Unconstitutional?

Federal District Court Judge Roger Vinson issued a ruling on Monday declaring the Health Care bill unconstitutional.  In his opinion he compared the requirement for insurance coverage to colonists being forced to pay a tax on tea.   A District Court judge does not live in a vacuum, and I don’t believe in coincidence.  The judge, a Reagan appointee, is acting as a Congress of one, overruling the real Congress and the President to advance what is obviously a Tea Party political agenda. 

The judge not only overruled the requirement for insurance, but he also threw out the rest of the bill.  His reasoning was that the insurance requirement was so intertwined with other provisions that the whole thing had to go.

How is the insurance requirement related to parents’ insurance covering their kids until age 26?  How is it related to preconditions?  How is it related to enhanced arbitration procedures, or the donut hole for prescriptions? 

Judge Vinson acknowledged that he based much of his opinion on an amicus curiae brief from the Family Research Council, a right-wing Christian advocacy group.  

Republicans, who in the past have railed against “judge-made law,” are elated.