We like “trenchant” and “pithy ” and the irreverent when it comes to those who deserve ridicule. Besides our own illustrious Senior Editor as set forth below, Stilton Jarlsberg writing at HopeNChange always delivers. Dick Morriss also weighs in.
Startin’ to feel disenfranchised yet?
Someone once said “elections matter”!
Indeed there was such a time. Most recently was 2012. There were those who thought the election in 2014 mattered, but it turned out that it didn’t. And from what the American people are seeing this week, that quaint little notion no longer applies, and may never again in these United States.
What matters now is what Chief Justice John Roberts thinks, and favors. It would be rash to say that Chief Roberts has been bought and paid for by radical leftism…maybe.
But whatever the case, decisions of the Court written by him reflect a thought process which in “every day life” would be deemed so bizarre that he wouldn’t be considered for admission to many professions.
Would you want an architect who so twists the meaning and clear intent of words so as to produce the exact opposite result, to design your high rise apartment building…or your kids’ Jungle Gym for that matter?
How about the “Distinguished” Mr. Roberts as the pharmacist who fills your prescription according to what he believes your doctor really intended rather than for the medication he prescribed?
Well, without the excessive hyperbole, that’s what we’ve got in Mr. Roberts, the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court.
To save the American people the time, the money, the anguish of Constitutional issues being tried by the courts, it would be far more efficient to simply have Chief Roberts tell us which parts of the Constitution are worthy of his approval and which are not. Congress, when they are moved to do so could then pass laws which meet his approval and save everybody a lot of time and trouble.
That is, after Roberts ran his thoughts by President Obama and his billionaire statist supporters.
United States of America, 1776-2015, RIP. Thanks for a great ride, you will be missed. DLH
Roberts Rules of Disorder Stilton Jarlsberg
In a puckish twist of fate, Hope n’ Change was preparing for our Friday morning colonoscopy when we got the word of the Supreme Court’s insane ruling in support of Obamacare subsidies. The good news is that we no longer need to chug a couple of gallons of laxatives because we just shit ourselves.
Normally, we’d apologize for using that expletive – but according to dissenting Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia in reference to the majority’s bizarre ruling, “words no longer have a meaning.”
And Chief Justice John Roberts (who at this point should be credited as the co-author of Obamacare along with Jonathan “the voters are stupid” Gruber) apparently agrees, saying “in this instance, the context and structure of the act compel us to depart from what would otherwise be the most natural reading of the pertinent statutory phrase.”
But what context and structure is he referring to which compels a departure from reality?
According to Roberts, “Congress passed the Affordable Care Act to improve health insurance markets, not to destroy them. If at all possible, we must interpret the act in a way that is consistent with the former, and avoids the latter.”
So Roberts is again violating his duties by ruling on what he believes the intent was when one political party unilaterally passed an act they hadn’t bothered to read. And in coming to his conclusion, Roberts has had to ignore Jonathan Gruber’s plainspoken admissions that the Act was written to deliberately punish states which did not establish their own healthcare exchanges. The “pertinent statutory phrase” was clear, deliberate, and the exact opposite of what Roberts is now saying.
But let’s go a step further. Contrary to Roberts’ opinion, the Affordable Care Act was written to destroy health insurance markets, so that when the full implementation of Obamacare fails (as it is already doing), no market solution will exist on which to fall back. The only choice will be single-payer socialized medicine, which has always been the goal of Obama and his minions – not to improve healthcare, but to solidify absolute control over our lives.
This is a sad day for any Americans who still looked to the Supreme Court as a possible counterbalance to the wild excesses of the Executive branch of government. That ship has clearly sailed and, with the mournful strains of “Nearer My God To Thee” echoing in the darkness, sunk from sight.
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