The most over-the-top response to ObamaCare ruling
Loading ...I’m trying to decide which right-wing reaction to Thursday’s Supreme Court ruling on ObamaCare is my favorite, and I just can’t settle on one winner. So maybe you could help me.
Here are your options:
A. An angry Glenn Beck — but I repeat myself — referring to Chief Justice John Roberts as “the Dread Pirate Roberts” and announcing that his website would be selling T-shirts featuring Roberts’ picture and the caption “Coward,” all for just $30.
B.) U.S. Rep. Jean Schmidt, R-Ohio, celebrating after hearing initial and incorrect reports that the Supreme Court had struck down the mandate:
C.) The statement put out by Roy Nicholson, chairman of the Mississippi Tea Party, who went all Jefferson Davis on us:
“All of us are now simply chattel of the government to be used and ordered about as they choose. The history books will mark this date as the day our constitutional republic was killed. It will now rest with We The People to decide if it will be resurrected or left to rot in the shallow grave dug for it.
Where is the weeping and wailing? Where is the anger and outrage? Do the people of the country realize what has just been stolen from them? Do the people of the world recognize that the shadow of darkness is now fallen upon them as well and that there remains no defender of their feeble freedoms? The all-out oppression of all people has begun.
Those “occupiers” now controlling the three federal branches of government have joined together in rejecting all Constitutional restraint and in doing so they have severely violated their oaths to support and defend the Constitution of the United States. Together they now stand as blatant usurpers of power and have reduced our constitutional republic, along with all of its freedoms, to nothing more than a dictatorial junta. Becoming a banana republic is next.
When a gang of criminals subvert legitimate government offices and seize all power to themselves without the real consent of the governed their every act and edict is of itself illegal and is outside the bounds of the Rule of Law. In such cases submission is treason. Treason against the Constitution and the valid legitimate government of the nation to which we have pledged our allegiance for years. To resist by all means that are right in the eyes of God is not rebellion or insurrection, it is patriotic resistance to invasion.
May all of us fall on our faces before the Heavenly Judge, repent of our sins, and humbly cry out to Him for mercy on our country. And, may godly courageous leaders rise up in His wisdom and power to lead us in displacing the criminal invaders from their seats and restore our constitutional republic.”
D.) Matt Davis, former spokesman for the Michigan Republican Party, who posed the question:
Is Armed Rebellion Now Justified?
“Implicit in Benjamin Franklin’s fabled response at the conclusion of the Constitutional Convention was a dire warning: That the Republic would one day devolve into tyranny unless we the people prevented it.
In 2008, we the people elected Barack Obama as president, and the 100-year progressive trek to tyranny begun in 1912 with Woodrow Wilson’s election was complete. It cannot be said too many times — for the purposes of emphasis and clarity — that the Constitution was possible ONLY AFTER the American Revolution; and that the war itself would not have been possible without the collective agreement, as so eloquently articulated in the Declaration of Independence, that the course of human events will sometimes justify one group of people to sever themselves from their oppressors.
In other words, America itself was possible only after its people summoned the will to risk their lives and their futures — as well as those of their children — for a freedom they did not enjoy but knew was their gift from God. Along with their desire to be free came their willingness to engaged in armed rebellion for their freedom.
If government can mandate that I pay for something I don’t want, then what is beyond its power? If the Supreme Court’s decision Thursday paves the way for unprecedented intrusion into personal decisions, then has the Republic all but ceased to exist? If so, then is armed rebellion today justified?
God willing, this oppression will be lifted and America free again before the first shot is fired.”
Or as they put it in the music-video version:
E.) U.S. Sen. Rand Paul, R-Kentucky, who clearly wasn’t paying attention when he was studying constitutional law back in ophthalmology school:
“Just because a couple people on the Supreme Court declare something to be ‘constitutional’ does not make it so. The whole thing remains unconstitutional.”
F.) Ben Shapiro, editor-at-large of Breitbart.com, who tweeted:
Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, we await your verdict.
– Jay Bookman
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Question Man
June 30th, 2012
4:26 pm
Is it possible to pick a winner from such a collection of loonies?
getalife
June 30th, 2012
4:27 pm
Bro,
They have a plan called willardcare and it works.
Midori
June 30th, 2012
4:28 pm
speaking of Sarah, I hear she has a new nickname: the “W*ore of Babbleon”
JamVet
June 30th, 2012
4:28 pm
The sad part is that Sarah the Palin is still more qualified for POTUS…
Court jester, maybe.
People Magazine and Entertainment Tonight ain’t gonna cut it, Sarah BarraClueless…
All she did was embarrass the hell outta John McCain and the GOP…
GT
June 30th, 2012
4:28 pm
Good stuff but one you missed was the melt down by Jeffery Toobin on CNN after his missed prediction. My mouth hung open when he made it the night before, CNN really lost its creditability on this one.
DannyX
June 30th, 2012
4:28 pm
“w is gone.”
Citizens arrest!! Citizens arrest!!!
Its now a crime to mention W. Citizens arrest!!
Ol' Timer
June 30th, 2012
4:30 pm
When ol’ Samuel Johnson said, “Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel,” he was speaking of the type of patriotic demagoguery Mr. Nicholson of the Mississippi Tea Party demonstrated in his diatribe.
“Get all the facts first, then you can distort them as you please.”
~Mark Twain
carlosgvv
June 30th, 2012
4:32 pm
Liberal – 4:16
Which party, in both the House and Senate, absolutely REFUSES to impose any tax increase on the RICH?
When Republicans decide to free themselves from Corporate domination and tax the rich fairly, I will give up my “worn out” talking points.
Brosephus™
June 30th, 2012
4:32 pm
why do you think the insurance companies went along with Obamacare? Because Obama protected the profits of those big corporations. Quit drinking the Republicans only look out for the big corporations Kool-Aid. Your talking points are worn out.
I hate that whole “kool-aid” phrase. I also hate it when people state stuff as though it’s completely factual when it’s entirely wrong…
http://influencealley.nationaljournal.com/2012/06/exclusive-ahip-gave-more-than.php
The nation’s leading health insurance industry group gave more than $100 million to help fuel the U.S. Chamber of Commerce’s 2009 and 2010 efforts to defeat President Obama’s signature health care reform law, National Journal’s Influence Alley has learned.
During the final push to kill the bill before its March 2010 passage, America’s Health Insurance Plans gave the chamber $16.2 million. With the $86.2 million the insurers funneled to the business lobbying powerhouse in 2009, AHIP sent the chamber a total of $102.4 million during the health care reform debate, a number that has not been reported before now.
The backchannel spending allowed insurers to publicly stake out a pro-reform position while privately funding the leading anti-reform lobbying group in Washington. The chamber spent tens of millions of dollars bankrolling efforts to kill health care reform.
The behind-the-scenes transfers were particularly hard to track because the law does not require groups to publicly disclose where they are sending the money or who they are receiving it from.
If there’s ever a need for transparency laws, that should spring up on the radar of many Americans, regardless of political leanings. This funding was known well ahead of time too.
From 2010:
Health insurers last year gave the U.S. Chamber of Commerce $86.2 million that was used to oppose the health-care overhaul law, according to tax records and people familiar with the donation.
The insurance lobby, whose members include Minnetonka, Minnesota-based UnitedHealth Group Inc. and Cigna Corp. of Philadelphia, gave the money to the Chamber in 2009 as Democrats increased criticism of the industry, according to a person who requested anonymity because laws don’t require identifying funding sources. The Chamber got the money from the America’s Health Insurance Plans as the industry urged Congress to drop a plan to create a competing government-run insurance plan…
The spending on the Chamber exceeded the insurer group’s entire budget from a year earlier and accounted for 40 percent of the Chamber’s $214.6 million in 2009 expenditures. The spending reflects the insurers’ attempts to influence the bill, which the Congressional Budget Office estimates will provide coverage to 32 million previously uninsured Americans, after Democrats in Congress and the White House put more focus on regulation of the insurance industry.
As others have frequently said, we have the best government that money can buy.
Brosephus™
June 30th, 2012
4:33 pm
2010 link here:
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-11-17/insurers-gave-u-s-chamber-86-million-used-to-oppose-obama-s-health-law.html
Impotent Rage against the Obama Machine
June 30th, 2012
4:33 pm
and don’t fergit this reaction –
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mh2nDpepKH4
Recon 0311 2533
June 30th, 2012
4:37 pm
“Then you have the three gop guvs refusing to implement it”
Maybe 26
Tundra Dude
June 30th, 2012
4:37 pm
mama:
I know a lot of you on this blog are stubborn and hard headed but why you cannot understand that government having the ability to tell you what you are going to buy is not freedom I will never get.
Agree. We don’t know it, but we’ve been enslaved since those Faux patriots, Washington and Madison pushed thru the Militia Acts of 1792, which required each able-bodied white male of fighting age six months to “provide himself with a good musket or firelock, a sufficient bayonet and belt, two spare flints, and a knapsack, a pouch, with a box therein, to contain not less than twenty four cartridges, suited to the bore of his musket or firelock, each cartridge to contain a proper quantity of powder and ball.”
Faux Nuze back then, asked: What’s next…mandatory broccoli..??
Brosephus™
June 30th, 2012
4:37 pm
carlos
I don’t quite believe that. I think politicians are doing what’s necessary to maintain their power. By maintaining their power, they are able to generate and protect their wealth. If they did not need those vast sums of money to run campaigns, they would not have to prostitute themselves to companies and wealthy johns. Instead, if they only had to worry about the voters, they would have to do what it takes to appeal to them, which is govern with common damn sense.
For politicians, it’s not necessarily that they’re acting on behalf of corporations. I see them as acting on behalf of corporations because they need the money to run campaigns that keep them in power. In the end, I think it’s all about the power.
pogo
June 30th, 2012
4:38 pm
Jay, do you really want us to dredge up some of the more “un-pleasant” things that you and your brethren in the print media were saying about the SCOTUS before their decision (that you all think went your way)? Nah, I didn’t think so. Jay offers another bit of fodder to feed his eager and starving liberal followers who have nothing else to do.
Bring on the heat! I have lived in the South Georgia my entire life and this heat is normal to me. I like it. But the press is going wild with the global warming thing as being the cause of high temperatures. What a bunch of idiots. Records are falling but you got to understand they are are being compared against data collected within the last 100 years. Records based upon 100 years of data on this earth have about as much significance and impact as a someone spitting into the Atlantic ocean and the impact that has on the ocean level.
midtownguy
June 30th, 2012
4:38 pm
I have never been without insurance in my life and I am on the backside of my 50’s so I really don’t know what it would feel like to be uninsured. That said, if the majority is that opposed to the legislation all that have to do is elect Romney along with a majority in the Senate and hold their majority in the House and it all goes away.
JamVet
June 30th, 2012
4:44 pm
JAW, oOne of the 100 riffs in that stunning link. One that I had never heard.
Though I remember Top of the pops from my days in England.
Again, thanks!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O5DE8UQnM5Y
Recon 0311 2533
June 30th, 2012
4:44 pm
“If the majority is that opposed to the legislation all that have to do is elect Romney along with a majority in the Senate and hold their majority in the House and it all goes away.”
Fasten your seat belt as that may happen.
Liberal Pariah
June 30th, 2012
4:51 pm
Brosephus is right. Lawyers give Dems more money than any other group gives anybody else and carlos and the gang don’t mention the big money influences on the Liberal side. Both sides govern to keep the money flowing instead of governing what’s best for the people. To say the Republicans equal Big Corporations and that Democrats are for the ‘people’ is beyond ridiculous. It’s all about getting the money to keep the power. By the way, the rich you say the Republicans won’t tax aren’t necessarily corporations.
Smoke&Mirrors
June 30th, 2012
4:51 pm
Midtownguy.
You are so correct…. unfortunately, there would be other things that would ‘go away’ if we had a one party rule. (rule, not government…) As others have said, it’s all about power and money. Sad….
Midori
June 30th, 2012
4:52 pm
look at the top of the page: we’ve hit 106 degrees
Jay
June 30th, 2012
4:54 pm
“Jay, if you haven’t fallen asleep yet, what do you think of the profanity laced responses of the Democratic Leadership? Or does it not offend because your morality meter only tunes right?”
Pariah, I’d make a couple of points in response.
1.) Yeah, you could throw an excessive celebration flag on those statements, and they weren’t exactly PG-13. But to compare them to suggestions of overthrowing the government and claims that America is dead, etc. is stretching it considerably.
2.) Even given #1, most of the folks I’ve seen quoted have retracted or apologized for their statements. The $30 T-shirt, on the other hand, is still for sale. Get one while supplies last.
Midori
June 30th, 2012
4:57 pm
Former Town Official Wishes Cancer on Supreme Court Justices
http://merrimack.patch.com/articles/former-town-councilor-i-hope-the-5-supremes-get-colon-cancer
oh my!!! yet, “it’s constitutional, b*tches” ………………………
oh, never mind.
Recon 0311 2533
June 30th, 2012
4:57 pm
Global warming is now a fact…dinosaur spotting in Florida moving North.
carlosgvv
June 30th, 2012
4:58 pm
Brosephus – 4:37
I must point out, though, that whether the’re acting to maintain their power or on the behalf of corporations, the end result for us citizens is the same.
JamVet
June 30th, 2012
5:00 pm
YEAH for global cooling!
It’s so hot out there that Herman Cain doesn’t even feel like groping white women!
carlosgvv
June 30th, 2012
5:00 pm
Tundra Dude – 4:37 “we’ve been enslaved”
So,if for over 200 years we’ve been enslaved, what are you suggesting?
A new form of Government?
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
June 30th, 2012
5:01 pm
My vote?
None of the above.
My favorite reaction came from closer to home, one of our regulars here (OK, ex-regular).
He came in here at 3:00 in the morning on the day of the decision apparently to put the champagne on ice and cover up the lockers in anticipation of his victory dance.
Denied his victory dance, between 10:30 a.m. and 11:00a.m., he had an epic melt-down and committed blog suicide.
“Pride goeth before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a fall.”
Just sayin’.
carlosgvv
June 30th, 2012
5:01 pm
Jay, these over-the top responses come under the category of “you can’t make this stuff up”.
ragnar danneskjold
June 30th, 2012
5:02 pm
The most over-the-top response was by those celebratory leftists who have yet to understand the constrictive economic effect of the looming largest tax increase in US history (ObamaCare is even larger than the “end of the Bush tax cuts.”) A close second would go to those who think more government involvement will improve health care.
getalife
June 30th, 2012
5:03 pm
“Get one while supplies last.”
No thank you.
getalife
June 30th, 2012
5:04 pm
I remember one summer when it was over a hundred for weeks in Atlanta.
Proud to be me
June 30th, 2012
5:05 pm
The story of why Bush was so bad at the end of his term.
Don’t just skim over this, it’s not very long, read it slowly and let it sink in. If in doubt, check it out!!!
The day the democrats took over was not January 22nd 2009, it was actually January 3rd 2007 the day the Democrats took over the House of Representatives and the Senate, at the very start of the 110th Congress. The Democrat Party controlled a majority in both chambers for the first time since the end of the 103rd Congress in 1995.
For those who are listening to the liberals propagating the fallacy that everything is “Bush’s Fault”, think about this:
January 3rd, 2007 was the day the Democrats took over the Senate and the Congress. At the time:
The DOW Jones closed at 12,621.77
The GDP for the previous quarter was 3.5%
The Unemployment rate was 4.6%
George Bush’s Economic policies SET A RECORD of 52 STRAIGHT MONTHS of JOB GROWTH
Remember the day…
January 3rd, 2007 was the day that Barney Frank took over the House Financial Services Committee and Chris Dodd took over the Senate Banking Committee.
The economic meltdown that happened 15 months later was in what part of the economy?
BANKING AND FINANCIAL SERVICES!
Unemployment… to this CRISIS by (among MANY other things) dumping 5-6 TRILLION Dollars of toxic loans on the economy from YOUR Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac FIASCOES!
Bush asked Congress 17 TIMES to stop Fannie & Freddie – starting in 2001 because it was financially risky for the US economy.
And who took the THIRD highest pay-off from Fannie Mae AND Freddie Mac? OBAMA
And who fought against reform of Fannie and Freddie?
OBAMA and the Democrat Congress
So when someone tries to blame Bush..
REMEMBER JANUARY 3rd, 2007…. THE DAY THE DEMOCRATS TOOK OVER!”
Budgets do not come from the White House. They come from Congress and the party that controlled Congress since January 2007 is the Democrat Party.
Furthermore, the Democrats controlled the budget process for 2008 & 2009 as well as 2010 &2011.
In that first year, they had to contend with George Bush, which caused them to compromise on spending, when Bush somewhat belatedly got tough on spending increases.
For 2009 though, Nancy Pelosi & Harry Reid bypassed George Bush entirely, passing continuing resolutions to keep government running until Barack Obama could take office. At that time, they passed a massive omnibus spending bill to complete the 2009 budgets.
And where was Barack Obama during this time? He was a member of that very Congress that passed all of these massive spending bills, and he signed the omnibus bill as President to complete 2009.
If the Democrats inherited any deficit, it was the 2007 deficit, the last of the Republican budgets. That deficit was the lowest in five years, and the fourth straight decline in deficit spending. After that, Democrats in Congress took control of spending, and that includes Barack Obama, who voted for the budgets.
If Obama inherited anything, he inherited it from himself. In a nutshell, what Obama is saying is I inherited a deficit that I voted for and then I voted to expand that deficit four-fold since January 20th.
There is no way this will be widely publicized, unless each of us sends it on!
Michael
June 30th, 2012
5:05 pm
The debate about healthcare is about the administration of the system, not about the actual healthcare. I’m in my late 60s, and I’ve been paying other people’s cost of healthcare my whole life. I would estimate that I’ve paid $250-300,000 in health insurance premiums during my career. The most expensive line item is Administrative costs, which are estimated to be 15-20% of the premiums. The cost of having 3 children, 4 broken arms for the boys, regular physicals before school, and inocculations was less than the administrative cost.
Now, I’m surrounded by a bunch of fat, old people who don’t take care of themselves. But, since I’d rather be healthy, I guess I shouldn’t begrudge the money that was spent on people with more problems. Although, I am a little bitter that Cheney got a new heart, and I would not qualify because of age.
When the debate turns to actual healthcare and not the administrative department, we might accomplish something.
Proud to be me
June 30th, 2012
5:09 pm
Jay, you think the Republicans have the “most over-the-top response” to the Supreme Court decision about Obama care!!! While you are so busy reading their response maybe you should take a look at the left Liberal responses trying to explain why it isn’t a “tax” . . . duh!!
Recon 0311 2533
June 30th, 2012
5:11 pm
ragner,
I’m among those conservatives who think that Roberts has given the Romney campaign and Republicans a huge gift in this election year. We don’t know his real motive but you can bet the AHA will be torn apart ten different ways from Sunday and tied to the economy between now and November. That will force the Obama campaign into defensive ( they call it an opportunity to sell it, while most think good luck with that) mode when their strategy was to be on offense against Romney as a diversion from Obama’s record.
Jay
June 30th, 2012
5:13 pm
So Recon, judging by that statement, you would have been disappointed had the court thrown the law out altogether? That would have been a bad thing in your mind?
DannyX
June 30th, 2012
5:13 pm
Scientific measurements of the outdoor temperature indicate a high of 106 degrees.
It may feel cooler if you use the Republican anti-reality temperature which is only 78 degrees.
getalife
June 30th, 2012
5:14 pm
Proud,
9/11, two lost occupations and the collapse of the global economy is why w and cheney are hiding from the people.
Send that on con.
St Simons - he-ne-ha-ha-ha
June 30th, 2012
5:14 pm
ah, i noticed that on the am radio.. they’ve added the word “looming”
to “largest tax increase in the history of the world”
making it meaningless hatespeech, since its been slapped down
already, but hopefully retaining that wingnut ‘zing’
Thomas
June 30th, 2012
5:14 pm
I thought Glenn Beck went where all immature, ridiculous blog host/slanted commentators went and should go- to fight Somolian pirates.
I am for armed rebellion- we all could use some excitement in our life. Our fearless leader Crowell was caught so we are going contingency plan alpha alpha over Waffle House #1093-
anyway- enjoy the drama of the blog- hydrate- and definitely don’t forget to tip on the way out
Thomas
June 30th, 2012
5:16 pm
By the way- RB Ginsburg quote about those who know don’t talk was the best quote I have heard in years. Don’t necessarily agree with the lady- but she is smart and sexy in my book.
Recon 0311 2533
June 30th, 2012
5:16 pm
“I remember one summer when it was over a hundred for weeks in Atlanta.”
getalife, be careful this is supposed to be a recent condition. Your party line controllers won’t be pleased with you.
St Simons - he-ne-ha-ha-ha
June 30th, 2012
5:17 pm
Republicans wouldn’t know the difference between a penalty and a tax.
(its an accounting joke)
JamVet
June 30th, 2012
5:18 pm
Flip Romney is the only politician in my lifetime who, on a vast array of issues, does not see eye to eye with ………………………………………………….. himself.
Irony abounds
June 30th, 2012
5:18 pm
Matt Davis loses for his historical accuracy. Since the fascist takeover by the “Progressives” led by President Wilson (anyone who actually studies history knows this is when a fascist government did exist in this country and trampled the rights of numerous groups), it has been the place of the federal government to increasingly control all aspects of citizens’ lives. Wilson considered anyone who was a hyphen American to be an enemy of the state who should be locked up, and thousands were.
gman
June 30th, 2012
5:18 pm
Now that the Republican have been given the “elbow of death”, let’s deal with the fundamentalist Christians that support a high-ranking Mormon cultist! Kind of bass ackwards don’t you thnk?
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
June 30th, 2012
5:19 pm
Bush asked Congress 17 TIMES to stop Fannie & Freddie – starting in 2001 because it was financially risky for the US economy.
Too funny!
But my attitude is, if somebody can’t find work and they want to work, we’ve got to continue to work on expanding the job base. And part of economic security is owning your own home. (Applause.) Part of being a secure America is to encourage homeownership. So somebody can say, this is my home, welcome to my home.
Now, we’ve got a problem here in America that we have to address. Too many American families, too many minorities do not own a home. There is a home ownership gap in America. The difference between Anglo America and African American and Hispanic home ownership is too big. (Applause.) And we’ve got to focus the attention on this nation to address this
[...]
And let me talk about some of the progress which we have made to date, as an example for others to follow. First of all, government sponsored corporations that help create our mortgage system — I introduced two of the leaders here today — they call those people Fannie May and Freddie Mac, as well as the federal home loan banks, will increase their commitment to minority markets by more than $440 billion. (Applause.) I want to thank Leland and Franklin for that commitment. It’s a commitment that conforms to their charters, as well, and also conforms to their hearts.
[...]
Fannie Mae will establish 100 partnerships with faith-based organizations that will provide home buyer education and help increase homeownership for their congregations. I love the partnership.
Now, aintyourfacetight.
getalife
June 30th, 2012
5:19 pm
del is an optimist.
The dems go on the offense on health care and taxes del.
willard will have to lie over and over about repealing it.
Then he tells the truth that he will keep some parts of it .
So which is it del.?
Jay
June 30th, 2012
5:20 pm
Thomas, this is a bunch of lousy tippers, with the notable exception of Paul.
DannyX
June 30th, 2012
5:22 pm
“George Bush’s Economic policies SET A RECORD of 52 STRAIGHT MONTHS of JOB GROWTH”
Happy days! Can’t wait to see George W helping out Romney on the campaign trail to remind everyone of his accomplishments, and to let everyone know they should vote for Romney so Romney can finish the job.
Happy days are here again!
Recon 0311 2533
June 30th, 2012
5:23 pm
Jay, absolutely…I was pleased with the decision. Imagine if it gone the other way, the left would be climbing the walls screaming Supreme Court right wing activism. Beyond the political implication that I think will ultimately favor Republicans in this election year, I believe Roberts made the correct decision, this decision does belong with the voters. If they had known more about the ramifications of this bill in 08 Obama wouldn’t have won.
getalife
June 30th, 2012
5:24 pm
I can’t keep up with willard’s positions. .
Perhaps a press conference and answering questions would help.
getalife
June 30th, 2012
5:25 pm
Party first del.
Recon 0311 2533
June 30th, 2012
5:27 pm
“So which is it del.?”
getlife, I’m now feeling more than I ever thought before that it will now be a Republican sweep in November.
DannyX
June 30th, 2012
5:28 pm
“Beyond the political implication that I think will ultimately favor Republicans in this election year, I believe Roberts made the correct decision, this decision does belong with the voters.”
You would think that Romney would have at least gotten a Rasmussen bump after the SC healthcare decision. Not showing up yet. Neither did that Romney $5 a gallon bump Republicans have been predicting for the pat 6 months.
Midori
June 30th, 2012
5:34 pm
Kammy,
I think a whole bunch of them put that bubbly on ice.
And Del probably slammed his against the refrigerator door
Recon 0311 2533
June 30th, 2012
5:34 pm
DannyX,
Nor has Obama. What does that tell you?
Recon 0311 2533
June 30th, 2012
5:37 pm
I guess Midori didn’t read my posts right after the decision came down and before the analysts came out with their respective synopsis. I toasted Roberts decision.
Adam
June 30th, 2012
5:38 pm
You know what I have to say on this whole thing?
SUCK IT
You spent years, YEARS filling my ears with bullsh*t about how this thing was unconstitutional, how the President wipes his ass with the Constitution, how he’s in over his head, can’t lead, can’t get anything done… now ALL of that has been PROVEN to be not true. You freaking DESERVE to have your asses handed to you if you EVER participated in such vitriolic bullsh*t. I sat by, got angry sometimes, made my voice known, etc etc. But I grew a thick skin over it. Your turn. Stop whining and complaining and MOVE ON.
And it gives me GREAT SATISFACTION to see you suddenly revert to “It’s a TAX!” To that last argument, here’s your moment of zen:
http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/thu-june-28-2012/roberts–rules-of-order
bman.
June 30th, 2012
5:39 pm
A few of those are sorta funny – there’s no denying that. Now, try to imagine the reactions from those on the left had the decision gone the other way. It doesn’t take too much imagination ….
Brosephus™
June 30th, 2012
5:40 pm
carlos
I must point out, though, that whether the’re acting to maintain their power or on the behalf of corporations, the end result for us citizens is the same.
I concur…
One time a thing occurred to me
What’s real and what’s for sale?
Blew a kiss and tried to take it home
Isn’t you, isn’t me
Search for things that you can’t see
Goin’ blind, out of reach
Somewhere in the vasoline…
Flies in the vasoline, we are
Sometimes it blows my mind
Keep gettin’ stuck here all the time...
getalife
June 30th, 2012
5:43 pm
No del.
Will willard repeal willardcare or keep some parts of it?
Which position is it?
I think willard is confused and not ready for prime time.
I think he is weak on foreign policy.
I think he is a job killer.
I think he would be another disaster like w.
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
June 30th, 2012
5:45 pm
Hiya, Midori!
How’s your eye(s)?
My mom has the macular degeneration thingie (same as you I assume?) and has been undergoing the shot treatment for a year of so.
DannyX
June 30th, 2012
5:46 pm
“Nor has Obama. What does that tell you?”
That tells me that Republicans think the healthcare issue is way more important to the voters than the voters do. As much as Republicans try to talk themselves into believing they have momentum its just not happening. Healthcare, gas prices, Fast and Furious, Arizona immigration, Obama supporting gay marriage, whatever the latest hysterical issue Republicans come up with have failed to sway most voters, polling continues to slightly favor Obama.
Listening to Republicans you would think Romney has a 30 point lead.
Recon 0311 2533
June 30th, 2012
5:48 pm
getalife,
yeah, yeah, yeah but it’s an old Marine Corps expression called $hiting in one hand while wishing in the other. Rub your hands together and see what you have all over your wishes. Good luck!
Jay
June 30th, 2012
5:48 pm
Gallup says 46 percent back the Court decision; 46 percent oppose it. Just 6 percent say health care is top issue for the country; just 31 percent say they would repeal the law entirely.
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
June 30th, 2012
5:49 pm
I think he would be another disaster like w.
I think that no one can match the disaster of w.
Homeric.
Recon 0311 2533
June 30th, 2012
5:51 pm
“Listening to Republicans you would think Romney has a 30 point lead.”
Does Obama after all of his campaign misses? Think about it.
Liberal Pariah
June 30th, 2012
5:52 pm
Jay is a blogging geniues. He got over 250 people including myself to comment on lots of nothing. Quoting wingnuts can be done by both sides. Stupid stuff like these righty comments are in articles on HuffPo every day. It just takes the ideologues from the other side to point it out. Hats off Jay. Enjoyed the exercise. Going to take the fam to dinner with the fruits of my EMPLOYED LABOR.
Recon 0311 2533
June 30th, 2012
5:52 pm
Jay, check those stats in September.
Midori
June 30th, 2012
5:52 pm
you’re not fooling anyone, Del.
DannyX
June 30th, 2012
5:53 pm
“Gallup says 46 percent back the Court decision; 46 percent oppose it. Just 6 percent say health care is top issue for the country; just 31 percent say they would repeal the law entirely.”
That is not what Republicans see when reading those poll results. They see…
Agree with the decision- .05%
Disagree with the decision- 8,312%
Midori
June 30th, 2012
5:54 pm
thanks Kammie. I finished my treatments in April, and my vision is doing quite well.
I still have to go to follow ups, tho.
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
June 30th, 2012
5:54 pm
Going to take the fam to dinner with the fruits of my EMPLOYED LABOR.
TOODLES.
Recon 0311 2533
June 30th, 2012
5:55 pm
Midori, don’t need to fool anyone whose fooling themselves.
Midori
June 30th, 2012
5:56 pm
Danny,
maybe Obama should next try to reform the Education system.
The right sorely needs help with math.
josef
June 30th, 2012
5:56 pm
IMAM
You know, you were right on the drama queen alert last p.m. Quite the drag show there and on here. And you, if I may say so, are the Master of Ceremonies.
“Just 6 percent say health care is top issue for the country”
But, what the hey, eh? It’s summertime and the cotton’s high on the old liberal plantation.
Midori
June 30th, 2012
5:57 pm
so why keep at it?
Recon 0311 2533
June 30th, 2012
6:00 pm
Only six percent think heath care is a priority consideration. Wow, does that leave opportunities for the Republicans.
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
June 30th, 2012
6:01 pm
High cotton?
I got back up here in this small hamlet in the N.C. Mtns. just in time to save myself from having fried green tomatoes on the vine.
Oy to the vey!
josef
June 30th, 2012
6:04 pm
K’Chak
Had fried green tomatoes for lunch! Unmentionable has been threatening to bring the tomato plants inside!
St Simons - he-ne-ha-ha-ha
June 30th, 2012
6:06 pm
whaaaat – the cons peeing on themselves that its a big payoff to Big Ins?
why they wanna ‘punish the job creators?’ why do they hate ‘merka?
and I vote for Kamchak’s choice.
Mr Pompousass’s meltdown was epic,
2nd only to that creepy one that threatened the host
Soothsayer
June 30th, 2012
6:07 pm
There’s just no way us common folks can understand it!
Soothsayer
June 30th, 2012
6:11 pm
The pain, the suffering, the tragedy of it all! It’s more than some of us can take!
DannyX
June 30th, 2012
6:11 pm
“Had fried green tomatoes for lunch!”
The squirrels in my yard had green tomatoes for lunch. Those @#^&*!#ers.
getalife
June 30th, 2012
6:14 pm
This is a no drama Obama blog.
getalife
June 30th, 2012
6:17 pm
del flipped floped.
First he was angry and hated it and now he loves it.
No wonder he will vote for willard.
Jack
June 30th, 2012
6:18 pm
Obama says I have to pay even more to help support an unheathy life style chosen by a misfit.
yuzeyurbrane
June 30th, 2012
6:18 pm
There is indeed treasonous talk about in the land. This is what we get when we pander to the Tea Party types. They are just talking now but unless squashed there are many followers of this movement will graduate to treasonous actions. All responsible Americans, be they Republicans, Democrats, Independents, white, black, purple or green should unite to put these sick minds back in their holes. American democracy thrives on civil discourse and compromise, not on radical extremism of any stripe. These nuts are close to presenting a clear and present danger.
josef
June 30th, 2012
6:18 pm
DANNY
Yeah. General Sherman has been back in my moss garden village…they’ve pretty much left the tomatoes alone, they’ve got peaches to pick…
Recon 0311 2533
June 30th, 2012
6:25 pm
“American democracy thrives on civil discourse and compromise, not on radical extremism of any stripe. These nuts are close to presenting a clear and present danger.”
And then there is the OWS movement.
Tundra Dude
June 30th, 2012
6:26 pm
Casino billionaire Sheldon Adelson is making another huge campaign contribution aimed at electing Republicans and voting President Barack Obama out of office.
He’s willing to put up $100 million….shouldn’t he get naming rights……such as:
USA is now United States of Adelson,
or at least: Adelson-Romney 2012
josef
June 30th, 2012
6:29 pm
TUNDRA
Adelson ain’t in the insurance bidness, is he?
JamVet
June 30th, 2012
6:29 pm
These nuts are close to presenting a clear and present danger.
I doubt it.
Over and over, they have shown they are all hat and no cattle.
Or….
They stroll into churches and kill unarmed, innocent women and children.
That’s about it…
Recon 0311 2533
June 30th, 2012
6:30 pm
Sheldon Adelson is to the Republicans what George (sorry ass Soros) is to the Democrats.
JohnnyReb
June 30th, 2012
6:31 pm
Over the last 3 or so years there has been repeated whinning here by Moonbats upset with Senate rules requiring the 60 votes. Kyle’s blog piece, tommorow’s column I think, points out that since Obamacare is officially a tax the Reconcilliation process applies and a simple majority is all that is needed.
Hopes to strike down Obamacare moves to the Nov elections where I am confident Obama will be defeated. And, even if Republicans don’t have 60 Senate votes we will hopefully have the majority.
It will be sweet when Obamacare is repealed in the Senate with less than 60 votes presenting an opportunity for the Moonbats to do the flop on the 60 vote thing. Sorta like their flop on Roberts. I’m not saying all, but there are too many Moonbats whose principles are tied more to outcome than character.
Soothsayer
June 30th, 2012
6:33 pm
The presstitute American press pretends that an evil Syrian government is murdering innocent citizens who only want democracy and that if the UN won’t intervene militarily, the US must in order to save human rights. Russia and China are vilified by US functionaries for opposing any pretext for a NATO invasion of Syria.
The facts, of course, are different from those presented by the presstitute American media and members of the US government. The Syrian “rebels” are well armed with military weapons. The “rebels” are battling the Syrian army. The rebels massacre civilians and report to their media whores in the West that the deed was done by the Syrian government, and the Western presstitutes spread the propaganda.
Someone is arming the “rebels” as obviously the weapons can’t be purchased in local Syrian markets. Most intelligent people believe the weapons are coming from the US or from US surrogates.
So, Washington has started a civil war in Syria, as it did in Libya, but this time the gullible Russians and Chinese have caught on and have refused to permit a UN resolution like the one the West exploited against Gaddafi.
To get around this roadblock, fish out an ancient Phantom fighter jet from the 1960s Vietnam war era and have Turkey fly it into Syria. The Syrians will shoot it down, and then Turkey can appeal to its NATO allies to come to its aid against Syria. Denied the UN option, Washington can invoke its obligation under the NATO treaty, and go to war in defense of a NATO member against a demonized Syria.
The neoconservative lie behind Washington’s wars of hegemony is that the US is bringing democracy to the invaded and bombed countries. To paraphrase Mao, “democracy comes out of the barrel of a gun.” However, the Arab Spring has come up short on democracy, as have Iraq and Afghanistan, two countries “liberated” by US democratic invasions.
Thank God! for Paul Craig Roberts! Keep on telling it, Paul!
The truth is so hard to find these days!
josef
June 30th, 2012
6:37 pm
Jawohl!
getalife
June 30th, 2012
6:38 pm
We should be uniting against billionaires united.