President Obama and the liberal left are celebrating great victories. The Supreme Court, led by Justice Roberts, ruled that the Democrats who tried to force states into setting up insurance exchanges didn’t actually mean it.  Then today it ruled that the 14^th Amendment protects gay marriage.

The liberal left won these battles, but I believe they just lost the war.  ObamaCare is an unmitigated disaster.  The Supreme Court ruled that ObamaCare is legal, but that doesn’t make it a good law.  It also doesn’t solve any of the really big problems.  Health Care premiums are skyrocketing.  People are paying higher premiums for even higher deductibles.  It is becoming increasingly difficult to find a doctor willing to provide treatment.  If the law had been overturned by the Supreme Court, all of the problems with ObamaCare would have been blamed on Republicans.  Now all of the blame falls on Democrats and they have no solutions.  All Republicans need to say is:  “If you like your health care plan, you can keep your health care plan.”   

The decision to uphold gay marriage doesn’t change the laws of nature and 2,000 years of tradition.  Regardless of rulings by any court the vast majority of people will still believe that marriage is between a man and a woman.  There is a big difference between what people believe and what people believe should be enforced by rule of law.  The gay rights crowd is certain to over-react and become even more obnoxious. That will backfire big time.  If you don’t believe that think about all the people who drove miles out of their way to buy food at Chick-fil-A last year. Here is how Chick-fil-A was punished by the American public for taking a stand against gay marriage:

http://fortune.com/2015/03/10/chick-fil-a-gay-new-york/

Despite the dust-up, Chick-fil-A’s food has proved to be quite popular, even among gays. Chick-fil-A, which now has 1,900 restaurants and hit sales of $6 billion in 2014, is now the largest U.S. fast-food chicken chain, surpassing Yum Brands’  YUM 1.72%  KFC last year, and has put cities at the heart of its ambitious growth plans.

The situation will become even more chaotic because attorneys are already preparing papers to file for far less acceptable forms of marriage, like Polygamy.  They will argue that this Supreme Court decision prohibits any restrictions on who can and cannot get married.  They have a point.  This will quickly become a legal mess that will last for years.  That is the real problem with the gay marriage decision; it requires discrimination on behalf of gays opening up another whole Pandora’s Box.

So, while you are throwing up watching liberals rejoice, remember that sometimes getting what you want is the worst possible outcome.  I personally know of a case where the owner of a grocery store chain lost a unionize battle.  I met with the owner who was heartbroken.  He explained how he had poured a major portion of his profits back into the store to reward his loyal workers.  He looked at me and said: “I had dedicated my life toward helping my employees.  They just voted to not trust me. From now on, they get exactly what they negotiate and nothing more.”  Ultimately he ended up shutting down several stores, taking out all the profits and going on a permanent vacation.  A lot of those people celebrating the union victory ended up unemployed.

Liberals have won, big time, but that won’t make liberal policies work and it won’t change the laws of nature.

There is another factor here that should not be ignored.  A lot of people are sick and tired of the court system in this country ignoring the will of the people.  Those who are celebrating should pay close attention to what Scalia wrote in his dissent:

“Today’s decree says that my Ruler, and the Ruler of 320 million Americans coast-to-coast, is a majority of the nine lawyers on the Supreme Court. The opinion in these cases is the furthest extension in fact—and the furthest extension one can even imagine—of the Court’s claimed power to create “liberties” that the Constitution and its Amendments neglect to mention. This practice of constitutional revision by an unelected committee of nine, always accompanied (as it is today) by extravagant praise of liberty, robs the People of the most important liberty they asserted in the Declaration of Independence and won in the Revolution of 1776: the freedom to govern themselves,” 

They should also consider the warning issued by Admiral Yamamoto after Pearl Harbor:  “I fear all we have done is to awaken a sleeping giant and fill him with a terrible resolve.”

TDM