Bad Day for Liberty

Fear rules the day, not liberty.

Oh my God.

The Supreme Court today made a decision that will reverberate for a century. I'm not overstating it when I say that this was a fundamentally bad decision, a terrible precedent and a truly shameful day in American history. Before I delve into the weeping and wailing and gnashing of teeth, let me add a glimmer of good that may come out of this decision to uphold the constitutionality of Obamacare (PPACA). There are two ways to look at this; the glass is half empty and the glass is half full.

Glass half full: This should really motivate the conservative base. Get out and vote for Senators and Congressmen and even Romney. It may also help ensure that there are more conservative justices on the Supreme Court, since even thoughs deemed dependable, are clearly not. Getting out the conservative vote has taken on new importance.

Obamacare Countdown

Apparently at 10 a.m. the Supreme Court is going to release it's decision on Obamacare.  I'm going to be in a meeting at work and I'll be unable to find out what happened until after 11 a.m.  However, I haven't divulged what I think the decision is going to be.  I'd like to get on record before the fact with my best guess. My instinct is in line with InTrade that the individual mandate will be overturned.  I'm much less certain but still hopeful that the mandate on businesses will be overturned as well, but if that happens the whole severability issue gets brought into the mix and the entire Act may get thrown out.  It's not likely but possible.

The mandate therefore in my best guess, is all that gets tossed and then chaos will ensue.  It might lead Obama to double down on Single Payer as an election issue, which is probably going to be the plan under any scenario other than the law being upheld entirely.

Must Read George Will Column

Sometimes George Will gets on my nerves with his penchant for establishment Republicanism.  But make no mistake, he is fundamentally, a conservative voice, and in Friday column in the Washington Post, he cuts through the Obamacare debate like a laser into one of the greatest dangers that the country faces in those 2000+ pages of legislative wordiness.  Will's column is a must read. The problem is that not enough Americans yet care about the implications of his point.