I have to admit, I'm a little surprised. It will be interesting to read the opinions when I get some time later today.
Update: Once again the court surprises me. Before the oral arguments I had them
upholding by a 6-3 vote just because striking it down would call into
question 70 years of jurisprudence on Federal authority. After arguments
I, like most people, figured they would kill it on a narrow ideological
vote 5-4. Whatever I was expecting, this wasn't it. This is a huge blow to
conservatives who were so confident of victory that they had the
champagne on ice this morning while waiting for the announcement. Now on
the more radical websites like Free Republic half of them are slitting
their wrists declaring the end of the republic and the others are
reaching for their guns.
I've said this before, John, but, again, I don't get the undercurrent of schadenfreude here. I thought you were a Ron Paul supporter. Are you a libertarian, or not? And, if you are, why would you also not have had the champagne on ice in anticipation of the ACA being struck down?
ReplyDeleteSo now, the federal government can compel you to do anything - buy a condom, vote only for Democrats, you name it - and it's perfectly "Constitutional," as long as the result for not doing what you're told is you write a penalty (sorry, "tax") check to the feds. Is that what Dr. Paul stands for? Because I never got that out of anything he's written or said.