George Will: Supreme Court gives conservatives a consolation prize...

Michie · #1 30th June 2012, 02:07 AM

Conservatives won a substantial victory Thursday. The physics of American politics — actions provoking reactions — continues to move the crucial debate, about the nature of the American regime, toward conservatism. Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. has served this cause.

The health-care legislation’s expansion of the federal government’s purview has improved our civic health by rekindling interest in what this expansion threatens — the Framers’ design for limited government. Conservatives distraught about the survival of the individual mandate are missing the considerable consolation prize they won when the Supreme Court rejected a constitutional rationale for the mandate — Congress’s rationale — that was pregnant with rampant statism.

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AMDG · #2 30th June 2012, 04:30 PM

Oh, yes, conservatives won a prize all right. Not only has it been made clear that the commerce clause can't be used to force us to buy anything, we know *clearly* what was always suspected--that this is nothing but a tax. A regressive tax on the working poor and the middle class. In fact, twenty-one taxes against them---in an election year.

Now it can be said to poor struggling overtaxed people--feeling the effect of the too-high taxes? Want them to go even higher? Keep voting Obama in. Afterall Chief Justice Roberts said “It is not our job to protect the people from the consequences of their political choices.”

The prize? We are going to have to grow up and take responsibility, instead of trying to get others to do it for us.