In that sense, a rejection of ObamaCare would match the consensus we’ve seen in the polling over the last two years. Americans don’t want a federal government that can mandate purchases of private-sector goods and services, no matter how beneficial the governing class believes them to be. This could very well be a turning point that redefines and contracts federal reach — and if so, then the last two years will have been well worth the trouble.
I'm not as convinced as this writer about what size of federal government the American public is willing to tolerate. Not wanting to be ordered to buy something is a long way from, "Hey, quit bribing us with ouy own money." But if we do reach a turning point, I'll be in there slugging away at trying to get us back on the path to sanity as far as we can before people get tired of the trip and just sit down in the road.
