Posted on 07/31/2014 4:15:25 AM PDT by IBD editorial writer
The more ObamaCare backers try to attack the D.C. Circuit Court's decision that limits subsidies to state-run exchanges, the more it looks like the two judges on that panel got it right.
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The situation gets murky because of the intentional stirring up of the mud
But...... looks like Obamacare is toast because the intent of Congress was to influence the establishment and implementation of state exchanges.
Barack Obama is saved....... it will be the SCOTUS’s fault.
The law says what it says - intentions are irrelevant.
The more I read about the Halbig decision, the more I’m convinced if it gets to SCOTUS, they’ll just let the DC Circuit decision stand (that’s if the en banc panel upholds the three judge panel decision).
The only argument being advanced by the Obmacare proponents is, “it was our intent that everybody who needs subsidies gets them”.
In earlier versions of the bill, everybody who needed them, got subsidies. Somewhere along the line, that was purposefully changed.
Shouldn’t there be minutes (audio/video) of the Obamacare sausage making sessions that could be reviewed to see when/why the change was made? FOIA stuff?
Regardless of the details, Ocare is a tax. A tax on life.
It is therefore unconstitutional.
What I remember are Neil Cavuto’s repeated videos of the closed door. The room behind the door produced the final negotiations and not a whisper or scrap of notes ever made it past the closed door.
Neil also had a telephone on his desk but no one ever returned his calls.
Doesn’t matter if they got it right. Harry Reid went nuclear and packed that court with far left political operatives. Those operatives see their job as justifying whatever a democrat controlled federal goveremt proposes and opposing whatever a republican controlled federal government proposes. En Banc this Court will twist itself into knots to save Obamacare. In doing so the law won’t matter one wit to them.
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