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Play nice!
Hey when you’re perfect it is hard not to be arrogant. /
@ Speranza:
Reminds me of how Ex #1 pronounced the word perfect…as perfeck.
I wonder at what point the Congressional Black Caucus would NOT support Obama? Is not just one of them capable of independent thought?
This developing habit of Democrats (of all colors, shades, tones, gradations and sex organ preference) walking out on the proceedings of representative democracy is one of the more infuriating trends of the past year. Who the bloody hell do they think they are?
Macker wrote:
Did she say “expecially”?
Reyes, the guy now speaking, is a lame duck having lost his primary last month. Haw!
Votes on!
MacDuff wrote:
No, but she axed questions about sales at Jews.
MacDuff wrote:
Remember this?
Democrats lock Republicans out of committee room
Holder is defiant as ever
This is a case of the unqualified leading the unwilling
in the unecessary.
Holder says he’s now going back to work now that this is over.
Why did cartels need finding? Were they lost?
Say they were. Wouldn’t Viagra pills be more effective trace items?
The Corpulent’s Creep Parrots the CBC BS.
http://whitehouse12.com/2012/06/28/chief-justice-roberts-is-a-genius/
@ waldensianspirit:
How about Bath Salts?
Did you see Obama’s tweet today? http://evilbloggerlady.blogspot.com/2012/06/most-arrogant-man-in-world-part-ii.html
@ Rightwing Rebel:
Yeah, the smell of doing what is right. Not the smell of criminality.
@ NoThreat2U:
This shows you, the argument that Republicans appoint better judges is bullshit.
Both Parties are Leftists, fuck em.
Flashback to 2005 -- Why Then-Senator Obama Voted Against the Man Who Just Saved His Health Care Law
Psssst! Roberts is a raaaaacist!
@ waldensianspirit:
Roberts is a leftist scumbag.
Wow, Mooch knows it is wrong and still preach partisan politics inside a church
@ Rightwing Rebel:
We all know that but you do realize we play a bigger part in all that happens in this country right? We can vote their asses out. If their replacements are assholes, vote them out too. Call and write your senators and bitch until they cringe at the notion of you calling them again. Stick to your own personal principles and challenge the powers that be. They can’t throw us all in jail so raise hell!
@ NoThreat2U:
When has the GOProgressives ever repeal a Program? Never, they are Leftists. Romney bis a lying sack of shit. I am voting for the True Rightwinger in the race; Gary Johnson. I’m done with the Socialist Republicans vs. Marxist Democrats charade.
Plus Romney supports the Muslim Brotherhood’s ethnic cleansing of Christians in Syria. Fuck him. Gary Johnson 2012!
@ eaglesoars:
I do remember that. The arrogance of these people is infuriating beyond description and that’s why I turn a deaf ear to arguments calling for a third party; the country simply cannot afford to do anything that would splinter the Republican base. Democrats Delenda Est, everything else is secondary. If we have to suffer RINOs, and even support them to rid ourselves from this plague, so be it. When you’re amidst a war, you need to fight with the army you have and take what allies you can find in order to win. I’m an unapologetic realist and in the short term, this country desperately needs realists above all.
@ MacDuff:
Charles just parroted the charge that the holder vote was racist!
This guy has to be put in a mental home.
@ Rightwing Rebel:
That’s fine, but to vote for someone just on principle doesn’t mean jack shit. They don’t care about your “personal statement”.
@ NoThreat2U:
Republicans have never repealed a Program. That’s a fact. Look vote for Romney, I’m just done with the bullshit show.
Anyway at DOD, Charles parroted the Holder vote is racist crap. That man needs to be put in a home. I’m shocked he hasn’t claims credit for the Obamacare ruling.
I do not see this ever being repealed. Oh sure they say that if we elect Romney he will do it but I do not think that is what either side wants and we the sheepal will just have to bend over and take it. I say NUTS
Take back America
This guy has to be on Bath Salts.
Beneath a Ranting Elmo’s Mask, a Man With a Disturbing Past
BBEV wrote:
That’s my sentiment. When has the Republicans ever repeal a Progressive program?
Never. A tiger doesn’t change its stripe.
Evening, all.
Is this where the pre-posse meeting is?
WTF!
No wonder so many people like it! Coke and Pepsi contain ALCOHOL
@ Brick:
Evening!
Levin is ripping Roberts a new one
waldensianspirit wrote:
As he should. I do not understand his ruling.
NoThreat2U wrote:
I hope some of the heavies here will read that article. I’d be interested in their opinions on it. At first blush it seems to make sense and I take back everything I’ve said/thought about Roberts over the past six hours.
Mandate is a TAX
States can refuse to comply without threat of other funding blocked.
etc.etc.
I despise Obama. I have been against Obamacare from the beginning. And now I think Roberts did the right thing.
Read that link.
Rightwing Rebel wrote:
There’s a finite percentage of people in this country who are receptive to a conservative message. Splitting that finite percentage to be rid of RINOs and achieve a more pure conservatism does nothing but hand the Democrats generations of majorities. Idealism is a beautiful thing, but if you don’t take elections from the Democrats you’re pissing in the wind.
@ BBEV:
Wow, Levin says Roberts says after a citizen pays this tax the citizen has no right to complain about unfair taxation because Obamasnare isn’t framed as a tax
@ grambo:
I agree…Roberts has handed Romney a bat to pound the donks with…taxation without representation and all that…he can show that the public was deceived and use BO’s own tapes to back him up…this is far from over
@ grambo:
Thank you for the link
@ grambo:
They won’t read it. They are too busy flying off the handle. I am glad you took the time to read it though.
@ grambo:
I did, but I am not completely convinced by Roberts whole “it can be a tax.” I believe the original vote was 5-4 to dump the whole thing and Scalia was writing the majority opinion. My understanding is that in May Roberts called another conference and switched sides, and took the opinion for himself. I would be impressed with his switch if it wasn’t coming at a time when the Court was being pressured. And if Roberts switched because of pressure, he’s unfit to be Chief Justice
What has gotten my attention is Scalia’s dissent where he refernces the dissent of Justice Ginsburg. Scalia writes meticulous opinions, either pro or con. I’m sure his clerks would have pointed out to him that he was leaving in language referencing the dissent that was now the majority opinion by Roberts. And I can see him growling “leave it in.”
But as Speranza pointed out in the live thread on this decision, he did make a curious statement about it being essentially up to the American people whether they wanted it or not. Interesting language for a decision.
NoThreat2U wrote:
I had already read it!! I came here to post that link and you had beat me to it, dear.
I hadn’t heard of that site before today. I clicked on the VP page and who shows up first but my beloved Marsha Blackburn. So maybe I’m biased to believe what I read on there
@ MacDuff:
The Republicans have never repealed a Progressive Program. Mitt Romney is a Progressive as is the GOP leadership. They are not going to repeal this. They are phonies.
Look vote for Romney, it’s a free country and its your choice. I am exercising my choice.
It’s all good!
@ grambo:
GMTA!!!!!!!!!
NoThreat2U wrote:
There’s more time spent around here bashing Republicans than Democrats. Arguing about the ideological purity of the party four months before the election is madness. We need to defeat Obama and the Democrats with what we have and deal with ideological purity when the war’s won.
@ NoThreat2U’s link:
Read this!
@ Bob in Breckenridge:
Go to DOD, look what the Corpulent Creep is spouting about contempt vote for Holder!
@ NoThreat2U:
My response above aside, I did think her article was very well-reasoned.
@ MacDuff:
That is exactly how I feel!
@ Bob in Breckenridge:
That is from the link I posted above!
Ha ha ha ha ha!
Shatner drops pants at L.A. airport
grambo wrote:
So, it’s a tax -- that nobody has yet paid, so nobody yet has standing to challenge it on that basis. All he did was put a handle on it, and kick it down the road. Some genius.
Someone please call me when the shooting starts.
@ Rightwing Rebel:
He should have told the TSA to kiss his ass. lol
Rightwing Rebel wrote:
Honestly, I could not care less what that lying pony-tailed fatass POS has to say about anything. Everybody, other than the loser psycho-phants who read his pathetic blog and worship the ignorant douchebag, knows what a despicable scumbag he is. So I don’t even waste my time reading it anymore.
At first I read it all the time, but now, it’s like why bother? Once a dirtbag, always a dirtbag.
NoThreat2U wrote:
I know. I typed it was from your link.
NoThreat2U wrote:
KHaaaaaaaaahn!
@ Bob in Breckenridge:
Its internet humor and honestly a good study in the meltdown of a human. Its entertainment!
@ Brick:
Khan will be the villain in the Star Trek re-image sequel.
@ Bob in Breckenridge:
LOL I DID read it before I posted!
@ Brick:
Hahahaha He should have screamed that! How are you doing Mr. Brick? Nice to see you
Rightwing Rebel wrote:
Not that I’ll be going to watch it, but will they actually get a Sikh actor to play the part instead of a Mexican National?
@ Brick:
You’re obviously missing the most important point
@ Macker:
No some British guy.
Rightwing Rebel wrote:
LGF is nothing more than the paranoid rantings of pathetic human beings led by a pathetic human being.
@ Bob in Breckenridge:
That’s what’s funny!
So, last nite a mirror fell off my wall. We all made jokes that this household doesn’t need anymore bad luck. But, lo and behold, I “shared” a picture from a Pittsburgh site last nite that said they would pick a random winner for two YaJagoff umbrellas. Well I signed on this morning and found out I won! Just wanted to brag. lol
@ NoThreat2U:
How cool is that?
Bob in Breckenridge wrote:
Yes, there is that however, when was the last time a state refused money from the FedGov? Especially, now with so many trying to close budget deficits already. They could, but they won’t.
I know it’s freezing outside and you have only a T-shirt. I will gladly lend you my extra winter parka, but first you must kiss me and let me bend you over. Take your time, think about it. It sure is cold out here, innit? Is that more freezing rain?
The doubt needs to reach out of the right blogosphere into the pocketbooks of the left.
NoThreat2U wrote:
I’m well, thanks. My anomie meter is reading a bit high today, but other than that -- no complaints.
How are you holding up?
@ 52 Rightwing Rebel: Shatner would do that on purpose just to expose the Star Wars light saber concept as inferior.
It won’t take 60 votes to repeal Obamacare.
Since the SCOTUS ruled it a tax then it can be repealed using budget reconciliation rules that only require 51 votes and by Senate rules it can’t be filibustered. In other words it will only take 51 votes to repeal.
Simple majority repeal!
@ Peter:
When was the last time Republicans have repealed a Program? Never, they are Progressives. But if you believe them, hey to each their own.
Let us then in that case see how the ruling on the Affordable Care Act stands up when worded thusly.
See §5000A(b). That, according to the Government, means the mandate can be regarded as establishing a condition—not owning A Firearm— that triggers a tax—the required payment to the IRS. Under that theory, the mandate is not a legal command to buy a Firearm. Rather, it makes going without a Firearm just another thing the Government taxes, like buying gasoline or earn-ing income.
@ 38 waldensianspirit: I consider anything that comes out of my check and didn’t go into the banking account as a tax. They can slice and dice the meaning of it all, but it means the government dips into my pocket giving me less to spend.
@ Brick:
Too many people are still stuck in the Republicans are good guys and Democrats bad guys paradigm. I’m free of it and it feels good. But hey I don’t begrudge people who still think that. To each his own.
@ doriangrey:
Hey maybe they will Tax people who don’t drink milk next!
doriangrey wrote:
Ah, vehry nice. Very, very nice.
@ Brick:
Again, you’re missing the point of what he was saying…Because of this ruling, now the federal government cannot threaten to, or take away, funding to the 28 states that chose NOT to participate in “national” healthcare.
darkwords wrote:
FIFY. Most people probably said after reading this “I thought he was dead”.
Peter wrote:
yup…a simple vote in the House can lay waste to ObamaCare
Rightwing Rebel wrote:
That describes my paradigm perfectly. Good guys and bad guys. Political affiliation, religion, race, color, dominant eye, etc. are not necessarily synonymous with either.
heysoos wrote:
A vote that will be taking place on July 11th, by the way.
two words…
re-election
Brick wrote:
welcome to the dark side
Roberts? Meet Bart Stupak
Rightwing Rebel wrote:
Yeah, we’re all free to make our own choices but all choices don’t carry the same weight. You also are free to make he choice to shred your own credibility, and you do so daily with statements that are long on bombast and emotion and short on common sense. Like I said, fracturing the Republican party will render the Democrats unopposed -- unless you actually believe that a third party will swoop in and save the Republic. If that’s what you’re dedicated to, you’ll die a frustrated madman….but at least you’ll be as ideologically pure as the driven snow.
Rave on man, but it’s getting increasingly difficult to take this shit seriously. Yeah, I get it, youre so commited to conservatism that you’re willing to subscribe to a third party fantasy to prove your purity. Romney was not even on my list of possible first choices but he’s what we have and I’m going to give him my full-throated support since I don’t have the “Gary Johnson option” as do you and I think Obama is really dangerous.
Have a good evening.
BTW, Obama and the other dumocrats have been saying over and over and over again on the campaign trail that there would be NO TAX INCREASES on anyone earning under $250,000 a year.
With this ruling that the affordable healthcare act is a tax, and not a mandate, that makes it yet another lie by Obama and the dumocrats to Americans.
So now the young people thought Obama was so brilliant will be required to purchase health insurance, whether or not they want it.
And old people on medicare will see their medical services cut to the tune of $500 billion to pay for this. In other words, rationed healthcare, death panels, etc.
Bob in Breckenridge wrote:
I understand -- no participation -- no penalty. What is also true, is no participation -- no additional federal Medicaid expansion money. Further, those states opting out, must offer equivalent coverage on their own dimes and submit quarterly compliance reports to HHS. These are “requirements” for those opt-out states. Just some additional housekeeping/compliance items to further hobble.
Speranza wrote:
no, he’s pure fucked.
heysoos wrote:
Shoot from the shadows whenever possible.
@ MacDuff:
Have a good night!
@ JeremyR:
Hey thinks he’s the god-king! His voice parts the rain and makes the sun shine!
@ 92 Brick: See also: TFK — Evil Money Cult
See also Rodan — Transnationals
@ Brick:
It feels good to be free!
Brick wrote:
Says who? The federal government cannot compel states to fund anything if the state does not want to. 10th amendment.
doriangrey wrote:
Isn’t it strange that a mechanism that hasn’t been used for its intended purpose in over 3 years, could be used as a tool to thwart successful implementation of ObamaCare?
Further, are there enough timid Senate critters up for re-election to lean on, to get to 51?
New Thread.
Bob in Breckenridge wrote:
I don’t disagree with you, Bob. But reality disagrees with us both.
http://www.medpagetoday.com/Washington-Watch/Reform/25307
I agree.
Did you see the way he sashayed to the podium much like Wet Willie used to do?
@ Bob in Breckenridge:
You missed this yesterday!
Also, on the Roberts vote. I think it’s now clear W. knew who he was nominating and so did the Left. That is why they approved his selection so quickly.
Thanks a lot W. / tag only for this one line.
@ song_and_dance_man:
My feelings exactly!
On another note. The Projecting Left once again hang their hypocritical laundry for all to see. That is if one will look.
The Left Reps staged a political stunt in a walk-out during the Holder contempt vote while accusing the Right of a political stunt. If it was a political stunt, that is the contempt vote, then the Left merely upstaged the Right in one-upmanship. The Left are too transparent nowadays.
Where now are the constraints on our government to contol
us through taxation?
How about if they want to clone the Chineese one child policy?
What stops them from taxing you on the subsequent born
children?
Roberts & the the Lib members of the court have pretty much
said that the Fed Gov right to levy taxes is absolute.
That is now the precedent.
@ RIX:
The problem with the line of thinking of the SCOTUS jurists that upheld the sham is they placed the horse behind the cart. The taxes that will be collected are part and parcel to the law, and should not be part of the law after it is approved.
RIX wrote:
That is correct. If the Left retain the majority in the Senate and regain the House they now know this version of the Supreme’s have their back for any new entitlements they can conjure up to gain more control over us and the economy.
We are slouching ever more closer to Socialism.
My opinion?
The only good thing about this is that taxes can be repealed and if I recall it takes 2/3 majority to pass a tax. Maybe this gets tied in knots by lawsuits.
A few years a go when business cratered and so did my income, my insurance lapsed and I went to a cash for service basis. My ‘health care costs’ went from $450 a month to about $100 a month.
Now I’m going to get fined if I don’t go back to an insurance policy?
I won’t pay and they can’t make me. Not 1 fuckin’ chance in hell.
You shouldn’t either.
Single pay is what they’re after but not in the way that most people think. The gov’t wants everybody paying them.
For 70 years there have been only 3 ‘payers’.
1. The federal and state gov’t cartel collecting taxes and issuing benefits in a grossly mismanaged system.
2. For profit insurance companies ( who are today simply a banking operation) heavily regulated by their chief competitor, the gov’t.
3. Cash paying citizens
Obamacare turns the insurance companies into subordinates and private citizens into criminals. So be it.
Cal me ,,,,,,,Dillinger.
@ Carolina Girl:
Very cool because I never win anything. lol
@ Brick:
Had a rough day. This Obamacare shit has me scared. But I will perservere because that is how I roll.
Poteen wrote:
In socialist Sweden there’s a big underground ‘cash’ economy, medical included.
OMG…in the middle of a conversation where a lib is trying to equate car insurance with health insurance. I came right out and offered my address so they can send me a check for my son’s eye exam. Their reply? They are more then happy to see the rich and religious taxed more. I asked them why only the rich and religious. I want their money.
I am a sarcastic bitch, but I do it so well.
NoThreat2U wrote:
Keep your hands up and your chin tucked in.
Speranza wrote:
“I used to be conceited, but now I’m perfect…”