I threw this out there earlier, back when people were speculating on the nature of Glenn Beck’s promised revelation that he said would take down the entire power structure, and now here we are again: “Was Justice Roberts Intimidated Into Voting for ‘ObamaCare’? Senator Mike Lee Presents the Evidence”:
On the Glenn Beck radio program Tuesday, Senator Mike Lee (R-UT) explained why he believes Roberts was intimidated into changing his vote late in the process, as laid out in his new book Why John Roberts Was Wrong About Healthcare.
Lee’s argument is not based on the NSA or its monitoring of the nation’s communication. Rather, Lee said, there are indications that Roberts originally intended to vote against the act, but that a public “campaign of intimidation” made him change his mind.
First, the senator claimed “the opinion was written in a way to suggest he switched his vote,” and that the dissenting opinion reads like it was originally written as the majority. He added that several news outlets reported that Roberts did change his vote, based on insider information.
Not only that, he said, but the court performed an unusual feat of “legal gymnastics” in upholding the legislation, particularly with regard to whether the fines incurred are or are not taxes. They had to re-write sections of the the bill not once, but twice.
Lee continued to say that he has “no evidence” that Roberts was being blackmailed, but said that doesn’t mean Roberts wasn’t under any kind of “direct pressure.”
But even if he wasn’t, Lee reminded the Obama administration and Democratic lawmakers were open in their warnings to the court, “denigrating the authority of the house,” and saying the Supreme Court would become irrelevant if it failed to uphold ObamaCare.
The argument that Roberts changed his vote has been made in the past, but is certainly lent additional credibility when a U.S. senator writes a book making the case.
Oh, the RINOs and the left will squeal and sneer and dismiss Lee, a TEA Party favorite, as a fringe crackpot. But so what?
This is the country we live in, and a government that will use the IRS and the NSA and the EPA et al., to try to gain election victories, create dislocation, ruin businesses, and do harm to its political rivals — all while insulated by a fraternal legislative branch that won’t perform anything other than cursory and symbolic investigations, shielding the ruling class status quo — wouldn’t hesitate for a moment, I don’t think, to “nudge” a SCOTUS justice into upholding the “signature legislation” of an “historic” president.
Which doesn’t have to mean they have pics of him with Jimmy Swaggert sitting on his face. They just needed to know where to press.
Obama is the culmination of leftist politics: arrogant, uninformed, vengeful, insular, detached, narcissistic, and born from a stew of economic, social, and academic falsehoods and misconceptions that all but guaranteed, once he’d firmed up, that he’d rise through the ranks of the identity politicking left, then fuck up everything that makes a constitutional republic a bastion of liberty. Probably intentionally, too.
And we’ll all have to pay the price for not having opened up our eyes to the man and not to what we dreamed he represented.
Or, perhaps I’ll write it this way: we all should have hoped he failed.
(h/t JHo)
If all it took for Roberts to switch his vote at the last minute was the suggestion that the court’s reputation would be damaged, then he’s even more disgraceful than I thought.
He wouldn’t take an insinuated hit to the court’s reputation to save the Republic?
::double-spit::
big sis has big data envy
DHS hopes to get same cyber-spying powers as NSA
The world has turned so upside down since 20 January 2009 that anything is possible.
No one in this regime believes that there are any restraints on their behaviors.
They long-ago discarded their God-given consciences in order to become as gods.
The Supreme Court needs to be moved out of D.C. and the insular thinking of that inbred non-state. They should not be allowed to live there, work there, or even visit there. They should live in Fargo, North Dakota. They should be sequestered in The Real America.
I think that overstates the case by a bit. The possible revelation exists, but has not been promised. All of this Roberts stuff strikes me as sort of old news. We know he flipped, but not why. And we’re still right there.
Roberts promised to call balls and strikes
and then moved the strike zone after the pitch was delivered.
Why doesn’t someone ask him why?
1. He doesn’t take a lot of questions.
2. He’d bullshit us anyway.
roberts is a ruining class faggot
scotus: that’s so lgbtandpoodles
roberts is a deeply silly man and he’s perved up the court something awful
“2. He’d bullshit us anyway.”
I guess I’d really like to see someone tell him we know he’s bullshitting us.
This explanation seems more likely if only because it requires less to suppose.
Doesn’t mean that it’s correct just more likely.
if it is true, it shows how weak Roberts is.
Well his opinion in the Obamacare case shows how weak he is.
Waaay OT: I just watched Charlie Rose interview Niall Ferguson regarding his new book.* Would have been very informative –if Chucky boy had shut up long enough to let Niall answer Charlie’s question (other than the soirta grovelling repeat of his mea culpa for mentioning the Keynes was a homosexual –Charlie was happy to shut up and let Niall answer his question on that kerfuffle fully and completely).
Niall did an adequate job of talking through Rose’s machine gun follow on’s, but it was damn annoying.
You know, I can’t help thinking that if Charlie had ever once treated Barak Obama like that, it would have quickly ended the smahtest President evah meme.
i hate it that I know who Charlie Rose is
that’s not what mama and daddy wanted for me
Sorry, I meant to link Ferguson’s latest.
And I see from Amazon’s “customer’s also bought” thingy, Anthony Pagden has a book on why the Enlightenment still matters.
That’s the funniest thing you’ve said in too long of a time, ‘feets.
I having serious doubts about The Enlightenment lately, Ernst…but, then again, I agree with what Enoch Powell said to an interviewer:
INTERVIEWER: Never join the Reform Club? But why ever not?
POWELL: All members of the Reform Club must assent to the Reform Act of 1867 [which extended the vote]. That I cannot do.
INTERVIEWER: (Astonished) Do you mean to say that you object to the Reform Act of 1867?
POWELL: That is precisely what I mean to say.
INTERVIEWER: My goodness, Mr. Powell, what is the most recent reform of which you do approve?
POWELL: (Long pause) With some reservations, Magna Carta.
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USA Today stumbles across Ric Locke’s Rule 3.
Speaking of Black Helicopters, Vince Flynn passed away from prostate cancer.
1.) I think Roberts flipped because, like everyone else in D.C., he didn’t want the <James Wilson in 1776> responsibility. </James Wilson in 1776> There is something to be said for not blaming malice for what can be explained by stupidity/weakness/cowardice.
2.) That said, there remains McGehee’s Rejoinder to Hanlon’s Razor: “Any sufficiently advanced stupidity/weakness/cowardice is indistinguishable from malice.”
You, me, and the late Isaiah Berlin too.
I have a niggling sense that we’re going to have to find a way to incorporate the “throne and alter” critique of Enlightenment rationalism if we’re going to find a way around Nietzche’s abyss.
HTML fail, mcgehee. Looks interesting, though.
I’m pretty sure that was intentional RI Red.
Have we reached a consensus that, whatever the proximate cause may have been, Justice Roberts flipped on Obamacare because he’s a coward?
Seems a reasonable conclusion to me…
Here you go Red:
“James Wilson was not the indecisive milquetoast depicted in the play.”
Which is why I specified the character rather than the personage.
Thank you all. Once again, visiting PW has expanded my horizons. I still think NSA has pictures, but that’s because I just love a good conspiracy theory.
I wonder if there are some red-flag trigger words in there.
as I said the other day, it doesn’t matter if you have snap shot of Valerie Jarret holding Robert’s family hostage with a shotgun, we can’t do anything about it until Obama is out of office.
McGehee wrote: Which is why I specified the character [of James Wilson] rather than the personage.
And John Dickinson wasn’t as much of a dick as he was portrayed in 1776.
Also, as you link confirms, the John Adams character is a combination of John and Sam.
Great musical – masterful.
Also, Richard Henry Lee didn’t ride off singing on the way to obtain an independence resolution from the Virginia legislature.
Actually, he yodeled.
I like Yodels.