◼ 'it's constitutional. Bitches.' - Politico via Drudge
◼ In 5-4 decision, Supreme Court rules Obamacare constitutional - Neil Munro/Daily Caller
◼ SUPREME COURT RULES: OBAMACARE STANDS...Mandate survives as a tax... - NYT
◼ Chief Justice Roberts joins left of the Court... - National Journal
◼ 'It is not our role to forbid it, or pass upon its wisdom or fairness'... - CBS
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◼ The court reinforces that individuals cant simply refuse to pay tax... - Washington Post
◼ FLASHBACK: Obama: Mandate is Not a Tax... - ABC
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◼ Justices Find Fault With Medicaid Expansion... - Wall St. Journal
◼ Stocks Fall 1% After Health Ruling; Banks Sag - CNBC
◼ Lawmakers Walk Back Celebratory SCOTUS Health Care Tweets - National Journal
◼ This Election Just Became About Obamacare - Weekly Standard
◼ HOUSE GOP INSTANTLY ANNOUNCES REPEAL VOTE FOR WEEK OF JULY 9... - Politico
◼ Speaker Boehner: 'Ruling underscores the urgency of repealing this harmful law in its entirety'... Speaker.gov
◼ MCCONNELL: 'Sold to American people on a deception' - senate.gov
◼ PELOSI: 'WE MADE HISTORY'... - National Journal
◼ CALCULATOR: What doe$ ruling mean FOR YOU? - Washington Post
◼ DNC: 'IT'S CONSTITUTIONAL. BITCHES'... - Politico
◼ DNC DELETED TWEET: 'TAKE THAT MOTHER******S!' - Twitchy
◼ Sarah Palin: 'Obama Lies, Freedom Dies'... - Business Insider
◼ Virginia Attorney General: 'Dark Day for American Liberty'... - NBC Washington
◼ Rubio: IRS to 'come after' uninsured... - Politico
◼ Romney: Supreme Court ruling on health law wrong - AP
REACTION:
◼ Tax fraud - neoneocon
◼ Chief Justice Roberts writes an opinion limiting the commerce power and the spending power. - Althouse
◼ Obama imposes huge tax on the American middle class. - Althouse
◼ To the Voting Booth! - Le·gal In·sur·rec·tion
◼ Romney raises over $100,000 in less than an hour after SCOTUS ruling - HotAir
◼ “Fundraising for @MittRomney ticks up to $300k since decision came down. #FullRepeal,” Ms. Saul wrote on Twitter. - Politicker (UPDATE: Over a million...)
◼ WHITE HOUSE INSIDER: OBAMACARE …”Now we are truly ready to fight.” A longtime D.C. political operative considers today’s Supreme Court ruling on Obamacare a good thing in the fight to defeat Barack Obama in 2012. - Ulsterman
◼ Obamacare Upheld- What This Means For Conservatives: Obama Owns Biggest Middle Class Tax Hike In History - Wake Up America
◼ Fournier: Roberts Labels Obama a Tax-Raiser... - National Journal
◼ Cuccinelli: "Dark Day for American Liberty" - NBC Washington
◼ GOP governors vow to ignore Obamacare - Washington Examiner
◼ How right I was: “IRS The New Health Care Enforcer” - Le·gal In·sur·rec·tion
◼ 'Incredible Irony': Court Has 'Declared Obama to Be a Monumental Liar' - Susan Jones/CNS ◼ The Good News In The Obamacare Decision Michael James barton/National Review
◼ The mandate is upheld as a tax, using the coercive — but not unlimited — power that Congress has always possessed. This is a distinction with a very big difference. Had Obamacare been upheld under the Commerce Clause, then our Constitution would have been a dead letter without limits on congressional power. We still have our Constitution.◼ Chief Justice Roberts Admits Young People Are A 'Targeted' Class - Ron Meyer/CNS
"The individual mandate's regulation of the uninsured as a class is, in fact, particularly divorced from any link to existing commercial activity. The mandate primarily affects healthy, often young adults who are less likely to need significant health care and have other priorities for spending their money. It is precisely because these individuals, as an actuarial class, incur relatively low healthcare costs that the mandate helps counter the effect of forcing insurance companies to cover others who impose greater costs than their premiums are allowed to reflect...."◼ Scalia/Kennedy/Thomas/Alito: Commerce Clause Doesn't Give Government the Power 'To Regulate All Private Conduct' - Pete Winn/CNS ◼ Chief Justice Roberts’s Folly - National Review via @ByronYork
The Court has failed to do its duty. Conservatives should not follow its example — which is what they would do if they now gave up the fight against Obamacare. The law, as rewritten by judges, remains incompatible with the country’s tradition of limited government, the future strength of our health-care system, and the nation’s solvency. We are not among those who are convinced that we will be stuck with it forever if the next election goes wrong: The law is also so poorly structured that we think it may well unravel even if put fully into effect. But we would prefer not to take the risk. It now falls to the Republicans, and especially to Mitt Romney, to make the case for the repeal of the law and for its replacement by something better than either it or the health-care policies that preceded it.◼ Congressional Republicans: ObamaCare in Our Court Now - PJM ◼ 21 tax increases
The high court’s ruling leaves in place 21 tax increases in the health-care law costing more than $675 billion over the next 10 years, according to the House Ways and Means Committee. Of those, 12 tax hikes would affect families earning less than $250,000 per year, the panel said, including a “Cadillac tax” on high-cost insurance plans, a tax on insurance providers, and an excise tax on medical device manufacturers. “This is a clear violation of the president’s pledge to avoid tax hikes on low- and middle-income taxpayers,” said a statement from the panel, which is chaired by Rep. Dave Camp, Michigan Republican.◼ It Now Falls to Congress - Roger Pikon/Real Clear Politics ◼ Obama Wins the Battle, Roberts Wins the War: The chief justice’s canny move to uphold the Affordable Care Act while gutting the Commerce Clause. - Slate
