Obamacare ruling

My initial reaction is the Chief Justice John Roberts probably just handed the Republicans the White House and possibly the Senate.

Why? 

First: He defined the individual mandate as a TAX, which it is. Even if the Obama Administration and the Congressional Democrats want to try to deny it, now they can’t. How they are going to run away from that is beyond me.

Second: By upholding the law, Roberts put the onus back where it properly belongs: On CONGRESS. It is up to Congress to realize it is crappy law and change it.

Third: The decision puts a brake on using the “commerce clause” to justify everything. That is a good thing.

Fourth: The decision tells Congress that it can’t just threaten to withhold funds if the states don’t do its bidding. HOORAY. Too many federal mandates have been forced on the states that way.

Fifth: Most people, at least according to opinion polls, think the Affordable Care Act goes way beyond what they want. This just pisses them off. Pissed off voters usually vote, and rarely do they vote for the incumbent  or the party in power. So by handing down a decision that narrowly tailors the constitutionality of the legislation, Roberts, and the four liberals, have done the country a service by pissing off the majority.

Now, that may not be what happens, but that is my initial reaction, for what it is worth.