One can forgive CNN for reporting Thursday’s health care verdict incorrectly on the first try. When Chief Justice John Roberts’ opinion stated that Obamacare’s requirement that all Americans purchase insurance “is not a valid exercise of Congress’s power under the Commerce Clause,” it seemed like an obvious conservative victory — he was striking down part or all of the law. Instead, Roberts joined with the liberals on the Court and adopted a rationale for keeping the mandate that nearly every other court had rejected to date. They ruled that the mandate could be construed as a tax, which makes it justifiable under Congress’ enumerated constitutional power “to lay and collect taxes.”

Conservatives were furious, and already Roberts has been skewered (justly, for the most part) by quite a few conservative commentators and editorialists. But here is our advice on how to take the decision: Don’t panic.