Time for Thorns

Even though he’s no longer a presidential candidate,  Rick Santorum has done good work for conservative views  in getting Jay Leno,  an ObamaCare-loving liberal,  to  admit he doesn’t want  the government running the Tonight show.

is still a day for campaigning for His Oneness.  If anybody had sent me  a Mother’s Day e-card  from ObamaCare,  I’d hunt him down and inflict serious injury.  No less would be deserved for such a tasteless,  tacky act.

Yogi Love blasts  another one  out of the park,  his time on one of the most public of the panoply of grand lies on ObamaCare.

The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops have finally become so exercised about ObamaCare that it will be calling for  two weeks of protests  in June and July.

This will not make a pretty picture on the nightly news.

Read this and marvel  at the sort of treatment you can look forward to if ObamaCare survives.

The more articles I read  like this one,  the more the flat tax notion of a return on a postcard appeals to me.   His Oneness wants only another $300 million to hire another 4,000 agents to harass people about ObamaCare.

The four liberal justices are doing just what I expected,  but believing that forcing an individual to engage in commerce is the same as voluntary commerce was apparently too  much for Justice Kennedy.   He twice noted that the mandate  fundamentally changes  the government/citizen relationship.   Chief Justice Roberts  used cell phones as an  example while exploring the limits of government compulsion,  while Justice Scalia  offered up broccoli.

Here’s a transcript  of the Tuesday session.   Solicitor General Donald Verrilli,  Jr.  made such a hash of it that the liberal jurists stepped in to help him,  but that didn’t protect him  from a scolding  by Scalia.   Toby Harnden notes that His Oneness used the  argument against  an individual mandate against Hillary Clinton in the 2008 campaign.

ObamaCare  as a tax doesn’t  seem likely to fly.   Read Richard Epstein  for a better understanding of the constitutional problems.  As Jim Antle   so well puts  it,  ”It is hard to rule in favor of Obamacare without ruling against the Founders’ Constitution.”

CNN legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin,  who has hereto been sanguine about ObamaCare’s chances,  has declared yesterday’s  arguments a train wreck  for the Obama Administration.   Does the New Yorker smell defeat?   What curious timing for  explaining that the  individual mandate isn’t really the fault of His Oneness.

As always,  look here for  views and explanations.

Here’s a transcript  of the proceedings.   The  question of fine vs. tax  did come up,  meriting laughter.  Pay first,  litigate later  also came to the Court’s attention.   I wonder what the Washington Post thought of the  results of its poll  on the law’s constitutionality?

Sen. Mike Lee explains the Supreme Court  procedure here.   He has not only argued before federal appellate courts, but also clerked for Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito,  which makes him uniquely qualified to comment.   If you do nothing else,  watch this.

Jim Antle  has a good post  on the Judicial Watch hearing which gives you some insight on the basis for the opponents’  cases.   Michael Tanner  looks at the matter on the  permissible extent  of government.   Jonah Goldberg reminds us  that the penalty  under ObamaCare is a tax only in court  –  surely that will come up.   Andrew McCarthy  thinks it won’t.   David Rivkin and Lee Casey weigh in on the  constitutional issues at  stake here.

George Will looks  at the problems  ObamaCare creates with contract law.   Dr. Milton Wolf  totes up the lies  and dissembling done in service of ObamaCare.   Remember that he is a cousin of His Oneness.