Jeffrey Lord, American Spectator:
Statism must be fully engaged and battled, defeated at every turn, and vigorously so. But that defeat cannot be brought about if John Roberts or any other prospective conservative Court appointee believes they are sitting on the Court with some mandate from heaven to appease the liberal conception of the Court’s majesty. Which has long since become the liberal chattering class code for taking yet another Court-sanctioned bite out of your freedoms. Your freedoms as explicitly defined in the Constitution of the United States. And likewise victory will not be obtained with presidents and legislators determined to cave in the fight of the day or moment.
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As the Court moves forward and other confrontations with Statism’s latest attacks present themselves, the Chief Justice will find that a vote in favor of the Constitution will unleash the very attacks he fears — accusing him of casting his vote to regain the favor of conservatives.
If in fact he continues to play the role of “evolved” liberal activist, he will be seen as thoroughly affirming the notion that he views his role on the Court as to be nothing more than its Politician- in-Chief. And that he does indeed not agree with the president who nominated him, the Senators who confirmed him, the activists who supported him — and most importantly, the American people who voted for a president committed to nominating someone like…
John Roberts.
Thus damaging the credibility of the Court by rendering it as nothing more or less than a panel not of legal scholars but politicians — and worse, politicians with an axe to grind. Whether that axe was slavery for Taney or the majesty of the Court for Roberts.
It’s too bad.
Neville Chamberlain was never a bad guy, and surely John Roberts isn’t either.
But both men made a critical mistake. They both saw their very different jobs — Prime Minister of Great Britain and Chief Justice of the United States — through the very same lens.
Appeasement. Pacifying the other guy at the expense of First Principles.
There are no silver linings. And this decision by Roberts was a decision that, in the mind of many conservatives and constitutionalists, has destroyed the rule of law and proven to us that we are living under separate tyrannies — a legislative ruling class, an imperial President, administrative bureaucracies unleashed to molest us, and a judicial oligarchy that has been politicized to the point that it is largely a servant of the Statist agenda. Toss in the media, which is nothing more than a propaganda arm for particular parties (largely on the left), and it’s a perfect storm of power grabbing and power securing.
Meaning, we have to fight back on a lot of fronts. The only good news being, these are, I’m convinced, largely paper tigers — and a resounding uprising by a fed up people, be it through civil disobedience or through the actions of some brave governors to take on the leviathan and rebuke it, will almost certainly help turn the tide.
That time is nearing. Or we’re done as a free country.
Simple as that.
(h/t sdferr)
Stick a fork in us.
Slow roasted, long pork can be profitably pulled without a fork.
So we’re nice and tender now, just falling off the bone? I can see that.
– Naw, we’re not done for. The problem is most of the lawless crap of the ruling class, both left and right, is so out of our direct sphere of influence we lack the means for effecyive rebuke and control, or even recovery/reversa. Since none of the bastards will ever police themselves, (and why should they when theres no oversight or repercusions) our sole weapon is the ballot box.
– But that requires motivation to vote and too many of us feel less effected for one reason or another, whicj brings us to the present situation, and why theres hope.
– Yes the whole contries in a total fucking mess, but that also means that many more people than usual have been hurt by this Socialist takeover.
– Hopefully, for the first time in a long time, that will result in real turnout, because contrary to the dream weavers comments on the Left, a robust turnout will kick Obama right in his half white ass.
….and yes, I denounce and condemn myself, and beat my shoulders with alderwood switches, etc,ect, just as long as hes gone.
the Supreme Court is gayer than pin-up putin on drudge right now
they can suck a bag of dicks for all I care ugly-ass socially retarded Harvard trash the lot of them
happy, your default reaction to a posting should not be an automatic homo-erotic response. Unless you are subtly trying to announced your closet-leaving. And if you are, it’s not a BFD. So, chill, and join the adult conversation.
Nothing wrong with a lot of well-placed utterances of “I will not comply.”
Which, I think there’s enough of us willing to do that to raise a ruckus, or at least a decent-sized Galt’s Gulch.
Say, everything but the east and west coasts.
The IRS laughs at your so called utterances. Subject.
you thought that was homo-erotic?
you need to get cable
Like I said, happy, chill and join the adults. I’m sure you have something to offer other than one-liners.
“I aim to misbehave.” — Captain Malcom Reynolds
“This is how it is. Anybody doesn’t wanna fly with me any more, this is your port of harbor. There’s a lot of fine ways to die. I ain’t waiting for the Alliance to choose mine. ” — Captain Malcolm Reynolds
we need the one line on soups
“Y’all got on this boat for different reasons, but y’all come to the same place. So now I’m asking more of you than I have before. Maybe all. Sure as I know anything, I know this – they will try again. Maybe on another world, maybe on this very ground swept clean. A year from now, ten? They’ll swing back to the belief that they can make people… better. And I do not hold to that. So no more runnin’. I aim to misbehave.” — Captain Malcolm Reynolds
Ignore the incomplete post of 8:39 with the misspelled name.
Socialized medicine always begins with promises of greater access and lower costs to expensive catastrophic health care for people who could not normally afford it.
In reality they take your money, put you on waiting lists, and in the meantime try to sell you on cheap bullshit medicine like snake oil, pheromones, aromatherapy, talking, positive thinking, homeopathy, placebos, “healthy diets”, vitamins, supplements, glorified home remedies, superstition, strange exercises, massages, enemas, acupuncture, dried tiger testicles, even rituals, and other inexpensive patent nonsense.
It always ends in tears.
Thing is, the medical profession does have problems, and the main one, like much of our society, is a critical infestation of lawyers.
Someone gets an owwie, goes to the doctor, and instead of a band aide and a pat on the head, he’s getting ex-rays, blood tests, CAT scans, and two prescriptions, minimum. Doctors do this to cover their ass against lawsuits.
Also, preventative care has been stressed so much that there’s a two week wait before you can see the doc, ‘cuz he’s seeing healthy people, if you really need one any time soon you have to go to the emergency room.
It’s all very inefficient, because from before Teddy Kennedy came up with the HMO, government has been busy insulating health care from free enterprise and capitalism. Then the more government meddled, the more inefficient it became, and the more inefficient it became, the more government meddled. To where we are now.
When they come for our weapons of self defense (and they will) will be the final turning point.
We will either fight back as a Free People or we will be subsumed into the New World Order and become it’s willing slaves.
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‘feet’s closet’s been a wide-open barn door for years now. Just after he announced his hatred for women in general and Palin in particular.
I’ve this unprovable hunch that we’re being set up for a massive self-inflicted killing-field die-off. Leftists are all closet misanthropes; they think humans have overpopulated precious Gaia, and the only real solution is for many of us who are wrong-headed to exit stage Left. Then, the remnants can be controlled with the blue-helmets, population controlled with forced one-child policies and approved and encouraged gaiety and strict, strict rules governed by Leftists with sanctions. Surely then Gaia will be happiest.
Just as a heads-up to all my Outlaw friends; there is most likely an influenza pandemic on its way once again. Many deaths have occured in India and Indonesia. The host of this ‘flu is the swine. The transformation of the flu virus goes avians to swine to humans. Get your shots.
Also there is an outbreak of TB in Southern Florida, unreported by the CDC. The TB germ can survive for years on an unwashed surface such as a desktop where you can accidentally pick it up with your hands. It is airborne, so stay away from people with coughs.
CDC is going to have to revisit their policy on reporting outbreaks. Until now, they’ve kept the lid on any number of localized issues, figuring that having CNN broadcast excitable man-on-the-street interviews and biohazard symbols to every airport in America would not be conducive to public order.
Now, in an age of universal information sharing, I think they’d be well served to issue brief press releases acknowledging an outbreak without giving the press a lot of material for breathless reporting.
a timely pandemic of flu can go a long way towards reducing the scourge of childhood obesity
And that, happy, was funny. No splooge or anything.
Further to pandemics: There has been an outbreak of polio in India as well as some African countries that are suspicious of Western medicine. Our own stupid westerners who refuse to vaccinate their children may have an opportunity to revisit the bad old days of infant mortality or buying their children tiny leg braces.
leigh, I suspect that modern America now has too much time on its hands. When life was “solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short”, there wasn’t really time for most of the stuff the Left finds trendy or fascinating.