Josh Barro over at Bloomberg News has an interesting theory on why Governor Paul LePage is so upset at the Obamacare mandate that he called the IRS "the new Gestapo" (and then pretended to apologize). Barro's theory? That LePage knows he'll have to work with the federal tax agency, rather than being able to tell President Obama to "go to hell," as LePage promised on the campaign trail
The Roberts Court is - it can now be said most confidently - the most political in American history. Today's surprising - to almost everyone - upholding of the Affordable Care Act is proof that it's even more politicized than we thought.
If the decision had gone the way most people expected - with Chief Justice John Roberts Jr.