Exactly who is to blame?

 

 

"It took a while, but I found out who to blame for the ObamaCare mess. I looked in the mirror..."

Well it is over. Our last best chance to derail ObamaCare. The worst and most unpopular piece of legislation penned in many a generation. And now we are stuck with it. The bill which steals from the not so poor to give to the poor. The bill which did nothing to contain costs, but many things to shift costs. The latest entitlement which will help bankrupt our country.

Lets just for a minute, look back in history how we got ObamaCare:

• John Roberts Selection - In September of 2005, President Bush nominated John Roberts to be the new Chief Justice of the Supreme Court. This was an appointment many of us thought would tilt the court back to the right for a change. NOBODY knew this man would end up being a wolf in sheep's clothing. Justice Robert's ability to disappoint has been simply stunning to say the least.
• 2008 Election - Rather than a good, principled Conservative, we ran John McCain instead. As much as I respect the Senator's war record, he has been a "squish" as a Senator. That plus the allure of having the first black (or even half black) President was too much to overcome. This new Socialist leaning community organizer won by a comfortable margin.
• The 60th Vote - We all knew BHO would try to push this new entitlement through Congress. Al Franken was a comedian who wanted to be in Congress. He should have been easy to beat. But Norm Coleman, a sitting Senator, ran a weak campaign. That and the combination of a whole lot of voter fraud gave the election to Franken - by only a handful of votes.
• 2012 Election - Here is was. Our turn. We had the goods on the President. ObamaCare was a mess during the rollout, Benghazi was huge "cluster" which cost us an ambassador, and the economy was still in the tank. Rather than run someone like John McCain again, we ran someone worse. Oh, Mitt was a good and honorable man. But a milk toast. A lousy candidate. He had Obama up against the ropes in the debates. There Obama was, face down in the ditch like road kill. All Mitt needed to do was give the finishing blow. Instead Mitt went silent. In fact, he helped Obama up, just to be fair. Our side became so disillusioned with Mitt, over three million of us sat out the election. The worst President in modern times was then re-elected.
• Republicans in Congress - Here is where it really gets messy. Ever since the bill was signed into law in 2009, the war cry of the Republicans has been "repeal and replace!" Sounds good, until the press would ask, "replace with what?" The silence was deafening. There never was a plan put forth for the public to see. Never a better mousetrap than ObamaCare. The Republicans just reverted back to the "Party of No" and "No Ideas". The American public, now somewhat pregnant with ObamaCare, decided a flawed plan was better than no plan.

As much as I disagree with yesterday's ruling, I can somewhat see why Roberts did what he did. I don't think Congress is equipped right now to have a broken ObamaCare dumped on them to fix. Even after Grubber showed us (via videotape) the smoking gun on how deceit helped craft this bill, Roberts decided to play it safe. Unconstitutional, but safe.

Even in 2016, if we get a Republican President and super majorities in both Houses, I don't think we can kill ObamaCare. The train has left the station. And the chief conductor on the train is Chief Justice John Roberts. Holding his lifetime appointment in hand, I don't think he will ever let ObamaCare end up in the ash heap of history.