Obama Wins The Battle, Roberts Wins The War

[Mr. T]

While we are disappointed in the ruling, as I discussed on Tammy Radio, declaring ObamaCare a tax opens up many new avenues with which to kill it. It also is a gift to Romney for campaign rhetoric, and will help him further define his campaign. Now, consider the other dynamic at play here–the nature of the Commerce Clause. This is one of many piece if good news from this decision which I hope will help you channel your current anger into impackful organizing for a Romney victory and conservatives taking the whole of Congress. From Slate.

 

Obama Wins the Battle, Roberts Wins the War

The chief justice’s canny move to uphold the Affordable Care Act while gutting the Commerce Clause

 

There were two battles being fought in the Supreme Court over the Affordable Care Act. Chief Justice John Roberts—and Justice Anthony Kennedy—delivered victory to the right in the one that mattered.

 

Yes, Roberts voted to uphold the individual mandate, joining the court’s liberal wing to give President Obama a 5-4 victory on his signature piece of legislation. Right-wing partisans are crying treason; left-wing partisans saw their predictions of a bitter, party-line defeat undone.

 

But the health care law was, ultimately, a pretext. This was a test case for the long-standing—but previously fringe—campaign to rewrite Congress’ regulatory powers under the Commerce Clause…

 

The scholars expected to see the court gut existing Commerce Clause precedent and overturn the individual mandate in a partisan decision: Five Republican-appointed justices voting to rewrite doctrine and reject Obamacare; four Democratic-appointed justices dissenting.

 

Roberts was smarter than that. By ruling that the individual mandate was permissible as a tax, he joined the Democratic appointees to uphold the law—while joining the Republican wing to gut the Commerce Clause (and push back against the necessary-and-proper clause as well). Here’s the Chief Justice’s opinion (italics in original):

 

Construing the Commerce Clause to permit Congress to regulate individuals precisely because they are doing nothing would open a new and potentially vast domain to congressional authority. Congress already possesses expansive power to regulate what people do. Upholding the Affordable Care Act under the Commerce Clause would give Congress the same license to regulate what people do not do. The Framers knew the difference between doing something and doing nothing. They gave Congress the power to regulate commerce, not to compel it. Ignoring that distinction would undermine the principle that the Federal Government is a government of limited and enumerated powers. The individual mandate thus cannot be sustained under Congress’s power to “regulate Commerce.”

 

The business about “new and potentially vast” authority is a fig leaf. This is a substantial rollback of Congress’ regulatory powers, and the chief justice knows it. It is what Roberts has been pursuing ever since he signed up with the Federalist Society. In 2005, Sen. Barack Obama spoke in opposition to Roberts’ nomination, saying he did not trust his political philosophy on tough questions such as “whether the Commerce Clause empowers Congress to speak on those issues of broad national concern that may be only tangentially related to what is easily defined as interstate commerce.” Today, Roberts did what Obama predicted he would do.

 

Roberts’ genius was in pushing this health care decision through without attaching it to the coattails of an ugly, narrow partisan victory. Obama wins on policy, this time. And Roberts rewrites Congress’ power to regulate, opening the door for countless future challenges. In the long term, supporters of curtailing the federal government should be glad to have made that trade.

 

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[calfoxwc]

So, do I understand the basics of this correctly?

 

Roberts ruled that it's a tax, and is Constitutional.

 

But.... he upset the lib activist lying sombeeches on the Court,

 

by deliberately including, that the mandate vs the Commerce clause,

 

was UNConstitutional. And the Court got their own lawyer to determine that

 

indeed, it was a tax?

 

And being a tax, it can simply be reversed after Nov depending on whether the "commies" in the

 

WH and Congress get sent packing?

 

That is why the dirtied up WH and the rest... insisted it was not a tax.

 

That's why they claimed power under the Commerce clause.

 

So, it's a temporary, left handed victory for the # enemy of our country? (that's Chairman Obamao and his nazi like deputy Holder.)

 

"sigh"

[Mr. T]

And anyone who trumpeted the lies is a liar themselves... like Heck. People like that do not have any integrity and are dishonorable.

[calfoxwc]

It so much reminds me of the people who worked with the nazis in Germany and Europe. They

 

wanted to be on a special, powerful, winning side.

 

No matter what it ended up meaning. Like the movie "All through the night" I think it was.

 

Bandwagon secret society of hateful, selfish idiots.