Sunday, July 01, 2012
I would caution my fellow conservatives on the
frustration they may be enticed to express at Supreme Court Chief Justice John
Roberts. It is unwarranted, and it is unwise.
The reason I state such is that it is my firm belief that
the Roberts' decision on the Obamacare mandate will without question bring
about ultimate doom to the government control of healthcare, and through the
best means possible--not judicial activism--but through the democratic process.
In boxing terminology no one has pulled a "rope-a-dope"
this effective since Muhammad Ali himself. In doing so, it is clear that John
Roberts duped the liberal wing of the Supreme Court into agreeing with him on
calling out President Obama as legislatively dishonest, while assisting the
conservative wing of the court into dismantling punitive measures against the
states, and greatly limiting the ability of the legislature to use the powers
of the commerce clause of the constitution to quietly take over people's lives.
Yes, conservative friends there are many silver linings
in Thursday's odd verdict but let me assert merely four here:
1. Obamacare has been outed--by the authoritative voice
of the nation's highest court-as a fraud. Yes the administration pitched it as
a "penalty," as something that would not carry with it the burdensome
label and politically repulsive thought of a tax. But Chief Justice Roberts
seduced the four Obama supporters on the bench into agreeing that President
Obama had in fact lied to the nation all through his 2008 campaign. Promising
tax-cuts for 95% of the nation (a promise wrapped in a lie all its own), he has
instead raised taxes--primarily on middle class families to the tune of $1.7
trillion dollars for the next decade. (And THAT'S just the starting point!) A
tax, and nothing but a tax, is the only way the mandate funding could be
understood in order for President Obama's only domestic initiative to survive.
So a tax it is...
2. The commerce clause has been severely restricted.
Roberts sided with the conservative wing of the court in asserting rightly that
the Congress can't wander into a grey area of regulation, by attempting to
force behavior of the population through manipulation of the commerce clause.
The court rightly examined and asserted that the legislature has no right to
legislate what people choose not to do. Punishments can not be levied on
inaction. And if they attempt to do so, they must come in the form of a tax
that the nation has recourse to change and remove through the electoral
process.
3. The true cost to America's middle class was unveiled.
Hiking taxes by close to $5 billion, with an additional $5 billion in medicare
cuts, didn't close the loophole, no matter how much President Obama attempted
to argue that it would. In reality the middle class families of
America--already under assault by a horrible economy with limited prospects of
improvement--will be forced to fork over another $1.7 trillion in forward
looking deficits. Yes the families who earn $60-$90,000 per year will be the
ones who make too much to qualify for the low income freebies, and not be
making enough to be able to afford plans that they can buy in to. It will be
these families who will be punitively crunched with this penalizing tax called
Obamacare, and the Roberts' decision has removed the veil to allow this to be
seen.
4. Perhaps the most important thing of all, the Roberts'
decision will likely hand Governor Mitt Romney a 40 state victory in the
upcoming elections. The Tea Party has been reignited. Grassroots groups have
reawakened. And the roar of 2010 will be a distant memory when the voters take
Governor Romney's advice and change Obamacare by removing President Obama.
To be very candid, I was more worried about the political
outcomes of the case, had the justices thrown out the law all together in
essence neutralizing one of the most glaring differences between the two sets
of solutions being offered in this election cycle.
Instead we've been given an HD-retina-screen level
upgrade in seeing the differences starkly and in greater contrast.
Re-elect President Obama and it will be the full
implementation of the biggest small-business-killer ever invented by the
Congress--Obamacare. Choose another path and you will set a course for the
complete repeal of Obamacare, and the beginning of a new day for small business
owners across the nation.
The choice is simple.
And John Roberts was the secret weapon that made it all
happen, by outthinking everybody, and staying true to the Constitution.
Overall, not a bad outcome!
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