Posted on 10/31/2014 6:42:55 PM PDT by right-wing agnostic
If you’re trying to convince the Supreme Court not to grant certiorari in a high-profile case, I suspect that publishing an op-ed in the Washington Post on the day the Court is scheduled to consider the petition is not the best strategy. I also suspect that it would be a good idea to ensure than such op-ed not include blatant falsehoods. It would be one thing for such an op-ed for forcefully advocate a given perspective on a contested issue. Quite another for it to simply make stuff up. In this case, however, we see the latter.
Friday the Supreme Court is scheduled to consider the petition for certiorari in King v. Burwell. Friday’s Post also features an op-ed defending the IRS rule authorizing tax credits for the purchase of health insurance in exchanges established by the federal government at issue in King and several other pending cases. The op-ed is authored by Senators Tom Harkin (D-IA) and Ron Wyden, and Representatives Sander M. Levin (D-Mich.), George Miller (D-Calif.) and Henry A. Waxman (D-Calif.). As the accompanying byline notes, all five were heavily involved in the efforts to enacted health care reform and the eventual passage of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. So if anyone knows how the law was passed, it should be these gentlemen. That makes the substance of their essay all the more odd.
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Should have said, I want to run into some frozen lake somewhere screaming about how beautiful it is here in Hawaii..........
Yeah.
So saved my insurance canceled out twice, from two different companies.
And the three of us see it.
Yet there are others who think they are SOooo “in tell ect you all” that they see some miraculous hidden brilliance in the ruling.
As the wampa and ice eating bison devour your rapidly freezing flesh, visions of Mauna Loa fill your head?
Or an alien eating the brain out of the chief justice right before our eyes......
:-)
“We opened up his head and found a little snail working the controls!”
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