King vs. Humbug

American Spectator ^ | 6/22/2015 | David Catron

[rootin tootin]

A week from today, the Supreme Court will tell us whether it is now legally permissible for Executive Branch bureaucrats to rewrite laws that fail to fit their statist agenda. And, the unctuous posturing of Obamacare apologists notwithstanding, that’s all King v. Burwell is about. It will answer one question: Can Barack Obama and his scofflaw administration get away with enacting a statute that was never passed by Congress? Yet, listening to the President, congressional Democrats, and the media, it’s about whether “reform” will be gutted and untold millions deprived of “affordable” insurance coverage. What a bunch of sanctimonious BS.

Neither the President nor his supporters give a rat’s posterior about those who may lose their taxpayer-funded subsidies in the three-dozen states that will be affected by the ruling. What these people care about is fundamentally transforming the U.S. into a European-style social democracy. Obamacare plays a crucial role in that project, and they are willing to tell any lie or violate any principle to preserve it. They can’t admit that, so they pose as compassionate progressives filled with angst about the unfortunates who could be trodden beneath the jackboots of five “conservative” justices who may blindly insist that the law means what it says.

But, like all serial fabulists, these frauds can’t keep their lies straight ...

[Mr. K]

They didnt seem to care when 8 million lost their health care almost immediately

[bert]

the number loosing subsidies is trivial

the real pain will come from the need to refund the illegal subsidies received previously

then there is income tax

are the subsidies taxable as income? why not?

[Paladin2]

Roberts is the Master of the Words. They mean what he says, nothing more, nothing less. State? Schmate.

[Jimmy Valentine]

I am hoping that Roberts keeps his head on straight. The damage dome is already significant; if the Supremes decide to support this wretched law we will be stuck with it for a generation.