Obamacare Ruling: A 21st Century Dred Scott Decision

The 2010 Tea Party wave election was all about the repeal of Obamacare and the individual mandate. If millions of Americans were enraged by the passage of Obamacare before the Supreme Court decision upholding the individual mandate was announced, their outrage will reach revolutionary fervor now that the mandate has been upheld. 

Conservatives believe with every fiber of our being that the plain language of the Constitution and our other founding documents, to say nothing of American history, demanded that the Supreme Court strike down Obamacare as unconstitutional.

On Thursday, a 5-4 majority of the Supreme Court of the United States–the body the Framers of the Constitution created to protect the citizenry from tyranny–chose to join infamous courts of the past, such as the Taney Court that made the Dred Scott v. Sandford decision finding that slaves had no rights and the Fuller Court that ruled to institutionalize Jim Crow discrimination in Plessy v. Ferguson in stripping Americans of their freedom. 

Those infamous decisions were eventually reversed, as this one should be. 

The Supreme Court’s decision is a stark reminder that one presidential appointment to the Supreme Court is all that stood between our freedom and the tyranny that will grow ever greater now that the individual mandate has been upheld. 

“f there was any reminder needed of what is at stake in this presidential election, the fractured vote upholding the mandate is it. 

There are now 130 days until Election Day. The Supreme Court has spoken, and the real work of protecting America from tyranny is now in the hands of Mitt Romney and the Republican Party.

Richard A. Viguerie is chairman of ConservativeHQ.com. He pioneered political direct mail and has been called “one of the creators of the modern conservative movement” (The Nation) and one of the “conservatives of the century” (Washington Times). He is the author of Conservatives Betrayed: How George W. Bush and Other Big Government Republicans Hijacked the Conservative Cause.