SCOTUS: ObamaCare Decision

Good fucking Lord.

 

If you hooked up the board's conservatives to a polygraph and asked them "Do you want to impoverish the American middle class" and "Do you want poor people to die," I would assume both answers would be No. And that y'all would pass.

You still support policies whose inevitable result is a huge increase in the absolute numbers of poor people and a higher percentage of those people dying from poverty-related causes. Your ability to lie to yourselves won't change that.

 

Let's talk about lying to yourself ... on second thought, let's not.

Because clearly the only way one can demonstrate anything other than callous indifference to the plight of the poor (or those who might become poor) is by supporting this or that expansion of the role of government.

 

For all the bitching I've seen about the "right-wing screech machine," no one does vilification and demonization better than the Democrats.

 

. . . with multiple good reasons.

 

. . . and everyone who's paid in for 20+ plus would immediately become a guerilla, esp. regardind SS.
Assholes like Romney and Ryan want to go stealth, avoiding specifics to the greatest degree possible, for all the obvious delineated reasons . . .

 

I don't blame him for stepping down, but it was nice to have someone on the SCOTUS who DIDN'T go to Harvard or Yale.

 

If the mandate is crossed out, how does the rest stay in play? Isn't the mandate the heart of the plan financially and policy-wise?

 

Sure seems that way . . .

 

Liberals, right now, are supporting policies that will impoverish future generations in the same way with the same consequences.

 

Such as?

 

SS can be tweaked modestly (in terms of age(s) of eligiblity for certain levels, and a slight raise in the annual earnings subject to the tax involved) so as to be good for a long, long time. It would be so do-able, it isn't funny -- but the adults aren't in charge of the GOP. Right now, barring a Grand Bargain, it doesn't matter, because the '10 nutjobs don't want to give an inch while pretending that Ryan is a straight shooter and Norquest is coherent. The Dems shouldn't have to be forced to negotiate at gunpoint with blackmailers.