Health care reform to SCOTUS? Finally?

Damn, Rick, I'm actually glad I took you off ignore.

 

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Maybe, not as sure as you. I don't get the Thomas joke from the first post - is the point that he votes her opinion? or that she "wears the pants"? Something else?

 

What is the wager?

 

She's a huge anti-Obamacare lobbyist. There was a New Yorker story recently about how many believe he should recuse himself from the case.

 

Frankly, I don't think Obama benefits that much politically even if the Supreme Court upholds the individual mandate and the bill.

Just because a bill passes constitutional muster doesn't mean the electorate will approve of it. According to polls, the electorate favors repealing the bill by a sizable margin. That's not likely to change much even if the Supreme Court were to uphold it.

 

You're like an amalgam of Broder, Brooks, MoDo, Chait and every other middle-of-the-road hack political columnist whose analysis is about as deep as a puddle.

From now on, I shall call you Amalgam.

 

Congress has no more authority to mandate I buy insurance as it does that I have an iTunes account.

The law will be struck down.

 

I promise you it won't.

And if it wanted to write an iTunes tax break law, then it could do that, too.

 

So no comment on my two examples showing the Supreme Court striking down attempts to grab unconstitutional powers by calling it a tax?

 

It's sick we're even debating this. If this country had any moral backbone, we'd have single payer and be done with it.

 

Ding, ding, ding. We have a winner.