But not quite as long as the odds that the GOP establishment has either the desire or the stones for the fight to begin with. No worries, though, citizen.  They promise to efficiently manage the Leviathan with a measured hand.  And maybe some tax breaks from time to time.  And who better to keep that promise than the man whose team gave us state-run health care in the first place?

Pursuant to an exchange happening in the comments, allow me to respond to a point argued by the Chief Justice — which is at the very heart of his decision — and add it to the response from the dissenters.  I do this because it will become clear to many longtime readers of this site just how perfectly Roberts’ argument, and my rebuttal to it, replays the intentionalism discussions so

Published in the Atlantic, 2007, the interview with Chief Justice John Roberts that set the stage for the deconstruction of the Constitution at the hands of one supremely overconfident thinker, a man whose greatest flaw is his inability to see how his unblinking devotion to his supposedly measured humility is itself a form of dangerous hubris. Before long, the conversation turned to judicial disappointments. “It’s sobering to think of the

POINT I I’m sure you’re familiar with the myriad YouTube parodies of the Hitler bunker scene from the movie “Downfall,” e.g., “Hitler reacts to Tim Tebow beating the Pittsburgh Steelers in the AFC playoffs in OT“. If you haven’t seen it with the original English subtitles, take a gander. Hitler’s top advisers hid from him the fact that Steiner’s forces had been unable to mount an assault, because they were