Obama and his minions seem to think it would be great if they further pissed off the electorate by getting Kennedy to somehow cast a deciding vote in favor of ZeroCare!?!?
What are they smoking? Such a ruling would add at least 5% to the number of voters who will crawl across broken glass to cast the whole lot out on their asses.
Just heard on WABC that the court is not going to take it up
They upheld Campaign Finance Reform the first time didn’t they?
SCOTUS is not reliable for us folks.
“... the government is confident that it’s going to prevail in the Supreme Court and would like to have a decision sooner rather than later,” former acting solicitor general Walter Dellinger told Politico.”
Why are they confident? Are they blackmailing SCOTUS?
4) The full eleventh circuit would smack it down again with even more reasons.
The biggest reason of all for the Obummer to do this is that if the SC rules ObamaCare unconstitutional, that issue will be out of the way for the election. Of course, then he’ll have NO accomplishments, but at least the Republicans can’t bludgeon him with ObamaCare.
Asking for review of the 11th Circuit decision would have been widely interpreted as foot-dragging, the administration attempting to slow a case that’s almost inevitably headed to the Supreme Court. For the White House to proactively pursue a faster timeline makes the administration look more confident that it will prevail in court. “This confirms what I had already concluded: that the government is confident that it’s going to prevail in the Supreme Court and would like to have a decision sooner rather than later,” former acting solicitor general Walter Dellinger told Politico.(emph. added)
This last reason is either absurd political wishful thinking, OR
the White House knows something about Justice (dimwit) Kennedy's opinion on the matter that we don't know.
If you dig deep into the comments, you find a little nugget about oboycare that might put a bite on paychecks prior the election that the regime might want to avoid, even up to and including the scuttling of their flagship cause
He thinks he will win.
From the article:
“There are at least three reasons that could make a 2012 Supreme Court decision a more compelling one for the White House:”
“The Obama administration will definitely handle the case. Delaying a ruling until 2013 came with a big risk: a Republican administration could be in power, and arguing the case...”
“The review might not have been granted— or gone against the administration. Even if the United States had asked the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals to hear the case, the court didn’t have to accept...”
“The move shows confidence. Asking for review of the 11th Circuit decision would have been widely interpreted as foot-dragging, the administration attempting to slow a case that’s almost inevitably headed to the Supreme Court...”
Chief Justice Roberst has an axe to grind over the State of the Union speech. Since the 11th has already ruled against it. Roberst can just ignore obozo andnot take it up. If on the other hand he was 100% dertain of Kennedy’s vote then he would take it up jsut to slap obozo.
They want to do the class warfare and the racial warfare thing during the election.
Obama will say he is “rooting for the middle class” and paint Republicans as being for “millionaires and billionaires”.
He is such a LIAR. Again!
Whichever GOP candidate is elected, you can be sure it will be a constitutional conservative and that will be the kiss of death for Obamacare.
Going to the USSC now is the only hope for Obamacare. In the end, it may not make much difference since the GOP will defund it or legislate out of existence if the GOP takes control of the Senate.
Obama knows that his health care bill is doomed to fail one way or another... there is no way to avoid it.
He also knows it is the one key element which is choking this economy to a much quicker death than he anticipated.
It is my belief that Obama is prepared to lose in the Supreme Court to collect on the resulting bounty of an economy bursting back to life just before the election.
If however the Supreme Court rules in his favor, there will be an outcry across this country the likes that nobody has seen in their lifetimes. Such a ruling to uphold Obamacare could easily throw us over the edge of the cliff, giving Obama everything he needs to intall martial law and complete his “Fundamental Transformation”. Such a scenario could even delay or suspend the 2012 elections.
This is easy... its Obama’s end game. A win - win for him.
Win or lose, he will make it a campaign issue.
I’ll tell you exactly what these clowns are going to try, they’ll just wait until the very last second and claim that the individual mandate is a tax and that will be the end of the argument.
SCOTUS ping.
(Anyone on/off, freepmail me.)
It’s hard to see why this would be any different from Medicare Parts B & D.
Medicare participation/payments are mandatory during working years and upon retirement participants have premiums automatically deducted from SS checks.
Contrary to conventional criticism of GWBush’s Part D; the addition of ‘drug insurance’ encourages the elderly to purchase drugs - perhaps preventing more serious complications of otherwise unmedicated/untreated disease. JMHO