The $64,000 GOP Obamacare Question: Politics or Constitution First?

Have you noticed the Republicans are cheering Justice John Robert's decision to uphold Obamacare? For Republicans, it's a free ticket to the White House as evident in Michele Bachmann's comments on the Bill O'Reilly show last night. Everywhere you look, Republicans seem jubilant this issue is going to lead to big wins in November.

I don't disagree.

 When I hear Congressmen like Billy Long of Missouri make the following statement in jubilation like he has just been delivered the Republican party's version of the Promised Land...

"You can't believe how many calls we're getting at our office. Everyone is furious about this, so it's going to be a big boon to us, as far as getting more members of the Republican party in the House, picking up the Senate in the Republican column and picking up the White House."


... I have to ask the obvious question. Will the Republican party put the Constitution before politics?

Apparently, the process in which Obamacare was passed didn't match the Constitutional workflow for a "tax". Remember, in Robert's decision, he said the law was legal because it amounts to a tax. For a tax to be Constitutionally legal, it must be introduced in the House of Representatives. Obamacare didn't follow this protocol and was introduced in the Senate. Therefore, Obamacare wasn't passed as a tax, which Obama even admits in an interview with George Stephanoupoulos that Obamacare was never a tax, which is why it went through the process it did. Remember the Senate was the easy part of the battle. The House is where the bill hit issues as Democrats had to bribe and strong arm their own members to get it passed.

So the question today is this. Will the Republican party establishment fight Obamacare before the November election citing this glitch in its procedure and put the Constitution first or will they put politics before the Constitution and start counting all the seats to be gained by allowing Obamacare to dig deeper into our society and fester with its infectious distaste for personal liberties.

My pick, based on little it appears Republicans care about civil liberties these days with their embrace of the Patriot Act and the NDAA with its indefinite detainment language, it will be full speed ahead with politics as usual rather than launching another Constitutional attack against Obamacare. For every day, this law survives, the harder it's going to be to reverse. You must remember this bill affects more than just healthcare and those changes are in process. If you don't believe me Google Obamacare and student loans.