Wisdom is the retention of innocence through adversity.

"If the Supreme Court strikes down the mandate, the Obama administration and the insurance industry have asked the justices to also invalidate consumer protections such as the law's ban on denying coverage to people with pre-existing health problems. Unless everybody is required to be in the pool, they argue, those safeguards won't work as intended, and could destabilize the insurance market."

- oh and look - an actual rational post over at ONTD-p - http://ontd-political.livejournal.com/9494684.html

ps - i predicted a long way back that this would all go to the supreme court and the mandate would likely be rejected - just for the record. i'm about 60% sure on that. i might discuss later.