“Words no longer have meaning.”
Working for the Democratic Party: The Supreme Court today upheld the Obama administration’s decision to award subsidies under Obamacare to individuals in states lacking a health exchange, even though the law expressly excludes such subsidies.
Justice Antonin Scalia summed up the situation quite nicely in his dissent:
“The court holds that when the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act says ‘Exchange established by the State’ it means ‘Exchange established by the State or the Federal Government,’ Scalia wrote. “That is of course quite absurd, and the court’s 21 pages of explanation make it no less so.”
He also complained that, “Words no longer have meaning if an Exchange that is not established by a State is ‘established by the State.’ … Under all the usual rules of interpretation, in short, the Government should lose this case. But normal rules of interpretation seem always to yield to the overriding principle of the present Court: The Affordable Care Act must be saved.”
Once again Chief Justice John Roberts voted with the liberal side, indicating again that he is willing to “evolve” to the left, as it seems so many Republican appointees have done in the past.
In the end, the ruling only leaves us where we were before, which means, to get rid of Obamacare, we as citizens are going to have to elect more legislators willing to repeal it, and then get it repealed. Doing that will also help heal the court, which today is very clearly willing to ignore the law to prop up the political positions of the Democratic Party.
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"Not simply about one mission, [Genesis] is also the history of America's quest for the moon... Zimmerman has done a masterful job of tying disparate events together into a solid account of one of America's greatest human triumphs."--San Antonio Express-News
Working for the Democratic Party: The Supreme Court today upheld the Obama administration’s decision to award subsidies under Obamacare to individuals in states lacking a health exchange, even though the law expressly excludes such subsidies.
Justice Antonin Scalia summed up the situation quite nicely in his dissent:
“The court holds that when the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act says ‘Exchange established by the State’ it means ‘Exchange established by the State or the Federal Government,’ Scalia wrote. “That is of course quite absurd, and the court’s 21 pages of explanation make it no less so.”
He also complained that, “Words no longer have meaning if an Exchange that is not established by a State is ‘established by the State.’ … Under all the usual rules of interpretation, in short, the Government should lose this case. But normal rules of interpretation seem always to yield to the overriding principle of the present Court: The Affordable Care Act must be saved.”
Once again Chief Justice John Roberts voted with the liberal side, indicating again that he is willing to “evolve” to the left, as it seems so many Republican appointees have done in the past.
In the end, the ruling only leaves us where we were before, which means, to get rid of Obamacare, we as citizens are going to have to elect more legislators willing to repeal it, and then get it repealed. Doing that will also help heal the court, which today is very clearly willing to ignore the law to prop up the political positions of the Democratic Party.
On Christmas Eve 1968 three Americans became the first humans to visit another world. What they did to celebrate was unexpected and profound, and will be remembered throughout all human history. Genesis: the Story of Apollo 8, Robert Zimmerman's classic history of humanity's first journey to another world, tells that story, and it is now available as both an ebook and an audiobook, both with a foreword by Valerie Anders and a new introduction by Robert Zimmerman.
The print edition can be purchased at Amazon or from any other book seller. If you want an autographed copy the price is $60 for the hardback and $45 for the paperback, plus $8 shipping for each. Go here for purchasing details. The ebook is available everywhere for $5.99 (before discount) at amazon, or direct from my ebook publisher, ebookit. If you buy it from ebookit you don't support the big tech companies and the author gets a bigger cut much sooner.
The audiobook is also available at all these vendors, and is also free with a 30-day trial membership to Audible.
"Not simply about one mission, [Genesis] is also the history of America's quest for the moon... Zimmerman has done a masterful job of tying disparate events together into a solid account of one of America's greatest human triumphs."--San Antonio Express-News
We now live in a country in which the laws are fluid.
There was a time when a bad law could only be invalidated for being unconstitutional, but now the courts are able to modify laws on a whim in order to suit the court’s desires of the moment.
It is now possible that even if we follow the letter and spirit of the law, a judge can rewrite that law to make us retroactively guilty, perhaps putting us in prison.
Not only do words no longer have meaning, but nether do the laws, which we now know are easily changed on a court’s whim.
How are we to live our lives without fear of unwittingly becoming criminals when the laws as written have become meaningless — that each law means whatever a judge deems it to mean at the time of his ruling? The phrase “law abiding citizen” becomes meaningless, because we do not know how the law will be (mis)interpreted.
This is most definitely not our father’s Chevrolet.
Welcome to Obama’s America; land of the formerly free.
The United States is great because it is good. It is good because our government is based on law, not on the whims of a dictator. Rome fell not because the vandals were strong but because Rome had become weak after its laws became frangible. Will the United States someday be conquered by Cuba?
“Once again Chief Justice John Roberts voted with the liberal side”
What “side” interprets a clearly worded sentence in a law to mean something that it doesn’t and was clearly explained by the authors of that law to mean the opposite of the court’s interpretation?
Clearly the United Staes is currently being ruled by men, not law.
I look forward to the day when these criminals are held accountable for their treasonous actions. But I’m not holding my breath.
“When I use a word,’ Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone, ‘it means just what I choose it to mean — neither more nor less.’
’The question is,’ said Alice, ‘whether you can make words mean so many different things.’
’The question is,’ said Humpty Dumpty, ‘which is to be master — that’s all.”
And thus, the Supreme Court becomes the Humpty Dumpty Court. The Court has pushed the entire country through the looking glass, we have fallen far down the rabbit hole. Our leaders have left us lost in the woods with no clear path.