Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.
James in Hayward thinks that the Supreme Court’s Obamacare decision might have been a blessing in disguise: Yep, John looks better all the while. If SCOTUS had knocked down that utopian hogwash, Demorats would be having a field day parroting about how the Repubs have destroyed America’s chance for decent
Continue readingThere’s so much good stuff out there, I’m just going to spill it all here, a la Instapundit. Jonathan Tobin doubts that Obama’s upcoming three-week long “Sham-Wow” commercial for ObamaCare will miraculously turn around the public’s perception that the program is a failure and the president a liar. The success
Continue readingI haven’t had the heart or the stomach to read the Supreme Court decisions that came out today. (It’s not about content. It’s about the fact that, with rare exceptions, I find most Supreme Court decisions too horribly written and turgid to read.) I therefore didn’t discover this gem from
Continue readingThe one thing you can count on with Progressives is that anything that happens in Washington, D.C. — any legislation, any election, and any legal decision — is a reason to go out and beg for money. Within hours of the Supreme Court decision that effectively strikes down Prop. 8,
Continue readingI really don’t have much to say about the DOMA decision. I think it’s another Roe v. Wade in terms of creating rights that never existed. The difference, though, is that the Supreme Court waited to make the decision until the tide had turned at the popular support level, with
Continue readingIf you’d like to see in one place a broad range of opinions about the Supreme Court’s ObamaCare decision (or, more accurately, opinions John Roberts’ intellectual spasm), check out this week’s Watcher’s Council forum. This is a special one, because we not only have a sampling of Council members participating
Continue readingOne of my favorite blogfriends sent me a link to John Yoo’s article excoriating Justice Robert’s decision in the harshest terms. Yoo states plainly that the decision spells the end of individualism in America, since it expands the government’s taxing power to encompass everything. Those who seek a silver lining
Continue readingYou probably know that Glenn Reynolds pointed out that, if the administration is going to go around arguing that ObamaCare isn’t a tax, they’re conceding that it’s unconstitutional. That’s a clever line, but Rhymes With Right explains that the administrations’ strenuous denials also open a pathway to a Supreme Court
Continue readingI’m going back and forth whether Roberts was a typical judge (i.e., stupid and unworthy of respect), a brilliant thinker, a chess player, a pawn, etc. Each of you who has commented here has made an excellent point. I agree with all of you, even when you disagree with each
Continue readingMany people are asserting that, in the wake of the Supreme Court ruling, the end is near. I see that in op-eds, in blog posts, and in my email box. America’s constitutional experiment is over, they say. They might be right. Or not. But here’s the deal: if we give
Continue reading[UPDATE: Since I wrote this post, there is now reason to believe that Roberts issued his opinion for the wrong reasons, not the right ones. If I were to rewrite this post today, I would be less charitable to the man. Nevertheless, putting aside Roberts’ motives, I stand by the
Continue readingI was driving along in the car and, suddenly, the phrase “Roe v. Wade” popped into my head. In 1973, the Supreme Court waded into what should have been a state-by-state legislative matter, and created the most vicious 39 year fight in America since the Civil War. One side found
Continue readingI’ve now had the chance to digest myriad analyses of the Roberts decision on ObamaCare. I think I can sum up the various conclusions that liberal and conservative pundits have reached. Here goes: The decision is a victory for Obama and the Democrats because it keeps ObamaCare on the books.
Continue readingThe Supreme Court opinion on ObamaCare runs to 193 pages. It is the size of a book, only more boring than any book anyone would ever want to read — and that is true despite the fact that Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the worst writer on the court, didn’t write it.
Continue readingThe White House and the lapdog media have an unusually depressed, belligerent tone when it comes to the upcoming opinion on Obama Care. They’re even more depressed than they should be given the pathetic showing their case (not their lawyer, but their case) made during oral argument. Put another way,
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