Dave - sort of what you were saying...
I’ll have to go along with this - it’s the hope anyway.
A Walker or Cruz [or both!] could hopefully bring this down and slow our slide away from freedom.
I thought that they were just waiting on this ruling to see how they would proceed. They were hoping the court would undo Obamacare so they wouldn’t have to.
Let’s see if the Republicans now overturn the complete package as they promised to during election time.
Are you insane?
SCOTUS just confirmed that the Constitution and the Rule of Law is irrelevant and that whatever the Ruling Class Oligarchy and their Dictator want to impose on us will be MADE LEGAL.
We are become a Communist nation - and if you think elections are going to save what is left of us, you have no idea what has happened or what time we have arrived at.
Thank you, we are Americans...we don’t give up.
Yeah I’ve thought about that. I respectfully disagree.
In short, we got the worst possible decision, the GOP will be blamed, the Dims will get credit and it will CARRY all the way to the election.
I see no silver lining here.
I think you’re wrong. I think a Dem victory is now essentially assured. I’m not saying I like it.
Logical.
Any speech by any politician saying “we are a nation of laws” should be responded to with a hail of stones and rotten produce.
“In the end Cruz, or maybe Walker might be able to win ONLY because of this ruling, as this ruling prevents Boener and McConnell from pulling the rug out from under them. So, like it or not, we come out ahead here.”
Ok and lets take the next step. Cruz or Walker wins and
passes a law that at least gets rid of the mandates, whats
to stop this SCOTUS from throwing it out as unconstitutional?
The sad fact is we are now beyond the point of return. The
move to socialism will continue at present pace right to
another civil war.
“we probably got the best ruling possible from the Supreme Court”
Your “we” refers to the GOPe
My “we” refers the people, who lost.
We win by losing? I think you’ve entered the final stages of Stockholm syndrome.
Saved them the trouble of repairing it, which they would have done poorly.
In addition, there is no way that congress would have required repayment of the current tax credits.
The mantra of Repeal and Replace was a strong warning of what was in the works should obamacare go down.The only way to get medical care to all who need it and bring the prices way down is for the government to get the hell out of medicine and healthcare and insurance altogether. The only proper government role according to the Constitution is guarantee of weights and measures and by logical extension, truth in advertising.
Effectively what the Court upheld was the free hand of the President to rewrite laws to suit himself, i.e. the right of the President to Legislate if he couches his reasoning in the language of fixing “obviously unintended errors.”
No question. Today's GOP is the second wing of the Democrat party.
This is happening anyways.
I think the ruling will create even more discouragement among conservatives, and cause them to give up on the system. I think the GOP may lose the House, Senate, and the Presidency in 2016 because conservatives will just stay home on voting day. The system is corrupt and rotten to the point where even the plain meaning of the English language is disregarded by the power elite. Our best strategy would be work at collapsing the economy, creating chaos, and hope we can win the throat slitting contest.
I disagree.
Now there is almost nothing left standing in the way of full-blown dictatorial socialism.
Now there is nothing to stop all states from switching over to the Federal exchange. Employers will drop insurance coverage and everyone will have to switch over to the Federal SCOTUSCare. So the Executive branch owns your health.
Now there is no legislation that cannot be interpreted any way that the executive branch wants to...all that it takes is to let it go through the courts where a great big precedent awaits to change the language of any legislation. So the Executive branch owns the congressman that you elected.
And I don’t think that this decision will motivate enough people to take up arms to take back their government.
Silver lining? No. this is the lowest day in the history of the courts. And the beginning of the end of what you think was America.