Well this certainly narrows the options for the country as a whole to 2.

Option 1 - Depend on the spineless empty suits in the house and senate to repeal or heavily modify the Unaffordable care act....unlikely given the vertabrae shortage in that group

Option 2 - end it after it craters the economy and bankrupts the country totally. The more likely outcome...


Betting pool??

Lets see, My wife and I work, pay taxes, pay for our own housing, pay for our own cell phones, pay for our own food, receive ZERO direct government assistance (which is fine) and pay exorbitant heath insurance premiums in order to pay equally high co-pays and deductibles and be attacked for not caring about our fellow man.

Or we could not work, thereby not pay taxes, receive discounted or free housing, free cell phones, free food, free clothing, and Government paid for health coverage with ZERO deductibles and co pays.

Is this the end game of “”From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs” when nothing is taken from some who have abilities but choose not to use them and then take more than they “need” because they can …….
or is it closer to “From each according to his gullibility, to each according to his greed” …..

“Who is John Galt?”

America: Born 1776 Died 2015 RIP

I strongly suspect that the key motivator was not ideological, but rather financial. Overturning ACA at this juncture would have severe economic ramifications. The maxim "Let justice be done though the heavens may fall" takes one more retreating step towards the quaint antiquities closet, taking the Constitution with it.

~Sigh~

Hello Poplicola,
Score one more for the statists and one more ignorant decision by the SCOTUS. This is not that surprising since words no longer have meaning; the Constitution suffers the same fate and no longer says what it says, but instead says what some want it to. Roberts has turned out to be a major disappointment. Since the SCOTUS is supposed to uphold the intent of Constitution instead of adjusting it to political whim, I find they have abnegated their true mission and as such have no value. Congress must now act to de-fund and whatever else they can do or they are just accomplices to despotism. If not, by the time we get a new POTUS this affront will be even more difficult if not impossible to repeal.
Respectfully,
O.A.

Apparently "the letter of the law" doesn't mean what I thought it did. If we only have to be concerned about the spirit of the law, and don't have to follow it to the letter, I wonder if I can use that argument for a speeding ticket.

Gee judge, I didn't think 70 meant 70. After all, "established by the state" doesn't mean "established by the state"!

I had hoped for better from the SCOTUS, but if they can't figure out A=A, it does not bode well.

Before one enters on the Execution of one's Office, one shall take the following Oath or Affirmation:— “I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will faithfully execute the Office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my Ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States.”

Section 8 Clause 3:
To regulate Commerce with foreign Nations, and among the several States, and with the Indian Tribes;

Article 10 U.S. Constitution
The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.

Amendment XIV
Section 1. All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the state wherein they reside. No state shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any state deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.

First EVERY Federal official swears this oath. Violation of this oath IS grounds for removal of office or appointment.

They all swear to uphold and defend the constitution, not how they want to see it, how they like to see it, how it “should be,” but AS IT IS!!!

These IDIOTS on the Supreme Court with the exception of 3 this time, are so blatantly IGNORANT of the laws and constitution they swore to uphold I am totally aghast at the depths of ignorance out country is diving into.
Not only did the Supreme Court invalidate the letter of the law but also the spirit of the law in general.

How will basic Contract Law ever stand up now? “Oh that is not what I meant….even though I wrote it down that way…”

Basic Principles that are so clear have been completely ignored. Section 8 Clause 3 is very clear and based on this ALONE Obamacare should have been stuck down.

THERE IS NO INTERSTATE COMMERCE!!!! YOU CANNOT BUY INSURANCE ACROSS STATE LINES!!! Ergo there is NOTHING for the Feds to regulate OR impose!!!

What about THAT did these BONEHEADS NOT GET!!!!

Next there is NO equal protection under the law in this law. Not when I have to pay 3 times as much for the SAME DAMN THING as a poor person. What next, I have to pay 15 dollars per gallon of gas and the poor person only 1 dollar? THAT IS NOT EQUAL PROTECTION!!!

Article 10. Healthcare is NOT an enumerated power of the Federal Government. The state can do this but NOT the Federal Government.

For all the rhetoric, for all the dialog and diatribe, and for all the people who keep changing the discussion, these three basic points are the ONLY REAL arguments that EVER should have been made.

We are guaranteed Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness, not the Guarantee of it. The Preamble does not say PROVIDE for Welfare, it says PROMOTE the General Welfare.

Provide is pay for Promote is to encourage…

Where did these IDIOT MORON Justices come from, certainly not this planet.

This decision by the SCOTUS points out the fact that the people have NO representation in the District of Corruption whatsoever. The legislative branch seems to be chock full of cowards or bought and paid for shills for the special interests. The executive branch seems to be hellbent on taking this country down the path to socialism or worse, whether "We the People" like it or not. Now the last bastion of appeal, the supreme court, has capitulated to the executive by rewriting the law to suit the current administration.
What's next? Might as well send the legislative branch home as they don't seem to be doing anything anyway.
Maybe its just me.

Mr. Justice Scalia would be the Judge Narragansett of a real-life Gulch. His disssent had fire in those pages. "Gobbledygook!" "Interpretative jiggery-pokery!" Not exactly Blackstone.

It's a sad day when the SCOTUS is as unlawful as the president and his administration. Moral relativity rules.

Having a modicum of understanding of the phrase in the law that was in contention, having read the words, there could only be one "legal" outcome. However, accepting the reality of the powers that be, their agenda, the lack of morality in setting and achieving their agenda "for the greater good," and the political nature of what the SCOTUS has become, I am not surprised.

As you know, there are stages of grief that we all go through when someone (or something) dies. I am past shock, denial, anger, bargaining and am, and for the last few years, have been at the depression stage. I know I'll die before reaching the acceptance stage and that, and that alone, gives my depression some relief.

It is a sad day when the last branch of government demonstrates, definitively, that it is no longer worthy of respect.

I am reminded of a line in a movie...I referenced this one time and I was called crazy. Well how crazy am I know?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V1FFVWEQ...

Never have I read a more tortured explanation than that put forth by Roberts. He twisted language into a pretzel in order to justify his support. This is now the UNASUCOA. The Unaffordable Supreme Court Act. With special emphasis on the "SUC" part.

I knew once they made the mandate constitutional, they would going to let this part go through too. The supreme court is just giving Obama what he wanted. This IS the age of socialism everywhere unfortunately.

Everyone should get a copy of that dissent and frame it. It's absolutely scathing and humorous at the same time, but the ridicule it heaps on Roberts is astounding. I've never read a better dissent.

Can I get my Justice Supreme without the side of social responsibility fries and instead upgrade to a Texas-sized cup of Danneskjold repos?

I am wondering if Justice Roberts can be impeached?

Of course it doesn't say "Exchange established by the state", it says "Exchange established by the State under section 1311 of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act"

Section 1311 describes how states can set up plans.

These people don't even believe in a "living Constitution" any longer. Their constitution is a game of Calvinball. It's time to stop playing.

Perhaps there should be a requirement for the supreme court members to take college English classes. Clearly they have lost all grasp of the English language.
Those that can... do, those that can't become teachers or politician's
Funny but scarry truth
www.youtube.com/watch?v=peRUTroIuNs

We have surely lost the courts...we should no longer do business with them, Time for peaceful civil disobedience.

this crowd of Mostly Losers is legislating from the
bench again. . and the crap runs downhill. -- j
.

" ... But when a long train of abuses and usurpations... " Read an interesting book while on a recent 3 hour layover, fiction, of course, based on an out of control government that had racked up a 5 trillion debt in 1997. Term Limits by Flynn. Absolutely the wrong way to respond, but an interesting read.

Weird, for one split second, I misread as "Obamassacre"...