If the SCOTUS upholds this it means that the Government can do whatever it wants, the Constitution will be moot.
It won’t matter if President Palin/Bachmann/Perry overturn obamacare through legislation.
The SCOTUS will have set a precedent that cannot be undone by civil disobedience or electing conservatives.
Bad, bad things are going to happen if they uphold this.
And therein lies the crux of this problem - our modern day reliance on case law. Unlike what the Founders intended, courts today rarely if ever reach down far enough to determine whether a law is truly constitutional by comparing it to the Constitution's original intent. They merely look at how previous courts have ruled on the matter (and then add a liberal dose of their own foolish reasoning for good measure). This is idiotic, as it means that if the first court got it wrong their error is compounded as subsequent courts build upon the faulty foundation.