That, at any rate, is my view of the Federal court ruling in Virginia that the mandate to purchase health insurance included in the health care reform bill violates the Commerce Clause. Read my lips: it isn't a mandate. If you don't buy the insurance, you pay higher taxes. It's a choice--and, at worst, it's a tax increase, which is as Constitutional as eating a hot dog at the ball game.
Unfortunately, the judge who made this idiotic ruling is one of many examples of how the Federal bench has been polluted with right-wing Republican ideologues. When is Obama going to get moving on filling the record number of judicial vacancies, and give the court system some semblance of independence again?
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