That one speech gets to the core of the vision of America that voters are faced with in November. Barack Obama wants to take care of everyone, but he wants the government to do it with your money. Contrast that approach with Mitt Romney’s.
As I was reading through all of the fallout discussions from Roberts’ decision on Obamacare, it suddenly occurred to me that most of the analysis to date has been done under the assumption that the Commerce Clause was the keystone of the legislation, not the power of Congress to tax. What happens when you look at Obamacare from a perspective of Congress’ ability to tax?
NOTE: This is the second in a continuing series of exclusive, clandestine, interviews that I’ve been able to arrange with my mole over at the Department of Justice (“Deep Quote,” …
In March of 1937, in West Coast Hotel Co. v. Parrish erstwhile conservative Justice Owen Roberts suddenly began voting to support New Deal legislation. His change of heart was the beginning of what became known as “The switch in time that saved nine.” His sudden reversal was in direct response to FDR’s threat to pack the Court in the face of the Court’s resistance to the President’s sweeping progressive agenda. From that point forward the Constitution ceased to be a significant barrier to anything FDR wanted to do.
Chief Justice Roberts opinion is that the mandate violates the Commerce Clause but since he believes it is a tax, and that it was within Congresses power to tax, the violation of the Commerce Clause doesn’t matter.
Welcome to Canada folks, and the ever increasing tax rates.
On the eve of the ObamaCare decision and the Holder contempt hearing I thought this post would be a great reminder of a common tactic by the left, but in the real world the tactic is called insanity.
It’s Bush’s fault!
I came across an absurd USA Today story from last week that I just couldn’t let pass without reacting to. From the very first lines I struggled to keep my jaw from dislodging from my face and falling to the dirt.
Summertime can mean danger for children on farms.
An 18-year-old Amish man died from oxygen deprivation and his 14-year-old brother was injured last month as they worked in a neighbor’s farm silo in Pennsylvania. Also last month, a Maryland man and his sons, 18 and 14, died of asphyxiation while working in a farm manure pit.
Dorothy was a child and she was in her dream world for a short time: Barack is an adult and he’s clicking the Hell out of those Ruby Slippers. We can at least give him credit for persistence; he still believes he can make believe and things will actually happen.
The left’s Orwellian usage of language is so scientifically deceptive, that most of us have friends or family members, who although otherwise reasonable, have been so profoundly nudged from the truth, that no amount of evidence in the world will ever dislodge them from their false realities.
If you can’t dictate choices, place a cap on them.
Mayor Bloomberg might not be advocating a “one size fits all” soda consumption solution…but the choice selection on sizing will soon be limited. No more Starbucks Trenta and Venti; or 7-11 Big Gulps, Double Gulps, and Super Big Gulps…
