The whole time they were nothing more than actors in the kabuki theater.
They never expected their bluff to be called, DJT was not supposed to win.
Hillary was supposed to be president, and they were supposed to be impressing us by sending her endless repeal bills that go nowhere.
But now it counts, and now they are standing naked on their kabuki stage looking like a bunch of fools.
Busted!
They were full of sh!t the entire time, and they always have been, and they always will be.
“The whole time they were nothing more than actors in the kabuki theater. They never expected their bluff to be called, DJT was not supposed to win. Hillary was supposed to be president, and they were supposed to be impressing us by sending her endless repeal bills that go nowhere.”
The second Obamacare lawsuit to reach the Supreme Court dealt with the interpretation of a very simple part of the law. The law said that ONLY states which set up their own exchanges would get federal money to reduce costs to the people they insured. The intent of that clause, as stated by Gruber, was to force states that wanted nothing to do with Obamacare (like Texas) to share in the nightmare. Obama simply ignored that clause and and sent the money anyway. Had he not sent the money, then the ‘insurance’ part of Obamacare simply would not have existed in states like Texas, and instead only the regulatory part (i.e., the part driving the costs through the roof).
So a simple enough lawsuit. Obama simply chose to follow his desired version of Obamacare, rather than what was mandated by law. Needless to say, the Supreme Court (once again) sided with Obama...so nothing changed.
With the law already in effect (this was 2015 or 2016), I wondered what the Republicans would have done if the Supreme Court had done the unthinkable and actually upheld the law as written, since millions would have been thrown off Obamacare overnight. The only answer I could come up with was exactly what is happening now, a Republican civil war, resulting in the Republicans simply ‘fixing’ the wording to match Obama’s version of the law. The Republicans were/are simply INCAPABLE of ending it outright, even when handed opportunities to do so.