The Course of the Nation is Decided

The long-awaited supreme court decision is due this week, perhaps as early as today.  It's the most consequential decision by the high court in my lifetime, with the possible exception of Roe v Wade.  It's a decision about what sort of country we will have from this point forward; a socialist state with an all-powerful Federal government micromanaging the lives of all citizens, or a mostly free society that permits its citizens to make their own decisions.

The question asked of the government lawyer during the Obamacare hearing that was never clearly answered goes to the heart of the question (I paraphrase): "If the government has the power to force individuals to engage in private commerce for health insurance, is there any private commerce the government cannot force on them?"

As we've seen with the more recent anti-religion mandate dictating contraception, the attitude of the Obama administration is no, there is no limit to what we can force on the people.  The same president just flaunted the law by making his own brand new immigration law without even consulting the other two branches of government.  Dictators act like this, not United States Presidents.

The Supreme Court needs to send a strong message to the president that he's not King Barack, but must govern within the constitution and laws of the country.  The best way to do so is to strike down the entire Obamacare law.

The law was passed against the will of the people.  It was passed in the middle of the night by Democrats without a single Republican vote.  It was passed with considerable arm-twisting, threats to Democrat legislators' careers, and bribes to other Democrat legislators.  It deserves to be thrown out in its entirety.

If the court rules the law constitutional, the grand experiment that was the United States of America ends.  Because that ruling will grant absolute power to the man who would be king.  If our self-appointed king then hangs on to office by any means necessary in November, we'll experience something akin to Venezuela after Chavez took power, or Cuba under Castro.

That's why this decision is so vitally important.  Everyone expects a single justice to make the final decision: Justice Kennedy, the man who hasn't discovered his core convictions yet.

Update: It wasn't Kennedy, but John Roberts who disappointed the nation by changing the law to manufacture a reason to uphold it.  Apparently he was hyper-sensitive to being called a partisan hack by the Left.  He didn't want to be the person responsible for the destruction of the Obama monarchy, so what he did was challenge all of us:  "If you think Obamacare is bad law, fix it at the ballot box. Don't run to me like a child running to Daddy to complain about her brother's misdeeds."

Roberts can partially redeem this horrible precedent (changing a law to make it constitutional rather than simply ruling it unconstitutional) by striking down the Sebelius mandate denying the Catholic Church and other people of faith their first amendment rights.