Chief Justice Roberts: Crazy Genius or Benedict Arnold?

When we heard the news this morning that the majority of the deeply-divided Supreme Court of the United States had struck down the individual mandate, we all took a collective breath. However, as is now typical of the Court, they again split the baby. Instead of allowing the ironically-named Affordable Care Act to stand on the mandate/criminality aspect of the law, they let it stand using Art. I, Sec. 8, which allows congress to tax anything and everything. The most telling bit of the Roberts-written 5-4 majority decision was that he stated it wasn't the Court's job to save the voters from the people that they elected to write and execute laws. That is actually very true. However, what does one do when the people who we believed to be trustworthy enough to keep themselves in check keep seizing more power and control? Isn't it then the Supreme Court's job to tell the government where they have overstepped their bounds and to try and keep them in the pen that our founding fathers put them in?

Tea Party groups were formed because of this very issue, and like the phoenix rising from the ashes, they are re-energizing themselves, and have probably gained more traction because of this god-awful attack on the private sector. They have a big uphill battle ahead still; as has been proven time and again (most recently with Orrin Hatch's primary victory in Utah), tea party candidates don't always get the blue ribbon at the fair, and we're running out of time to replace all of the old bastards. When they lose, usually it's because of voter fraud (as we saw with the corrupt and dismal Senator Lisa Murkowski, RINO-Alaska). Sometimes it's due to lack of money, sometimes it's due to our own stupid so-called Republican voters, who still refuse to vote for someone that hasn't been in office for a bazillion years. If you're not from the Moon and you have a voter's registration card, and you're not for term limits by now, then you're just a damned fool.

But back to the issue at hand. I am guessing Roberts is telling congress that they need to keep themselves in check. The Supreme Court should not be relied on as the enforcement arm of the Republican Party just because they lack the votes to do something legislatively. It becomes too easy for the John Boehners and the Mitch McConnells of the world to hide behind some black robes and say, "we'll get our justice in court!" From the psych couch, it would seem that passive-aggressive behavior is becoming the norm with this bunch, while the Democrats are following in lockstep with a narcissistic borderline sociopath.


On the plus side, the squishy Justice Kennedy did agree that this whole plan was bollocks from the get-go and said as such (shocking I know). Perhaps there's hope for him at least.

Also, President Obama will be forced to have to deal with the fact that the official word is that this is a T-A-X. If Mittens Romney is a smart man - and I do believe he is - and if he has the chutzpah that John McCain lacked in 2008, then this election cycle should be fun. All he has to do is run against the wreck of a record, the projected tax increase on the ever-eroding middle class, and show the mountainous effects that this "tax" will have on small business. He will have to negotiate the troublesome waters of his own health care plan initiated in Massachussetts, but this has the promise of being a real victory for the 10th Amendment. Romney only has to say that states should have the option of having their own plan if they so choose - vote with your feet. Of course, he will have to actually do more than go through the motions on the federal law repeal, and he will have to use a lot of those Bain Capital skills to clean out the waste in Washington, but so much the better.

And in case Romney needs any reminders on how quickly government can spin out of control, he can (and SHOULD) keep Ron Paul around as his Treasury Secretary.

It could happen! Of course, monkeys might also fly out of my butt. Stay tuned.

In the meantime, read this uplifting blog from Erick Erickson at Red State:

http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthread.php?382044-Erick-Erickson-defends-John-Roberts-re-Obamacare-SCOTUS-decision&p=4516550