Posted on 04/04/2012 12:25:23 PM PDT by Beave Meister
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi on Tuesday predicted the Supreme Court will uphold the health care law on a 6-3 vote, saying she and her colleagues "wrote the bill in an ironclad way."
"I'm predicting 6-3 in favor," Mrs. Pelosi told the Paley Center for Media. "We shall see. It's a lesson in civics, and I respect it."
She didn't say which six justices she thought would uphold the law.
Unlike the White House, which said it is not thinking ahead to what happens if the court strikes down part or all of the law, Mrs. Pelosi did grapple with that question, saying Congress will have to find a way to make sure that the benefits she said are now going to 80 million people must be preserved.
Still, she said she has "confidence" the law will be upheld.
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What political purpose is served by making these predictions? I don’t get why they simply say “lets wait and see?”.
If they have the balls to actually threaten family members of the Justices, then the Justices should agree to hear the citizenship argument immediately and make BO produce real evidence that he is an American citizen.
I think this is a CYA move. She knows its been leaked and by doing this she distances herself from the leak.
My on record prediction.
5-4 against, 99% certain. 6-3 against, 1% slim outside chance.
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