First, the obligatory clickbait: ‘Motherf*cking Sh*t!’ Jon Stewart Goes on Furious Rant over VA Scandal. Oh, Stewie is hot and bothered, and the jokes are teh funny! Elbows get thrown at Obama himself. Utter gobsmacked disbelief at how no matter how mad they get, the guys at the head of the government can’t get the… Read More Watch Jon Stewart Not Make Connections
Buzzfeed started it, albeit with the typically overwrought headline (3 things = Everything. Ever). Now NRO is saying, you know, Romneycare really wasn’t anything like Obamacare: The best way to think about Romneycare is on a left-right scale of 1 to 10. If 10 is a libertarian utopia, and 1 is a left-wing dystopia, Governor… Read More Rehabilitating Romney
The New York Post has the skinny on what ObamaCare is going to do for us. If you get your health insurance through a job, you might lose it as of Jan. 1, 2014. That’s when the new “employer mandate” kicks in, requiring employers with 50 or more full-time workers to provide the government-designed health… Read More This, My Progressive Friends, is What You Voted For…
From that evergreen source of real news, Ace’s sidebar. This guy is not kidding. “The President’s health care law must be fully repealed as all of its promises have proven false. We were told it was not a tax hike, but this ruling confirms it is an unprecedented and enormous tax on the poor and… Read More Jim DeMint Calls For ObamaCare Resistance
Don’t like the law? Just re-write it! The dissent acknowledges that if an ambiguous law can be read in a way that renders it constitutional, it should be. It distinguishes, though, between construing a law charitably and rewriting it. The latter is what Chief Justice John Roberts has done. If Roberts believes that this tactic… Read More NRO: Robert’s Folly, AKA the Return of Earl Warren
Protein Wisdom was right, and we were wrong. Roberts has surrendered to Leviathan, and given us a ruling that makes no sense on a law that makes no sense. The AFA (ObamaCare) cannot be justified under the commerce clause, but can be justified as a tax. The Administration explicitly said it was not a tax,… Read More Good Thing John Roberts was So Carefully Vetted…
Long weekend, long day, blah, whatever. We’re all waiting for the Supremes to hand down their ObamaCare verdict anyway.
Glenn Reynolds’ column on the Obamacare arguments hits on an oft-ignored theme: The subjects entrusted to the federal government by the Constitution — those largely “external” powers — simply don’t lend themselves to corruption. On the other hand, when the government lays a heavy regulatory hand on almost every business and industry, the temptation for… Read More The Bigger the Government Is, the More Corrupt
It’s been fun enjoying the schock and upset of proggies at the possibility that Obamacare could be smacked down. John Podhoretz summed up decades worth of conservative griping about the left in a single paragraph: They’re so convinced of their own correctness — and so determined to believe conservatives are either a) corrupt, b) stupid… Read More Let’s Not Start Pulling Each Other’s Taffy Just Yet…
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