June 28, 2012 |
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When Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker beat back a recall effort, we learned that conservatives
aren't exactly gracious in victory.
On Thursday, when Chief Justice John Roberts joined the Supreme Court's
moderate bloc to uphold ObamaCare. we discovered that the Right is
nothing less than unhinged in defeat.
The remarkable thing about the heated debates about the law over the
last three years is just how modest these reforms really are, especially
when one considers how screwed up our healthcare system was to begin
with.
The reality is that there is no "government takeover" underway. Some
lower-middle-class families are going to get some subsidies to buy
insurance, maybe ten million or so more poor people will be eligible for
Medicaid. Insurers will get some new regulations that are popular even
among Republicans.
And with Thursday's ruling, the government can no longer mandate that
you carry insurance, it can only levy a small tax on those who don't.
The real-world impact of that? Only an estimated 1 percent of the
population will face the tax –
a tax that maxes out at 1 percent -- and
it may not even be enforceable!
But for the Right, a moderate expansion of health coverage and some new
insurance regulations are, simply put, the worst things that ever
happened. How bad is it? Well imagine that in the midst of the
Holocaust, a meteor crashed to earth, destroying the entire planet. And
as planet Earth exploded, it opened up a tear in the space-time
continuum that swallowed up the entire galaxy. Thursday's ruling was,
apparently,
almost that bad.
For your reading pleasure, we've collected some of the most hilariously over-the-top freakouts we've seen. Enjoy!
1. Totally Not Exaggerating!
Baby-faced Breitbart editor Ben Shapiro offers a coolly dispassionate analysis of yesterday's ruling...
2. Wait Until They Discover That They Use the Metric System
BuzzFeed
found
a bunch of conservatives so freaked out by this tyranny that they're
throwing in the towel and heading north to that right-wing paradise
known as Canada – a place that has both universal healthcare and gay
marriage...
3. Health Insurance Is So Much Worse Than the Murder of 3,000 People
It's a good thing Mike Pence
is a reasonable conservative.
In a closed door House GOP meeting Thursday, Indiana congressman and
gubernatorial candidate Mike Pence likened the Supreme Court's ruling
upholding the Democratic health care law to the Sept. 11 terrorist
attacks, according to several sources present.
He immediately apologized.
4. Grab Your Musket and Tri-Corner Hat!
Did you know that the Founding Fathers fought a revolution to keep people uninsured. It's true!
Wonkette:
Now that poors can get health insurance because the demon Supreme
Court sided with that commie muslin NOBAMA fella, the only way to defend
our freedom is armed insurrection! Mount up and ride to the sound of
the gun says former Michigan Republican Party spokesman Matthew Davis.
Matthew Davis, an attorney in Lansing, sent the email moments after
the Supreme Court ruling to numerous new media outlets and limited
government activists with the headline: “Is Armed Rebellion Now
Justified?”
Davis added his own personal note saying, “… here’s my response. And yes, I mean it.”
“There are times government has to do things to get what it wants
and holds a gun to your head,” Davis said. “I’m saying at some point, we
have to ask the question when do we turn that gun around and say no and
resist.
5. Revolution Is in the Air
Davis wasn't alone. Here's Matthew Vadum, author of
Zombie Acorn Is Coming to Eat Your Face!
6. A Constitutional Scholar He Is Not...
Rand Paul really needs to peruse
Article 3...
Politico:
Sen. Rand Paul doesn’t think the Supreme Court gets the last word on what’s constitutional.
The Kentucky Republican belittled the high court’s health care decision as the flawed opinion of just a “couple people.”
“Just because a couple people on the Supreme Court declare something
to be ‘constitutional’ does not make it so. The whole thing remains
unconstitutional,” the freshman lawmaker said in a statement.
7. Health Insurance Is Exactly Like Slavery
It's not just Ben Shapiro – Richard Viguerie, a stalwart of the conservative movement since the Goldwater days,
also reminisced about Dred Scott.
Today, a 5-4 majority of the Supreme Court of the United States – the
body the Framers of the Constitution created to protect the citizenry
from tyranny – has chosen to join infamous courts of the past, such as
the Taney Court that made the Dred Scott v. Sanford decision finding that slaves had no rights and the Fuller Court that ruled to institutionalize Jim Crow discrimination in Plessy v. Ferguson in stripping Americans of their freedom.
8. You Wouldn't Like Me When I'm Angry
An unspoken virtue of Obamacare is that it might just make Glenn Beck's head explode. From his site,
The Blaze:
Needless to say, the news [of the ruling] went over like a lead
balloon with Glenn Beck and his radio co-hosts Pat and Stu — so much so
that they nearly violated FCC language requirements.
When Beck and his team found out that it was in fact Roberts’ decision
that pushed the bill through, they were visibly and audibly stunned.
Beck surmised that the reason for Roberts’ decision likely hinges on the
pervasive nature of progressivism.
“Progressivism is a disease and it is in both parties” Beck said.
“Progressives are fascists.”
Beck, looking on the one positive he feels to have come from this decision, said that the “Lord works in mysterious ways.”
OK, Glenn Beck.
9. John Roberts: Traitor!
Every fundamentalist religion abhors apostates, and American conservatism is no exception. As Alex Seitz-Wald
detailed in Salon, the Chief Justice was treated to an abundance of bile.
“It’s patently absurd,” seethed Seton Motley, a conservative activist
with LessGovernment.org. “This is the umpire calling the game for the
first five innings, and then putting on a cap and glove and play first
base...
“I have a message for Chief Justice Roberts,” Dean Clancy of the Tea
Party group Freedomworks declared over the loudspeaker after the ruling
came down. “The power to tax is the power to destroy”...
Bryan Fischer, the prominent Christian-right activist, toldBuzzFeed’s
Rosie Gray that Roberts “is going down in history as the justice that
shredded the Constitution and turned it into a worthless piece of
parchment”
10. Or Is He?
Unlike most constitutional experts, some conservative bloggers thought that the law was so
obviously unconstitutional that
something fishy must be going on...
Someone got to Roberts. I bet they got to him and told him he has to
vote this way or members of his family – kids, wife, parents, whoever –
were going to be killed.
Later this afternoon, it’s going to come out that Roberts was coerced.
... the whole story will come out, Roberts will issue his REAL opinion,
and Obama and Axelrod will be taken away in handcuffs.
Hey, one can always hope!
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