Judge Rules The Health Care Law Unconstitutional, And Obama Sez He Has No Intent To Comply With The Ruling

Obama has crossed the Rubicon.

The White House officials said that the ruling would not have an impact on implementation of the law, which is being phased in gradually. (The individual mandate, for example, does not begin until 2014.) They said that states cannot use the ruling as a basis to delay implementation in part because the ruling does not rest on "anything like a conventional Constitutional analysis." Twenty-six states were involved in the lawsuit.

In other words, 'We disagree, therefore we order the States to ignore the court's ruling. We're in charge, and the law is what we say the law is.'

Wowee...

Denninger has a view on this behavior.

Obama's just gonna double-down and bluff his way through, using the power of the Executive Branch to force his will upon an unwilling Republic and its citizenry.

It's Obama's MubarakMoment.

Heaven help us.

The Reading Of The United States Constitution

OS posts this for his readers, with gratitude.

First, that we have a written Constitution that can be read aloud into the Congressional Record. Harder to stuff it down the Memory Hole, or have members claim not to be familiar with it. Many still despise it, but they can't plead ignorance.

Second, that for the first time in many years, we have a small group of people in Washington who think that its words have meaning.