Here is video of GOP Rep. Paul Ryan on ABC News’ “This Week” where he said Supreme Court Justice John Roberts decided to leave the issue of ObamaCare to the American people instead of acting on his principles. Ryan said Roberts essentially decided to “rewrite the statute” so he could let ObamaCare stand as a tax rather than acting to strike it down.
As a result, Ryan said “the stakes in this election could not be higher.” At one point, moderator George Stephanopoulos actually agreed with Ryan when he made the point that it is Barack Obama who has engaged in hypocrisy – passing ObamaCare by saying it is not a “tax,” and then sending his Solicitor General to argue for upholding it before the Supreme Court as a “tax.” Ryan said if Obama had presented it as a tax to the American people, it would have never passed in Congress – to which Stephanopoulos agreed, “I think you may be right.”
