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ObamaCare Armageddon Day 5: The Right Declares John Roberts a Tyrannical Rodney King
The right’s meltdown over the Supreme Court’s healthcare ruling took a new turn today as Rush Limbaugh compared John Roberts to Rodney King and Mark Levin took to Fox News to call him a tyrant.
On his radio show today Rush Limbaugh compared Chief Justice Roberts to Rodney King. Limbaugh said, “John Roberts, the Rodney King of chief justices. Can’t we all just get along? Except Chief Justice Roberts didn’t drown in his swimming pool, as Rodney King did. Ladies and gentlemen, on Friday, when I opened the program I told you I felt sick, and I spent the next two hours explaining why I felt sick. Today I’m scared. I’m a combination of angry and scared. Because if this CBS report from Jan Crawford is accurate, and I happen to believe that it is, she cites two sources, she doesn’t name them. But I happen to believe that her report is true. Let me summarize it for you. That the chief justice did indeed cave to left-wing media pressure. And, by the way, this does lend credence to the notion that Obama was told. I’ll explain how. Just a wild guess on that. She doesn’t get into that in the story.”
While Limbaugh was declaring Roberts to the weakest thing since Bristol Palin’s reality show ratings, Mark Levin was on Fox News screaming at the top of his girlish voice that John Roberts is a tyrant.
On Neil Cavuto’s show, Levin said, “When we have a Chief Justice of the United States who abandons principle, and frankly, abandons the constitution and rewrites it as if he is a one man constitutional convention, that’s tyranny. It’s flat out tyranny, and I hear all the talk about the politics of it. Is it a tax? Is it punishment? Let’s call it a cucumber. Ok? Let’s pretend it’s a cucumber. The fact of the matter is what Roberts did and the four leftists on the court who went along with him is to concoct an argument out of a provision in the constitution, rewrite the constitution, rewrite the statute, and now we have ObamaCare. And here’s the problem, even if we repeal ObamaCare, how do we repeal this decision? How do we shut the door that he flung open to all of this enormous power that the government is going to have against the individual now?”
The right is caught in their usual persecution conundrum over the healthcare ruling. They can’t decide whether Roberts is weak kneed traitor, or he is a horrible tyrant who is oppressing them all. Since conservatives exist in a constantly paranoid oppressed state of being, Levin’s argument is the one most likely to keep them up at night clutching on to their night sweat stained sheets worrying about the Supreme Court that is out to get them.
These battling delusions are common inside the conservative mind. The right still hasn’t decided whether Barack Obama is a weak pushover or brutal despot who spends his every waking moment devising ways to steal their liberties.
The conservative freakout over the ObamaCare decision is showing no signs of letting up. If anything, as days pass the right is working itself into even more of a frenzy.
This is the second worst right wing freakout of the past four years. The worst was when Obama won the election. After the 2008 election their hysteria lasted for months, and it can be argued is still continuing at this very moment.
The only thing worse than the right’s ObamaCare meltdown will be the end of days that will commence if Obama wins reelection. The dirty little secret about conservatism is that the whole political theory is based on negativity and fear. When something like the Supreme Court’s healthcare ruling happens, the movement’s collective fear runs wild.
If you think they are scared now, wait until you see what happens when Obama wins reelection.
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A Walkaway
Jul. 2nd, 2012 at 7:20 pm
It’s been only a couple of days since there was a blog entry about threats of insurrection over the ACA. The ramping up of the rhetoric about the ACA is very troubling.
I’m most worried that the “authorities” will ignore the rhetoric as “freedom of speech” and get caught with their pants down… and the military will be stymied by the dominionists that have infiltrated it.
Reynardine
Jul. 2nd, 2012 at 7:31 pm
I don’t care to see what happens if Obama wins and I really don’t care to see what happens if he loses. And I trust what Chief Justice Roberts has seen is that what he used to think was “his” side no longer consists of William F. Buckley or Barry Goldwater. They’re nuts people who can’t reason, and they’re vindictive.
There is speculation that the Supreme Court “leak” is none other than Ginny Thomas, via pillow talk. Thus it was telegraphed that the ACA was supposed to be overturned, and now that Roberts is a “turncoat”. The evidence of the four dissenters, first applying pressure to him to switch his vote back, and then venting a disrespectful wrath when he wouldn’t, indicates to me that whoever they think their boss is, it’s not the Chief Justice. And so, I wonder who…
Reynardine
Jul. 2nd, 2012 at 7:37 pm
In fact, they’re ranting and raving like company hacks whose straw boss actually went out on strike, aren’t they?… Whether he ever does the right thing again or not, I hope for his sake Obama wins the election, so that he doesn’t have a tragic fatal seizure and get replaced by a Romney appointee.
MarkB
Jul. 2nd, 2012 at 7:41 pm
The entire Republican Party, except those left of Reagan (are there any LEFT?), need INTENSE, LONG-TERM THERAPY. ANYTHING that will take them out of circulation for about, oh, 46 months.
Nancy
Jul. 2nd, 2012 at 7:52 pm
Amen!
buckeyewill
Jul. 2nd, 2012 at 7:52 pm
Hey, c’mon!!
John Roberts is A BIG BUSINESS CONSERVATIVE. He’s gonna do what he can to make corporations RICH in the good ol’ USA.
Can’t they see THAT??!!
Reynardine
Jul. 2nd, 2012 at 8:24 pm
No, Buck, they can’t see that. All they can see is that, this time, he disobeyed orders (whose?…)
That Limbaugh compared the Chief Justice to Rodney King is most interesting, because what Mr. King is actually famous for, is getting ferociously beat up.
crystalwolf
Jul. 2nd, 2012 at 9:13 pm
And Rodney King just passed away…
The RW are the biggest WATB ever!
Tanya
Jul. 2nd, 2012 at 8:12 pm
How come all we hear is what rwnj says, where are all these progressives, liberals, to push back…. Every wingnut out their screaming and threating and they are not all in the congress….
Where all the progressives/liberals who not in congress who can slap these wingnuts talking heads down?
Christopher
Jul. 3rd, 2012 at 2:51 pm
Unfortunately this law was never designed to fire up the progressives. It was largely based on ideas that came out of the Heritage Foundation, back in the good ole days when conservatives actually had a constructive idea or two. Now if we had gone with single-payer, that we could have rallied around. With this it’s just a matter of the best we could do, but not enthusiastically.
Thomas Kirkpatrick
Jul. 2nd, 2012 at 10:30 pm
Oh Mr. Limbaugh, Costa Rica, remember Costa Rica?
You are free to go now.
Abby
Jul. 2nd, 2012 at 11:56 pm
“Girlish voice”? Really? You can’t think of any other way to mock Mark Levin other than to use sexism, and, thus, alienate every woman who happens by to read your piece (any any man who truly cares about equality)? Sad, very sad.
Middle Molly
Jul. 3rd, 2012 at 1:06 am
Levin’s voice is just grating and he screeches. But it is a masculine (kinda) screech.
Does anybody listen to that guy?
Reynardine
Jul. 3rd, 2012 at 6:56 pm
Some ethnic groups and family lines don’t exhibit vocal dimorphism, and in that case, it’s more likely that male voices sound “feminine” than that female voices sound “masculine”. But I think in this instance, a more felicitous term would have been “pipsqueaky”.
Ken
Jul. 3rd, 2012 at 10:19 am
We will be glad to impeach Roberts so Obama can get a democratic justice choice in the Court. Be more than glad to help in this hate fest. Then, when Obama is re-elected, he can nominate two or three more. Then we may only have to lynch Scalia, Alito and Slappy.
A Walkaway
Jul. 3rd, 2012 at 12:26 pm
Uh… I wouldn’t even say lynch. That’s going over the line. Get them out of office… impeach them if possible, but lynch? Nope.
Lynching brings back some really bad memories for minorities. It’s not a good word or appropriate to use, as angry as we may be at their tearing down the law.
Anklejive
Jul. 3rd, 2012 at 11:23 am
“The GOP’s delusional conspiracy theories about the chief justice’s health-care ruling are yet more evidence that this is a party now loyal only to its own self-righteous dogmatism,” ~ Robert Shrum. I couldn’t have said it better.
Dan Skinner
Jul. 3rd, 2012 at 1:35 pm
hehehehehehe… I love it. Just love it.
SueinCA
Jul. 3rd, 2012 at 3:03 pm
Perhaps they will finally get themselves into such a tizzy that they will start spinning around so fast that they disappear?