It was OUR responsibility to start with. Our representatives & the president, elected by US, not the Supreme Court, foisted this mess upon us. We need to fix our mess and start getting involved in electing those who will truly do the people’s will not worry about whether or not they’re going to get re-elected. If they don’t do what we want when they get to DC, we need to send them home. Easy? H*ll no. Can we do it? We have the ability, but do we have the will? Huge wake up call. The government is “by the people, for the people”. We the people have let ourselves be eliminated as a factor in our government. It is currently ‘by politicians, for politicians’. I don’t like Roberts ruling, but it is not his job to save us from ourselves and if we think that is so, then we are no better than all the folks who think the government is the ‘be all, end all’ and stand there with their hand out for freebies. This country, as founded & originally intended, requires WORK & involvement. If we want that kind of country, we better get REAL BUSY, REAL SOON!!!
We may not agree on his decision, but basically he has for the future CHECKMATED any future Democrat Bait and Switch legislation from happening.
Roberts upheld Congress right to TAX, that is law, but what he then did was stop the FRAUD and DECEIT of calling a TAX, fees, penalties, etc.
Based on this, what Democrat now wants to stand by this Bill, being that it is a TAX, (as we all knew it was anyway) Total Repeal is coming.
We need to think, not with emotions, but with seeing the wisdom of what Justice Roberts handed us for any future Legislative business and told us to now go out and make sure it is repealed.
In my opinion, Justice Roberts just snookered the Democrats. Checkmate.
This is all just my opinion and seems like it is growing. I will not debate anyone on this, don't bother. I too wanted the Obamacare bill voted down by the Supreme, but in 30 mins. common sense clicked in and I saw what Roberts did.
Remember all those conservative Democrats who ran for Congress in 2006? Who were oh-so-responsible, oh-so-patriotic when Rahm Emanuel and Nancy Pelosi presented them to the voters?
And oh-so-honest, not like the Republican porkucrats and bridge-to-nowhere access-capitalist grafters and bagmen? ("Cold Cash" Jefferson interrupted that narrative of squeaky-clean Democrat candidates for a while .... and now Charlie Rangel and three or four others, but hey, that was the pitch, remember?)
An entire political party, from its congressional leadership on down, told historic, monumental lies to get the chance to thrust roots and parasitic haustoria of dependency into the People, binding the health-needy and health-nervous, such as single mothers, tightly to the Party and the State (as in totalitarian Communist countries), thus wittingly and cunningly replicating the Communist model in the United States, replete with lockstep, party-line voting by captive "slave" representatives, the same ones who were represented to the People as exemplars of American virtue.
It is Roberts duty to rule on Constitutionality.. Not to change the rules to make it fit the Constitution.
Roberts did not do that.
Just like the Supreme Court has done on the Birth Certificate. They just passed the Buck.