Aristotle said, “The law is reason, free from passion.” With respect to Chief Justice John Roberts, the quote should be amended to include pusillanimity. After abetting the move to park a Trojan Horse smack in the middle of America the cheers from the bloc to which he bowed so cravenly have ceased. His self-marginalization has resulted in a reputation for weakness as opposed to wisdom, and an image of a jurist wearing a dunce cap to match his flowing black robe, a fitting result for plebian capitulation. Nobody in legal circles can make sense of the discontinuity in his opinion, which in my mind says one thing and one thing only: someone owns him.
By mangling and strangling the facts, and with heretofore unforeseen deceit , calumny, distortion, subterfuge, outrageous sops, and backroom extortion, Mr. Obama paid homage to his socialist mentors and duped and somehow intimidated the rest of swoon-hearted “yea” voters into passing a tax of prohibitive scale while simultaneously giving duplicitous lip-service to improving the economy. I guess there’s nothing like having the artlessly devious Pelosi blackmailing lower level congressional members and a Chief Justice who bends like a sapling in the wind to pull off the ultimate con.
The veiled royal edict has been exposed as an intricate labyrinth of misrepresentations, bald-face lies, and boobie traps injurious to citizens as well as to commerce. Unless repealed in its entirety, the extrication process will be more difficult than originally suspected, and those intimidated into compliance far ahead of its implementation remain financially compromised as well as confused. The incriminated zealots who aided in the levying of this monstrous burden were not shy in offering instinctively inane retorts even after being blatantly exposed as co-conspirators, and have already begun the drumbeat of a paltry justification by asking the Romney camp, “OK. Well, how would YOU handle health care?” Therein is the snare, the false front, the banana in the tail pipe. Why?
It presumes it is the role of government to regulate health care, and by responding, conservatives cede the argument to the radical Left, for without question it is NOT the role of government to control health care anymore than it is for the government to control how Apple makes computers or how Mott’s makes applesauce.
If serious about seeking efficiencies in the delivery of health care instead of controlling it, much less making a Marxist stab at centralizing nearly 20% of the economy, Mr. Obama would have conducted exhaustive studies for 4-6 years, which would have provided at least a modicum of understanding of how the system works. Those studies would have shown why tort reform has resulted in a burgeoning medical industry in Texas, it would show why deregulation within the insurance industry would lower premiums, and ultimately show that the industry, ANY INDUSTRY, will thrive through competition as opposed to being saddled with excessive and politically motivated regulation, ultimately negating the government from politicizing simple, easily understood empirical data and results. No wonder he didn’t go down that path.
After close association with a health care professional for well over a decade I only in recent years have been able to assess the industry with some degree of understanding, which provides a strong basis to frame the ill-intentioned seizure by Obama, as well as the trap he set to suggest that if one side rejects his policies it is incumbent upon those who disagree to offer a modification, implying, of course, that a government alternative is necessary to counterbalance government overreach, which is not unlike hiring a sex offender as a crossing guard.
Too strong? Not strong enough. There is no basis, upon which an argument may be made with any degree of rationality, that suggests the systemically incestuous institution of fools that bankrupted Medicare, Social Security, Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, and who wish to push its commitment to Medicaid completely to the states could somehow be seen as a solution to a trillion dollar crack pipe dream that not only nobody understands, but no amount of taxation could ever pay for. It is such an insidiously insane proposition and fraught with financial self-incinerating tenets that it shames the Black Widow spider’s ability to spin a web. And now, to entrust the criminally inept element in Congress to somehow show an economic intelligence level over that of the small brained chicken, is to believe that those who are the cause of a problem could somehow be part of its solution.
That brings me to Republican advisors. I mean, where do they find these people? Clearly, there isn’t a criteria, for if there were a criteria they’d all be working at a car wash. Is there not a strategist among the group? Is there not so much as a cohesive message that can be developed and delivered with confidence about the need to shrink the government, to lay out a cogent explanation why the government is not responsible for health care, not only because it is not the role of government, but because a rotating cast of characters in Congress have demonstrated no more fiscal restraint than a college kid with a stolen Visa card. What can be so impossibly difficult about counteracting propaganda?
40% of Americans would vote for Mr. Obama even if he was proven to be a foreign operative, or, God forbid, his attorney general was proven to be a criminal………..He and his proselytes do not recognize 60% of America and never intend to do so. They do, however, hope to narrow that gap by granting rights to aliens in order to swell the number and thereby dilute the percentage of those who reject dictatorial fanaticism. If it works, he wins. If he loses, he has the ingredients for unbridled civil unrest and mayhem, a tenet right out of the Alinsky handbook along with the policy of never discussing issues in lieu of constant ridicule and denigration of anyone who deigns to oppose, and it’s been his modus operandi since Day One.
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Dan, are you positive that it wasn’t Bush that forced Justice Alito to mouth “You lie”?
Thank you, Storm!
If it was fiction, nobody would believe it.
“a trillion dollar crack pipe dream that not only nobody understands”
Dan, this one string of words from your article can define our entire political system, and the millions of daunting rules and laws it has spawned. I just love it when you take a total mess and sum it up so simply. Keep dishing it out, Bro!
Once again for the record, it was Justice Alito who took offense to the lie and NOT Jester Roberts.
Regardless of what other agenda Justice Roberts had for his tie breaking decision on the constitutionality of forcing U.S. citizens to buy a product from the federal government, I do think that he was “getting even” for Obama’s denegration of the Supreme Court during BO’s address to the nation. Jusctice Roberts called him a liar then, but not loudly enough. Now he has exposed Obama’s lying to the public for all to hear and on the record. Still, revenge will bite him in the (a__) in the long run, whether or not his strategy was well thought out on the collateral damage he is causing with his action. jmo. mamajo
For the sake of accuracy, it was Justice Alito who mouthed “not true”, but I get your point.
I hear you, Ginny.
My dad died two years ago and had the best insurance one could have to handle his pancreatic cancer for the final two years.
Today, they’d have denied his coverage and shipped him to a waiting room near the bone yard to await the inevitable.
As the saying goes: if you thought health insurance was expensive before, wait until it’s FREE.
Hang in there,
DB
Great rant Dan; You know what really ticks me off. For 22 years I paid into what was supposed to be insurance to provide for me in my old age. My employers paid into it also for me. All these years paying into insurance and now that I am old and finally getting some of this insurance money back, I am still getting stuck to the tune of 84 bucks a month for medicare insurance that comes out of the insurance money the government feels reluctant to give me back. The really galling part is too many people seem to think this is an entitlement given to me by the benevolent folks in the government. So much for insurance.
Jeanne, your frustration and bewilderment is palpable, and I feel it right along with you and your mother. I sometimes expect the news segments to end with Rod Serling coming out from behind the camera to announce we just watched another segment of The Twilight Zone.
We’re all stronger when we all band together. I think ALL the liberals will be stunned when what’s left of America speaks this November, and it isn’t much different than when Reagan swamped Carter.
The liberal media had Carter up 3-5% over Reagan with a 3% variance, and President Reagan won 49 states.
(I’m crossing my fingers, too………………..)
You raise a question my Mother and I discuss often. With the cream of the crop to pick from, this is the best they can do? Can the Republicans really be so incompetant? I don’t think so.
I have asked myself a thousand times if anyone as stupid as the Republicans seem to be could actually find their way to Washington, DC., much less be elected to national office. I am frightened to say again that I don’t think so.
The Republicans do NOTHING to counter Obamas blatant power grabs and, again, I ask myself why not.
I finally come down to either they are the most incompetent Senators and Congressmen ever elected, or they are corrupt and are allowing us to be sold down the river of Socialism.
Think about it. What’s more likely – that many incredibly stupid people managed to get elected and sent to the seat of power or they are actively part of the problem?
Good one, Sumitch, especially at the end.
As sad and sick as it is, Putin at least has EXPERIENCE running a communist state………………
This entire circus is like watching a bad movie in slow motion.
Add two more to the dunce hat and black robes. The tongues of snakes and the morals of a New Orleans street walker.
Obama has once again duped the Republicans and their ever present poltroonery. Now he has three of the Supremes bathing in his spit and hiding from the public as they rewrite the legal issues brought before them so that their decisions match what he wants. He can now pretty much wipe his feet on our Constitution as Congress sees, hears or speaks nothing. This, along with his lap dog Holder takes care of the Judicial Branch of our government, so true lawfulness is pretty much out the window, especially if you’re black (not racial if it’s a fact and it is). As I’m sure you know, the Justice Department has sued Texas’ attempt at the identification of legal voters by requiring a photograph on the voter’s identification. The Justice Department claims it’s prejudicial against the poor people. Read that to mean he’s buying the votes of illegal aliens with his backdoor amnesty and safeguarding their multiple votes for him. He’s still supporting the criminal acts of ACORN in their new names and locations with the same criminals running the show and still well funded by our tax dollars provided through the Congressional back door. As you know, direct funding of ACORN by the government was made illegal when they were found illegal. With ACORN the fake votes of Mickey Mouse, Julius Caesar and Al Capone for him can stuff the ballot boxes once again. Also he’s dumped on Boeing by blocking their move to South Carolina to avoid the extortion of unions thereby paying for union support at the voting box.
He controls the Executive and Legislative Branch as if they are his private domain as he’s by passed Congress with his Chicago mafia of Czars experimenting on the destruction of our nation, which is his ultimate goal.
Over and over a blind sow could see what he’s doing and the voice of the people via Congress is muffled or ignored by their cowardly inaction and their greed for power and money. There’s an important vote today in DC on Medicare. Let’s see how that goes.
Speaking of Medicare, not only did he steal five billion of our dollars from the supposed bankrupt Medicare (bankrupted by the same politicians that have robbed the social security lock box and the mail service) to fund Obamacare, but I read today (and have not had the time to verify it) that another little trick is hidden in the 2700 page pile of toilet paper now known as ObamaCare. I read that if a person or family had Medicare advantage to fill the “donut hole” so much talked about, their payments from Medicare will be reduced costing us another ten billion over the next few years. That naturally will have no effect on the supplemental health insurance premiums.
We’re headed for government controlled health care which means they have life and death power over all of us and Congress fiddles while we burn. I’d rather Putin have that power than Obama.
Ah, yes, Chris. The days of price controls……. In retrospect, Nixon was a lot smarter than that, but he did not demonstrate it with THAT maneuver. And once again, what is a price control?
The government sticking its nose into something it clearly knows nothing about! Free markets and competition trump beaurocracy at every turn and it stuns me that there are those who cling to administrative remedies as opposed to unfettered enterprise for solutions. I wrote some weeks back about why we don’t stick our fingers in light sockets for the same reason.
Thanks.
Great rant, Dan! Anytime the government enacts a wage & price control, is shortens the supply & raises the price to the consumer. I’ve said for years that Medicare is a wage & price control by telling doctors what they must charge patients. They set the price high knowing they’ll have to settle for less. My 87-yr-old Mom is lucky to get 5-15 min for a wellness checkup w/ her Dr. as she must squeeze in more patients. If all this were gone- the laws of supply & demand would weed out the bad medical providers. Those of us who came of age in the mid-70′s well remember what wage & price controls did to the energy industry – gas lines & all! Didn’t we take a lesson from that? Those alternating days at the gas pumps will be nothing compared to waiting lines in the ER, Urgent Care & to see the family physician. One of the Obamacare questions we filled out when Mom went to the dr last week was “do you have throw rugs”. There should Never be another Democrat allowed to hold a political office ever again! They are the original architects of ruin & the Republicans who come off as clueless bozos must go, too! Incidentally, I said last week that Roberts was compromised-we well remember the Clintonistas & their Filegate scandal in the 90′s. Obama has proven he’ll stoop lower that that….
Bravo, Noah!
You’re so right, Jim.
Just like bringing a pea-shooter to a gunfight.
You nailed it, too, SunnyVee, and it creates a gnawing and anxiety-filled feeling inside, does it not?
At least it does for me.
Oh, and did I mention immense frustration…………………..?
All of the above! I have never felt so sick for my country, or feared for my own personal future and that of my country. But I do now! And I go around angry every day! I won’t rest until Obama and his crooks and cronies (one and the same, really) are either out of office or arrested!
As you well know, entitlement societies have never succeeded, Norlyn.
Makes me wonder just how delusional this crew really is to think it will be any different this time around.
Well said, Wakinyan. There’s a significant demographic out there that’s convinced they are entitled to health care, and any repeal is going to be as if something was taken away from them, when in fact it wasn’t theirs to begin with.
When one fancies himself King, however, there’s a false sense that you can promise whatever you want with no concern for the impracticality of it all. That’s where we are at right now, and it isn’t good.
I’m pretty confident of the active 40% conservative base, Ben, but that 20% that’s up for grabs is really going to swing the results, and though it isn’t cause for out and out worry, it is a point of concern.
Thank you simmjz.
Weak leadership, and clueless on top of it.
A sex offender as a crossing guard! Wow! That is a lot like putting an illegal immigrant in the White House! We don’t ever want to do that!
It helps when you call out these dudes”crook,cronies” that are somehow above the law.I’m right beside you on the Repub strategy guys, NO BACKBONE….it’s pathetic…..When will they take a real stand?
Dan, you nailed it, and beautifully! The only possible answer to Roberts’ two bizarre decisions (Arizona and Obamacare), that facilitate further corruption in our already incredibly corrupt government, is that he was either threatened or bribed. That, My Friend, is the Chicago way. As to Republican strategists, they keep saying “it’s so complicated to explain all the fixes to the American voters”. Really? What’s more complicated—a 2700 page bill that cripples the tax payers and the health care industry, that was wrought out of deceit and lies (as you very articulately pointed out), or showing the voters the way out of the rabbit hole? I am sick at heart about the shape of my country, and the blatant in-your-face lawlessness of this administration!
It seems each Daily Rant is as outstanding, & perhaps a little better, than the one before it.
Having been a consultant to the insurance industry, I know that the largest share of the increase in costs for both insurers & providers of health care is from government mandates/regulation. The vast majority of the inflation in health care costs has been since the enactment of the Medicare law 40+ years ago & directly stem from government actions.
It is a shame that Republicans can’t address this issue from the perspective of individual rights. Why is it a right for 40% of the people to take what they want from the other 60% thru taxes? Simply put it is because of generations of welfare, government funded public schools that teach self esteem is more important that being properly educated & governement funding of socialist organizations that spend large amounts of that money on supporting the communist/socialist/liberal political agenda which Republicans do not challenge.
“… asking the Romney camp, “OK. Well, how would YOU handle health care?” Therein is the snare, the false front, the banana in the tail pipe. Why?
It presumes it is the role of government to regulate health care, and by responding, conservatives cede the argument to the radical Left, for without question it is NOT the role of government to control health care anymore than it is for the government to control how Apple makes computers or how Mott’s makes applesauce.”
That says it all Dan because when conservatives appear to agree it is government’s role to control health care or any thing else not directly related to national security and defense, they have already lost the argument by their tacit agreement with the “progressive” premise. From that point on they are relegated to trying to defend the indefensible and in the vicious, political dog-eat-dog world of the fight for our freedom, they (we) will lose. It has long been too late to try to overcome this Marxist/communist juggernaut by playing Mr. Nice Guy and always looking for compromise with power obsessed people that view “compromise” as letting everything be done their way only. If the Republicans stay on that path and refuse to take the gloves off and make a very energetic effort to expose the outright treason and criminal actions of this administration they may as well throw in the towel because Chicago politics will bury them and our liberty along with them. If the sixty percent that are not already down the tube because of greed and/or racial prejudice can be awakened to the unvarnished truth about exactly what this administration has done and intends to do if it retains the power it has illegally usurped, then if enough will get off their duff long enough to go vote, we stand a slight chance of a relatively peaceful transfer of power in November. Personally, I do not believe the narcissist in chief or his slimy handlers intend to let that happen. They love the taste and feel of the power they have been able to steal from the people. They lust after more and giving in to them can never satisfy such lust for as has so often been said: absolute power corrupts absolutely. They only understand superior strength and force and are counting on the connivance of the leftwing media and spineless legislative and judicial branches to delude the sheep enough to keep them from throwing a tantrum before their chains are completely forged and locked. Most of them live isolated from their constituents, surrounded by people that agree with them and an unquestioning media so they have no real concept of what I still believe is the true heartbeat of America or the price they are going to pay for their lies and betrayal.
http://nomidazolam.blogspot.com/2012/07/fines-fees-and-new-regs.html A few suggestions for what could be done to rein in excessive medical costs in one tiny area.
TORT REFORM ……there we go. Now you’re talking. Tort reform is about reforming cruel laws which favor the rich and punish the poor. We’d better start doing this, or we are in trouble.
Excellent article, once again.
Let’s hope that a number of that 40% are just afraid to admit that 0bama is a Fascist anti-American and will not vote for him.
Great Rant, Mychal, as usual. My dictionary is nearly worn out! When “ObamaCare” went to the Supreme Court, I thought it was their duty to declare it constitutional or unconstitutional. I didn’t realize Roberts had the authority to change the wording of the health care.. and make it constitutional. Had Roberts not crossed out and added/changed wording, would the rag had been declared unconstitutional? I think so. So, did Roberts do the American Public a favor or did he simply fall into the ranks of the Judicial Socialists? Also, from World Factbook, I’ve been counting up and reading the many executive orders by Obama and it is truly astounding that he has signed some very important demands and regulations, including Messages to Congress about what he has done without their consent/vote. Obama is a one-man team. No wonder he likes the sport of golf. No competiveness there…just tries to improve on his own game.
Whoops. Sorry Dan. I do give you credit for your words of wisdom.
Hard hitting and the truth!! Great article! These socialists may not survive an all out riot along with innocent people! This by far is the most corrupt and ignorant government which resembles the behavior of a spoiled child. Putin has already crossed into pacific airways with bombers capable of carrying nukes. this weak sister of a pres.o, intends to reduce the nukes in the USA. May as well invite war with weak leadership. I am more than discusted. Daily Rant keep the pressure on you are doing a great job!!