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And now, for something completely different: a little humor.

The 10 Most Hilariously Unhinged Right-Wing Reactions to the Obamacare Ruling:

1. Totally Not Exaggerating!

Baby-faced Breitbart editor Ben Shapiro offers a coolly dispassionate analysis of yesterday's ruling...

This is the greatest destruction of individual liberty since Dred Scott. This is the end of America as we know it. No exaggeration.

� benshapiro (@benshapiro) June 28, 2012

2. Wait Until They Discover That They Use the Metric System

BuzzFeed found a bunch of conservatives so freaked out by this tyranny that they're throwing in the towel and heading north to that right-wing paradise known as Canada � a place that has both universal healthcare and gay marriage...

God literally f*ck this. I'm moving to Canada. Jump off a cliff @Obama.

� Jacqua Flocka(@JacquaFlocka) June 28, 2012

3. Health Insurance Is So Much Worse Than the Murder of 3,000 People

It's a good thing Mike Pence is a reasonable conservative.

In a closed door House GOP meeting Thursday, Indiana congressman and gubernatorial candidate Mike Pence likened the Supreme Court's ruling upholding the Democratic health care law to the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, according to several sources present.

He immediately apologized.

4. Grab Your Musket and Tri-Corner Hat!

Did you know that the Founding Fathers fought a revolution to keep people uninsured. It's true!

Wonkette:

Now that poors can get health insurance because the demon Supreme Court sided with that commie muslin NOBAMA fella, the only way to defend our freedom is armed insurrection! Mount up and ride to the sound of the gun says former Michigan Republican Party spokesman Matthew Davis.

Matthew Davis, an attorney in Lansing, sent the email moments after the Supreme Court ruling to numerous new media outlets and limited government activists with the headline: �Is Armed Rebellion Now Justified?�

Davis added his own personal note saying, �� here�s my response. And yes, I mean it.�

�There are times government has to do things to get what it wants and holds a gun to your head,� Davis said. �I�m saying at some point, we have to ask the question when do we turn that gun around and say no and resist.

. Revolution Is in the Air

Davis wasn't alone. Here's Matthew Vadum, author of Zombie Acorn Is Coming to Eat Your Face!

Matthew Vadum@vadum
We don't just need a new president. We need a revolution. #tcot
28 Jun 12 ReplyRetweetFavorite
6. A Constitutional Scholar He Is Not...

Rand Paul really needs to peruse Article 3...

Politico:

Sen. Rand Paul doesn�t think the Supreme Court gets the last word on what�s constitutional.

The Kentucky Republican belittled the high court�s health care decision as the flawed opinion of just a �couple people.�

�Just because a couple people on the Supreme Court declare something to be �constitutional� does not make it so. The whole thing remains unconstitutional,� the freshman lawmaker said in a statement.

7. Health Insurance Is Exactly Like Slavery

It's not just Ben Shapiro � Richard Viguerie, a stalwart of the conservative movement since the Goldwater days, also reminisced about Dred Scott.

Today, a 5-4 majority of the Supreme Court of the United States � the body the Framers of the Constitution created to protect the citizenry from tyranny � has chosen to join infamous courts of the past, such as the Taney Court that made the Dred Scott v. Sanford decision finding that slaves had no rights and the Fuller Court that ruled to institutionalize Jim Crow discrimination in Plessy v. Ferguson in stripping Americans of their freedom.

8. You Wouldn't Like Me When I'm Angry

An unspoken virtue of Obamacare is that it might just make Glenn Beck's head explode. From his site, The Blaze:

Needless to say, the news [of the ruling] went over like a lead balloon with Glenn Beck and his radio co-hosts Pat and Stu � so much so that they nearly violated FCC language requirements.

When Beck and his team found out that it was in fact Roberts� decision that pushed the bill through, they were visibly and audibly stunned. Beck surmised that the reason for Roberts� decision likely hinges on the pervasive nature of progressivism.

�Progressivism is a disease and it is in both parties� Beck said.

�Progressives are fascists.�

Beck, looking on the one positive he feels to have come from this decision, said that the �Lord works in mysterious ways.�

OK, Glenn Beck.

9. John Roberts: Traitor!

Every fundamentalist religion abhors apostates, and American conservatism is no exception. As Alex Seitz-Wald detailed in Salon, the Chief Justice was treated to an abundance of bile.

�It�s patently absurd,� seethed Seton Motley, a conservative activist with LessGovernment.org. �This is the umpire calling the game for the first five innings, and then putting on a cap and glove and play first base...

�I have a message for Chief Justice Roberts,� Dean Clancy of the Tea Party group Freedomworks declared over the loudspeaker after the ruling came down. �The power to tax is the power to destroy�...

Bryan Fischer, the prominent Christian-right activist, toldBuzzFeed�s Rosie Gray that Roberts �is going down in history as the justice that shredded the Constitution and turned it into a worthless piece of parchment�

10. Or Is He?

Unlike most constitutional experts, some conservative bloggers thought that the law was so obviously unconstitutional that something fishy must be going on...

Someone got to Roberts. I bet they got to him and told him he has to vote this way or members of his family � kids, wife, parents, whoever � were going to be killed.

Later this afternoon, it�s going to come out that Roberts was coerced. ... the whole story will come out, Roberts will issue his REAL opinion, and Obama and Axelrod will be taken away in handcuffs.

Hey, one can always hope!"

IT"S A FRIGGIN' CONSPIRACY

Regards,
John

[MotherF]

I loved those tweets by all the people who say they are moving to Canada--way to broadcast your ignorance to the world!

[johnslat]

Dear MotherF,

That's right - they should go to Costa Rica with Rush:

"Responding to a caller who asked him where he would go for health care if Congress enacts reform, Limbaugh replied,

I don't know. I'll just tell you this, if this passes and it's five years from now and all that stuff gets implemented -- I am leaving the country. I'll go to Costa Rica."

Umm, just a teensy little problem there, Rush. Costa Rica has universal health care, one of the best health systems in Latin America. But here's the good news: Afghanistan has NO universal health care. I just know Rush'll LOVE Kabul."

Regards,
John

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[wangdaning]

It is kind of odd that a Justice of the Supreme Court can help pass a law and then vote on its constitutionality. Not the first time this has happened, but odd that it is so acceptable. People continue to bicker about side issues.

This is the point where executive powers come in, and even though it has his name, Obama needs to get rid of it. The ruling is tainted. It did come from the Supreme Court, but who checks them? In a court case where a judge has involvement what should happen?

If you want to watch a government that doesn't function, well, America is the cinema. Free medical coverage would be great, but that requires a population that isn't in debt to itself. America is like the stereotype of the guy who wont ask for directions. By the time you ask everyone is already believing you know where you are going.

I have no political affiliation, I am too disgusted. Anytime people get into a political discussion is revolves around what the other side has done, never what is being done.

I know few people from the US I can actually get into a discussion with, hence I am ranting.