Brilliance at the Supreme Court

Now that the Supreme Court has finally ruled on the constitutionality of the Affordable Health Care Act (a.k.a. Obamacare) there is a great deal of either jubilation in the streets or hand wringing and grief.

When I learned of the decision I was one of the latter and, frankly, it ruined my whole day.  I was even coining a new term for the SCOTUS, the Kow-towing Kangaroo Kourt. Yes, that translates to the acronym KKK, but it signifies a different kind of Klan.

But then I started using the right side of my brain—not right in the political sense, but right in the literal sense—to parse the true meaning of the ruling.  After all, one of my heroes, Chief Justice John Roberts, had just apparently come down on the other side of the aisle in joining the four liberal justices on the court.

Here is what I’ve determined based on all the facts I now have.

The Honorable John Roberts just turned the election season on its head!

Here is why I opine that result:

1. One of the key campaign issues for President Obama was going to be the mean-spirited Supreme Court that took away your affordable health care and he, Obama, needs a second term to change the balance of the court. That issue is now a dead one. Justice Roberts upheld the legitimacy of the Supreme Court.
2. The Supreme Court Ruling clearly specifies the mandate is a tax, which is exactly what President Obama claimed it is not.  Therefore, upholding Obamacare as constitutional means that Democrats have just levied one of the most onerous taxes in history on all Americans, estimated—and we all know that Federal estimates are always low—at two-and-a-half trillion dollars.
3. Mitt Romney now has a whole new campaign platform to run on, repeal of the new law. He can also now accuse Obama of going back on his promises and raising everyone’s taxes.  Is it mere coincidence that Romney’s campaign fund gained over four million dollars on Thursday after the Supreme Court ruling?  I think not!
4. Democrats can no longer use the Commerce Clause in the Constitution to force a mandate for Americans to buy anything.  I’m not being racist here when I use the cliché, “call a spade a spade.”  Justice Roberts made it perfectly clear that the mandate is a TAX.  

So, if you were, like I was, saddened and disheartened by the turn of events on Thursday, take heart.  This is just the beginning of a new chapter.  A lot has changed in the past week, and it isn’t all bad news.  We still have four months to take back this country.

Oh, for those of you who are Democrats and/or Obama supporters, I don’t apologize for informing you of the fight you have ahead of you.  If it energizes you in the opposite direction to read this, then you too have benefited from it. 

Don’t worry. Be happy!