Turning Point: It’s Constitutional—Supreme Court Upholds Obamacare Mandate as a Tax

This morning a divided Supreme Court largely upheld the Obama administration's health-care law, saying the law's penalty for those who ignore a mandate to carry health insurance counted as a tax and was therefore justified by Congress's constitutional taxing power. As vice president Biden might say, "This is really Bleeping big..."

From Merriam-Webster:

Turning Point (noun)

A point at which a significant change occurs.

A time when an important change happens.

Wake–Up Call (noun)

Something that serves to alert a person to a problem, danger, or need.

Early political commentary on the Supreme Court’s judgment suggests this ruling will take some time to sort out.  One thing is certain however, struggling American families will now have a new tax to deal with.

In an interview with George Stephanopoulos on ABC News Barack Obama insisted that the government forcing people to buy Health Care Insurance was not a TAX.

This man could have had a great career as a car salesman or a carnival barker at the "guess your weight" booth. 

This administration reminds me of a freak show without a tent.

Here the court’s 193 page ruling.

Witnesses to History SCOTHUS Decides fate of ObamaCare Tomorrow

 Tomorrow we will all be witnesses to history when the United States Supreme Court delivers its opinion on the Constitutionality of  what has been come to be known as “ObamaCare.”

In a piece this morning entitled The Liberal Naysayers vs. The Federalist Papers J.T. Young at The American Spectator wrote the following:

Tomorrow, the Supreme Court will issue one of the most important decisions in its history. It will decide if the Constitution, as it currently exists and was originally intended, is still superior to the actions of the two other branches of the federal government.

Throughout America's history, there has been no doubt that it is. This week, and especially from our most liberal quarters, this historical foundation will be disregarded -- and in the most extreme outbursts, denied outright. Those protests will only grow louder if the Supreme Court rules, as it should, and overturns the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ObamaCare).

It is therefore worthwhile to keep in mind the opinions of three who helped write, defend, and finally pass the Constitution. James Madison, John Jay, and Alexander Hamilton, collectively authoring The Federalist Papers, offer responses to today's liberals that are, if anything, no less important now than when they originally wrote.

Liberals have already attempted to marginalize the Constitution -- thereby diminishing its role relative to the government -- effectively aiming to decide the case in the court of public opinion before it was ever heard in the Supreme Court. They again will claim that the Constitution cannot keep pace with the exigencies of our modern life. They will say that the federal government is more responsive and knows best.

In response, we should call to mind the words of Madison, writing in Federalist Paper #62: "It may be affirmed, on the best grounds, that no small share of the present embarrassments of America is to be charged on the blunders of our governments; and that these have proceeded from the heads rather than the hearts of most of the authors of them. What indeed are all the repealing, explaining, and amending laws, which fill and disgrace our voluminous codes, but so many monuments of deficient wisdom…?"

The Constitution and the Court remain our last fail-safes against the federal government's mistakes.

Liberals have also sought to deny the role of the Supreme Court in this case. They have said, and the Administration has echoed, that the Supreme Court has no role in the PPACA because it is a duly-passed action of the Congress.

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Democrats Upset Over Justice Scalia's Health Care Comments

Amendment VIII, United States Constitution

Excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted (Emphasis mine).

Here is one more example of the Democrats’ hypocrisy.In all honesty, Democrats have not cornered the market on dishonesty or hypocrisy. 

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