Judge Roger Vinson ruled this week that the newspeaky ’Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act’ – and specifically its mandate that each American must purchase a service or good, even if you do not need or desire that good – is unconstitutional.
He had the least enviable job in the nation in making this ruling. Even if his ego is monumental, he must have understood that any ruling he made would be subject to withering, arrogant second guessing. As a layman reading his ruling I was struck by the length to which he went to separate the constitutional argument from the political. My cursory reading of the ruling reinforces my basic belief that the individual mandate shreds the constitution in easily foreseeable ways. The more damning commentary in the ruling is the further reinforcement of my personal belief that the constitution and other foundations of our liberty have been steadily erased through legislation and judicial activisim ever since 1932.
Since then, the political bludgeon of good intentions has been wielded by the left of center to invest ever growing power in the organs of state, and very frankly, the tiny minority of clever men and women addicted to the power that the big state gives them. Vinson, in my opinion, did the yeoman’s work of stripping off the veneer and exposing the legislation for what it really is: an unconstitutional act that indentures every American from the day they are born, democrat or republican.
Lazy Jack
