The doom and gloomers have taken over this site.
Why should we be optimistic? Give us a reason. Today obama flipped off the SC and said he won’t abide by their decision to uphold even one part of AZ’s immigration laws. He’s going around it. He will do the exact same thing if the mandate is struck down. He will flip them off and ignore the ruling/find a way around it. There is no reason whatsoever for optimism.
There is a critical difference. Concerning immigration law, what Obama is doing is largely doing nothing, or simply refusing to enforce existing law. Even his Dream Act by executive action is another act of refusing to take the steps prescribed by law.
With Obamacare, if that is struck down, he'd have to take many affirmative steps and have the funds to carry them out. And he'd have to win re-election to carry it very far.
Where's Obama going to get the money for such a flanking maneuver? It's one thing to create an executive order to tell a federal department to take thus-and-such action. It's quite another to FUND it. And if he does that, I expect they'll be lining up to impeach his marxist behind.