It didn't have to happen.  If strong conservative US Senate candidates would have strong elected conservative senators, it wouldn't have.

Breyer?  The great decider of the 'Kelo' eminent domain catastrophe fame, also nominated by Clinton, and confirmed without sufficient defense from a mushy Republican senate 44.

Sotomeyor, a "wise Latina' appointed by Obama, and Kagan,  were both confirmed.  The former able to slide by, even with an obvious bias towards social justice, (a very unconstitutional premise) and the other who should NEVER have been allowed to assume the seat without a guarantee she would recuse herself from deciding on the very law she fought for as solicitor general.

Roberts could have been all by himself exhibiting the very serious lack of judgment (pun intended) that will now tear the nation apart even more than the original law.  He could have stood alone, and been laughed at as the lone fool on the SCOTUS.  His action unfortunately was joined by the result of a greater number of fools whom we as a nation insist on electing.

This new tax on decisions, stands alone in the history of man as the single most idiotic interpreting of what is, or is not constitutional, in my view.

As a friend opined shortly after the decision, this great nation which was founded by revolt against King George's taxation, might surely die by such a tool, and the final issuer of the tax, not a constitutionally charged CONGRESS which has such authority, but a 'conservative' judge, along with other Marxist leaning judges who rewrote the law from the bench.

Though even Obama said it wasn't a tax.

There is no excuse for electing anyone in any position who hasn't a clear understand the truest meaning of our constitution.  We now have 5 judges that can clearly be identified that do not know how to umpire according to the rules.  The rules as written a couple of centuries ago have become too easy to ignore.  Our leadership must be better than this.

Even locally, we can no longer simply accept a "because I am electable" excuse.  As we are discovering today, those who have no grounding, no principles, no 'absolutes', have no ability to hold back the ever creeping utopian train wreck that is upon us.  Free is now seen for what it is, not so very much.  We now have new chains that bind us, and the beast we feed with milquetoast and unaccountable servants has begun to devour our substance.

And the statement "eat your peas" made by the president while laughing at the weakness in our congress over the debt, now mocks us in the debate over our personal health care choices.

After today, those peas, together with noodles and cheese might just as well be served up on the constitution as a paper plate.