If one actually reads the decision, one will see Roberts twisting himself into pretzels trying to rationalize his rewriting of PPACA from a penalty into a tax. The bill says at least eight times the mandate is a penalty as opposed to a tax.
He obviously decided he wasn’t game for the heat he would take for a 5-4 decision and stretched for some way to uphold the statue. The tax pretzel was what he came up with.
There are no dots to connect. The supreme court abdicated its judicial review role in this case. Starts at that dot and ends there too.
All this “deep strategy” stuff reminds me of when conservatives interpreted every dumb thing Karl Rove did as some deep game that would, but did not, turn out for the good. It’s too clever by far. All it does is rationalize a big defeat delivered by a friend.
Occam’s Razor.
Absolutely. A Harriet Miers decision would have been more erudite and logical than Traitor Roberts’ bizarre rant. Bob
I’d be remiss if I also didn’t mention that I now consider Roberts an *enemy* of America, not a “friend”. He’s like the friend who screws your wife. Bob