Day of Reckoning
By: dgun
June 28th, 2012
5:42 am
Today is a day of reckoning for the Obama administration and the President’s signature accomplishment, passage of a national health care law. The Supreme Court can make several different rulings, from simply eliminating the individual mandate to striking down the entire law. If the bill is upheld in its entirety it would indeed be a huge win for the Obama administration, an outcome that seems unlikely. Although some of the law’s requirements are popular with the public, opponents of the law have been successful at swaying public opinion against it.
The ruling, one way or another, will have an impact on the
Presidential race. If the ruling goes against the President, how much can the consequences be minimized due to the fact that Romney supported and helped implement a similar piece of legislation when he was Governor of Massachusetts?
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20 comments on "Day of Reckoning"
June 28, 2012 at 6:00 am
The last time I recall a fair number of people looking for the Supreme Court to resolve a political impasse, it was the McCain-Feingold can of worms. I believe a number of Republicans (and the president in particular) presumed the SC would toss it all out as unconstitutional.
Here I'm sure both major parties are prepared to charge ahead regardless of the outcome. Their biggest problem will be shredding the alternative press releases.
June 28, 2012 at 6:20 am
Keeping my fingers crossed! We need national health care and I already felt Obama's plan did not go far enough.
June 28, 2012 at 6:21 am
Finally, the long empty phrase "judicial activism" has been shown for the worthless political shibboleth it is and anyone using it can be laughed at.
I don't mean snicker but an outright spittle flinging gaffaw.
June 28, 2012 at 10:40 am
and apparently Roberts' stance against judicial activism was key in this ruling.
No two ways about it, this was a huge win for Obama.
June 28, 2012 at 10:45 am
I haven't checked Fox news. Did they just shut down the studio and go home? or are they trucking in a huge order of vile, hate, and smear to get em through the next few weeks?
June 28, 2012 at 10:55 am
I haven't checked Fox news. Did they just shut down the studio and go home? or are they trucking in a huge order of vile, hate, and smear to get em through the next few weeks?
June 28, 2012 at 11:06 am
Now they're blathering about "waking the sleeping giant" and how this decision will energize the right, and how when Romney wins this will be the moment that made it happen. I'm sure if the decision had gone their way, this would still have been the moment that insured a Romney victory.
On another note, they appear incapable of speaking the word "bitches." They say "B -- rhymes with witches." It's that bad. Unspeakable.
June 28, 2012 at 11:13 am
Norm, I imagined it must be a circus. morbid curiosity tempts me to watch... but I don't know, lol.
June 28, 2012 at 11:40 am
Michelle Bachmann, always good for a laugh:
“For my mind, this is clearly unconstitutional,” Bachmann said. “There is no basis in the Constitution for the government to have this level of history-making expansion of power. Because now this means for the first time in the history of the country, Congress can force Americans to purchase any product, any service that Congress wants them to, which means that Congress then determines the price. And we are forced to, which is a denial of liberty.”
June 28, 2012 at 12:45 pm
I haven't checked Fox news. Did they just shut down the studio and go home? or are they trucking in a huge order of vile, hate, and smear to get em through the next few weeks?
Perhaps everyones head exploded.....