[traditional1]

Unfortunately, the Obamacare machinery is already deeply-rooted in place, Insurance companies have ALREADY reacted with rates to protect themselves, and the big Corporations are bailing from Benefit-provisions to get ready for 2013.

I just don't believe that the USSC will in any way force the Federal Government back out of the Socialized Medicine Plan....period.

[JediJones]

Does Kennedy believe in an “open mandate?”

[JediJones]

isn't there something slightly pitiful about the fact that the liberties of over 300 million people hinge on the somewhat whimsical leanings of just one man?

That kind of analysis is just silly. Not only are there 8 other justices who can vote however they want, there was a Congress and a President that had to approve this before it became law. And there were voters who had to elect them. Just because Kennedy might be the LAST person to cast his vote, doesn't mean that any one of the previous deciders, right down to Snarlin' Arlen himself, couldn't also have stopped it when their name was called.

[GeronL]

Can you believe that one guy now gets to decide whether we are free people or slaves/serfs??

[JohnD9207]

Call me crazy but the government did such a crappy job, that liberals are making up story lines about how this loss will help OStalin. 5-4, perhaps 6-3 against the bill.

[the invisib1e hand]

Fundamental Change

"Fundamental Change"? This has to be the euphemism of the millenium. Giving the government the power to ration your medicine, in blatant violation of the founding documents of the country, and calling it "fundamental change" is like saying Charles Manson was "a troubled youth."

Is there really enough KoolAid in the world to make everyone this crazy?

Obama ran on "Change." Every lame imbecil who voted for him lives for "fundamental change".

[Rummyfan]

... if you incline to the view that ObamaCare is a transformative act, isn't there something slightly pitiful about the fact that the liberties of over 300 million people hinge on the somewhat whimsical leanings of just one man? I mean, Kennedy seems a cheery enough cove, but who died and made him the all-powerful Sultan of Swing?

I agree with Rush's statement / question: How did we get to this point? Congress is a joke, the Federal bureaucracy is totally out of control, and our president is a menace to the nation and other free countries around the world. And now we wait on tenterhooks to see how SCOTUS rules?

[Rummyfan]

"If the policy of the government upon vital questions affecting the whole people is to be irrevocably fixed by decisions of the Supreme Court," wrote Abraham Lincoln, "the people will have ceased to be their own rulers."

Which they have. Or it would not have come to this.

Indeed!