‘You Hear That From the Glenn Beck Crowd’: NBC Reporter Says GOP Might Do Things ‘Constitutionally Afoul of the Law’ to Repeal Obamacare
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Chief Justice John Roberts’s health care ruling has led to rampant speculation about his motives, with many people questioning his conservative credentials and even calling him a traitor. MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” picked up the topic Monday and asserted that it is at least partly the “Glenn Beck crowd” that’s fueling the dissent.
(Related: CBS: Justice Roberts Switched Views to Uphold Health Care Law)
After kicking the segment off by reading a Washington Post Op-ed titled, “John Roberts’s Compromise of 2012,” NBC News reporter Luke Russert explained the idea “that Roberts was originally conservative and then was persuaded by the liberal justices to come on board and sort of chart his own course to do something that would appeal to everybody… is certainly a story that is gaining a lot of traction in D.C.”
And while GOP leadership, like House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) and Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), will not openly attack Roberts, Russert said he has spoken with some “rank-and-file people who are very displeased with them and who might come out publicly and say that this was, that he was a traitor.”
“You sort of hear that from the Glenn Beck crowd,” he added.
“He still has a crowd? I missed that one,” one of his co-panelists replied.
Moving on, Russert went on to say that Roberts’s decision was ultimately about the “historical legacy” of the Supreme Court and that he saved the court from making a politically motivated decision on President Obama’s health care law and looking partisan.
However, even in Russert’s estimation, Obamacare is still faces the threat of repeal come November.
“There’s a chance — it’s a small chance — but it’s possible that the Republicans can get the House, the Senate and the presidency, they will repeal health care through reconciliation. They will do it. It will happen,” he said. Further, the GOP will use “every single trick in the book” to repeal the law, just as “Democrats did to pass it.”
Russert also said it wouldn’t surprise him if some Republicans did things that were seen as “constitutionally afoul of the law” to make sure Obamacare is repealed.
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Comments (103)
RSHLUVER
Posted on July 2, 2012 at 12:39pmLuke Russert is nothing like his father. Tim Russert was a liberal but he was a fair and balanced liberal.
BTW It’s not the Glenn Beck crowd that caused speculation on Justice Roberts switching his health care opinion. It liberal CBS news :
http://www.theyeshivaworld.com/news/General+News/132172/CBS-Report%3A-Chief-Justice-Roberts-Was-Set-To-Strike-Down-ObamaCare,-But-Then-Changed-His-Mind.html
Report Post »disenlightened
Posted on July 2, 2012 at 1:48pmTim Russert was never a friend to conservatives. He was just one of the few liberal journalists who wouldn’t go as far as to trip you in the hallway and steal your lunch money. He was always a flaming liberal who didn’t mind wrecking careers, and this sour fruit of his loins, Lukey, is no different. Russert raised an idiot – an idiot with a soap box and a get-out-of-jail-free-card because his father died.
Report Post »anomnomnommm
Posted on July 2, 2012 at 4:30pmI suggest that everyone see and complete this before you read or discuss anything about Obamacare: http://healthreform.kff.org/quizzes/health-reform-quiz/
Report Post »There are far too many misinformed people on both sides of the issue for there to be any meaningful discussions about it.
brother_ed
Posted on July 3, 2012 at 12:05am@ANOMNOMNOMMM
I didn’t click the link. Consider me too uninformed about the law.
It boils down to this: Can the government force us to buy something? If so, what else can they force us to buy? Hybrids? Cloth diapers? Gym memberships? Vegetables?
Don’t misunderstand me, I believe the Health Care/Insurance system could use a revamp, but this is not the answer.
Report Post »poster
Posted on July 2, 2012 at 12:39pm“NBC Reporter Says GOP Might Do Things ‘Constitutionally Afoul of the Law’ to Repeal Obamacare” –
Sorry, but the Republican Establishment doesn’t have the balls to do that. If they only did.
Report Post »Dave
Posted on July 2, 2012 at 1:27pmits not that they don‘t ’have the balls” its that we generally have too much self respect and hope in America as a whole to do something so low. instead we will repeal it while following the rules the constitution gives to the letter.
Report Post »henryKnox
Posted on July 2, 2012 at 6:18pmWhat the heck is ‘Constitutionally afoul of the law’? If it is Constitutional and afoul of the law then the law is un-Constitutional and should be ignored. This is the mistake that liberals make because they don’t understand that laws must be Constitutional in order to be valid laws. I would love for him to give an example, but I assume he is going to say that they can’t repeal the tax even though the Supremes said it is a tax.
Report Post »Mil Mom
Posted on July 2, 2012 at 10:18pm@poster
Posted on July 2, 2012 at 12:39pm
“NBC Reporter Says GOP Might Do Things ‘Constitutionally Afoul of the Law’ to Repeal Obamacare” –
Sorry, but the Republican Establishment doesn’t have the balls to do that. If they only did
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What law? Watch the cabal running DC,,, the law is whatever they choose to make it into. (Just like our former Constitution before they gutted it!
slr4528
Posted on July 2, 2012 at 12:34pmRussert only got this job because of his father‘s Tim Russert’s untimely death. He received his job out of pity,not intellect or talent. I thought he was suppose to be a reporter,not someone who speculates what will happen. I bet he is popular with the Hollywood crowd and that is all that matters.
Report Post »quarando
Posted on July 2, 2012 at 10:22pmHa Ha… just like Romney
Report Post »RJJinGadsden
Posted on July 2, 2012 at 12:29pmEXPERTS? What experts was he talking about. Did any of those characters even remotely sound as if they knew anything about what they spoke of? LOL, then Upchuck Todd is an expert about being an idiot.
Report Post »OutOfTheAether
Posted on July 2, 2012 at 1:54pmMy thought exactly. What a tool
Report Post »RightUnite
Posted on July 2, 2012 at 12:26pmWhat?? They should be fine with that, as they were fine with Obummers tactics.
Report Post »whatthecrazy
Posted on July 2, 2012 at 12:24pmAs far as i am concerned the whole damn Government has gone AFOUL of the Constitution.
Report Post »snapperman
Posted on July 2, 2012 at 12:22pmIt’s Obama who has refused to protect AZ – and thus the entire country – from the illegals pouring across the border; it’s Obama who lied to the American people about Obamataxcare; it’s Obama who has run the deficit up to the point where the country can never pay it off, forget affording health insurance for all that will provide more than an aspirin a month once implemented.
Report Post »oyster0302
Posted on July 2, 2012 at 12:21pmFederal tax on a pack of cigarettes is $1.01 per pack. This tax pays for childrens health insurance. Under Roberts, Obama care nonsmokers will now be charged $1.01 for every pack of cigarettes they do not smoke.
Report Post »sandstone2
Posted on July 2, 2012 at 12:19pmConstitutionally afoul, you mean like knowingly electing a president who is ineligible to be POTUS? Obama, born a Brit, not legit.
Report Post »DesertRose1960
Posted on July 2, 2012 at 6:21pmPresident Obama was born in Hawaii in 1961 to an American mother. He is an American citizen by Jus Soli and Jus Sanguinis. He would have been eligible to claim his Kenyan citizenship before the age of 18, after that, he lost the right to be a Kenyan. He was over the age of 35 at his election, he had lived in the United States for the last five years before he was elected. He is eligible to be President. Don’t believe everything you see on the stupid Rightwing blogs.
Report Post »michael48
Posted on July 2, 2012 at 8:40pmeligible?? perhaps…qualified ?? to lecure at a red brigade pre-school indoctrination class…perhaps…POTUS???…only to himself and those who pursue serfdom…
Report Post »Mil Mom
Posted on July 2, 2012 at 10:23pm@DesertRose1960
Posted on July 2, 2012 at 6:21pm
President Obama was born in Hawaii in 1961 to an American mother. He is an American citizen by Jus Soli and Jus Sanguinis. He would have been eligible to claim his Kenyan citizenship before the age of 18, after that, he lost the right to be a Kenyan. He was over the age of 35 at his election, he had lived in the United States for the last five years before he was elected. He is eligible to be President. Don’t believe everything you see on the stupid Rightwing blogs.
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Especially if they quote Kenyan newspapers about the “first Kenyan born, American President, or articles about Kenya making a shrine to b o by turning his birthplace into a school.
quarando
Posted on July 2, 2012 at 10:28pmA big part of the reason that the majority of the country doesn’t take the Tea Party seriously is because the Tea Party refuses to live in the real world. Here we are in the midst of global economic, political and ecological catastrophe and you are repeating outlandish conspiracy theories which have zero credible evidence. If you actually care about the country and have any self respect, drop this juvenile behavior and try engaging seriously in one of the many real problems we are facing rather than a made up one.
Report Post »javasport
Posted on July 2, 2012 at 12:19pmScrew it.. pass the ammunition
Report Post »RJJinGadsden
Posted on July 2, 2012 at 12:26pmGet your ammunition while you can. The health care law will eventually be used to go after gun owners one way or another. You know how it is after all an unhealthy exercise.
Report Post »FREDD The WILSON
Posted on July 2, 2012 at 12:18pmObama has given this country ample reasons why he should NOT get 4 more years.Now are the “Repulsicans” going to be able to rally the American voters in November to over ride this and the other Obamanations? Our lives our freedoms our‘s and our children’s future hangs at the edge of a cliff. We have to do our part, by educating and debating with those ignorant sols who don‘t have a clue what’s going on.
Report Post »My Two Cents
Posted on July 2, 2012 at 12:17pmIf Luke Russert has a problem with what the Republicans may or may not do he can hire a lawyer and take it to the Supreme Court.
Report Post »v15
Posted on July 2, 2012 at 12:16pm“Glenn Beck still has a crowd?” I really despise that kind of elitist arrogance! Yeah, he has a crowd! Hell, he has a packed Dallas Cowboys’ Football Stadium, which will be only a small fraction of his “crowd”. Subscribing to Insider Extreme has been one of the best decisions I’ve made in the past couple of years. Even FOX isn’t really “fair and balanced” these days!!
Report Post »encinom
Posted on July 2, 2012 at 12:25pmActually, from his rants it sounds like he has a ton of tickets left for his Mormon Revival event in Dallas. Beck has become Lonesome Rhodes.
RJJinGadsden
Posted on July 2, 2012 at 12:31pmYeah, I caught that too. I would imagine that Beck has more of a crowd than all of these self inflicted elitists combined.
Report Post »Steelhead
Posted on July 2, 2012 at 12:42pmE-mormon revival,lol. I wonder if Glenn will hand out medals again?
Report Post »conservative beckhater
Posted on July 2, 2012 at 12:50pmGlenneth claimed that Homeland Security was causing his little Restoring Love rally difficulties, but perhaps attendance figures are not what he had hoped for so he’s trying to pull the plug on it and blame DHS.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nh4RzSfHdAc
Report Post »Steelhead
Posted on July 2, 2012 at 1:00pmRing- is it true Albert Pujols is going to attend in Dallas
Report Post »v15
Posted on July 2, 2012 at 1:13pm@Conservative Beckhater, I watched the video that you provided a link to and am curious about a couple of things. “When I talk God talks.” I don’t recall Glenn ever saying anything remotely close to that. “Selling FEAR for fun and profit.” How is Glenn selling fear when he sells books that quotes politicians contradicting themselves? Plus, it could be argued that many atheists sell books based off fear of religion. If you think Glenn Beck is a scam then why do you feel the need to follow his every move? I would submit that the left has been the ones selling fear for profit.
Report Post »The-Real-Enrico
Posted on July 2, 2012 at 1:50pm@v15 Agreed. Like the world going to end unless with we stop eating, using energy, breathing and living but you can yourself or the world if you buy your new green product! Don’t forget if you want to cut entitlement spending you are killing old people. My favorite your a hate filled racist and a uncle tom if you criticize the president or Holder.
We got too many hate around here. How about building something instead of tearing down. Go build your on site.
Report Post »v15
Posted on July 2, 2012 at 8:10pm@The Real Enrico, dude you are totally right about the Green Movement. Remember when they pulled this?
Report Post »https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ATTknP8t7JU
That’s fear for profit and control! peace!
bpodlesnik
Posted on July 2, 2012 at 8:32pmPeople still watch MSNBC?
Report Post »Bernice Durdan-Rowland
Posted on July 2, 2012 at 8:35pmGlenn Beck is the only one I can trust – wish he would run for President and he can appoint “like minded” individuals for his cabinet – maybe then we can get back to our civilized America again !!
We have had nothing but “hell” since Obama got in, more turmoil, more chaos, more lies, more hatred, more racism more thuggery !!!!!! I blame Obama for EVERYTHING !!!!!! He is evil and a traitor, big time. Please, God above, help the “good people” of this great America get the evil out of our government and country…….. We can’t do it by ourselves……..Man cannot be trusted now……
Report Post »T-2
Posted on July 2, 2012 at 12:16pmThe crowd that help Glenn get the $10 mill contract stupid.
Report Post »T-2
Posted on July 2, 2012 at 12:20pm$10 mill a year for 5 years.
Report Post »KickinBack
Posted on July 2, 2012 at 12:15pmConsidering that the whole Obama administration is Constitutionally afoul I believe that puts us on even ground.
Report Post »tick-tock2012
Posted on July 2, 2012 at 12:14pmSo, if you think the deciding vote came down to the Marxist Ginsberg, or the socialist Sottemayor, or the other two leftists on the panel, they would hesitate and join the side of justice and constitutonality? NO WAY Jose. They don’t have a guilt riddled bone in their bodies. They would have voted on the side of the Socialist-in-Chief without hesitation. The liberals never cave into pressure from the right. It’s only the conservatives that have a guilty conscious. How do you think Obama won the election.
Report Post »Cavallo
Posted on July 2, 2012 at 12:13pmDoesn’t matter if it gets repealed. The Constitution is damaged, and only an amendment to it will restore freedom and limited government. Until then we are all slaves.
Report Post »BeingThere
Posted on July 2, 2012 at 12:09pmI’ve been in a hospital in a country with socialized medicine, as a visitor thank God!!! Not only did I not want to use the bathroom but I didn’t want to touch anything!!! If you want your relative to get attention prepare to pass out the bribes!!!!
Report Post »DJR
Posted on July 2, 2012 at 12:18pmI’m pretty sure the Glenn Beck crowd is much larger than the Morning Joe crowd. It’s not the job of the justices to “preserve” the supreme court. It’s their job to protect and uphold the Constitution.
Report Post »semby
Posted on July 2, 2012 at 12:08pmRoberts did a great thing.
Report Post »Instead of him declaring Obamacare unconstitutional he will let the voters decide.
Now the rabid liberals won’t be able to trash at least him.
happ77
Posted on July 2, 2012 at 1:17pmRoberts did not do a great thing, his job is not to
Report Post »make it easy for republicans to repeal obamacare
it IS to uphold the Constitution, end of story !! What if obama
wins in Nov ? It’s also not his job to protect the court from
the lib media or public opinion. His job is to uphold the Constitution
Period. If his vote was because he truly believed that was what
he did then he’s just mistaken, if he voted that way for any
other reason he should resign in disgrace.
NHwinter
Posted on July 2, 2012 at 12:07pmThe lies just keep flowing out of the Liberal’s mouths like water over a waterfall. May they choke on their lies.
Glenn Beck Crowd, we believe in small government and the Constitution. Is that so hard to understand MSM? If you say your lies enough you might even believe it yourself, but the American people (at least those with some intelligence) know what is true.
Report Post »canadianlady
Posted on July 2, 2012 at 12:16pmThat “Glenn Beck crowd” is larger than the handful of sheep who still watch the fake news over at NBC. Furthermore, that Glenn Beck crowd pay to watch Glenn Beck. You guys may be wrong about Glenn Beck, but you are right about one thing. The GOP will do whatever it takes to deep six the tyrannical health care bill, or they won’t get elected in November. That bill is as good as dead.
Report Post »encinom
Posted on July 2, 2012 at 12:21pmUnless a women would exercise her Constitutional rights, than the small government Beckerheads want the Government in the doctor’s office between patient and the doctor or if two adults would like the same rights and benefits as other committed couples, than the small government Beckerheads want the government to to determine which is and which isn’t a married couple.
Report Post »My Two Cents
Posted on July 2, 2012 at 12:22pmSince Justice Robert’s set the precedent of allowing us to be taxed for not doing something we should tax the liberal media for not reporting the news. In doing so, we could solve the national debt crisis.
Report Post »RJJinGadsden
Posted on July 2, 2012 at 12:39pmENCINOM, if you want to see government officials stepping in between a physician and his/her patients, just wait until post 2014. Then you will see that on an ever increasing scale.
Report Post »brother_ed
Posted on July 2, 2012 at 12:58pm@ENCINOM
What constitutional rights is the woman going to exercise that I am going to get upset about?
Why is it when a people resist something that isn‘t natural they are considered ’beckerheads’? Do you think that in the progressive utopia – where everyone pitches in for the good of the common man – homosexuality will be tolerated? A homosexual ‘marriage’ does nothing to contribute to society. It neither produces children, nor raises them with any degree of success compared to heterosexual marriages.
Report Post »michael48
Posted on July 2, 2012 at 8:46pminsaneom…that’ll be $5000.00 …spewing dem-wit BS…. tax/penalty/whatever…
Report Post »BeingThere
Posted on July 2, 2012 at 12:06pmAnything you can do to get rid of an unlawful law is lawful!!! Dumb a$$!!!!!
Report Post »kiwi1
Posted on July 2, 2012 at 12:01pmWhat was “constitutionally afoul of the law” was rewriting the darn thing and passing it as a “Tax”. It was not presented to the American people as a “Tax”. I consider this whole thing a Fraud committed against All Americans.
Report Post »rickc34
Posted on July 2, 2012 at 12:07pmYes , read my lips no new taxes. Another Obama Lie
Report Post »CatB
Posted on July 2, 2012 at 12:08pmExactly …
Obamacare = OBAMATAX
Report Post »kickagrandma
Posted on July 2, 2012 at 11:59amWell, that’s a hoot since the “Glenn Beck Crowd” is one of the ONLY “crowds” OBEYING THE CONSTITUTION.
GOD ALMIGHTY, how do YOU stand it? In JESUS’ SWEET NAME, amen.
Report Post »TEARS FOR AMERICA
Posted on July 2, 2012 at 12:04pmYou are right, Grandma…Tea Party Patriots fight for the Constitution and Truth while socialist dems/repubiks are destroying this nation. If these crazies don’t stand up now against this horrible legislation against humanity and do it within the law, then there will be no more America.
Report Post »ColoradoDad
Posted on July 2, 2012 at 12:15pmI’m with you on that one Kickagrandma. I believe it was the “Glenn Beck Crowd” that had the greatest influence on the 2010 elections were they got their azzes whooped! Oh, they just want to keep up the rhetoric dont they? Well, we will see them in November for another substantial azz whooping won’t we? Then let us see what their excuse will be….should be interesting.
OMG 2012
Report Post »Oldphoto678
Posted on July 2, 2012 at 12:16pmJust because you think that your interpretation of the constitution is correct doesn’t mean that it is. Many infantly more learned people disagree with your interpretation.
Your bull about you being the only ones following the constitution is just that, BULL!!!
Lets face it, you people think sarah palin is smart. It‘s no wonder that most americans think you’re idiots. Kick that around in your dull little head.
Report Post »momrules
Posted on July 2, 2012 at 1:08pmYou are correct again KICK. Of course the liberals who LOVE their FREE stuff will continue to lie and call the true Americans names.
Report Post »Their ignorance will eventually lead them to standing in bread lines and hoping that the ones on the death panel will find a reason to let them live.
HKS
Posted on July 2, 2012 at 11:56amThe socialist are just a bunch of free loading Bums that want something for themselves and someone else to pay for it.
Report Post »Freedom1984
Posted on July 2, 2012 at 11:56amThe “Glenn Beck Crowd, will be one of the GROUPS to HELP get AMERICA BACK WHERE SHE BELONGS…” Small government……small, small……
Report Post »CatB
Posted on July 2, 2012 at 12:08pmWith God …..
Report Post »conservative beckhater
Posted on July 2, 2012 at 1:02pmYour god is your business. America is about freedom FROM religion. Don‘t make your superstitious delusional beliefs everyone else’s burden. Keep it to yourself.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nh4RzSfHdAc
Report Post »The-Real-Enrico
Posted on July 2, 2012 at 2:10pm@conservative beckhater Nope. Conservative? Really? What constitution do you read? Freedom of religion buddy. Agreed we are not suppose to have a state religion. But we have the right of religion and speech everywhere even the state just not the right exclude others. The constitution protects us from federal theocracies but religion.
Go read history and the constitution. Then maybe a Bible, it helps with the hate.
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