Now for the big question about the Supreme Court’s passage
of Obamacare and what made John Roberts do what he did.
John Roberts is a Republican conservative Catholic who
always votes with his right-wing buddies so what happened this time.
Since his block-headed buddies wanted to declare
unconstitutional the entire Obamacare plan, he must have thought that there
were some benefits in the plan that should not be just shot down with the whole
plan but preserved.
Since he had no choice; everything or nothing, he chose to
pick everything and spin his decision in such a way that would allow him to
still sound conservative.
Roberts, who is also a staunch Catholic and knew the
mandates on contraception in the plan, opted obviously, to go against the
Catholic leadership and stick with the nuns…interesting….more on that later.
The big sticking point was on the individual mandate or YOU
MUST HAVE HEALTH INSURANCE part of the plan which was so important that the
plan without it would just not work.
The conservatives said that the federal government cannot
tell people what to do. They say that only when they feel that way, otherwise
they don’t mind having the federal government order people around.
Obama’s people countered that they have the right under the
inter-state commerce clause which allows the federal government to regulate
commerce state to state but not within a state…get it? Since health insurance
would be mandated nationally, it would be an inter-state issue and not an
individual state issue.
Anyway, Roberts did not buy that argument BUT he did buy the
constitutional FACT that allows the federal government to TAX the people; that
was not always so in our history.
Under this “valid constitutional” argument, Roberts could
say that the government is not forcing everyone to get health insurance, they
are just taxing them if they don’t…get it?
Anyway, I will be very interested to hear the speculation
about why Roberts voted the way he did. His vote will go down in history, so
was he aware of that or was he really voting his conscience?
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