June 28, 2012
"If You Like Your Healthplan, You Can Go Fuck Yourself"
Some overtime has prevented me from reading the opinion and dissent in the Obamacare case. So I really don't have a wholly formed opinion. The short nut of it, from what I can gather, is that John Roberts reversed himself at the last minute, so that Kennedy's concurring opinion had to be crabbed into a dissent, and Democratic Georgetown cocktail party invitations will now be delivered by liveried Negroes to Chez Roberts.
The first blush has me absolutely stunned that the Court would hold that the individual mandate is constitutional predicated upon the fact that it is a tax. Every Democrat in North America swore when pleading for its passage that it was not a tax. Apparently John Roberts' lust for wagyu beef outweighs the purported legislative intent of the crafters of the ACA in the scales of justice.
There is more, so much more, wrapped around this turd of an opinion. But I must study it before rendering myself even more ridiculous than my normal levels of functional retardation, manifested.
Mea culpa: I took both semesters of constitutional law at Emory Law School, so this isn't crawling back on the turnip truck. But I'm not an attorney, and 90% of practicing attorneys don't know jack shit about constitutional law. Hell, some chief justices apparently struggle with it. So my eventual opinion will be ill-formed, passionate, and ugly. In other words, bench-worthy.
Elections matter
Posted by: Paul k at June 28, 2012 8:25 PMWhatever your eventual opinion is of Roberts' opinion, the title of this post deserves paraphrase of the day honors.
Posted by: Pascal at June 28, 2012 8:59 PMIf you can stomach getting through his opinion, without experiencing a seizure, you are perhaps a better man than Justice Roberts. At least according to Michael Savage. (Oh, was that a tad bit insensitive toward the current Chief Putz err...Justice ... Oh well, I'll get over it.)
Posted by: Guy S at June 28, 2012 9:20 PMThat living Constitution thingy has more moves than a Gibbon on a tree. I think I've heard Nancy Pelosi make more sense than Roberts. Did they have pics of him with underage boys? Because they seemed mighty confident all along under the circumstances.
Posted by: james wilson at June 29, 2012 12:31 AMNot sure if the oligarchs have achieved an absolute power-grab, but if they have something on Roberts, they have something on EVERYone in D.C. A rathole like that can only produce disease and debauchery and cannibalism. . . figuratively, and likely literally, too.
Might be why Boehner cries all the time.
Posted by: Joan of Argghh! at June 29, 2012 6:13 AMWhat Roberts did was invite every conservative to the party. What he left unsaid was bring your own pitchfork.
Posted by: Arcs at June 29, 2012 1:20 PMGreat job you have done and appealed to ever-increasing visitors, if you could narrate in a more humorous way, which would be more exciting to read!
Posted by: essays at October 27, 2012 11:13 AMIf you can stomach getting through his opinion, without experiencing a seizure, you are perhaps a better man than Justice Roberts. At least according to Michael Savage. (Oh, was that a tad bit insensitive toward the current Chief Putz err...Justice ... Oh well, I'll get over it.)
Posted by: Conforto at November 11, 2012 12:54 PMIf you can stomach getting through his opinion, without experiencing a seizure, you are perhaps a better man than Justice Roberts. At least according to Michael Savage. (Oh, was that a tad bit insensitive toward the current Chief Putz err...Justice ... Oh well, I'll get over it.)
Posted by: tiofectning at January 22, 2013 5:43 PM