Endless Litigation, Endless Distrust

Wesley J. Smith, First Things, Obamacare: Unleashing a Constitutional Crisis:

If President Obama signs an Obamacare bill that was not actually voted on in the House of Representatives, it will unleash a bitter constitutional crisis of the kind I haven’t seen in my 60 year-+ lifetime. There will be years of intense litigation. Tremendous uncertainty as to whether it is actually law will roil the economy and divide the country. People will refuse to pay the taxes required in the “statute” on the basis that there is no law. Regulators will be sued. Vitriol of the kind not seen since the session crisis of 1861 will take over our politics, sowing even deeper societal divisions than already exist. At the end of the day, I believe, Obamacare will be declared null and void because it never actually have passed both houses of Congress.

And that’s the best case scenario.

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