What a pantload. The evil genius/siliver lining theory has been debunked time and again here at FR. I won’t repeat it.
But I will say that, even if Roberts was thinking in evil genius mode, it was both irresponsible and stupid. Irresponsible because it is not his job to invoke politics in his decision, it was his job to uphold the constitution. Stupid, becuase even though republicans are outraged and thus more energized to throw the bum out, there is absolutely no guarantee they will succeed, in fact, is probably an even bet at this point. If bambi gets re elected we are stuck with bambi care, AND, a court decsion that allows us to be taxed for inactivity.
Roberts decision was a disaster, no amount of turd polishing changes that. We can now try to make lemonade out of lemon, and that is all we can do.
I already am. I don't own a home, so I can't take the mortgage tax deduction. Believe me, I would rather the government not be able to single me out as a non-homeowner and penalize me with this extra tax that homeowners don't have to pay. But if there is a difference between that and paying a higher tax because you don't have health insurance, it's such a minute sliver of a difference that I can easily understand a conservative, non-activist justice not thinking he should make a judgment against it.
Single payer health care is constitutional. Even Mark Levin has said that. So it's not like our socialized health care woes would be over if this law was overturned. If Republicans went on to lose the election, the libs would just try to pass single payer, and use the argument that because it's constitutional, it's better for America. We need a better strategy for keeping the libs out of our health care than counting on the courts. I don't blame John Roberts for the failure of conservatives to win a debate or to win elections.
It's arguably the very fact that we have let tax policy and the IRS get so out of control in this country that led directly to Obamneycare. It's far too accepted that the government can use taxes and deductions as penalties and rewards to socially engineer the population. Obamneycare was simply the next step on a road we've been going down for a long time. We need to attack the tax issue directly. We probably need a constitutional amendment to roll back the IRS and change tax policy in a big way to outlaw using the tax code for social engineering.