The Constitution was dealt a severe sucker punch. What Conservative Pollyannas can't seem to get is that liberals do not think of laws in the same way we do; to them, there's to such thing as a limit on power. Give them an inch and they'll take a light year.
What Roberts did today with his subtle, thoughtful, wise approach to legal reasoning is give Obama Carte Blanche to tyranny. The only thing statists would have understood was total defeat, utter overturning of ObamaCare root and branch. Any toehold would have been used to pile on anything they wanted.
Instead, they got everything handed to them and we're supposed to find solace in some nonsensical sophistry about the distinction between a tax and a penalty. Oh, sure; that'll stop them in their tracks!
There was no win here.
Unless you’re working with the would be tyrants....