If Obamacare's a Tax, We Have a Solution

Chief Justice Roberts delivers a deeply disappointing decision, but one that provides an enormous opportunity.

by Rod D. Martin
June 28, 2012

At first blush, Chief Justice John Robert’s defection to the Dark Side on Obamacare looks every bit the tragic treason of Anakin Skywalker:  the end of health care as we know it, and perhaps the end of the Republic.

But as conservatives take a deep breath and consider, they may realize the Chief just handed them, however unwittingly, an enormous opportunity.

By this I do not mean the obvious electoral opportunity.  This will not be an election about whether Romney tortured a dog or Obama ate one (ewww!).  No, the full fire and brimstone of the seemingly dormant Tea Party movement will now resurface like a transcontinental chain of volcanoes, and given the enduring and growing majority of Americans against Obamacare, one can safely assume that that passion will translate into the same sort of lopsided two-to-one Republican victory among independents it produced in 2010.

Roberts just handed Republicans the loaded gun needed to kill the Obama Presidency.  The mo…