“f 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.”
There’s a third (and probably most likely) possibility which would probably be the best result for conservatives, and that’s the SCOTUS striking down the individual mandate, but keep the rest of the law intact.
This would do nothing to help the economy, cause the rest of the law would still be there, but it would also accelerate the motivation for full repeal, cause the Administration has argued repeatedly in defending the individual mandate that without it is necessary to make the whole thing work.
I really don’t think the Administration is all that smart, and I don’t think there’s some “clever” method to their madness in this decision. I just think they reasoned that this was the lesser of two evils. It’s still a very big gamble though, and if this scenario where the SCOTUS basically splits the difference and removes the most controversial part of the law play out, I think it will work to our benefit happening in the middle of election season.
This of course assumes that we aren’t stupid enough to nominate Romney, whose presence of course would neutralize the entire issue, and at this point I’m not entirely certain about that.
It doesn’t really take stupidity on the part of Republican voters to nominate Romney. It takes a load of Republicans-For-A-Day in the Primaries to nominate Romney and if the kenyan doesn’t draw any serious opposition in the Democrat contests then that is what we will get. Effectively, Romney is the Democrats’ alternative to the kenyan. They probably expect to lose the election so they might as well get a president who, while not an organizational Democrat, will preserve all their gains until they can take back the Congress in 2014 and the WH in 2016.