The reaction to the Supreme Court ruling yesterday that declared ObamaCare to  be legal was swift and palpable. The most consistently accurate polls have shown that already more than half of Americans supported repeal of the law prior to the court's ruling. Expect that number to dramatically increase, now that it has become clear the law is nothing more than a massive new tax disguised as yet another entitlement provided "for free" by the federal government. Within minutes of the announcement, people on Facebook began to express renewed enthusiasm to vote this November. Within hours, the law had a new nickname: Obamatax. The conventional wisdom soon became that Chief Justice John Roberts had caved in to pressure from President Obama, and gave the Democrats a clear victory on his crowning achievement, the horribly misnamed Affordable Care Act. Indeed, the early analysis showed that the final decision came so late in the game that the dissent was worded as if written by the majority, and vice versa. The ultra liberal Daily Kos celebrated the ruling, opining that the decision "breaks the heart of every Republican and Federalist Society member." A liberal analyst at Slate crowed that "It is impossible for a lawyer to read even the first few pages of the dissent without coming away with the impression that this is a majority opinion that at the last moment lost its fifth vote. Its structure and tone are those of a winning coalition, not that of the losing side in the most controversial Supreme Court case in many years. But when we get to Page 13, far more … [Read more...]