Was Chief Justice Roberts Blackmailed Into Supporting Obamacare? Maybe.

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• One thing for certain, Roberts is a traitor.

• well I guess it can be challenged once they start actually collecting the tax on it - and I'm sure things will be shitty enough by january that it might have some support.

  what a pipe dream, though.

• What happens now that we know he's a cowardly dick? I mean, we knew that before he practically made it impossible to repeal Obamacare. Had he been a real stand up guy, we wouldn't have had a second term with the Self-Made Orgasmster and we wouldn't be dealing with all of the "take their f***ing rights away from them before they wake up and find out they've been totally screwed!"

• All of the "filthy five" need to be arrested immediately.

• It might be quicker to find the one or two people in the government who AREN'T blackmailed.

• I thought this was an interesting premise. However, when you look at all the Nazis who headed for South America after WW2, it's not an impossible stretch to adopt 2 blond-haired blue-eyed kids from there.

• I thought the exact same thing about 2 days ago.
  His children were not born in South America, they were born in Ireland, at least according to Robert's law partner and friend, and Time magazine.
  According to Time magazine, they were born in Ireland:

  "Jack McCay, law partner of Roberts' wife Jane and a friend, speaks of the couple's adoption of John (Jack) and Josephine, born in Ireland 4 1/2 months apart. "As frequently happens when you go through the adoption process, some of the efforts weren't successful, and it continued for a time ... But when the opportunity came along to have not just one but two kids, they took both babies without blinking."

  http://www.time.com/time/press_releases/article/0,8599,1086120,00.html
  http://underneaththeirrobes.blogs.com/main/2005/08/the_roberts_ado.html

• Their seems to be a lot of that going on with this administration here lately. Bribes, lies, and intimidation, meanwhile nobody seems to remember anything.

  • It's something in the water in Chicago, I think. It totally kills all memory brain cells.

• I think I posted that thought on IHTM sometime back. Anyway I posted it somewhere. There is either a sex scandal or some tax improprieties or both. Something else we will never know as all of this will be swept under the rug until it goes away and then it's back to scumbaggery as usual.

• That decision always seemed like it was based more on a fear of pissing the wrong people off than an urge to uphold the constitution.

  • That was what I boiled it down to once I got past the notion of "we're all truly f*cked" subsequent to that bit of juris imprudence.