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And as applies to me, we'll challenge this and there are opportunities in the future, depending upon how the tax is labeled, which of the four is it? we don't know, the court didn't label it but it is a tax related questions on a go-forward basis. >> governor huckabee: i haven't heard anyone bring up that argument. no one. is it the grounds for yet another legal challenge to the valued lid tt tty -- va lidty o obamacare. >> yes. >> and we were surprised about the ruling and why no one expected it is because it's a bad ruling. no one expected a ruling this bad. from the chief justice and, scott...

And as applies to me, we'll challenge this and there are opportunities in the future, depending upon how the tax is labeled, which of the four is it? we don't know, the court didn't label it but it is a tax related questions on a go-forward basis. >> governor huckabee: i haven't heard anyone bring up that argument. no one. is it the grounds for yet another legal challenge to the valued lid tt tty -- va lidty o obamacare. >> yes. >> and we were surprised about the ruling and why no one expected it is because it's a bad ruling. no one expected a ruling this bad. from the chief justice and, scott...

Was this really that much of a -- part of the case before the court, the whole issue of the tax? we thought it was the commerce clause. >> governor we were totally blind sided and i'll tell you even the lower courts, who went against that, rejected the taxing power argument. so, no other court ruled that way, even in the -- even in the federal government's briefing, they didn't even start talking about the taxing power until page 52 and it was only 63 pages long, i mean, do any of us really believe that congress intended to tax the uninsured? of course not. and, president obama and the democra...

Justice crumbled like a dry cookie here, and, in some desperate attempt to preserve the court, has, instead, made them look foolish with an unsupportable ruling that is only the law of the land because five justices on the supreme court said it is. not because it is backed by any good rationale or any intellectual history that traces itself back to the founding vision of the country. >> governor huckabee: well, i want to tell you, two things, first, i appreciate the candor of your view and, secondly, i hope you don't have any more cases before john roberts any time soon. >> we all do. >> we al...

The statute congress did not pass. >> he rewrote it and look at congress's intent, if the democrats and congress, and the president, ever pitched it as a tax, it would have never, ever, ever passed. ever. and, at least we can look at the portion that we did win under the commerce [applause], because i fully believe that if we had lost under the commerce clause, there would be absolutely no limits to the federal government's power. none at all. >> and then the question about, is there any limits on the executive power and, in itself, it says that if you don't put energy efficient windows in you...