these tasty crumbs!
Everything is consolation prize for conservatives from the Republican party and their Supreme Court nominees. Meanwhile, the country drifts further and further to the left, all while we pretend to be winning while putting Republicans in office.
Am I the only one who see’s this whole thing as a blessing. The fight is now out in the open and Obama will sign his political death warrant.
The limitation on the Commerce Clause is incredibly important. We might not be happy with the ruling on taxes (which will be a fight for another day), but if Congress had been allowed to use the Commerce Clause to mandate behavior then we would be in infinitely worse trouble.
george, you little bow-tied fagot... there is never Victory in losing. George S. Patton said it and Rush Limbaugh said it.
LLS
There were no victories. True, the Court struck down the unlimited use of the Commerce Clause. But Robert’s ruling has opened a Pandora’s Box regarding both Congress’ ability to tax (now unlimited) and the Court’s inclination to blatantly legislate from the bench in order to “fix” constitutional problems with congressional intent. It has also given the court the prerogative to usurp the tax power from congress by assigning itself the seemingly arbitrary authority to decided what is and what isn’t a tax.
This is the most egregious, flimsy and whimsical decision in decades that has ripped a huge hole in the separation of powers doctrine. A dark day for the Republic indeed.
The consolation prize is stricter interpretation of the Commerce Clause?
Why?
The Leftist judges will just invent new laws or new interpretations to get around it.
Will’s mind is no longer working well.
This is an unmitigated disaster and paves the way for Fascism.
I don’t like the ruling, but let’s be clear, it’s a narrow and rather hollow Obama victory that actually helps our side to argue it is a tax after all to then come back later and repeal it.
It would have been much worse if either of these two events transpired: the court upheld it based on Commerce Clause grounds OR the court stuck the mandate but not the law.
In fact, the left-wing siate has a good article up about how this frankly in the long-term benefits the conservative side more based upon the Commerce Clause issue. The tax issue is a really small argument and frankly isn’t a major expansion of federal power since it can be easily fixed in later rulings. If they had upheld it based on Commerce Clause grounds, it would have been such.
IT’S STILL A BAD RULING!!!! But, about the least bad it could be upholding the law with much good for our side as well.
It’s far from over. Don’t give up hope.
some consolation prize.
The commerce clause has run its course and now the left - through Roberts - has moved to phase two which is even more onerous.
Has the bill to repeal Obamacare been introduced yet?
“THIS is the worst piece that I have ever read by george will”
Mark Levin 6/28/12