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The decision was total victory for the leftist autocracy that now runs the country without any effective restraint.
After Arizona SB 1070 and Obamacare the reality is that there are now 5 reliable liberal activists on the Supreme Court. The left can now use the courts to enact whatever legislation they want or defeat any legislation they want.
The final proof of this will come when the new Congress repeals Obamacare and SCOTUS rules the repeal is unconstitutional.
The Supreme Court's 5-4 decision upholding the Obama administration's health care legislation was a victory for the president, his administration and his party. Their most ambitious legislative achievement has not been nullified, and they are not left in obvious disarray.
But it is only a partial victory and in some ways not a victory at all, both in the short run electorally and in the long run in terms of the constitutional order.
Politically Obamacare, as its critics call it, remains highly unpopular. It's possible that the court decision will boost its support, but unlikely.
Most voters...
My point is that (in my opinion) it is just as ridiculous to rule the mandate unconstitutional as a mandate but constitutional as a tax as it would/will be to rule its repeal unconstitutional.
And if you're thinking it's impossible for the SCOTUS to rule a repeal unconstitutional, ask yourself how many of the 169 other acts of the federal legislature have been shot down by the court that were thought to be bullet-proof.
Ask yourself how 76 Branch Davidians could have been ruthlessly massacred by the federal government over an insignificant gun charge in a country where "the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed."
Judges do what they want to do.