Shit...maybe I should have actually paid attention to some of those Constitutional law classes I allegedly took instead of smoking dope and running around with radicals
Yesterday was a very, very bad day for Obamacare — specifically to the one aspect of it that most people hate the most: the individual mandate and the tax for non-compliance (though, interestingly — but not surprisingly — Democrats don’t call a tax or a mandate…though it is both).
Don’t take my word for how bad of a day it was for Progs, though. Take it from these Obama cheerleaders, many of who are in his complicit Democrat Media Complex (ty, Andrew Breitbart).
- Mother Jones — Obamacare’s Supreme Court Disaster
Solicitor General Donald B. Verrilli Jr. should be grateful to the Supreme Court for refusing to allow cameras in the courtroom, because his defense of Obamacare on Tuesday may go down as one of the most spectacular flameouts in the history of the court.
- Ezra Klein at the Washington Post— A bad day for Obamacare’s supporters (of which Ezra the Boy Wonder is the primary cheerleader)
- The New Republic — Day 2 at the Court: Well, that Could Have Gone Better
- Jeffrey Toobin, CNN legal analyst — Health law ‘looks like it’s going to be struck down’:
“This was a train wreck for the Obama administration. This law looks like it’s going to be struck down. I’m telling you, all of the predictions including mine that the justices would not have a problem with this law were wrong.”
On the second day of testimony before the Supreme Court, two justices, Chief John Roberts and Justice Kennedy hammered the government’s advocate, Solicitor General Verrilli, and Verillie basically tripped all over himself trying to find a way to explain how or why the government can’t force Americans to buy anything else they want to if they can force us to buy insurance.
Just two or three days ago, I didn’t believe that the SCOTUS would have the balls to do the right thing — uphold our Constitution. Today? I’m feeling as good as Liberals are feeling bad.
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Certainly very good vibes coming out of the SCOTUS. I’m cautiously optimistic about it all. On the election year end if it gets struck down it might give the apologizer a bump in the polls being how this is issue is on a lot of peoples minds. Hopefully I’m wrong and it’s just the media hyping things up.
The media is distracting people from the economy, gas prices and all the power grabs he is doing. Hopefully Romney will hammer these issues and put him on the ropes. Romney also needs to pick a strong conservative Tea Party type for VP.
The cat was let out of the bag in January, as for what Romney would do about healthcare if elected. Notice his silence in recent days?
We’re Screwed… Florida AG Pam Bondi Says Mitt Wants Romneycare In Every State (Video)
This from the woman who is supposed to be fighting for Florida in the suit against ØbamaCare.
I listened to the last section on the state medicaid mandate last night on c-span and it was pretty vigorously defended and supported by all the women on the court plus Breyer. The issue was coercion and I’d say the fed gov might have won that one, but that doesn’t mean the whole law won’t be struck down. It sure sounds like the individual mandate argument has been won though.
We’ve been down this road far too many times. I will just mark June 28 on my calendar, that is the date SCOTUS blog is predicting when the decision will be announced.
I will never forget the McCain-Feingold decision.
Yep, ultimately, you can’t rely on oral argument though it does sound encouraging. I believe they will decide this as narrowly as judicially possible, thereby pissing everyone off. The longer this drags on the more they are allowing the donks to wreck havoc on this nation.