Make them all play football

I recently read a liberal blog that was positively stunning in its stupidity.
Commenting on the upcoming Supreme Court ruling on President Obama's health care reform bill, the blogger wrote that, at the time the health care reform bill was being pushed through Congress, it was "conventional wisdom" that the individual mandate would easily pass constitutional muster.
Really? Maybe within the hermetically sealed liberal bubble that this blogger seems to live in, but many regular folks, myself included, immediately raised the question about the legality of the federal government ordering citizens to buy something they don't want.
The blogger went so far as to say it was "laughable" to think that the health care reform bill could be considered unconstitutional.
To quote Nancy Pelosi, "Are you serious?"
Expanding on his defense of Obamacare, the blogger genuflected at the holy shrine of the Commerce Clause, and made fun of the extreme conservative position, that there is a fundamental difference between regulating activity and inactivity in the marketplace.
The infamous Commerce Clause, which has been used and abused to justify all sorts of government intervention in our daily lives, was intended to regulate trade among the states. The intent was to head off trade wars between neighboring states. West Virginia, for example, could not place a tariff on oil imported from Pennsylvania.
The Commerce Clause was never intended to force individuals to make shopping decisions.
Mr. Blogger: You say the distinction between activity and inactivity in the marketplace is weak and fallacious? Are you serious? Are you telling me there's no difference between a referee presiding over a football game and ordering everyone in the stands to play?