Comments about ‘George F. Will: Supreme Court's ruling makes Obamacare legal but rickety’

Ultimately, if there is a strain of liberty left in an American, the ACA will fail like all other government programs. What will be left is a society in some chaos coming to terms with the fact that government has very little to do with happiness, only power, corruption, and lethargy. God didn't say look to government, He said look to Him. Government has ligitimate powers, but only found within the limited scope of inevitable rights and obligations found within the Constitution, nothing more, nothing less.

When Roberts chose to take the low road to save himself and the court from dealing with controversy and "heat" which a more courageous decision would have brought about, the consensus was that he simply postponed the showdown over ACA and forced others to deal with it. His actions were the last straw for me; I have very little respect for what once was the highest court in the land, above politics and other considerations, except interpretation of laws etc. The ACA was originally created by a partisan group of congressmen who deliberately and blatantly took advantage of a temporary lopsided power bubble in congress. They locked out anyone not agreeing with them and hastily cobbled together a health system which, since it was built by congress, can't work. Congress doesn't know how to make things work well; it only knows how to have its own way, line the pockets of congress people, and try to turn America into a weak, socialist state so world government advocates can more easily have their way, and sell us out for who knows what reasons. We are getting what we deserve for voting people into office who serve only themselves.

"...This plausible judgment comes from professor Thomas A. Lambert of the University of Missouri Law School, writing in Regulation quarterly, a publication of the libertarian Cato Institute...".

gw is grasping at a straw held out by a doubting thomas...

Will the sour grapes never end from the right wing. Or maybe its just wishful thinking. Will, before you shut down the ACA you ought to come up with something that provides medical services for every American citizen. The ACA was and still is a stop gap measure passed only because right wingers have a selfish view of the human needs. I doub't that Mr. Will has to rely upon the ACA for any of his medical needs.

Banderson, you talk a lot about liberty, but what about life? The constitution talks about Life even before liberty. The constitution provides the framework for a "goverment" having a goal to protect "Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of happyness". I might point out that in this life their is no "liberty" without life. Your view is myopic.

I don't understand what George Will is trying to say. Somebody dumb this down for me please.

@Clydesdale - "I don't understand what George Will is trying to say. Somebody dumb this down for me please."

Republicans = good

Roberts = good, then bad, now maybe good again

Obama = really bad

Mike in Texas: God gave life, which in turn gives you a chance for liberty. Liberty defined by God has nothing to do with Liberty as defined by man(socialism, etc.). Government's whole purpose is to defend my rights, which gives me and everyone else a chance to be free. For many, including you it appears, government is their to take away rights at a whim, all at the expense of liberty. It isn't difficult. Liberty is what brought people to America. If your definition of liberty is what we have today in America, no thanks. I would ask you to study the Founders words and see if they would even recognize the America we have today. I defy anyone to tell me differently. They knew about liberty. So do I.