My Space Buddy had his say - this is mine. Part 2

During the health care fight, much was made by folks like me about the issue of the government arrogating to itself the power to make you do something, in this case, buy health insurance, under the cloak of the Commerce Clause.  The people who put forth the idea of this imaginary authority can, I suppose, be excused to some degree for suggesting something so unimaginably stupid since the The Supreme Court ruled something only slightly less - or maybe more - stupid in Wickard v. Filburn.

Regardless, there is no arguing that the idea of the Commerce Clause giving the United States government the authority to force people to buy something is the kind of thing that only a mental vegetable would endorse.  Or a liberal member of Congress.  But I repeat myself . . .  

My Space Buddy had his say - this is mine. Part 1

Let me get two things out of the way:
First, I despise the Affordable Care Act.  I want every single individual who voted for it dipped in tar, coated with feathers, tied to a salt-treated 4 x 4 mounted on a 4WD truck that has had the shock absorbers replaced with steel bars and driven out of town on whatever road has the greatest number of potholes per square foot during a hailstorm - with Barack Obama driving - after removing the windshield.
Second, I wanted the Supreme Court to reject it, and I had a very bad day when they didn't.  I agreed with the minority when they said they found the act unconstitutional in its entirety, and would have been elated had this been the majority opinion.

But, I might be wrong about that second part.  I'll attempt to explain why . . .

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