When SCOTUs kills it, Obama will have a whipping boy
He willbe free of the albatross and blameless
If Zero gets out from under, it will be acceptable collateral damage because it gets the COUNTRY out from under this fascist behemoth.
I’ rather see him tarred feathered and sent back to Chicago with all 2,000 pages shoved up there but I will take repeal gladly.
He will be free of the albatross and blameless
It’ll be much more painful than that. The “Affordable” Care Act has never been affordable. That was the point of a majority of governors refusing to establish a State Exchange - the numbers didn’t add up for the state budget. The article starting this thread refers to the issue before the Court as a “technicality” twice, and as a "linguistic seam in the law.” But in reality that “linguistic seam” was in the law by design, and with malice aforethought for any Republican at the state level who rejected the creation of a state exchange. It was the club which the law’s architects intended and expected would force state politicians to bend to the federal leviathan’s will.Now that most state governments have called the ObamaCare bluff, ObamaCare’s proponents want to walk that threat back as a "seam in the law.” But that won’t wash. Because if SCOTUS were to allow an administration to substantively edit a bill after its passage into law, Congress and the courts might just as well pack it in. They would be irrelevant for all future time.
The ACA has never been affordable, but when SCOTUS overturns Obama’s rewrite, all that will happen is that the law will become even more unaffordable to millions of people. Obama cares not a whit about that, but the problem is that some Democrats may aspire to reelection in 2016 or 2018. As matters now stand, they think they can ride out public hostility to a vote to sustain a veto of an ObamaCare repeal. After actual enforcement of the law puts the screws to their constituents, tho, that equation might look a little different.
His only major 'achievement' would have been killed.