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A Night to Remember

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Last night, watching Paul Ryan, I couldn’t help but think of the Simpsons. In particular, Homer Simpson, when he runs around screaming, arms raised, panic on his face, fire chasing his bum.

That’s how the Obama campaign staffers must have felt after watching Paul Ryan’s magnificent speech. It was pitch perfect. It had everything: humor, sincerity, patriotism, facts, hope and an emotional tug. I don’t see how it could have been any better.

There were so many good lines, it’s hard to remember them all. They bounced out of Ryan’s mouth at warp speed and slammed through the hoop.

For example, when he talked about the $831 billion failed stimulous plan, he mentioned Solyndra (score), a corrupt patronage system (score) and cronyism (score). You, the American people, Ryan said, were cut out of the deal as the Obama administration borrowed, spent and wasted all that money.

On entitlements, he said the best line of the evening. We live “in a country where everything is free, but us.” Ryan couldn’t have put it better or more succinctly.

When Ryan asked “without a change in leadership how will the next four years be any different?” he hammered home one of the main points of the election.

He attacked Obama with facts, never personally. And the facts are hard to dispute. Ryan spoke often of Romney and what made him the best leader.

How could you not be touched by his nod to his mom, a woman he calls his inspiration for doing what she had to do to keep going after his dad died. Ryan made sure that the senior citizens understood how Medicare was being cut by Obama, but would be restored by Romney. “We want this debate. We will win this debate,” he said.

Ryan had a confident calm about him through the well delivered speech. It’s hard to imagine him failing to win the election.

Axelrod and Plouffe will find it difficult to take down this man.

Another great speech came from Susana Martinez, the governor of New Mexico. Her life story was fascinating. She talked about her parents and their work ethic and how at 18 she worked as a security guard and carried a 357 Smith and Wesson. Her revelation that she had been a Democrat until she met two Republicans was fantastic. “Well, I’ll be damned,” she told her husband. “We’re Republicans!” Many in the audience last night probably came to the same conclusion.

Sandwiching her between Rice and Ryan was a good move on the part of the RNC. Since the alphabet networks had refused to carry speeches by other minorities, they had no choice but to stay with her. Martinez is a real threat to Democrats and the liberal media.

Condi Rice put in a strong speech, too. I wasn’t too enamored of the pictures of her with Colin Powell on the screen behind her. But she did hit the notes of American leadership, economic peril and praise of an American system that allows a little girl in strife torn Birmingham to rise to Secretary of State.

The other speakers leading up to Rice and Ryan – Tim Pawlenty, Mike Huckabee, Rob Portman – and accomplished did well and accomplished the task of building a crescendo for the main event. Had their speeches been better, it would have taken away from the stellar performances of Rice, Martinez and Ryan.

It was a wonderful, successful night.

Romney Interviewed About Religion Tonight

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If you get EWTN network (370 on DirecTv), Raymond Arroyo interviews Governor Mitt Romney on tonight’s program at 7 p.m. Central Time. He breaks some news in the interview, including that Cardinal Timothy Dolan, the top Catholic in the U.S., will give a benediction at the RNC convention as Romney accepts the nomination.

Romney’s Excellent Speech

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Romney gave a good speech in Chillicothe, Ohio. Notable among his comments was, “Mr. President, take your campaign of division and anger and hate back to Chicago and let us get about rebuilding and reuniting America.” Amen and about time.

Here’s his entire speech:

Thank you, Ohio. It’s good to be back in the Buckeye State. And it’s a privilege to be here with two good friends – your great governor, John Kasich and your outstanding senator, Rob Portman. Governor Kasich is doing a great job despite the head winds from Washington. As President, I can’t wait to work with Senator Portman to turn those Obama headwinds into pro-job policies that will help working families all across Ohio.

Tonight, we’re wrapping up our five-state bus tour to towns big and small. That trip reconfirmed to me just how important this election is – and why we need to change the direction of the country by changing the current occupant of the Oval Office.

We started out on the decks of a battleship in Norfolk, Virginia, where arbitrary and reckless defense cuts threaten our national security and 150,000 jobs. From there it was on to North Carolina, through towns that have lost thousands and thousands of manufacturing jobs. And yesterday we were in Florida, where families are still struggling with the Obama Economy.

The people I met on this tour – and the thousands of Americans I’ve visited in break rooms and lunch rooms, in school gymnasiums and on factory floors – are worried about their children, their jobs, their mortgages, and their future. And they are right to be worried.

All across the country, I’ve met people who are hurting. Some have lost their jobs; others work two jobs just to get by. Some have fallen out of the middle class and now they’re struggling to get back to where they started. The cost of living keeps going up, and they’re living paycheck to paycheck.

They are tired of being tired.

And tonight, I’d like to say to each of them: You have not been forgotten. We will not leave you behind. This is America. We are Americans. It doesn’t have to be this way!

Unemployment has been above 8 percent for 42 straight months. We will put Americans back to work!

Half of recent college graduates can’t find work or a job that matches their skills. We’ll get good jobs for our kids.

Nearly one out of six Americans are in poverty today. This is a disgrace we will end.

And President Obama has amassed five trillion dollars of debt – nearly as much debt held by the public as all other Presidents combined. We will end this moral failure.

After four years, it’s clear that President Obama’s policies aren’t fixing these problems, they’re making them worse. That is why Ohio will lead the way by electing a new President on November 6th.

For the first time, most Americans believe that our best days are behind us. This is an election in which we should be talking about the path ahead, but you don’t hear any answers coming from President Obama’s re-election campaign. That’s because he’s intellectually exhausted, out of ideas, and out of energy. And so his campaign has resorted to diversions and distractions, to demagoguing and defaming others. This is an old game in politics; what’s different this year is that the president is taking things to a new low.

It wasn’t supposed to be this way.

In 2008, Candidate Obama said, “if you don’t have any fresh ideas, then you use stale tactics to scare voters.” He said, “if you don’t have a record to run on, then you paint your opponent as someone people should run from.” And that, he told us, is how, “You make a big election about small things.”

That was Candidate Obama describing the strategy that is the now the heart of his campaign.

His campaign and his surrogates have made wild and reckless accusations that disgrace the office of the Presidency. Another outrageous charge came a few hours ago in Virginia. And the White House sinks a little bit lower.

This is what an angry and desperate Presidency looks like.

President Obama knows better, promised better and America deserves better.

Over the last four years, this President has pushed Republicans and Democrats as far apart as they can go. And now he and his allies are pushing us all even further apart by dividing us into groups. He demonizes some. He panders to others. His campaign strategy is to smash America apart and then cobble together 51 percent of the pieces.

If an American president wins that way, we all lose.

But he won’t win that way. America is one Nation under God. American history has been a story of the many becoming one – uniting to preserve liberty, uniting to build the greatest economy in the world, uniting to save the world from unspeakable darkness. Everywhere I go in America there are monuments that list those who have given their lives. There is no mention of their race, their party affiliation or what they did for a living. They lived and died under a single flag fighting for a single purpose. They pledged allegiance to the United States of America. So, Mr. President, take your campaign of division and anger and hate back to Chicago and let us get about rebuilding and reuniting America.

This election is about restoring the promise of America. It’s a choice between two visions for our nation’s future. It’s about the challenges America faces. It is about a better tomorrow and a better future.

We don’t need more excuses. We don’t need more blame. We don’t need more small-minded attacks.

What we really need is a new president.

Voters deserve an honest debate. And that’s what Paul Ryan and I will give them.

Paul and I have a positive agenda that will lead to economic growth, to widespread and shared prosperity that will improve the lives of our fellow citizens. Our Plan For A Stronger Middle Class will get America back to work and get our country back on track.

We are offering solutions that are bold, specific, and achievable. We’re committed to helping create 12 million new jobs and to bring better take-home pay to middle class families.

My plan focuses on five things.

First, energy independence. We will achieve North America energy independence by 2020, by taking full advantage of our oil, our gas, our coal, our renewables and our nuclear power. Abundant, inexpensive, domestic energy will not only create energy jobs, it will bring back manufacturing jobs.

Second, we must give our workers and our children the skills they need to succeed. Our nation cannot continue to fail in public education. For too long, we have let the agenda of union bosses steer the agenda of our schools. It is time to put our kids and their parents and their teachers first, and the union bosses behind.

Third, trade must work for America. We are one of the world’s most productive nations. Trade creates jobs and raises take-home pay for American workers. We must open more doors for trade in Latin America, where there is a growing middle class. But when any nation cheats, as China has cheated, we must make sure that there are clear and compelling consequences.

Fourth, we will do what politicians in both parties have been promising for years, but have failed to do. We will cut spending, shrink deficits, and put America on track to a balanced budget.

Fifth, we will champion small business. Unlike President Obama, I won’t raise taxes on small business. I’ll make sure regulators protect the public, but that they stop killing our jobs. I will remove the crippling uncertainty that is preventing businesses from hiring.

That begins by repealing Obamacare. It’s bad for jobs and it’s bad for seniors. If the President is re-elected, he will succeed in raiding $716 billion from Medicare — from the trust fund you have paid into all your lives – to pay for Obamacare. He is taking your money to finance his risky and unproven takeover of the health-care system. He is putting Medicare at greater risk. He is putting health care at greater risk. He is putting your jobs at greater risk. We must not let Obamacare happen.

If we focus on these five areas – energy, education, trade, deficits, and championing small business – America’s economy will come roaring back to life. And we will finally see a comeback for America’s middle class.

My plan is based on proven principles that will produce real results. I spent 25 years in business, and I know what it takes for the private sector to create jobs. I know why jobs go away, what it takes to bring them back, and what we must do to make America the best place in the world for entrepreneurs and innovators and job creators. My five-point plan will bring more jobs and more take-home pay for middle-class Americans.

People ask me why I think the President’s policies have been such a disappointment. I just don’t think President Obama understands what it is that drives our economy.

America runs on freedom. Free men and women, pursuing their dreams, working hard to build a better future for their families. This is what propels our economy. When an American succeeds, when she wins a promotion, when he creates a business, it is that individual, that American that has earned it, that has built it. Government does not build our businesses, the American people do.

The American people also build the government. We pay for it with our taxes. We choose who will lead us with our votes.

Do you want a president who believes that your rights come from God, not from government?

Do you want a president who honors your right to pursue happiness, not as government commands, but as you choose?

Do you want a president who will work every day to bring us together, not tear us apart?

Do you want a president who will celebrate success, not attack it?

Do you want a president who will never, ever apologize for the greatest nation on earth?

With your support, I will be that President.

We are 84 days away from the start of the better future we deserve.

We need new leadership, and new ideas, and a new approach – because four years of failure is enough.

Paul Ryan and I believe in America – and in this election, we’re offering Americans a clear and honest choice. Every single day we’re going to do our part. And we need you to do yours.

I commit to you that I will be the President that this moment demands. I will work to strengthen our families, to rebuild our economy and to keep our military second to none in the world.

I ask you to commit like never before over the next 84 days. This election can come down to just one more vote. I ask you find that vote. Ask one more person to join our campaign. Ask one more person to join us who supported President Obama four years ago and didn’t get the change they deserved. One more vote can make the difference in Ohio. And Ohio will make the difference for America.

Thank you. God bless you. And God bless the United States of America.

The Take Around the Blogosphere

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So far, conservative bloggers like the Ryan choice for VP.

That Andrea Mitchell and Candy Crowley already have decried it, makes it look all the better. Mitchell called it “not a pick for suburban moms, not a pick for women.” Yes, and you so loved Sarah Palin, didn’t you Andrea? Crowley says the pick “looks a little bit like some sort of ticket death wish.” You mean like Reagan Bush was?

With these two harridans against Ryan, Romney knows he’s onto something.

But at the New Yorker, Ryan Lizza pouts that Ryan “has no significant private sector experience.” You mean like Obama and Biden?

Jim Messina, Obama’s campaign manager, called him a “radical Republican.”

At americanthinker.com, Alan Halbert says thanks.

The last time this term reverberated so loudly through the Capitol and the nation was during the troubled times leading up to the Civil War and during reconstruction after the war (1854 to 1877).

Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan are on the right side of history when the Democrats are using this “hallowed” term once again. The Republicans gave this nation back its rightful heritage, washed away the sins of slavery, and cleansed the stain against the nations honor by bringing “freedom” to an enslaved people.

On his radio show this morning, Larry Kudlow had nothing but praise for Ryan who worked under Jack Kemp at one time. Others agree.

At legalinsurrection, Professor Jacobs says “the choice of Paul Ryan, and the reaction, finally got me off the donation sideline.”

Redstate’s Erik Erickson sayd it is “not a safe pick…suggests Mitt Romney knows he needs to shift momentum…Paul Ryan works.”

At Blogs for Victory,

Mitt Romney has solidified the conservative credentials of the ticket, and has positioned the conservative movement for the future with the pick of Paul Ryan! And I couldn’t be more pleased. As a seven term congressional representative and Chair of the House Budget Committee, Ryan has proven that he can appeal to the electorate, and win in a very blue state. He also has a unique ability to expose the lunacy of liberal policy, and articulate it in a very common sense manner. Democrats need to be very worried, and this may also prompt Obama to dump Biden, because let’s face it, Ryan is smarter, younger and has more common sense than either one of them on every issue. This is a great pick Mitt, well done.

Talk show host and scholar Hugh Hewitt says:

The theme of “the choice” is a good one, and the promise by both Governor Romney and Representative Ryan of a serious campaign of ideas contrasts very well with the politics of personal destruction coming out of Chicago. Ryan’s youth, energy and obvious command of details and arguments adds a great deal to Romney’s already considerable appeal, and the Badger State just went into the red column, rearranging the map in a stroke. Ryan’s Catholicism is of the serious sort and will also help Governor Romney up and down the line of battleground states.

Ryan is prime time ready and also very ready to be president, a man who came close to running himself and who had a large base of support to do so. Almost every serious journalist in America has had at least one sit-down with Ryan over the past few years, and the links to a few of the transcripts of our lengthy interviews from 2011 and 2012 are below. Congressman Ryan is always prepared, always quick on his feet, and always full of good humor and sincere curiosity…
With Ryan’s selection, Romney has reconnected the Reagan era with the rising generation. Ryan is a Bill Bennett-Jack Kemp protege, and a son of the midwest. It is powerful combo with Mitt Romney, the brilliant son-of-Michigan who was capable of rising in the east and saving a western Olympics.

At PJMedia Roger Kimball says:

I’ve been saying for some time now that Romney will beat Obama by a landslide. His choice of Wisconsin Congressman Paul Ryan as a running mate makes me even more confident that Romney will trounce Mr. Hope ’n Change. Ryan is an adult. Unlike Joe Biden, he does not regularly give the impression of having suffered a lobotomy. Ryan, unlike the entire Democratic establishment, understands that money does not come from the stork. He understands that individual liberty and limited government go together, and, what’s more, he is in favor of individual liberty, which the Democratic establishment certainly is not. He is energetic, articulate, personable, and mature.

At Breitbart.com the headline is “Game On: Ryan Pick Begins Debate for America.”

At Powerline John Hinderaker says “Romney Doubles down on Competence.”

I admit to some surprise. Presumably Mitt Romney doesn’t think that the Milwaukee suburbs are the key to the White House, or the Eagle Scout demographic will swing the election. So the only explanation is that Romney wants the most competent ticket possible. When was the last time we had a national ticket with this much mathematical skill, or knowledge of finance? Probably never.

So Romney wants to contrast the serious guys who are out to save the country with the buffoonish and dishonest political hacks, Obama and Biden. Well, the contrast is real. But whether the voters will see it that way is another matter. One thing we can be sure of is that Ryan will perform brilliantly on the issues; especially, of course, the budget. Which could be important: Obama’s budgetary fecklessness should be his greatest liability, yet it seems often to be forgotten in more general discussion of the economy. If Ryan helps focus more attention on the budget and the nation’s crushing debt, it will be a plus.

Hot Air’s Erika Johnsen believes that “Paul Ryan is totally ready for his close up.” She gives plenty of samples to back this up. Take a look at: http://hotair.com/archives/2012/08/11/videos-paul-ryan-is-totally-ready-for-his-close-up/

Romney Picks Well

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“We face a choice of 2 futures: stay on President’s path of debt & decline, or renew American idea & restore prosperity”

In a tweet, Paul Ryan summed up the whole presidential campaign. He also showed why his choice as Romney’s running mate is shrewd.

Yesterday on his radio program Rush Limbaugh was tearing his hair out. He has wanted the campaign to be a choice between the stark differences offered by conservatism and liberalism. Limbaugh read a column by Charles Krauthammer underscoring that ideology must be the election issue and rejoiced at his perspicacity.

Today Limbaugh and Krauthammer should be happy, as should conservatives throughout the country.

Although I was leaning towards Marco Rubio, I have seen Paul Ryan mow down liberal arguments about the economy like a lumberjack on steroids. As chairman of the House Budget committee he has a reservoir of knowledge on facts and figures and has learned how to deliver them in a way that is understandable.

When Obama met with legislators to discuss Obamacare it was Ryan who stood out as the best opposing voice. Since the Dems have liked to portray him as someone who would throw a wheelchaired granny over the cliff, Ryan should be accustomed to this attack and armed for it.

Being Catholic is another point in Ryan’s favor. Republicans need the Catholic vote and Ryan has agreed with the Church on its insistence on freedom of religion under attack in Obamacare.

Being from Wisconsin helps, too. Wisconsin has been leading the way towards reform for the past two years. Governor Scott Walker and RNC Chairman Reince Priebus are both from Wisconsin and have been steadfast in pushing conservative principles. It’s a swing state that keeps going red; maybe this will help push it into the red column on election day.

Conservatives who wondered if Romney could take it to Obama just got a yes in Paul Ryan. It puts him firmly on the conservative terra firma and gives us a fighter for the coming fray.

Things You Don’t Know About Mitt Romney!

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Hat tip Joe Septa and the merry gang of ad makers at the White House, I found out these terrible facts about Mitt. I think you should know them, too, before you pull the lever in November.

Someone in the Obama campaign – it doesn’t matter who! – saw this and reported it. You don’t need to know the details. Really.

But..

Mitt will go to the express lane at the supermarket with 25-30 items when the limit is 15!

As governor, Mitt and his family parked in handicapped zones, knowing they’d get the ticket fixed!

Mitt Romney never sent me a get well soon card when my appendix came out. That’s how callous he is. Just because he was running Massachusetts at the time is no excuse.

Romney likes to make robo calls himself at dinner time, just to interrupt everyone’s meal. Through the use of drones from his super secret locations he can tell when every American eats and thus interrupt homey, quality time meals with middle class Americans!

His dog would poop on others’ yards and he never picked it up!

Romney threw away old paint cans at dumps without being environmentally safe. No wonder there is global warming!

He likes to break CFL lightbulbs and then run away, particularly in Democrat representatives’ offices.

Ann would put tooth fairy money out for the kids and Mitt would go and steal it. Ditto their candy on Halloween.

When he meets babies on the stump, Mitt likes to pinch them til they cry.

He likes to kick dogs before he ties them to the roof of his car.

What you don’t know about this menace makes Obama’s high unemployment rates, out of control deficit, lack of records from any part of his life, Solyndra scandal, Fast and Furious deaths, disposing of Medicare in Obamacare, terrible housing market and slump in retail sales pale in comparison, doesn’t it.

At least that’s what they’re hoping for in November.

More Theories on Roberts’ Switch

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Former Shelby GOP Chairman Lang Wiseman called my attention to the Volokh Conspiracy blog which has been exploring the Roberts’ decision. Rush Limbaugh also referenced it and Mark Levin looked at the ruling and concluded that Chief Justice Roberts changed his opinion on Obamacare late in the game.

You can follow his reasoning in several articles at volokh.com.

While there’s no doubt that his switch was a disaster for those of us who value freedom, there is no other option than to try to pick out something helpful out of this um, mess. Many of us spent hours and hours of prayers for years on this topic. God may not have appeared to grant us this decision, but we must find a way to fight on.

So this from the Volokh Conspiracy may be helpful:

Georgetown law professor Neal Katyal is a highly respected liberal constitutional law scholar. He also argued several of the individual mandate cases for the Obama administration in the lower courts. In this recent New York Times op ed, he suggests that the result may well have been a “Pyrrhic victory” for federal power:

The obvious victor in the Supreme Court’s health care decision was President Obama, who risked vast amounts of political capital to pass the Affordable Care Act….

But there was a subtle loser too, and that is the federal government. By opening new avenues for the courts to rewrite the law, the federal government may have won the battle but lost the war….

The health care decision also contains the seeds for a potential restructuring of federal-state relations. For example, until now, it had been understood that when the federal government gave money to a state in exchange for the state’s doing something, the federal government was free to do so as long as a reasonable relationship existed between the federal funds and the act the federal government wanted the state to perform.

In potentially ominous language, the decision says, for the first time, that such a threat is coercive and that the states cannot be penalized for not expanding their Medicaid coverage after receiving funds….

This was the first significant loss for the federal government’s spending power in decades….

Of equal concern is the court’s analysis of the constitutionality of the individual mandate. While the court upheld the mandate, it did so by rejecting the federal government’s claim that it was regulating commerce.

I hope the states can do something against this. I hope Gov. Haslam does not meekly bow to the Obama machine. We are hampered by having a Democrat as our Attorney General, but Haslam and the Republican legislature must act.

Of course, the best thing would be to elect Mitt Romney and a Republican Senate. Even then it will be hard and not assured.

Perseverance is a virtue not respected much today, but it must be followed.

Obamacare and Tennessee

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Here’s what Governor Haslam had to say on yesterday’s Supreme Court ruling:

Here’s what Lt. Gov. Ron Ramsey had to say:

Dear Friend,

As you likely have heard by now, today the Supreme Court upheld
Obamacare’s individual mandate calling it what the Obama administration had always asserted it was not: a large new tax. In a shocking move, Chief Justice Roberts sided with the left – betraying the high hopes so many conservatives had for him.

It is intensely disappointing that this court failed to recognize what constitutionalists and conservatives know deep in their hearts: A federal government which can coerce its people to buy a product is a government unrestrained and out of control. Democrat Governor Phil Bredesen called Obamacare the ‘mother of all unfunded mandates’ and stated it will cost Tennesseans 1.1 billion dollars in the next few years.

However, the fight does not end here. The court may have made its decision today but the people have yet to speak. When they do, Mitt Romney will be elected president and I will do all I can to aid him as he fulfills his solemn promise to repeal this insidious law.

I hope you will join me this election season and work hard to elect true conservatives committed to preserving our liberty. This is not an end. This is a beginning. The final battle for our liberty has just begun.

And from State Republican Party Chairman Chris Devaney:

Fellow Republicans,

The Supreme Court may have made its unpopular verdict on Obamacare, but the real verdict will be in November when our voices are heard.

We have known since the day Obamacare was rammed through Congress at the final hour that the law was bad. We knew that this new law would add to the deficit, increase taxes, grow the national debt, and raise the cost of health care services.

For months we listened to President Obama try to convince the American people that his new law was not a tax. However, today the nation’s highest court called it just that, a tax.

While America faced a difficult recession, President Obama and Democrats passed a law with 21 tax increases costing more than $675 billion over the next 10 years.

So much for defending the middle class.

After more than 3 years since Obama took office the effects of his disastrous policies are obvious; our economy continues to struggle, millions of Americans are still unemployed, and our National Debt is nearly $16 trillion.

Today we know that the only way we can fix the problems caused by Obamacare is to repeal it and replace it. To do that we must put Republicans in office and Mitt Romney in the White House.

A Sick Decision

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What’s in the water in Washington, D.C.? It seems to take average, clear headed, freedom loving and intelligent people and turn them into puffy headed selfish tyrants of the American people. Chief Justice Roberts, why?

Did someone threaten you? Did someone give you your thirty pieces of silver? Did they seduce you at their Washington elitist parties and media? Clearly you are not a man for all seasons.

Roberts, you indicated in your decision that you wanted to give the choice back to the American people and let them decide via elections. If we followed that way of thinking, why does the Supreme Court exist at all? Why don’t we just let every American vote online for what we should do. You have taken what’s right and just out of your decision and punted it back to politicians.

Speaker Boehner, you warned against our having a gloatfest. Do you think President Obama will heed those words?

I just heard Mitt Romney give his comment on the decision. Good God, man! Could you feel a little passion about the issue? You called the ruling “troubling.” Troubling? Troubling is a noise in your car engine. Troubling is an irritating cough. Troubling is when the offspring disobeys. Putting the largest tax increase in history on middle class people, eviscerating the pool of doctors for the future, making everyone wait for medical help even under severe ailments is DISASTER.

And Mitt, don’t talk about the Chamber of Commerce worried about a slump in jobs. People don’t want to here statistics at such an emotional time. Saying it’s a “time of choice” hardly gets busloads to the polls to vote for you. It’s “important to repeal and replace it” is an understatement, Governor.

Many of us feel we are living in an alternate universe. Everything that should be obviously right is wrong and vice versa. Tap into this.

Rush Limbaugh just asked how many embarrassed journalists there are this morning. He was referring to those who castigated Roberts as a right wing nut job when it looked like he would strike down the mandate. Sorry, Rush, but there are never any embarrassed journalists. They just shrug and move on to the next victim.

And, Justice Roberts, ever hear of “no taxation without representation”? You have just given Obama the power to tax us without putting it to a vote in Congress. Surely, that strikes you as wrong. Now he can bypass Congress with your blessing.

Weren’t you paying attention, Justice Roberts, when President Obama insisted that the mandate wasn’t a tax? Was he just being a jokester? Are you deaf? Did you miss that? The logic on it boils down to he loves me, he loves me not, he loves me, he loves me not. It’s a tax, it isn’t, it’s a tax, no it’s not. Just pick one.

Whatever happened to freedom of religion? Have you, Justice Roberts, supposed Catholic, just told the Church that they have to provide contraceptives and abortions? If so, they should start shutting them down now. Otherwise, they oppose a real and true authority.

By the way, veterans: Did you see that the Supreme Court ruled also that it is not a crime to lie about your medals? If you received a medal of honor but were sitting somewhere safe while your brothers were in battle but claimed to be a hero, it’s OK with them. How do you feel about that?

The kindest thing I can say, Justice Roberts, is that perhaps you were suffering from an epileptic fit when making this decision. It’s a malady you suffer from, one that liberals suggested makes you ineligible for the High Court.

I guess that’s not a worry for you, though. You’ll manage to get your necessary health care. Unfortunately for the rest of us, that is now in doubt.