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White House just assuming they’ll win Obamacare case at SCOTUS
hotair.com ^ | Jan. 14, 2015 | Kevin Glass

Posted on 01/14/2015 3:36:37 PM PST by PROCON

King v. Burwell, the court case that will determine if Obamacare’s language about federal subsidies and their availability on exchanges “established by the state”, will be heard in oral arguments at the Supreme Court on March 4, with a decision to come down later this year. The Obama White House is apparently so confident that they’ll win the case that they’re not preparing any back-up plan in case the Supreme Court wrecks the structure of their signature legislation.

As Politico’s health care newsletter wrote this morning:

Sen. John Barrasso (R-Wyo.) says that at a roundtable discussion with congressional leaders he asked Obama why the administration hasn’t informed the public that subsidies are an endangered species. The president replied that he doesn’t anticipate the need for a contingency plan. “Obama’s refusal to acknowledge any contingency planning is no surprise,” writes Pro’s Jennifer Haberkorn. HHS Secretary Sylvia Mathews Burwell and other HHS officials have been tight-lipped on the subject.

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KEYWORDS: aca; obamacare; obamacarescotus; obamacaresubsidies; scotus
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41 posted on 01/14/2015 4:53:25 PM PST by MeshugeMikey ("Never, Never, Never, Give Up," Winston Churchill ><>)
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To: Mr. K

I’ve come to the conclusion that all republicans that vote rino are being blackmailed. I’m sick of all of it.


42 posted on 01/14/2015 4:53:56 PM PST by ncpatriot
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To: WhistlingPastTheGraveyard

That photo tells me all I need to know.


43 posted on 01/14/2015 4:55:24 PM PST by surrey
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To: Ann Archy

Let me get this right, Roberts is being blackmailed by something that seems to be public knowledge here on FR?

Doesn’t blackmail only work when only the blackmailer and the blackmailee know the goodies?

It is not unusual for a SCOTUS Justice to travel another philosophical path after being given great power and lifetime protection from politics.

Whether Roberts went socialist, none of us know with certainty. Seeing that Constitutional politics at the SCOTUS level is a chess match, not checkers, I suspect Roberts gave the liberals a bad hand when making nobamacare a tax. A bad hand that could have been the poison pill called the “Origination Clause” and “Severability” the libs left out of their law, that will ultimately kill nobamacare completely.


44 posted on 01/14/2015 4:56:43 PM PST by X-spurt (CRUZ missile - armed and ready.)
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To: PROCON

They KNOW they will win.

Roberts (and maybe others) are in their back pocket.


45 posted on 01/14/2015 5:02:12 PM PST by cableguymn (We need a redneck in the white house....)
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To: John S Mosby
Roberts obviously is being blackmailed. It would have been a historical, career-making, FOREVER HONORABLE AND CITED-IN-THE-HISTORY-BOOKS move for him to announce that blackmail, defy the blackmailers, and make his place in history.

If he was a man made of sterner stuff, he would have.

Instead, he's just a quisling little rodent of a man.

46 posted on 01/14/2015 5:03:01 PM PST by Lazamataz (With friends like Boehner, we don't need Democrats. -- Laz A. Mataz, 2015)
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To: for-q-clinton

NYT.


47 posted on 01/14/2015 5:03:23 PM PST by Ann Archy (ABORTION....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: ncpatriot
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48 posted on 01/14/2015 5:03:38 PM PST by timestax (American Media = Domestic Enemy)
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To: MeshugeMikey
can ya fit holder and gruber in there someplace?
49 posted on 01/14/2015 5:05:53 PM PST by Chode (Stand UP and Be Counted, or line up and be numbered - *DTOM* -w- NO Pity for the LAZY - 86-44)
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To: timestax

An awful lot of democraps out there are praying really hard for SCOTUS to stick a fork in Obamacare. Or 2016 is just 2014 all over again.


50 posted on 01/14/2015 5:12:10 PM PST by huckfillary
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To: MeshugeMikey

501?

Oy, that’s the gematria of Barack Hussein Obama. And also the 10 plagues...

http://shiratdevorah.blogspot.com/2014/07/obama-and-evil-at-end-of-days.html


51 posted on 01/14/2015 5:16:27 PM PST by Ezekiel (All who mourn the destruction of America merit the celebration of her rebirth.)
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To: PROCON

Maybe... if the frat was Delta Lambda Phi.


52 posted on 01/14/2015 5:19:16 PM PST by WhistlingPastTheGraveyard (The greatest trick the Soviets ever pulled was convincing the world they didn't exist.)
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To: Ezekiel

coincidences as far as the eye can see

calling them coincidences doesnt necessarily diminish them


53 posted on 01/14/2015 5:27:11 PM PST by MeshugeMikey ("Never, Never, Never, Give Up," Winston Churchill ><>)
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To: Chode

Holders a shoo in Yep!

Gruber may not remain the face that many sill remember in six months...I dunno about adding him.

Thank you.


54 posted on 01/14/2015 5:28:17 PM PST by MeshugeMikey ("Never, Never, Never, Give Up," Winston Churchill ><>)
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To: WhistlingPastTheGraveyard
Ohhhhh, Delta Lambda Phi.

**Facepalm**

55 posted on 01/14/2015 5:29:19 PM PST by PROCON (Je suis Charles Bronson.)
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To: timestax

An awful lot of democraps out there are praying really hard for SCOTUS to stick a fork in Obamacare. Or 2016 is just 2014 all over again.


56 posted on 01/14/2015 5:30:03 PM PST by huckfillary
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To: John S Mosby

Judas should vote to uphold the Constitution and the rule of law. Consequences be damned. Man up Judas! Mr. Mosby the forgoing was directed at Roberts and not you as I hope you understand.


57 posted on 01/14/2015 5:34:05 PM PST by Nuc 1.1 (Nuc 1 Liberals aren't Patriots. Remember 1789!)
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To: X-spurt

“Doesn’t blackmail only work when only the blackmailer and the blackmailee know the goodies?”

Well, the theory is that he broke the law, and that his children could be taken from him at any time because the adoption could simply be pronounced invalid by the proper authorities.

So, it’s not blackmail of a nature that requires secret information. It’s blackmail of the “make him an offer he can’t refuse” variety, according to the theory.


58 posted on 01/14/2015 5:42:49 PM PST by Boogieman
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To: PROCON

seeing they have enough scotus judges blackmailed or on their side, why shouldn’t they be arrogant?


59 posted on 01/14/2015 5:46:06 PM PST by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: Lazamataz

How would anybody know it if he DID announce it, if none of the media heads would allow the reports to be aired?

Dead serious question.


60 posted on 01/14/2015 5:50:17 PM PST by butterdezillion (Note to self : put this between arrow keys: img src=""/ g g)
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