How will the Supreme Court's Health Care Reform ruling ...

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The mandate will be upheld; Obama's approval won't have any immediate effects, but in the long run it will be good for him, just because it avoids the disaster of the mandate being thrown out.

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I'm certain the mandate will be struck down

No you aren't.  You might turn out to be right, but you, like everyone else, don't have a clue.  It's all just guessing.

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I will now accept my accolades

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If someone does not want to buy a product, it is their individual right to refuse to do so. End of discussion. It's about liberty.

And you might be able to pass the mandate off as a tax, but it punishes people for choosing an option that the government doesn't like. How is that a good thing.

"If you do not buy an apple a day, you will be taxed." That is ridiculous.
"If you buy this unhealthly product, you will be taxed." Now that sounds a little less abstract.

Taxing someone for not having something is just so strange.

Doesn't the government already give out tax credits for all sorts of things?  Can't you just think of the mandate as a tax on everyone, with the people who have health insurance getting an exemption (equivalent of a tax credit)?

Yes, that is the logical way of looking at it, but I sure hope Obama never articulates it that way...

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It's funny how butthurt republicans got when Obama (correctly) predicted PPACA would be upheld. How they spun that into "threats" and "childish insults" is beyond me...