Joe The Plumber Wurzelbacher on Eric Holder Fast and Furious, Wurzelbacher opposes Marcy Kaptur US House District 9 Ohio, Kaptur protects Holder and Obama
“I’m getting ready to buy a company that makes 250 to 280 thousand dollars a year. Your new tax plan’s going to tax me more, isn’t it?”…Joe The Plumber Wurzelbacher
“If he ends up being our GOP candidate, then I will get behind him. I do believe and want somebody in office other than Barack Obama. President Obama’s ideology is un-American, I say that every day, and I won’t shut up about it.”…Joe The Plumber Wurzelbacher
“If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it”…Joseph Goebbels
From Joe The Plumber Wurzelbacher.
| Barack Obama is doing everything in his power to protect Attorney General Eric Holder right now. And so is my opponent for the U.S. House race in District 9 in Ohio – Marcy Kaptur.Democrat Kaptur has refused to tell Eric Holder to resign in spite of Holder’s obvious knowledge of Operation Fast and Furious. | ||
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| My opponent is towing the Democrat Party line on this one. She accuses the Republicans of engaging in a partisan witch hunt, and says they have to save Eric Holder so he can protect the voting rights of minorities.I think we’ve heard that whole vast right-wing conspiracy accusation before somewhere. | ||
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| Unfortunately, I am having trouble getting the word out about my campaign because the leftist mainstream media has sided with Marcy Kaptur and the Democrats. I need the help of grassroots patriots such as yourself in order to unseat Kaptur – a lifelong elitist – in November.I realize that times are tough. We’re all hurting because Barack Obama is making good on that promise he made on my front lawn in 2008 – to give your money to people who do NOT deserve it. | ||
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| Marcy Kaptur represents more of the same-old, same-old in Washington, D.C. The national debt has gone up $14 trillion during her 30 years in office, and she’s been a reliable vote for the left that whole time.I think it’s time for a new direction, and I hope you’ll join me in this fight for the future of America.Please send your donation to Joe for Congress 2012 today!Thanks, I appreciate it.
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| Joe “The Plumber” Wurzelbacher 355 Shrewsbury Street Holland, OH 43528 |
Joe Wurzelbacher, like Sarah Palin and others has been attacked and maligned by the left. The Orwellian weasels of the left have taken Joe the Plumber’s quotes and misportrayed them.
For example:
“In 1939, Germany established gun control. From 1939 to 1945, six million Jews and seven million others unable to defend themselves were exterminated.”…Joe The Plumber Wurzelbacher
Some responses:
“According to Joe the Plumber, gun control is to blame for the Holocaust.”…MSNBC Blogs
“Samuel ‘Joe The Plumber’ Wurzelbacher, the 2008 campaign microcelebrity and Ohio congressional candidate, has an interesting theory about the Holocaust. Yesterday, Mr. Wurzelbacher released a campaign web video in which he blamed the Holocaust and the Armenian genocide on gun control laws.”…THE HUFFINGTON POST
Perhaps Joe should have phrased his statement differently, but his intent is clear to most rational reasonable folks. Gun control was not the cause of the Holocaust but was one of the major factors that allowed it to happen.
Semantics.
Citizen WElls 
Replace every socialist, anti American democrat, and take our country back from the communists.
I missed the big show yesterday. Trapped in my car for 9 hours while all the Obama Tax Care unfolded. It was a loss. This says it all, were screwed.
http://legalinsurrection.com/2012/06/stop-the-self-delusion/
from the foreman of the first citizen grand jury during the era of Obama regime
Submitted on 2012/06/28 at 4:40 pm
Dear Orly:
We are putting together another Citizen’s Grand Jury to indict the Georgia SOS because of the refusal to provide us with these documents.
Secession is the only way.
Sincerely,
Carl Swensson
http://www.orlytaitzesq.com/
Every law enforcement agent in the country should be outraged over Eric Holder, their boss…He arms the cartels with ak-47’s and our Border Patrol with ‘bean bag guns…How can Eric Holder be productive in his position as the head of the DOJ when he’s held in contempt for his refusal to turn over documents….WHAT if one of his defendents did the same? WHAT would happen to them?? He is a detriment to the office he holds…
Zoom in on the image, it is clearly a “u”. Uh oh!
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Savannah Guthrie proves that Obama was born in Huwaii?
Or did she mean Huwai, Indonesia?
By Mara Zebest
A YouTube user by the name of Bigone5555J made an observation that needs some attention. His video covers the discovery that Obama was born in Huwaii according to Savannah Guthrie. Savannah Guthrie is the reporter that was allowed to be the only member of the press to feel and photograph the real Certificate of Live Birth (according to her). Why she was appointed as the only individual allowed access is certainly curious, but even more suspect is the two low resolution photographs issued of Obama’s long form Certificate of Live Birth touted as the authentic paper document copy with seal and all (get out your magnifying glass if you expect to find it). My first question is if Savannah was confident that it was an official and authentic copy, then why the thumbnail low resolution images? Why not provide something in a higher resolution similar to the AP version in which we can all see the raised seal and details of this original paper version of the PDF file so proudly announced by Savannah. How curious that the images have no evidence of the qualities Savannah Guthrie gushes over.
http://obamareleaseyourrecords.blogspot.com/
AMERICA DIED ON 6/28/12, UNLESS OBAMA DECLARED INELIGIBLE
http://commieblaster.com/index.html
ATTORNEY KLAYMAN TO SEEK INDICTMENT OF JUSTICES ROBERTS AND KAGAN BEFORE CITIZENS GRAND JURY
Both Violated Their Oath of Office and Ethics Rules in Obamacare Decision
(Washington, D.C., June 28, 2012). Today, Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Elena Kagan have violated their oath of office to uphold the rule of law and the U.S. Constitution. Roberts’ majority opinion upholding Obamacare was not only legally wrong, but the chief justice’s failure to disqualify Justice Elena Kagan from sitting and ruling on the case – given her textbook conflict of interest in participating in the crafting of the legislation while she was Obama’s Solicitor General of the U.S. Justice Department, — shows a clear-cut violation of the justices’ oath of office.
http://birtherheadlines.blogspot.com/
Why Roberts Did It
by Charles Krauthammer
http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/charles-krauthammer-why-roberts-did-it/2012/06/28/gJQA4X0g9V_story.html
NOTE:
Before one gets too exercised upon reading the first part, continue on until the conclusion:
(quote)
“That’s not how I would have ruled. I think the “mandate is merely a tax” argument is a dodge, and a flimsy one at that. (The “tax” is obviously punitive, regulatory and intended to compel.) Perhaps that’s not how Roberts would have ruled had he been just an associate justice and not the chief. But that’s how he did rule.”
“Obamacare is now essentially upheld. There’s only one way it can be overturned. The same way it was passed — elect a new president and a new Congress. That’s undoubtedly what Roberts is telling the nation: Your job, not mine. I won’t make it easy for you.”
The Roberts Rules
The Chief Justice rewrites ObamaCare in order to save it.
(quote)
Thursday was destined to be an historic day for American liberty, and it was, though the new precedent is grim. The remarkable decision upholding the Affordable Care Act is shot through with confusion—the mandate that’s really a tax, except when it isn’t, and the government whose powers are limited and enumerated, except when they aren’t. One thing is clear: This was a one-man show, and that man is John Roberts………
Read more:
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702304058404577494400059173634.html?mod=WSJ_Opinion_LEADTop
Rush Limbaugh On Obama Telling AZ To Drop Dead: I Am Scared What They Are Doing To This Country
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VORfXW256nw&feature=relmfu
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“DEMOCRATS’ NEW MOTTO: NEVER LET A WILDFIRE GO TO WASTE”
Michelle Malkin
June 29, 2012
“We must repeal Obamacare! Sign the petition!”
“COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — Did you know that President Obama has been incommunicado with Colorado’s governor for more than two weeks as the nation’s worst wildfires rage across the state? Maybe he thought we were all “doing fine.” After an embarrassing Beltway press briefing revelation about our out-of-touch White House, the administration finally decided to divert the campaigner in chief from his nationwide fundraising frenzy for a quick look-see at our devastated city on Friday. It’s “leadership from behind” you can count on.
On Wednesday, press secretary Jay Carney acknowledged that Obama hadn’t talked to Democratic Gov. John Hickenlooper in 15 days. Holy smokes. The High Park fire, which has consumed nearly 90,000 acres and claimed nearly 257 homes west of Fort Collins, ignited on June 9 and is still active. During a campaign swing just last week, first lady Michelle Obama made a brief mention of the High Park fire before launching into her standard GOP-bashing stump speeches.”
The Article Continues Here:
http://townhall.com/columnists/michellemalkin/2012/06/29/democrats_new_motto_never_let_a_wildfire_go_to_waste
CitizenWells,
Once again I thank you for your blog. However, today I am basically trying to process the mindnumbing reality that the country I thought I lived and was raised in, no longer exists. I feel strongly, that we are headed towards a violent confrontation, within our own borders. The spark will be the UN small arms treaty, which will ignite the tinder set by a lawless government. I feel sorrow for a Constitution lost, freedom destroyed, and fear for the inevitable conflicts. Roberts thought he was ‘smart’ but elections cannot change lawlessness and tyranny, and this is where he erred.
Pete
Ben Swann Reality Check breaks down the Affordable Care Act ruling by the Supreme Court and looks at why the determination that the law is a tax, may make it invalid………
Reality Check: If Healthcare Law Is A Tax Is It Now Invalid?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iyLU9-VqVxY&feature=player_embedded
Pete, et al.
This is another education moment to remind all that Obama said it was not a tax, that this is
another of many taxes & policies that have crippled the economy.
One of Dr. Phil’s phrases “how’s that working for you” is appropriate.
A MUST READ ARTICLE!! AN OUTSTANDING, EXTREMELY INSIGHTFUL, TRUTHFUL, & INFORMATIVE ARTICLE!!
~ PLEASE FORWARD THIS OUTSTANDING ARTICLE TO EVERYONE YOU CAN IN THE USA TO READ!! ~
LEADERSHIP CRISIS
“U.S. PRESIDENTS ABOVE THE LAW”
“EXCLUSIVE: LARRY KLAYMAN DETAILS ‘REIGN OF TERRROR’ OF LAST 3 AMERICAN LEADERS”
Published: 06/17/2012
By Larry Klayman
“Through our nation’s history, our youth were always taught in school that the U.S. legal system was the most honest in the world, and that “no one is above the law.” Indeed, even grownups were inclined to swallow this Kool-Aid. Perhaps it was our egocentric arrogance that resulted in this self-delusion – a delusion that has become more apparent with each passing year in the country’s 236-year-old history.
Surely, at the dawn of the new republic and for many decades if not the greater part of a few centuries thereafter, the ethics, morality and, to put it simply, our sense of right and wrong were more strongly developed than they are today. The inherent spiral downward that followed has, however – I am sure we all can agree – reached cataclysmic proportions during the last 20 years, coinciding with the administrations of Presidents Bill Clinton, George W. Bush and now Barack Hussein Obama.
During the Clinton years, Bill and Hillary, who I dubbed the Bonnie and Clyde of American politics, committed more than 40 major scandals, ranging from Chinagate to Filegate to Travelgate and Interngate. Indeed, Monica Lewinsky was the least of this criminal duo’s criminal misbehavior, as they sold out American high technology secrets to the communist Chinese in exchange for bribes, a clear act of treason. […]”
“During the Bush years, W. ceded nearly total authority to his dictatorial Vice President Dick Cheney, whom he lovingly called “Vice.” […].”
“Then there is the regime of Barack Hussein Obama. Having defrauded American voters that he is eligible to be president, given that he is not a “natural born citizen” as required by the Constitution, for “good measure” he spent the next four years not only foisting his evil socialist, anti-Christian, anti-Semitic, pro-Muslim agenda on our nation and Israel, but also compromising the national security of both countries. His latest criminal atrocities include, but are not limited to, releasing into the public domain highly classified national security information […].”
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“[…] Either way, this charade and legal subterfuge are not only revolting, they are dangerous. For as John Adams, our great Founding Father and second American president, declared just days before signing the Declaration of Independence in Philadelphia: Without ethics, morality and religion there will be no lasting liberty.
And, indeed, under the “reign of terror” of our last three criminally compromised presidents in particular, we have seen our liberties and freedoms dangerously eroded.
It now comes to “We the People” to do what the legal establishment will not: criminally indict, try and convict our pResident. Let’s start with the biggest criminal and pResident in American history, Barack Hussein Obama, and empanel a citizen’s grand jury to not only hold him accountable under the rule of law, but to set an example for other presidents that we will no longer allow them to commit treason with impunity, much less violate the people’s trust.”
Please Continue To Read The Entire Article Here:
http://www.wnd.com/2012/06/u-s-presidents-above-the-law/
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HOMELAND INSECURITY
“OBAMA: 5 TRAITOROUS LEAKS – AND COUNTING”
“EXCLUSIVE: LARRY KLAYMAN WHACKS ‘REPUBLICAN ESTABLISHMENT DINOSAURS’ FOR INACTION”
Published: 06/08/2012 at 7:36 PM
By Larry Klayman
http://www.wnd.com/2012/06/obama-5-traitorous-leaks-and-counting/
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WND EXCLUSIVE
“ATTORNEY ASKS JUDGE TO HAVE OBAMA VETTED”
“DECISION EXPECTED SOON IN CONSTITUTIONAL FIGHT OVER BALLOT ELIGIBILITY”
June 26, 2012
“TALLAHASSEE, Fla. – Just make sure Barack Obama meets the requirements of the Constitution to be president.
That’s essentially what a lawsuit pending before a Florida judge is seeking, according to attorney Larry Klayman, who has proposed to Judge Terry Lewis an order the judge could adopt, excerpt or reject.”
Please Continue To Read The Entire Article Here:
http://www.wnd.com/2012/06/attorney-asks-judge-to-have-obama-vetted/
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You Can See Many Of Attorney Larry Klayman, Esquire’s Articles Here:
Larry Klayman Archives
http://www.wnd.com/author/lklayman/
~ NUCLEAR WAR-FEAR !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ~
“MORE OBAMA TREASON !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
EXCLUSIVE: LARRY KLAYMAN ASSERTS BENEDICT ARNOLD IS NO LONGER AMERICAN TRAITOR NO. 1”
Published: 06/01/2012 at 8:30 PM
By Larry Klayman
http://www.wnd.com/2012/06/more-obama-treason/
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“OBAMA’S ‘FOIE GRAS’ ATTACKS”
“EXCLUSIVE: LARRY KLAYMAN LIKENS FORCE-FED EXECUTIVE POLICIES TO GOOSE-ABUSING PRACTICE”
Published: 05/25/2012 at 6:51 PM
By Larry Klayman
http://www.wnd.com/2012/05/obamas-foie-gras-attacks/
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THE LAW OF THE LAND
“STRANGERS TO JUSTICE?”
“EXCLUSIVE: LARRY KLAYMAN TELLS OF SUIT HE FILED TO HOLD ARAB OPEC NATIONS ACCOUNTABLE”
Published: 05/18/2012 at 8:20 PM
By Larry Klayman
http://www.wnd.com/2012/05/strangers-to-justice/
“THE WORLD IS NOT ‘TRES GAY'”
“EXCLUSIVE: LARRY KLAYMAN SEES 3 DEVELOPMENTS THAT BODE ILL FOR WESTERN CIVILIZATION”
Published: 05/11/2012 at 6:39 PM
By Larry Klayman
http://www.wnd.com/2012/05/the-world-is-not-tres-gay/
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THE LAW OF THE LAND
“TIME TO INDICT THE POLITICAL CLASS!”
“EXCLUSIVE: LARRY KLAYMAN EXPLAINS HISTORY OF CITIZEN GRAND JURIES TARGETING THE CORRUPT”
Published: 04/20/2012 at 8:41 PM
By Larry Klayman
http://www.wnd.com/2012/04/time-to-indict-the-political-class/
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BOYS IN THE HOODIES
“THE LEGAL CESSPOOL OF THE MARTIN CASE”
“EXCLUSIVE: LARRY KLAYMAN ZINGS ATTORNEYS INVOLVED IN ZIMMERMAN PROCEEDINGS”
Published: 04/13/2012 at 7:55 PM
By Larry Klayman
“I have been a lawyer for nearly 35 years, and with each passing day, week, hour and year I have seen what should be a noble profession sink into a cesspool of corruption. It is now so bad that even Kim Kardashian’s pathetic and staged reality television series looks genuine in comparison. Nothing bears this out more than the sad and disgusting tragic-comedy now playing out in Sanford, Fla., and the nation with regard to the racially stoked Trayvon Martin case.”
Continue To Read The Article Here:
http://www.wnd.com/2012/04/the-legal-cesspool-of-the-martin-case/
“LET’S INDICT PROSECUTOR IN ZIMMERMAN CASE”
“EXCLUSIVE: LARRY KLAYMAN CHARGES ANGELA COREY WITH WITHHOLDING EXCULPATORY EVIDENCE”
Published: 04/27/2012 at 7:35 PM
By Larry Klayman
“Last week I wrote that one of our last recourses as patriots and citizens of the United States was to impanel our own grand juries, as proscribed in the Constitution, and bring criminal charges against those establishment politicians and public servants who are bringing down our nation through their corrupt actions. While our illegitimate pResident, Barack Hussein Obama, remains at the top of the list – and indeed I am taking steps to properly have him indicted for his fraudulent and treasonous acts – another obvious legal target of We the People’s push for justice should be Duval County State Attorney Angela Corey.
Corey, of course, is the prosecutor in the Trayvon Martin case who, without presenting any “evidence” to a neutral grand jury, decided on her own to indict and criminally charge George Zimmerman for second-degree murder. She did so after she was effectively threatened with criminal prosecution in her own right by the so-called Civil Rights Division of the Obama Justice Department for not moving fast enough to have Zimmerman arrested and charged. […].”
Continue To Read The Article Here:
http://www.wnd.com/2012/04/lets-indict-prosecutor-in-zimmerman-case/
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ELECTION 2012
“RUBIO’S NOT ‘DA MAN’
“EXCLUSIVE: LARRY KLAYMAN’S NOT IMPRESSED WITH SENATOR’S VEEP CREDENTIALS – OR HIS BOOK”
http://www.wnd.com/2012/06/rubios-not-da-man/
Not eligible, no health care law, signed by a usurper, void.
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Barack Obama has been a citizen of Kenya “by birth,” a dual citizen of the United States and Kenya. Under current policy of the U.S. government, even though he serves as President of the United States, he is obliged to obey the laws of both countries. It is precisely the reason why the Founding Fathers insisted that only “natural born” citizens should ever serve as president or vice president. Having been born with dual US-British citizenship, Barack Obama does not qualify as “natural born.”
http://giveusliberty1776.blogspot.com/
you know a lot of the conservative personalities say we can’t get distracted by the eligibility issue. That we need to focus on stopping his policies….Is it just me or do conservatives seem to be having a hard time stopping barry’s policies? Hmmmmm
They’re screaming at the cold while sitting in front of an open window
hockeyfan,
One fraudulent aspect of Obama’s personality & past cannot be separated from another.
The eligibility issue is intertwined with the rest of Obama’s lies and disregard for the Constitution.
The writer of this article deserves a medal…it is well said and definately worth reading over and over.
The Liberals “THEY”
‘They ‘By Robert Burke
They took prayer out of the schools. We grumbled, but did nothing. They took George Washington’s portrait out of the classrooms. We grumbled, but did nothing. They started teaching collective socialist doctrine to our children. We grumbled, but did nothing.
They started awarding trophies to every player in school team sports, winners and losers. They replaced health classes with sex education, and taught it to grade school children. They promoted failing students in the name of self esteem. We grumbled, but did nothing.
They raided the Social Security fund. They turned once great universities into socialist indoctrination centers. They fed us a steady diet of sex, perversion, and violence in our music, movies, and television. They told us that sexual predators and murderers can be “rehabilitated.” They told us that morality itself is “relative.” They created a huge underclass totally dependent on government largesse.
They created a federal bureaucracy answerable to no one, with pay and retirement benefits triple those of the general populace. They created an imperial presidency and made the Congress inconsequential. They fostered the destruction of our manufacturing and agriculture bases. They permitted the invasion of our country by illegal aliens, and chastised anyone who objected. They legalized and promoted the systematic murder of millions of the innocent unborn. We grumbled, but did nothing.
“They” have achieved this transformation of American society in a relatively short period of time. When I was a boy, no one would have even believed it possible. We said the Pledge of Allegiance and a prayer to Almighty God in school every morning. We were left back if we failed. We learned to congratulate the winners of the game when we lost. We respected our parents, our teachers, our elders, and the police.
We revered Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln, and all of those who gave us this great nation. We knew that actions had consequences, and that hard work would be rewarded. We could go to any movie playing in town, with our entire family, and not be assaulted with pornography and gratuitous violence. We were well acquainted with the concept of shame, and we knew the difference between right and wrong.
Were we perfect? Certainly not. But we weren’t the morally, sexually, politically ambiguous creatures that now inhabit much of America.
Like with the proverbial frog in a pot of cool water, they turned the heat up slowly, changing the culture incrementally, until we arrived at our current condition — a crumbling, corrupt society.
Who are “they”?
One might say “they” are the Marxist/communist/socialist/progressive world movement, but then, that would be politically incorrect, and dismissed by the educated, enlightened New-Age American. In true Alinsky fashion, they batter us with labels. Oppose illegal immigration? Xenophobe! Oppose the LGBT agenda? Homophobe! Oppose affirmative action? Racist! Oppose abortion? Misogynist!
Can we blame “them”?
No. They are just doing what comes naturally to someone who follows Marxist philosophy, just as they have done in Russia, China, Vietnam, Venezuela, Cuba, North Korea, England, France, Italy, Spain, Portugal, and all the other countries where this pernicious philosophical cancer has taken root.
Can “they” be stopped? Certainly.
How?
By answering the difficult question: who are we?
We are the apathetic, complacent ones who were too busy playing on Facebook, watching football, texting our friends, or following the decadent antics of some vacuous celebrity to stand in opposition to “them.” In fact, we are as guilty as “they” are, but by omission, not commission.
We must gird ourselves, get involved, and resolve to halt, and reverse this onslaught. We owe it to our children. We owe it to those who fought and died to bequeath us this great nation.
Fight them. Fight them in the polling booth, the school board meeting, the city council meeting, the media, and everywhere else the opportunity presents itself. Inure yourself to criticism. Harden yourself against being ostracized. Wear the derogatory labels placed on you as badges of honor. Teach your children what being an “American” actually means. Take them to church or synagogue. Teach them to think critically. Give them a strong moral foundation. Be firm in your resolve.
The tail has wagged the dog for too long. It’s time for the dog to have his day.
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It’s like that great statesman, Pogo, once said as he and his merry band returned home from an adventure, all battered and bruised:
“We have met the enemy, and he is us”.
Justice Department shields Holder from prosecution after contempt vote
Deputy Attorney General James Cole confirmed in a letter to House Speaker John Boehner that the department in fact would not pursue prosecution. The attorney general’s withholding of documents pertaining to Operation Fast and Furious, he wrote, “does not constitute a crime.”
“Therefore the department will not bring the congressional contempt citation before a grand jury or take any other action to prosecute the attorney general,”
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2012/06/29/after-holder-contempt-vote-republicans-eye-civil-court-case-to-extract-furious/
Issa Puts Details of Secret Wiretap Applications into Congressional Record
http://pjmedia.com/eddriscoll/2012/06/29/issa-puts-details-of-secret-wiretap-applications-into-congressional-record/
Details About The Fast & Furious Mass Murders Of Hundreds Of Innocent People & Gun Smuggling & Massive High Crimes & High Treason Being Committed By Our Government Against 310 + Million Legal USA American Citizen’s & Brian Terry & His Family
June 29, 2012
BEFORE EVEN READING THE CONTEMPT CITATION, U.S. ATTORNEY FOR D.C. REFUSES TO HOLD HOLDER ACCOUNTABLE
Katie Pavlich
News Editor, Townhall
June 29, 2012 03:30 PM EST
“We must repeal Obamacare! Sign the petition!”
“In a non-surprising move, the Department of Justice has just officially announced they will not proceed with prosecuting Attorney General Eric Holder after the House of Representatives voted to hold him in criminal and civil contempt of Congress yesterday. It was the duty of U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia Ronald Machen to fully assess the contempt charges before making a decision about prosecution.
Senator Grassley, who has been a top leader of the investigation into Operation Fast and Furious, expressed his doubts about whether Machen [even] reviewed the charges before making a decision in a letter this afternoon. Why? The Department actually made the decision not to prosecute Holder yesterday before final contempt votes were tallied.”
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“Grassley has asked for a response, we’ll see if he gets one. So now, it’s up to the Oversight Committee to file a civil lawsuit in order to get the documents they need from Holder about the lethal Fast and Furious operation.
On another note, Machen is the same guy Holder has appointed to investigate national security leaks, donated to President Obama’s campaign and was appointed to his current position by Obama.”
Continue To Read The Entire Article Here:
http://townhall.com/tipsheet/katiepavlich/2012/06/29/before_reading_contempt_citation_us_attorney_for_dc_refuses_to_hold_holder_accountable
What’s behind Roberts’ surprising decision? By Joshua Hawley a former law clerk to Chief Justice Roberts
http://dailycaller.com/2012/06/28/john-roberts-surprising-decision/
Philo-Publius –
Good, well-thought out article!
Have you read this one?
Robert’s Decision Wrong?
http://patriotsforamerica.ning.com/forum/topic/show?id=2734278%3ATopic%3A377490&xgs=1&xg_source=msg_share_topic
http://www.rollcall.com/news/darrell_issa_puts_details_of_secret_wiretap_applications_in_congressional-215828-1.html
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2012/06/29/after-holder-contempt-vote-republicans-eye-civil-court-case-to-extract-furious/
Two great articles attached from The Drudge Report…Yesterday with all the excitement a lot went unnoticed including Issa putting into evidence the “wiretaps” which contains evidence of permissable gun walking…and it looks like they are going to bring a civil case against Holder.
Ok, lets get this straight. The DOJ and ATF were letting AK47’s “walk” into Mexico without tracing them. The administration is not going after all illegals in Arizona and now Homeland Security is ordering border patrol to run away and hide (or maybe throw something) if they encounter a gunmen.
Good Lord, wake up America and boot these idiots out of DC! This is insanity.
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2012/06/29/border-patrol-union-claims-homeland-security-safety-course-promotes/?test=latestnews
This is excellent….mentioned by Rush today:
ObamaCare Ruling: Pure Fraud and No Due Process
http://pjmedia.com/andrewmccarthy/2012/06/28/obamacare-ruling-pure-fraud-and-no-due-process/
Cabby – AZ
No I have not seen that article but I just read it and Fred makes good points too. The more I read the legal analysis, the more I believe Roberts pulled the wool over the DemORATS eyes. His ruling will force this all back into the public spotlight for debate on numerous taxes on the middle class and show that O and his cohorts LIED. Folks are not going to be happy about all these taxes combined with those coming at the end of the year. If they elect a Repub Pres and Senate, we can say goodbye to Obamacare with just a majority vote. It will be repealed but Robert’s limitation on the Commerce Clause and Congress in regards to the States will remain as precedent for future cases.
Since yesterday, O and his cohorts are refusing to call this a tax hike….they will not be able to get away with this as the media has already reported calling it a tax was the basis for the law to stand.
CNN Tells The Truth About ObamaCare
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LW8SaPyUT-A
Nation’s four biggest newspapers downplay Holder contempt vote
While yesterday’s Supreme Court decision on Obamacare was certainly the dominant story of the day, one other important story barely got mentioned on the front pages of the nation’s top-four newspapers by circulation on Friday morning: the first-ever cabinet level contempt of Congress charges brought against Attorney General Eric Holder.
http://dailycaller.com/2012/06/29/nations-four-biggest-newspapers-downplay-holder-contempt-vote/
The reason Roberts has permitted a fraud upon the American people is that the type of tax that must be ordered under this bill is one that is not permitted to Congress to issue. I’m beginning to think that the purported brilliance and understanding of the law of this Chief Justice is as mushy as the purported brilliance of the Usurper. Neither is coming across as very solid but both are good at shell games!
I heard today that the latest group planned to get hit in the wallet ais our military retirees. Obama now wants to increase tricare payments…with the aim of forcing them too under the gov. healthcare.
yes observer, roberts approach was disingenuous to say the least
and was I predicted yesterday BO is spinning and twisting the ROBERTS decision/opinion calling it a TAX
BO desperately wants that spin to take hold
because
1- it makes him look like a liar
2- Congress tax bill only originate from the HOUSE , this deathcare bill originated from the SENATE and some smart GOP can pass a bill on that basis alone if they have the cajones
Philo-Publius | June 29, 2012 at 6:00 pm |
Philo, I cannot disagree with your assessment. We will probably never really know what was going on in Chief Justice Roberts’ mind nor will be
able to quickly determine the outcome.
Like you, the more I learn, coupled with some common sense, the more inclined I am to feel that he had a motive in mind. Whether it turns out good or bad, I don’t think we can say with real certainty at this point.
After all, when we see that conservative VA Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli, who was one of those involved in the lawsuit, has changed his mind after deeper thought re. Roberts’ possible intentions, we should not be ashamed of having second thoughts as we learn and ponder more.
One point that stands out is that he still maintained his staunch conservative positions re. the Commerce Clause and states’ rights. Those positions are clearly set forth in his decision. Furthermore, he got the four liberals to sign on with him. That maneuver goes far beyond a simple ruling. There are other facets, too, that are generally beneficial, but there are also serious questions that remain.
I still feel that it would have been better for the country, at least in the short run, IF he had joined with the four conservatives; however, I do believe that he has been upset over the political label that has been increasingly attached to the Supreme Court, and as Chief Justice he feels that he is responsible for changing the tone. Did he do this for the overall good of the country or to establish a legacy for himself? I don’t know, and it is doubtful that anyone else can judge that point for certain.
HonorFirst | June 29, 2012 at 5:51 pm |
Ok, lets get this straight. The DOJ and ATF were letting AK47′s “walk” into Mexico without tracing them. The administration is not going after all illegals in Arizona and now Homeland Security is ordering border patrol to run away and hide (or maybe throw something) if they encounter a gunmen.
Good Lord, wake up America and boot these idiots out of DC! This is insanity.
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2012/06/29/border-patrol-union-claims-homeland-security-safety-course-promotes/?test=latestnews
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Don’t forget the 50 caliber sniper rifles, and the hand grenades, they let walk also.
Cabby – AZ
I agree…we will probably never know for sure what Roberts intended with this decision. But like you, if conservative AG’s see his decision as good for the Constituion in regards to restraining the gov’t in future cases then in the long run folks will see that. For the short term, it doesn’t look good but at least Robert’s gave “we the people” a way out in the voting booth come November.
Obama “Truth Team” Sends Out Email: Obamacare Is Not a Tax – It’s a Penalty
http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2012/06/figures-obama-truth-team-sends-out-email-obamacare-is-not-a-tax-its-a-penalty/
Morning Jay: The Case for John Roberts
http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/morning-jay-praise-john-roberts_647955.html?nopager=1
Why Roberts Was Right
http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/304428/why-roberts-was-right-michael-knox-beran
Where is Leo D’onofrio when we need him?
Breaking: new evidence shows Hillary a mastermind behind Gunwalker
Last week it was reported that the State Department and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton were deeply involved in the scandal known as Operation Fast and Furious, or Project Gunwalker. Today, however, new evidence has surfaced indicating that not only was Hillary deeply involved in the scandal but was one of the masterminds behind it. According to investigative citizen journalist Mike Vanderboegh, sources close to the development of the Gunwalker scheme state that early on, Hillary and her trusted associated at State, Andrew J. Shapiro, devised at least part of the framework of what would later become Operation Fast and Furious. It was Shapiro who first described the details of the proposed scheme early in 2009 just after the Obama Administration took office. Vanderboegh relates the following:
http://congressmantomtancredo.com/breaking-new-evidence-shows-hillary-a-mastermind-behind-gunwalker/
Mitt Romney’s Empty Obamacare-Repeal Rhetoric
by John Avlon Jun 29, 2012 6:12 AM EDT
The presumptive Republican nominee was quick to promise a repeal of the health-care act if elected president, but he proposed no alternative—throwing out only the usual Medi-scare, deficit-bomb, and ‘government takeover’ bromides.
If you’re actually interested in governing as well as in winning, the impulse to scream “repeal” has to be followed by a plan to “replace.”
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/06/29/mitt-romney-s-empty-obamacare-repeal-rhetoric.html
Devastating Truth About Obamacare
Jon Rappaport
June 28, 2012
I want my Obamacare! I want my Obamacare!
Well, you’ve got it. The US Supreme Court just upheld it by calling the individual mandate a tax.
Those who shout victory to the rooftops have no idea what’s in store for them. No idea at all.
keep reading:
http://jonrappoport.wordpress.com/2012/06/28/devastating-truth-about-obamacare/
Hi, folks. It has been awhile since I commented here. I’ve been checking the blogs and reading articles to see how long it would take before people would catch on. It seems our fellow citizens are woefully ignorant of the US Constitution. Otherwise, it would have been immediately apparent to most that Justice Roberts is a legal genius and just overthrew Obamacare.
Article I, Section 7 says, “All Bills raising Revenue shall originate in the House of Representatives; but the Senate may propose or concur with Amendments as on other Bills.”
Obamacare originated in the Senate. By calling the individual mandate a tax, Justice Roberts gave us the means to have the bill declared unconstitutional because it originated in the Senate, not the House.
Finally, I found a reporter/commentator who figured this out at the Manachester Independent Examiner named Kevin Kervick. I wondered how long it would take? So many knee-jerk reactions to Roberts! Everything from Michael Savage saying he is mentally disassociative because of his medications to all kinds of other denouncements. It is really sad to see such ignorance of the Constitution on parade.
Roberts obviously knew what he was doing. That was a truly ingenious decision on his part, and as a Jew, I must say, worthy of the best Talmudic logic I have ever seen. Figure it out, folks. Justice Roberts should be celebrated as a hero! Obamacare is dead. It’s just a matter of reading the Constitution.
Dean. I am not a legal scholar but I’ve with held my opinions for.this very reason. I’ve read some compelling arguments that support what you say here.
Any bets on who of the mainline Media will be the first to realize what a job Roberts did on Obamacare? Who will be the first, now, to legally oppose it on the grounds it orginated in the Senate? Obamacare is now dead. There is no way to get out of this. By trying to deny the individual mandate was a tax, then arguing for it on the basis that Congress has the right to tax, the Obama administration cut its own throat on this issue.
Then Justice Roberts helped them do it to themselves. He must be sitting back laughing at the gross ignorance of the Left on Constitutional Law, wondering how long it will take Conservatives to figure this out. My fellow Conservatives’ ignorance of the Constitution is showing, too. Otherwise, Conservative commentators would have immediately seen what was going on. But they started denouncing Justice Roberts.
Hi, Paxson. The beauty of this is you don’t have to be a legal scholar, just an American, just one who reads the Constitution.
My question, now, is did the other four justices who judged Obamacare unconstitutional based strictly on the Commerce Clause–did they know what Justice Roberts was up to?
Wow, this makes the four activist judges look really bad if they couldn’t see what was happening. On the other hand, the One had repeatedly insulted the entire court, even with his own appointments. So maybe the whole Supreme Court was in on this? Four deciding against, four in favor, then Justice Roberts, the Chief, seemingly siding with the Liberals, but helping the Obama administration cut its own throat?
If so, dang, that was clever, not to mention great jurisprudence. One can’t help but wonder if the whole court was in on this. These nine judges were insulted so many times in front of the whole world and Congress by Obama. So they exercised their utmost legal expertise, for and against, to reveal Obamacare for what it really is and to set the stage for dismantling it.
How long will it take the Obama administration to figure this out as well?
Dean M. | June 29, 2012 at 11:24 pm |
Article I, Section 7 says, “All Bills raising Revenue shall originate in the
House of Representatives; but the Senate may propose or concur with
Amendments as on other Bills.”
Obamacare originated in the Senate. By calling the individual mandate a tax, Justice Roberts gave us the means to have the bill declared unconstitutional because it originated in the Senate, not the House.
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Dean M., as you know I always like it very much when you are able to give us your input.
I am aware of the fact that this bill originated in the Senate and that the Constitution requires all bills raising revenue to originate in the House. Also, I do agree that Chief Justice Roberts used his strong conservative positions, as well as unique moxie to try to preserve the historical roots of the Court, and that there are some of us who realize he was not a traitor to the cause of freedom, but he has masterfully taken the long look.
However, as a practical matter what are the mechanics for moving forward to have the bill declared unconstitutional because it originated in the Senate and not the House? After all, the Court’s decision has been to declare it constitutional and the Court is the final arbiter of the law. Who is going to step forward after the fact and press the Senate/House issue?
Any thoughts would be appreciated.
Dean M.,
My dear, departed Jewish neighbor and friend used to describe the “smarts” as “sechel.”
From what I read, Obamacare originated in the House on a technicality…Reid use trickery and deceit when the Senate created the bill.
Say doesn’t the Constitution require tax bills to originate in the House?
The bill that passed the Senate wasn’t technically a Senate bill. Reid took a bill that had already passed the House, stripped out the provisions to turn it into a “shell bill,” and then inserted the text of ObamaCare to get around this requirement. The bill that passed the Senate was H.R.3590, which initially had to do with tax breaks for military homeowners. And yes, they’ve used the “shell bill” strategy before.
http://hotair.com/archives/2012/06/28/say-doesnt-the-constitution-require-tax-bills-to-originate-in-the-house/
Krauthammer: Why John Roberts ruled the way he did
http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/charles-krauthammer-why-roberts-did-it/2012/06/28/gJQA4X0g9V_story.html
Philo-Publius | June 30, 2012 at 6:52 am |
Good Morning,
Philo,
You are exactly correct. I do not see the Court throwing out Obamacare ruling based on a technicality of semantics, especially since this strategy has been used in the past and challenges not upheld.
Technically, Obamacare did originate in the House and not the Senate.
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“DID ROBERTS FLIP? CLUES SUGGEST COURT INITIALLY HAD THE VOTES TO STRIKE DOWN OBAMACARE”
By Judson Berger
Published June 29, 2012
FoxNews.com
“While Republicans gasped as Chief Justice John Roberts joined the Supreme Court’s liberal wing in upholding the federal health care overhaul, clues in the dissent suggest the conservative jurist may have originally sided against the law.
====> Perhaps the country will never know, but legal experts have seized on a string of passages in the dissent that indicate their opinion was originally written as the majority ruling — one that would have struck down the law in its entirety.
Theories abound as to what clues the dissent offers. Did the minority justices simply set out to write their opinion with the confidence of a majority, without ever having five justices on board?
Or did Roberts flip, perhaps under pressure to let stand an historic piece of legislation and/or battle the perception of the high court as partisan?
“I suspect … the chief switched very late in the game,” constitutional lawyer David Rivkin told FoxNews.com.
Read the dissent, which begins on page 127 of the opinion.
Further, Rivkin speculated that the remaining conservative justices in the minority left a trail of clues for the public to find. “To say that they’re angry, I think, is an understatement.”
Skeptics like Rivkin point to:
The fact that the dissent repeatedly referred to liberal justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s argument as the “dissent,” suggesting she was at one time in the minority.
The commanding tone of the conservative justices’ language. The way the dissent addresses the pivotal issue of whether the law’s so-called individual mandate penalty can count as a tax.
In its 5-4 ruling, the Roberts-led majority concluded that the penalty for not buying health insurance can be construed as a tax, and therefore fall within Congress’ legal authority to tax.
=====> But in the dissent, the anti-ObamaCare justices wrote about that argument as if it were never seriously considered — referring to the argument as “feeble.”
They described one detail against that argument as the “nail in the coffin,” as if the claim had been shot down entirely.
‘I suspect … the chief switched very late in the game.’
– David Rivkin, constitutional lawyer
In a telling portion, the justices wrote: “Finally, we must observe that rewriting (the penalty) as a tax in order to sustain its constitutionality would force us to confront a difficult constitutional question: whether this is a direct tax that must be apportioned among the States according to their population. … Perhaps it is not.”
The justice then added: “(we have no need to address the point).”
Paul Campos, a law professor at the University of Colorado at Boulder, seized on this language to argue that the dissenters were originally in the majority. He wrote: “… the only reason the Court would not have to address this question is if the majority in fact refused to construe the mandate as a tax.”
Campos suggested in a Salon.com opinion piece that Roberts switched his vote, and that the dissent makes this clear.
Hannah Smith, a former clerk for Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito, said another clue to suggest this was originally a majority opinion is that the justices referred to themselves as “we” — language typically reserved for a majority ruling.
“It definitely has the flavor of something that looks like it was written as a draft majority to begin with, and then turned into a dissent,” Smith told FoxNews.com. “Now the question is, of course, whose majority opinion was it? … And we’ll never know that.”
Continued Here:
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2012/06/29/did-roberts-flip-clues-in-dissent-suggest-court-was-initially-set-to-strike/#ixzz1zEPbaMjC
Good Morning All….Seaque; IF it were Hillary who inspired ‘f&f’, the Obama administration would have thrown her under the bus years ago and happy to do it…Fast and Furious goes to Obama himself and this is why he is sticking by Holder to the end, he has to…With Obama’s reputation for “throwing people/friends/associates under the bus” do you really think he would stand by Holder in an election year IF HE DIDN”T have to? NO WAY!!!
Philo,
I will take my statement from yesterday (previous thread) and the above one step further.
Even if Chief Justice Roberts considered the penalty a tax,Obamacare at that moment should have been dismissed and not ruled upon thereby kicking it back to Congress. The reason is under the Anti-Injunction Act – taxes cannot be challenged until it they are enacted. Under Obamacare, that would be the year 2014.
This ruling and last second change by Roberts, had nothing to do with throwing the Republicans a bone and everything to do with appearing to maintain neutrality versus constitutionality, of which, Roberts erred on more than one way.
Dean M,
To claim that criminal Roberts knew Obamacare was unconstitutional because it originated in the Senate, but upheld it so he could leave “bread crumbs” for the enlightened to discover the “truth” is beyond silly.
Impeach Roberts.
Convict him.
Incarcerate him.
PS—You only think the bill originated in the Senate. It did not.
With all due respect, I don’t think you people realize the monstrous crime Roberts just committed against 300 million people.
Starla,
That is what I said yesterday (previous thread) whereby when you read the opinions, the conservative justices wrote in the Majority and the Liberal justices wrote in the dissenting opinions.
There is no need for “clues” and “hints”, it is….
Send every one of the democrat Senators packing, and the health care issue is solved.
Harry Reid and the corrupt senate are the ones that rammed this health care down our throats, in November we need to show them how we feel about it.
Right now, on FOX they are talking about the jobs that are going to go away because of this mandatory health care. They are saying mass layoffs are going to occur.
The Supreme Court ruling and any ruling can be challenged within 30 days of the release of its decision. There are 26 states and their Attorneys General that were party to the Obamacare lawsuit, that can do this.
http://giveusliberty1776.blogspot.com/2012/06/supreme-court-ruling-and-any-ruling-can.html
Ace,
Had you taken the time to review the opinions for the last 3 days on this site, you would have known that most all disagree with Chief Justice Roberts decision.
Categorizing everyone under your umbrella (and obvious) opinion is nonsense and seriously lacks due diligence on your behalf.
MUST WATCH VIDEOS!!
Judge Napolitano Is Very Confused By Turn-Coat Roberts
Published on Jun 29, 2012 by cablenewsguy
Judge Andrew Napolitano says SCOTUS made the clearly 100% illegal, 100% unconstitutional, and the absolute 100% wrong decision in their June 28, 2012 “Obamacare” decision.
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Judge Napolitano: “Individual Mandate Most Bizarre Tax in the History of the Country”
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Judge Napolitano: Why Taxation Is Theft, Abortion Is Murder, & Gov’t Is Dangerous
Uploaded by ReasonTV on Nov 22, 2011
“I’ll say this plainly, I’ve said it before – Taxation is theft. It presumes the government has a higher claim on our property than we do,” says Judge Andrew Napolitano, the host of Fox Business’ Freedom Watch and the author of the new book, It Is Dangerous to Be Right When the Government Is Wrong: The Case for Personal Freedom.
Reason’s Nick Gillespie sat down with the outspoken libertarian commentator to discuss topics ranging from abortion (the judge is fiercely pro-life) to Occupy Wall Street (he welcomes the protest against corporatism) to Rep. Ron Paul (“the Barry Goldwater” of our moment) to the role of religion in the quest for freedom.”
For previous Reason interviews with Judge Napolitano and to read his Reason archive, go to http://reason.com.
Bob,
I think they are waiting on the upcoming jobs report and do not expect anything positive worth writing home. Taking into consideration the calculation of Obamacare and its direct effects on the economy, it will conclusively favor the republicans in 2012.
Ace | June 30, 2012 at 9:27 am |
Dean M,
To claim that criminal Roberts knew Obamacare was unconstitutional because it originated in the Senate, but upheld it so he could leave “bread crumbs” for the enlightened to discover the “truth” is beyond silly.
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Ace,
Just to let you know, I do however agree with your above statement 100%. It is your second statement I disagree with.
With the exception of the word “criminal”.
Good morning, Folks,
Philo and William – Thanks for the clarification about the origination of the bill. I don’t see how that could ever become an issue to litigate so am in disagreement with Dean M. on that point.
Here is something that has not been discussed recently. I understand that not only was Justice Kagan asked by multitudes around the country to recuse herself from this decision, but Chief Justice Roberts was also petitioned. He bluntly dismissed the request under the excuse that the justices leave that matter to themselves individually.
IF Kagan had done the right thing (because she was one of the White House personnel working on the bill) and recused herself, theoretically a four-four decision would have resulted. A tie would require the case to be left under the lower court’s ruling. Weren’t there several lower courts involved in this instance? In that situation Roberts would not have been able to accomplish his plan, if that is what it was.
Another thing – It is entirely possible that even though the language by the dissenters appears to suggest that Roberts made a quick, last minute decision to change sides, he just may have planned it that way. I know it is pure speculation, but his ultimate decision might have been his plan all along to try to repel and reject the criticism that the Court has become too politicized. History has shown us that “Chief Justice” is more than a title.
The above is not meant to either commend or criticize the Chief Justice. The dust is still swirling out there and we are still learning. I see where Attorney Larry Klayman is taking action against Roberts and Kagan re. the recusal issue. What chance does that have of going anywhere? Methinks zilch.
Ace | June 30, 2012 at 9:27 am |
Impeach Roberts.
Convict him.
Incarcerate him.
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Ace, the above is reminiscent of the lynching mobs of the Old West – vigilante justice.
We are where we are today not because of Roberts but because for over seventy years the U.S. citizenry have been complacent in allowing progressive forces to become entrenched in our government. The shame is on us!
Judge Napolitano: “Who Would Have Thought This Big 2,700-page Statute Was Really a Tax”
June 28, 2012
More Here: http://leaksource.wordpress.com/2012/06/28/supreme-court-upholds-individual-m
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Judge Napolitano On SCOTUS Medicaid Expansion Ruling
June 28, 2012
Judge Andrew Napolitano and Megyn Kelly break down the Supreme Court’s ruling on the Medicaid Expansion Provision of ObamaCare.
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Florida AG Pam Bondi Fears We’re Turning “Socialist”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=endscreen&NR=1&v=y5KYasIwBL0
Published on June 29, 2012 by cablenewsguy
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Re: The Severability Clause
“DAY THREE: IF THE MANDATE GOES, CAN THE REST STAY? IS MEDICAID EXPANSION COERCIVE?”
Kate Hicks
Web Editor, Townhall.com
March 28, 2012
Excerpt:
“MORNING: Severability
“In certain bills – generally those that include constitutionally controversial policies – Congress will include a “severability clause.” They’ll say that even if principle X in this bill is found to be unconstitutional, the rest of the bill may remain intact. They can avoid scrapping an entire bill, most of which may be perfectly sound, for the sake of one questionable element.
The individual mandate is one such policy that may have warranted a severability clause; it’s a 2,000-plus-page behemoth. Why would they want to risk throwing it all out if just the mandate is found to be unconstitutional? (Of course, most conservatives would be perfectly fine with that in this case, but the theory holds true.)
However, the PPACA doesn’t include a severability clause. This has been the subject of speculation from the start. Did Congress intend for the entire bill to go along with the mandate? What about the pieces of the bill that didn’t rely on the mandate? Was the lack of a severability clause an oversight, or deliberate?
If the Court finds that the rest of the bill may stand, even without the mandate – and then Congress chooses not to repeal the rest of the law – then the healthcare industry will be thrown into chaos. […].
Thus, no one is arguing that the mandate alone is severable. As on Monday, a court-appointed lawyer will present that case, appealing to the Court’s general unwillingness to strike down more than is absolutely unconstitutional.
The federal government and the states and private respondents will then wage a battle over Congressional intent. Typically, the Court doesn’t concern itself with what Congress meant, but in this case, there are compelling reasons to consider it.”
Continue To Read The Entire Article Here:
http://townhall.com/columnists/katehicks/2012/03/28/day_three_if_the_mandate_goes_can_the_rest_stay_is_medicaid_expansion_coercive/page/full/
To me Roberts doesn’t come across as that complicated a personality to search to find some futuristic maneuvering that would also need specified conditions different from as they exist today. I simply see him as someone rather neutral in personality without being bothered too badly about improper form, etc. (as in not administering that all important oath of office correctly by form….just do it again properly) and therefore not liking the idea that people expect from him certain opinions due to him being considered a conservative as the others who always do fulfill that role on the court. Just by his position as “Chief” Justice he feels that he must NOT be seen, as a matter of pride, as expectantly labeled. So he’s pushed to rather strained or quirky decisions in order to save his desired considered public image. That’s absolutely wrong but a simple men attempting to be complicated is scary when occupying powerful positions that they weren’t necessarily fitted for. I think the Chief Justice should always be someone who is the MOST conservative since, as a public guide to what the court stands for, he should always be the strongest representative of the Constitution in its original intentions.
Roberts, a conservative judge, wants to be loved by the nation and thus, is willing to compromise his own principles as a result. If he can’t stand the heat, he should get out of the fire. Right now, it looks like he wants to be in a bromance with Obama, and has been since day 1. He has protected Obama from being ruled ineligible multiple times. We shouldn’t count on him for anything. My humble opinion.
Ace | June 30, 2012 at 9:30 am |
With all due respect, I don’t think you people realize the monstrous crime Roberts just committed against 300 million people.
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I’ve read the 20 new tax provisions; it’ll take a couple years to hit most of the obots, sheeples, followers, et al.
When employment becomes 50% for employers going under, or the remaining biggies going overseas, and this nation becomes a banana republic, then it will hit the obots, sheeples, followers, et al.
Can’t get blood from a turnip; can’t get revenue from unemployed.
The objective of the NWO–the elites, TPTB.
This was designed many years ago, with congress and supremes in line.
By coercion, or threat, or even blackmail is irrelevant at this point. We are too far along the track of this derailing train. May God have mercy on this nation for turning their back on Him.
The above correction..when UNemployment becomes 50%…duh
Issa reveals wiretap docs from DOJ mole
Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) has revealed portions of sealed wiretap applications related to the botched gun-tracking operation “Fast and Furious.”
Issa entered the sensitive, and previously undisclosed, information into the Congressional Record on Thursday during the floor debate leading up to the passage of his resolution placing Attorney General Eric Holder in contempt of Congress.
…..“The enclosed wiretap affidavit contains clear information that agents were willfully allowing known straw buyers to acquire firearms for drug cartels and failing to interdict them — in some cases even allowing them to walk to Mexico,” stated a letter Issa sent to his panel’s ranking member Elijah Cummings (D-Md.), which was put into the record on Thursday.
http://thehill.com/homenews/house/235715-issa-reveals-sealed-wiretaps-from-doj-mole
The applications, which are under a federal court’s seal, were given to Issa by a mole with access to the documents. Issa has claimed they reveal that top-level Justice Department officials signed off on the documents and knew about the controversial “gun-walking” tactics used in Fast and Furious. Issa has called his source a “whistleblower” and refused to disclose his or her identity.
http://thehill.com/homenews/house/235715-issa-reveals-sealed-wiretaps-from-doj-mole
After reading the entire Issa letter, I’m wondering why more of a big deal isn’t being made of the fact that the ATF agents were not given the go ahead to arrest the straw buyers after they purchased? And why wasn’t anyone being told to investigate their finances to find out where they were getting all that cash to buy the guns? Everyone is focusing on the fact that they lied about knowing but now that we can be certain that was a bold face lie, maybe it’s time to look into whether someone in the DOJ was letting those guns “walk” untraced and unhindered for a reason? Was there a political motive (more evidence for gun control laws) or are we looking at even more sinister reasons like the involvement of certain parts of our government in getting “kickbacks” from the cartels if they leave their guys alone? Who knows where this will lead…..
I thought of a great analogy as I was reading the Issa letter. It would be as if two local cops sat in their car across the street from a robbery in progress and ate donuts–just watching the thieves ransack and steal from a business.
MUST WATCH OUTSTANDING VIDEO!!
Here it is:
Judge Napolitano Is Very Confused By Turn-Coat Roberts
June 29, 2012 by cablenewsguy
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p7aZEEksK_w&feature=player_embedded
Judge Andrew Napolitano says SCOTUS made the clearly 100% illegal, 100% unconstitutional, and the absolute 100% wrong decision in their June 28, 2012 “Obamacare” decision. Judge Napolitano points out the SCOTUS actually 100% illegally rewrote the 100% illegal and 100% unconstitutional statute to 100% illegally pass it!!!
“HEALTH CARE DISSENT: HERE’S WHAT THE CONSERVATIVE WING WANTED TO HAPPEN”
By Ryan Grim
Posted: 06/28/2012 1:02 pm
Updated: 06/28/2012 3:02 pm
“WASHINGTON — Mitt Romney, reacting to the Supreme Court’s health care ruling Thursday, said, “I agree with the dissent.”
The dissent tosses out the entire health care law, dismissing the case for it as “feeble” and a “vast judicial overreach.” It argues that “against a mountain of evidence,” its backers offer only the “flimsiest of indications to the contrary.”
Four of the five Republican appointees on the Court agreed with this interpretation, and it would have carried the day if Chief Justice John Roberts had joined them.
Had he done so, the “entire statute” — meaning the entire law, from beginning to end — would have been invalidated, including provisions that had already gone into effect.
Strangely, the dissenting justices argue that even constitutional provisions must be ruled unconstitutional because “the Act’s other provisions would not have been enacted without” it central elements, the mandate and the Medicaid provision. The justices never reveal how they know what would have happened in the alternate reality they posit.
Did the minority’s uncompromising insistence on invalidating the entire law push Roberts to join the moderates in upholding it? We won’t know until the next tell-all book on the court, but below are excerpts from the dissent, signed by Anthony Kennedy, Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito and Antonin Scalia.”
Read More Here: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/06/28/health-care-dissent_n_1634514.html?icid=maing-grid7|main5|dl1|sec3_lnk1%26pLid%3D174223
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“JOHN ROBERTS OUTRAGES CONSERVATIVES IN HEALTH CARE RULING”
“THE JUSTICE BEHIND THE SWING VOTE”
“John Roberts was appointed by George W. Bush. His voting record has skewed conservative. But in a 5-4 vote on Obamacare, he shocked the nation.”
By Luke Johnston
Posted: 06/28/2012 1:50 pm
Updated: 06/28/2012 2:05 pm
“In his majority 5-4 opinion on Thursday, Chief Justice John Roberts upheld the constitutionality of the signature domestic policy achievement of President Barack Obama’s administration, the Affordable Care Act. In doing so, he and his court earned the ire of conservatives.
“This was an activist court that you saw today,” Tea Party favorite Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) told reporters. “Anytime the Supreme Court renders something constitutional that is clearly unconstitutional, that undermines the credibility of the Supreme Court. I do believe the court’s credibility was undermined severely today,” she said, later adding that Congress could now force you to buy Ikea furniture.
“The Supreme Court has abandoned us,” Texas Gov. Rick Perry (R) said.
“Today’s decision by the Supreme Court of the United States is simply disappointing,” Florida Gov. Rick Scott (R) said. “I stand with Justice Kennedy that the entire act should have been held invalid.”
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QUESTION: HOW DID THE SCOTUS LOOK AT & JUDGE THE 100% ILLEGAL AND 100% CONSTITUTIONAL ‘ACT’ [Affordable Care Act]?? ANSWER: BY REWRITING IT 100% ILLEGALLY WHICH IS 100% ILLEGAL FOR THEM TO DO!!
From: http://www.theblaze.com/stories/supreme-court-upholds-individual-mandate/
June 28, 2012 at 10:16am by Becket Adams
The Supreme Court on Thursday delivered its decision on the controversial “individual mandate” … ruling that it is constitutional.
“The bottom line: the entire ACA [Affordable Care Act] is upheld, with the exception that the federal government‘s power to terminate states’ Medicaid funds is narrowly read,” SCOTUS Blog reports.
====> After hearing oral arguments on the constitutionality of the bill in March, the Supreme Court Justices focused on these four points:
1. Whether the “individual” mandate is constitutional
2. Whether SCOTUS has the authority to rule on a tax law even though it hasn’t come into effect
3. If the individual mandate is overturned, will it be cut from the rest of the law as a separate entity or will other provisions fall with it?
4. Whether the law’s Medicaid expansion is constitutional
====> Of the four points discussed, the Supreme Court ruled that, as a tax, the individual mandate is constitutional.
Several analysts predicted that if the court ruled against the mandate, it would have negative long-term consequences on the president’s legacy and would weigh heavily on his reelection bid.”
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“Nail-biting Wait Is Over: Lawmakers Ready For Supreme Court’s Healthcare Ruling”
By Sam Baker and Elise Viebeck
June 25, 3012
“Lawmakers, lawyers and pundits have braced for the decision every day the court has been in session. But as the days tick down, they brace a little harder. They’re bracing intensely now because this week is the last available for the justices to deliver their verdict. Seventy thousand people watched live reporting of opinions on SCOTUSBlog last Thursday, thinking a ruling might come.
The case has massive implications. It will shake the presidential race in ways almost impossible to predict. It will define Obama’s legacy and that of Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts. And it will shape the future of the healthcare system.
It is, above all, a landmark decision on the scope of Congress’s power under the Constitution.
“It’s huge,” said Rep. Phil Roe (R-Tenn.), a doctor and critic of the healthcare law.
The healthcare ruling will rival some of the high court’s most important decisions in history, he said, alongside cases on civil rights and abortion.
“I think it’s one of the biggest decisions the court has made in the last 50, 60 years — Brown v. Board of Education, Roe v. Wade, the 2000 presidential election; those are all big decisions, and this is one of them.”
Twenty-six states and the National Federation of Independent Business filed the healthcare challenge. They claim that the law’s individual mandate, which requires most taxpayers to buy insurance or pay a penalty, is unconstitutional.
If the court agrees, it must also decide whether to strike down the entire statute or only part of the law.”
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“All anyone can do is try to be ready when the moment arrives. “We were ready today,” Sen. Dean Heller (R-Nev.) said last Thursday, laughing.
Trying to prepare is a big undertaking.
Unlike other important cases, there are many more than two possible outcomes in the healthcare case.”
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====> “The court divided its oral arguments into four questions: whether it may make a ruling now, before the individual mandate has taken effect; whether the mandate is constitutional; whether the rest of the law can stand if the mandate is unconstitutional; and whether the law’s Medicaid expansion is constitutional. <====
It’s unclear therefore whether the Big Decision will actually be one decision or separate rulings on each of the four questions. Either way, the complexity and historical significance of the case means there will probably be several concurring and dissenting opinions to dissect.”
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[…] “But oral arguments appeared to go abysmally for the White House. The court’s customary swing vote, Justice Anthony Kennedy, made it clear immediately that he was deeply skeptical of the mandate, and even the more liberal justices were unsatisfied with the answers offered by Solicitor General Donald Verrilli, who argued the case on behalf of the Obama administration.”
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“MONCKTON TELLS LORDS: OBAMA PRESIDENCY AT RISK”
“‘A DISLOCATION MORE SEVERE THAN THE FALL OF WATERGATE MAY BE ANTICIPATED’”
By Jerome R. Corsi
June 27, 2012
“In a 20-page report, a former aide to British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher warns his hereditary peers in the U.K. the Obama presidency is in danger of falling because of evidence he considers conclusive that Obama’s birth certificate is a forgery.”
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Read the entire Monckton report
“A dislocation more severe than the fall of Watergate may be anticipated, leaving the free world leaderless at a time of great financial uncertainty,” Monckton advises the British nobility.
He put his fellow peers on notice that he considers it likely a civil or criminal court challenge of Obama’s eligibility will eventually succeed that could remove Obama from office before the November 2012 election through a disqualification determined under the 25th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.”
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“On page 15, Monckton states that the charge by Arpaio’s law enforcement investigation that Obama’s Selective Service registration form was also forged implies Obama himself was involved in the forgery:
If the President’s Selective Service Document is also a forgery, as the cold-case posse believe it to be, the apparent perpetrator is Mr. Obama himself, since it is his signature that appears on the document.
Monckton further charges both Obama and the Hawaii Department of Health are engaged in a cover-up. “The sealing of the President’s records appears to have been carried out to an exceptional and costly degree,” Monckton wrote, noting “almost all school, college, and other records of Mr. Obama’s early life have been sealed and are not available to the public.”
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“MORE OBAMA TREASON!!!!!!!”
“EXCLUSIVE: LARRY KLAYMAN ASSERTS BENEDICT ARNOLD IS NO LONGER AMERICAN TRAITOR NO. 1″
Published: 06/01/2012 at 8:30 PM
By Larry Klayman
“There he goes again!” were the famous words of President Ronald Reagan when referring to the naivety, dereliction and incompetency of President Jimmy Carter during a presidential debate in 1980. Ironically, these words also ring true with regard to our current president, Barack Hussein Obama, who, like Carter, has bent over to the radical Islamic regime in Iran. This regime – which already has enough enriched uranium to produce at least five atomic bombs and which has repeatedly threatened not just Israel’s destruction, but our own with these nuclear weapons – is one of the biggest political thorns in our traitorous “mullah in chief’s” side to affect his re-election. Just as the Iranian hostage crisis sunk Carter’s re-election prospects in 1980, so, too, Iran could be Obama’s undoing, as least so he thinks.
And why do Obama and his leftist, socialist, anti-Semitic and anti-Christian minions believe this? Because they know full well that people of genuine Judeo-Christian faith and other rational voters, which include a significant portion of independents who will decide the 2012 presidential and congressional elections, are outraged at Obama’s refusal and failure to take forceful action to remove the Islamic regime in Iran and eliminate the threat of their planned nuclear war against the United States, Israel and the West.
Obama’s failure to act on this real threat and his support of other radical Muslim interests, such as the ascension of the granddaddy of terrorist groups the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt and throughout the Middle East, is perceived by many to be the result of Obama’s own conflicted Muslim roots – his Kenyan father having been a Muslim who had to be deported from the United States. Obama’s actions and words over the last three and a half years have supported this view, and now even many leftist Hollywood Jews, who previously voted for him, believe he is a not too latent anti-Semite bent not just on harming the interests of Israel but also American Jews and evangelical Christians in general. This certainly is borne out as well by Obama’s mentors and friends, which include the Jew-hating anti-Semitic likes of so-called Reverends Jeremiah Wright and Louis Farrakhan, not to mention late Harvard Law professor Derrick Bell, to name just a few.”
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So there he “goes again” to further his and his Democratic Party’s political prospects in the upcoming 2012 elections and to create the false impression that he is strong on national security issues and Iran. This traitorous “leader” compromises our national security and the security of Israel and the Western world in the process. Nothing could be as low and criminal as this, and for this Obama must surely be held to account. Benedict Arnold is no longer first on the top-10 list of traitors in American history!
Yesterday, I filed – as is the case with the two prior major disclosures of classified information concerning Iran – Freedom of Information Act requests to get to the bottom of this traitorous activity by Obama and his administration. My first two FOIAs are already the subject of ongoing court litigation, the Obama administration not surprisingly having failed to respond to them – all in its belief that the “mullah in chief” and his accomplices at the NSA and CIA are above the law. But the matter will not end there, as I fully intend to use the citizens’ grand jury process I have written about before in this column to obtain justice.
As importantly, save for former United Nation Ambassador John Bolton, where do Republicans stand in calling out Obama for this treasonous act? Not a peep from Sen. John McCain, Sen. Lindsey Graham and other establishment national security figures of the Grand Old Party – not to mention their 2012 presidential candidate, Mitt
Romney.”
This latest national security breach underscores the dilemma we Americans now see clearer than ever. Our government is not a government by and for “We the People,” but a government only for our so-called representatives in the nation’s capital. And, notwithstanding television appearances and other “fun and games” that merely mouth their concern for us, the Washington, D.C., establishment protects itself. They are all part of the same exclusive club. As Groucho Marx once said, “I would not want to be part of a club that would have me as a member.” I agree, and that is why when I ran in Florida for a U.S. Senate seat in 2004, I promised to take the concept of my former public-interest group inside of the government; that is, I would have set up what in effect was a law firm to sue from within.
While I was not successful in that election, for my own part I still would like to take a club to this establishment club. But, I no longer see government as a vehicle to accomplish this, as matters have gotten far worse and beyond repair since 2004.
We the People must ourselves rise up and do all we legally can to end and obtain justice for the traitorous acts of President Barack Hussein Obama and his enablers – acts that have so severely and irreparably harmed our nation!
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“WATCH: THE HUMAN COSTS OF THE ‘OBAMATAX'”
Katie Pavlich
News Editor, Townhall
June 29, 2012
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HOMELAND INSECURITY
“OBAMA: 5 TRAITOROUS LEAKS – AND COUNTING”
“EXCLUSIVE: LARRY KLAYMAN WHACKS ‘REPUBLICAN ESTABLISHMENT DINOSAURS’ FOR INACTION”
Published: 06/08/2012 at 7:36 PM
By Larry Klayman
http://www.wnd.com/2012/06/obama-5-traitorous-leaks-and-counting/
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WND EXCLUSIVE
“ATTORNEY ASKS JUDGE TO HAVE OBAMA VETTED”
“DECISION EXPECTED SOON IN CONSTITUTIONAL FIGHT OVER BALLOT ELIGIBILITY”
June 26, 2012
“TALLAHASSEE, Fla. – Just make sure Barack Obama meets the requirements of the Constitution to be president.
That’s essentially what a lawsuit pending before a Florida judge is seeking, according to attorney Larry Klayman, who has proposed to Judge Terry Lewis an order the judge could adopt, excerpt or reject.”
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http://www.wnd.com/2012/06/attorney-asks-judge-to-have-obama-vetted/
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