Posted on 04/03/2012 1:44:05 PM PDT by servo1969
If there's one thing that Obama is a master at it's lying.
With that in mind I'm starting to feel really apprehensive about the SCOTUS vote on Obamacare.
I hate to say it but what if he's won?
What if he's managed to flip one of the judges (or didn't even have to)?
What if he's been informed by Kagan or Sotomayor that it's in the bag?
What if all these little statements to the press are just him loading the bases for a grand slam in June? So he can look Large and In Charge to all his minions?
I hate to be defeatist but I'm getting a sinking feeling in my stomach.
Jeez. If I have any grandkids they're gonna have to celebrate this c*cks*ckers birthday in school.
They aren't that smart.
Do you remember the SCOTUS decision on reverse-discrimination from the University Of Michigan students?
Need I say more?
Yours is the traditionally, historically correct response but I think these people are so far beyond the pale that they will let this thing get by them just like Hitler and the fellas’ let things get away from them.
Yours is the traditionally, historically correct response but I think these people are so far beyond the pale that they will let this thing get by them just like Hitler and the fellas’ let things get away from them.
” Yours is the traditionally, historically correct response but I think these people are so far beyond the pale that they will let this thing get by them just like Hitler and the fellas let things get away from them.”
I could very well be wrong. I hope not.
Excising the mandate and retaining the rest is akin to removing the entire first floor (supports included) of a high-rise building - what’s left won’t just stay where it is. Either the court goes thru the entire TWO THOUSAND SEVEN HUNDRED pages (and that’s just the list of changes to existing law, that doesn’t represent the entire relevant US Code which must be analyzed) and makes whatever adjustments they either assume Congress intended (telepathy is not in their job description) or they want (to wit: judicial activism), or they chuck the whole thing and tell Congress to try again. As more than one judge indicated active opposition to the prospect of merely reading the whole thing, and as the mandate is the premise for much of what remains, full overturn is the only option.
I am looking forward to Thomas’ opinion. It will use the verdict as a jumping-off point for addressing & virtually setting precedent on related issues. I would not be surprised if he DID read all 2700 pages, and will issue a scathing microscopic review of the whole thing.
Yup. I was keen on NOT signing my kids up for it (let them decide their own involvement), but the ~$20,000 cumulative tax credit loss (to wit: penalty) each was rather persuasive.
And I expect that will be the model for the replacement. Sign up for qualifying health insurance, and the IRS will give you a 100% refundable tax credit. No penalty, but no excuse to not get coverage.
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