Evidence is beginning to come in to support my contention that the ObamaCare decision of last week was a disaster for the Obama reelection effort. From Scott Rasmussen the best of the presidential horserace pollsters:
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Donations are flooding in to the Romney campaign in the wake of the decision, and the Tea Party has been reinvigorated. With a lousy economy to contend with, the ObamaCare decision is the coup de grace to the re-election effort of Barack Obama. The Roberts’ flip, the details of which are now leaking out, gave Obama a legal victory and a political defeat.
Update I:Â The Rasmussen daily tracking poll for July 2, shows Romney in the lead:
Interesting commentary at Lawrence Auster’s View from the Right blog site:
http://www.amnation.com/vfr/archives/022738.html
Reader be warned: while I may be to the right of Attila the Hun, Mr. Auster is even further to the right (and apparently is a renown conservative essayist in some circles with more than a touch of animosity against the Catholic Church).
Paul: “Reader be warned: while I may be to the right of Attila the Hun, Mr. Auster is even further to the right (and apparently is a renown conservative essayist in some circles with more than a touch of animosity against the Catholic Church).”
What goes around comes around. Mr. Auster’s conversion to Catholicism right around the corner.
Mr Auster is one of the most intelligent men on the planet, but he is off tangent on ObamaCare. Justice Roberts has laid a cuckoo’s egg in Obama’s nest by the finding that it is legal if presented as a tax. In practical terms this means that any attempt to implement it has to overcome the innate resistance of taxpayers, made more obdurate now by the starkness of the judgement. Those states that choose not implement it are at a distinct advantage as they will be attractive to businesses and the young and energetic. In my two cents opinion Judge Roberts has delivered a Solomonic judgement, in that he has reminded the populace that Congress has always had the right to exact punitive taxes, which can only be stymied by sending the right men to Washington.