A stock market plummeting in despair Thursday, at least initially, seems to have taken the Supreme Court’s dumbfounding approval of Obamacare the wrong way; for in fact, it all but guarantees that Obama, the most incompetent, Big Government-mongering President  since Roosevelt, will be turned out of office in November — and by a wider margin than we might have predicted just a day ago.  From this point forward in the campaign, he will not be able to evade the charge that he has enacted the largest middle-class tax increase in U.S. history — at a time when the economy remains intractably mired in what has come to be called, somewhat evasively with respect to its beginning and end, The Great Recession.

The court’s decision will also serve to remind angry voters that, even though Democrats and Republicans  are equally responsible for the financial mess the country is in, the two parties pick very different kinds of Supreme Court Justices. And if Obama should be allowed to put one more humorless, leftist ideologue like Kagan or Sotomayor on the court, we might as well all flee to Canada. A further benefit of the Supremes’ upholding The Worst Bill Ever is that it will give Obama’s weakling-of-an-opponent, Mitt Romney — the news media’s very deliberate choice, although not the people’s — something, finally, to talk about.