Obama is without question now the biggest deficit spender and the biggest tax hiker in our nations history by far.

And biggest liar since at least Nixon

 

[SniperFire]

Additionally, tax measures are not subject to filibuster, which means that this albatross of a law can be repealed with only 51 votes in the Senate.

Is this thru the reconciliation process?

 

[clevergirl]

Additionally, tax measures are not subject to filibuster, which means that this albatross of a law can be repealed with only 51 votes in the Senate.

Is this thru the reconciliation process?

Yes.

Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin likes to taunt his Republican colleagues, arguing that ObamaCare can't be repealed because 60 votes are required to end debate in the Senate on any measure.

Though Republicans will likely win control of the Senate in 2012, Mr. Durbin is right that they probably won't get to 60 senators. That would require the GOP to win back more than half the Democratic seats up next year. Rep. Jim Moran (D., Va.) recently called GOP promises of repeal "a political scam on their base. . . . It can't happen."

Not so fast. Keith Hennessey, a former White House colleague of mine, says Democrats are wrong. He argues that Republicans can repeal health-care reform with a simple Senate majority.

Director of the National Economic Council under President George W. Bush, Mr. Hennessey now teaches at Stanford Business School and is a research fellow at the Hoover Institution. Last week on his website, KeithHennessey.com, he made the case that congressional Republicans could use the reconciliation process to kill ObamaCare with 51 votes in the Senate and a majority in the House of Representatives.

The Budget Act of 1974 established the reconciliation process.

Rove: Democrats Can't Filibuster ObamaCare Repeal - WSJ.com

 

[Quantum Windbag]

So...a branch of government thats supposed to be impartial and not partisan was partisan.

what a wonderful day for America....and yet everyone else will be to busy looking at the smaller picture.

Congress isn't supposed to be partisan? Since when?