I’ve been so deep in the weeds today that I haven’t been able to do much more than skim the news reports about the Supreme Court ruling on Obamacare.  I’ll find time to read the actual opinions on this and get back with my take on it, but here are my initial thoughts.

• My gut is that this just opened up a whole can of worms.  If the government can compel us to do something or pay a tax for disobedience, there isn’t a lot they can’t compel us to do or throw us into jail for failure.
• If Romney and every Republican running for national office have an ounce of gray matter between them, they will be screaming about this and promising to repeal this law before the echo of the oath of office is done reverberating from the steps of the Capitol.
• The President is about to try to impress me by taking a victory lap for his base of voters while trying to not piss off those of us who are going to have to pay for his foolishness if he’s re-elected.
• I agree with MaddMedic.  John Roberts may be smarter than the average bear on this one, at least as far as politics go.
• We survived Dred Scott.  We survived Plessey v. Ferguson.  We will survive this.  It may not be fun, but we will come through this eventually.
• Then again, our ancestors would be shooting by now.