Decisionmas Morning

Predictions for this morning ... "I hope ... someone on television cries. My guess is Ed Schultz ..." “ [Today] is Obamacare Decisionmas. Don’t act like you haven’t been waiting for this moment all your life. Or, at least, you’ve been waiting for the endless whining to – please, God, make it stop – from the left to abate, [...] SCOTUS strikes down individual mandate in a 5-4 decision, but keeps the full law pending it’s actual enforcement, a la Arizona. It’s likely the Attorneys general only have the capacity to sue on the single issue of state-based expenditures. John Roberts writes, because that’s what John Roberts does. And he’s a smarty pants, and he hasn’t managed to eek out an opinion since May. Scalia concurs, but writes his own lengthy opinion, determining that the whole thing should be trashed on Commerce Clause grounds, despite having the exact opposite opinion in Gonzalez v. California. Ginsberg writes the dissent on paper that has been caressed by Breyer’s tears. Sotomayor and Kagan concur.  [...] "In addition, I hope, if the mandate goes down," someone on television cries. My guess is Ed Schultz, but I’d be willing to extend that guess to Andrew Sullivan, though that’s more of an outside bet.   [...] Via Gerard:, Naked DC Blog, the most delicious thing I've found in some time: (based on a this single entry).  Is that the best opening ¶ you've ever seen, or what?  [-- Predictions for tomorrow morning] I'm atremble in anticipation..  ”