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On his Thursday radio show, conservative talker Mark Levin, author of Ameritopia: The Unmaking of America, echoed a plea he made on his Facebook page earlier, attacking conservative syndicated columnist George Will for calling the Supreme Courts Obamacare ruling a substantial victory. Levin called the article the dumbest George Will article, certainly among them, that I have ever read
Perhaps its more of a long-term view of the situation, but Will saw an upside in the announcement of a 5-4 decision declaring President Barack Obamas 2010 landmark health care legislation constitutional.
In an article on the Posts website, Will explained that conservatives got a victory with the decision, which he said has put the brakes on government expansion.
Conservatives won a substantial victory Thursday, Will wrote. The physics of American politics actions provoking reactions continues to move the crucial debate, about the nature of the American regime, toward conservatism. Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. has served this cause. The health-care legislations expansion of the federal governments purview has improved our civic health by rekindling interest in what this expansion threatens the framers design for limited government.
Wills reasoning relies on the portion of Roberts opinion that has put boundaries around what the Commerce Clause allows the government to do.
You see folks, Levin said, conservatives are so used to losing particularly conservatives inside the beltway that have been here for decades then when we really, really lose, they claim that weve won. I dont know if this is a psychological thing I dont know.
Will said that this decision would reinvigorate small government conservatives, a premise Levin scoffed at.
Well gee, they might as well start rounding us up because that will rekindle the effort that the framers started, too, Levin declared. This is so asinine that Im stunned. This is as stunning to me as the John Roberts opinion...
Read more: Mark Levin vs. George Will: Radio talker lashes out [AUDIO] | The Daily Caller
Perhaps its more of a long-term view of the situation, but Will saw an upside in the announcement of a 5-4 decision declaring President Barack Obamas 2010 landmark health care legislation constitutional.
In an article on the Posts website, Will explained that conservatives got a victory with the decision, which he said has put the brakes on government expansion.
Conservatives won a substantial victory Thursday, Will wrote. The physics of American politics actions provoking reactions continues to move the crucial debate, about the nature of the American regime, toward conservatism. Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. has served this cause. The health-care legislations expansion of the federal governments purview has improved our civic health by rekindling interest in what this expansion threatens the framers design for limited government.
Wills reasoning relies on the portion of Roberts opinion that has put boundaries around what the Commerce Clause allows the government to do.
You see folks, Levin said, conservatives are so used to losing particularly conservatives inside the beltway that have been here for decades then when we really, really lose, they claim that weve won. I dont know if this is a psychological thing I dont know.
Will said that this decision would reinvigorate small government conservatives, a premise Levin scoffed at.
Well gee, they might as well start rounding us up because that will rekindle the effort that the framers started, too, Levin declared. This is so asinine that Im stunned. This is as stunning to me as the John Roberts opinion...
Read more: Mark Levin vs. George Will: Radio talker lashes out [AUDIO] | The Daily Caller