What Will You Say Next Year, in Two Years, and in Five?

Let's start with one of Life's Truths -- the right thing to do is simple, and hard; the wrong thing is complex, nuanced, out-of-the-box; and easy. O'bwanaCare is un-Constitutional. The 'mandate' is un-Constitutional as a direct tax, an excise, an income tax, or as a penalty (because the central govt has no authority to regulate the practice of medicine, except in DC). Roberts came to his moment of truth, wet his pants, and ran like a rabbit. Snivelling cowardice is never pleasant to watch, but Roberts chickened out on center stage. Why anyone would aspire to follow the path of John Marshall, a political hack and liar, I haven't figured. The Constitution specifically incorporated the Common Law of England as the foundation of the US legal sy

stem. Under that system, no English court had the power to void an act of Parliament as un-Constitutional, although acts could be void for vagueness. To boot, any decision/ruling of any English court could be reversed by vote of the House of Lords. Obviously, there was no provision for judicial review/supremacy in the Constitution, as ratified. We might also note that the "power to tax = power to destroy" consideration was exactly the reason the Federalists (think, Leftists) highjacked the Articles of Condederation in the first place -- under the Articles, the central govt had no taxing power.