Approaching the most sacred of national holidays, at least if you hold the creation and continued existence of the United States of America to be divinely ordained as I do, we would be well served as citizens to take some time to reflect on the great and hard won gift that we know as Independence Day.

Rather than cast a backward look, I find my thoughts dwelling on not only the assaults on our freedom and liberty contained in the 2,400 pages of ObamaCare (Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, or PPACA or simply ACA), but also that our apparently encroached-upon, diminished freedoms, still draw people from all over the world to our shores.

Admittedly, some immigrants come to partake of the benefits provided by taxpayers, and to which they should have no access if they have not used legal processes to gain entry.

But most of those coming here simply wish to live, work, create enterprises and prosper in conditions freer by degrees than their countries of origin.

So it can be said that even such unpopular laws as ObamaCare have a mixed effect when seen from various perspectives.

On the one hand, progressives and liberal advocates for government health care mandates waxed triumphant over, first, its passage by "any means necessary," and currently, that it is constitutional to the Supreme Court (SCOTUS).

That it's never enjoyed majority approval, indeed quite the opposite, has never dissuaded liberals from their faith that, once people get used to supposedly "free" benefits and features, resigned to living with the mandates and taxes necessary to fund them, ObamaCare will come to be regarded similarly to Social Security and Medicare.

The caveats are that voters overwhelmingly realize that those programs are not what they were sold as: Social Security was supposedly prepaid retirement insurance, not transfers from workers to retirees in a shell game of growing outlays and diminished workers, leading inexorably to bankruptcy, massively higher taxes, slashed benefits or all of the above.

Medicare was projected to cost about one tenth (1/10th) what it actually costs to, again, take from workers to fund retirees medical care, going bankrupt in a shorter time than Social Security.

Indeed, ObamaCare's budgetary black hole is growing by virtue of the Congressional Budget Office increasing the cost, disingenuously pegged at about $900 billion to fulfill the arbitrary "less-than-a-trillion-dollar" promise.

A funny thing happened after a couple of years: the phoniness of using only seven years of expenses but a full ten years of taxes produced massively higher CBOscored total costs.

Even then, the cruel hoax of relying on squeezing $500 billion of Medicare savings out of medical providers has become obvious.

One other little caveat to the liberal narrative: After seeing Democrats run amok during the first two years of President Obama's term, a vast awakening took hold of the center-right majority of the electorate, most notably in the Tea Party movement, derided by supposedly superior, arrogant and condescending progressives, but which delivered the biggest electoral spanking to Democrats since, well, almost forever (about 1928, I think).

Beltway media and leftist advocates (a redundancy) have bemoaned the Tea Party's blatant determination to use the Republican Party to advance shudder the thought fiscal discipline, economic freedom and Constitutional liberty.

These same news reporters and opinion writers apparently averted their gaze when all the actual socialists, including then-community organizer and Illinois state senate candidate Barack Obama (part of and endorsed by the socialist New Party) held conferences and formulated strategies to hide their socialist intentions and fold themselves into the Democratic Party.

Hence, we have none other than Mr. Obama on the record wanting single-payer, socialized health care, back when few paid attention, and even describing ObamaCare as a transitional measure.

One of his top people in the effort spoke glowingly of the British National Health Service, which places a monetary value on each additional year of life for the elderly, and has been exposed allowing hundred of thousands of those same elderly to expire on its watch.

To Democrats: 1) Be careful what you wished for (from the Supreme Court), because you got it, and 2) You got what you want, now you've got to take what comes with it.

Like most conservatives, I would have preferred that Chief Justice Roberts had simply agreed with the four conservatives Scalia, Thomas, Kennedy and Alito and held the whole mess of ObamaCare pottage to be rotten.

What Roberts saddled Democrats with is a reined-in Commerce Clause, used by liberals for a century to rationalize anything the federal government, meaning an assertive President and agreeable Congress, wishes to foist on an unsuspecting citizenry.

Likewise, the Necessary and Proper Clause.

The majority relied on the government's lawyerly argument that by "penalty" they meant, "tax"; Democrats from Obama on down vehemently, and we now know falsely, denied it.

The 21 or so individual taxes total at least $800 billion.

Many of those taxes will indeed fall on "those making less than $200,000." Liars, liars, your collective pants are on fire.

So, having been exposed as the prevaricators that they are, Democrats may rue the day they won at SCOTUS, when a reenergized Tea Party movement keeps the House in Republican hands, elects President Romney and a Republican Senate Majority