Any outcome is possible. Witness the decision to allow strip searching for a littering arrest.
5 to 4 the whole bill is tossed....not part...ALL of it. Kagan blabbed to Obama, and Obama panicked...He has since retracted, due to heavy criticism.
In that case, his grandstanding might cause a justice or two to change their minds and vote against it.
government employees to rule whether or not a ‘law’ passed by other government employees giving the government massive power and money should be allowed
hmmm... this is a tough one.
on the one hand you have the 236 year old dusty and tattered Constitution
on the other, you have increased yearly salaries, unsurpassed private healthcare for govt workers, lifetime pension plans, and unchecked governmental power
yea, this will be close
/sarc
When Obama did his little rant against the USSC yesterday, he sounded somewhat subdued, maybe even depressed.
I can’t be certain but, after hearing him, my thought was that Kagan called him and told him he lost.
My opinion is the mandates will go, but the rest of the law will stay. No reason or inside knowledge on my part, but I just think that’s the best scenario we can hope for. And if by some miracle Romney should become president, don’t look for a repeal.
Kagan worked for Obama before anointed justice. I would not put it past Kagan to leak news to her master.
However, if the November elections go against Obama, then it is bad news for Obamacare anyways.
Obama, for his part, chooses to display his habit of demonizing opponents, real or imaginary, (in this case, the Supremes) and his apparent internal need to blame.
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Same feeling I had when the bill was passed in the first place; that we will never be rid of this mess they have created. If you understand that their motive has nothing to do with health care, but rather control of 1/6 of the us economic activity and diverting premiums paid to insurance co’s into fedzilla’s revenue stream in perpertuity, then it becomes quite clear they will stop at nothing, including making scotus irrelevent, to reach their ends. Docs will start fleeing and the quality of care in the US will be no better than in Russia. I knew we were doomed since Nov 4, 2008, the night me and my wife shed tears for America. Not much has changed for my family, yet. But I am well aware that “change”, the transformation of America, is well under way, and will exact it’s toll on us and my kid’s once bright future in fairly short order. I will go vote for ABO, but 2008 surely proves there is not enough of us who care enough. The socialist transformation has taken root.
I share your apprehension over Obama. The kristallnacht event of the 1930s comes to mind.
The only possible way Romney can win in November if he's the nominee is for the USSC to uphold all or even part of Obamacare.
If nothing of Obamacare remains, people will figure they can take the Senate and keep control of the House so, screw Romney. They'll figure a Republican House and Senate can reign King Barry in and roll things back. The problem is, unless it's two thirds control, it's still a holding action until there are enough votes to override a veto. Of course, if Romney starts talking about "fixing" Obamacare rather than eliminating it, then Barry will be good to go for another four years anyway. He'll also be on track to impeachment for one or more things he does by executive order, but to Barry, that's the best possible outcome short of the super-majorities he had for the first two years.
If the USCC retains even part of Obamacare, Barry is toast in November. It'll be the Carter hostage crisis with the entire population as the hostages and everyone, even the dimwit dolts who sway in the breeze, will know it.
JMHO
Every Bar Association, Judiciary Committee, and any other group in the justice system should be calling for Kagan to recuse herself.
“I HATE to say it but what if he’s won? . . . . I HATE to be defeatist but I’m getting a sinking feeling in my stomach.”
If you really HATE these things, why are you posting this vanity?
Do you think this is helping in any way?
Optimism is probably the most essential of all American attributes. It is the essence of America. Real conservative Americans should be optimists.
Pessimism, cynicism and negativity are European and the essence of Liberalism. We can be realistic without being pessimistic. Leave the pessimism for the likes of Obama.
Now that's a bumper sticker.
I have often wondered when the “tipping point” was. We accelerated our decline in the ‘60’s, culturally, at least. The moment the schools and the media were controlled by the left the end of liberty was a given. It is fun to win a battle every now and then but we lost the war long ago. I spent a while being very depressed after this realization 11 years ago. I then passed through the all the stages of loss and am now, once again, a happy camper. I’ll enjoy the rest of my life as best I can with no allusions that we will ever regain the America we grew up in. It is a good time to be old. Today’s youth can never appreciate that which they have never experienced.
I’ve got 6-3 that obumacare is thrown out. The whole enchilada.
The rats will cry enough tears to fill the Hoover dam.
It’ll be whataver it’ll be. There’s no point in wasting the next two months fretting over the possible outcome. We need this time to keep working toward November. Regardless of the court’s decision, Obama’s bill was a piece of junk... and that’s what we need to hammer home.