Predictioning

Sometime between now and November, especially if President Obama begins to trail badly in the polls and things look bleak, one of the silly set like Chris Matthews, Ed Schultz, Lawrence O'Donnell, Al Sharpton or the invisible men and women of Current TV will say with a straight face that United States Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts upheld the president's healthcare reform act in order to galvanize support for GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney.

Depending on which of these punchlines makes the accusation, we could also see a further claim that Roberts was trying to stealth into case law a substantial curtailment of the latitude that Congress has enjoyed under the Commerce Clause of the Constitution (Article 1, Section 8, Clause 3) to regulate pretty much anything, since it's difficult to find something that doesn't affect commerce between the states -- while having the cake by making sure that flagging Tea Party organizations had something to fight against and harp about until the election, knowing that if they scored enough victories they would repeal the law anyway.

His labeling of the act's individual mandate to purchase health insurance and the financial penalty for not doing so as a "tax" will be labeled a Machiavellian connection of the President's signature achievement to the most unpopular three-letter word in the English language next to "nap" at a day care center.

If one of them does this, someone will have to tell me, as you couldn't pay me to watch the men enumerated above and I am like most of the country in having my television provider save me the bother of ignoring Current TV by doing it for me.