From 2009, accurate then, accurate now.
Posted on 03/29/2012 2:33:30 PM PDT by RatherBiased.com
After three days of oral arguments at the Supreme Court on Obamcare, liberals seem genuinely stunned that Obamacare has a good chance of going down in flames. They never saw it coming.
Consider this exchange between CNN legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin and anchor Wolf Blitzer on the first day of the argument which focused on the individual mandate, provision of Obamacare which forces all Americans to purchase medical insurance or procure it via their employers:
TOOBIN: This was a train wreck for the Obama administration. This law looks like it's gonna be struck down. Justice Kennedy, the swing vote, was enormously skeptical. Every comment Kennedy made -- uh, at least that I heard -- was skeptical of the law. The wild card in this argument was, uh, Chief Justice Roberts. Chief Justice Roberts actually asked a lot of hard questions. Roberts seemed like a much more likely vote to uphold the law than Kennedy was.
BLITZER: This is really huge!
Anyone who had paid attention to conservative arguments about Obamacare leading up to its passage wouldn't have been so surprised. But that's what happens when liberal media elites spend all their time talking to liberal lawyers and liberal legal commentators about pending Supreme Court cases. They can't envision the possibility that, just maybe, the conservatives might have the better legal argument.
Radio talk show host Rush Limbaugh noticed this as well, marveling in a segment on Obamacare that this might actually be the first time many liberal elites have heard a conservative argument about the issue in its full context and force.
That's largely because most of them are so insulated from anything conservative or libertarian, hearing well-articulated conservative arguments being well-received simply does not compute.
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Blitzer is one of the liberal media elites now trying to distance himself from the other liberal media elites.
“liberals seem genuinely stunned that Obamacare has a good chance of going down in flames?”...
LMAO! Just what til the libs see Obongo going down in flames!
I am quite certain that I have not heard anywhere in the last week that its current status is indeed Unconstitutional per the 4th Circuit and is therefore the law of the land.
I hope that the S.C. keeps that in mind in the same way the NFL looks at replays — that they will need clear, compelling, obvious evidence that the original decision was wrong.
anyone else remember when Pelosi said the Supreme Court is like God?
I’m not sure it’s time to celebrate the several of Obamacare just yet. Justices on the Supreme Court are well known to ask pointed questions about the case before them, even if they eventually decide in favor of the very same matter. There are many instances of that happening throughout our history, and even on the current court.
Part of the Justice’s questioning is about clarifying their own thoughts on the issues in question and placing markers about their position as a starting point for their conference among themselves to decide the merits of the case.
All they care about is sticking it to conservatives.
I suspect that forty million mindless Democrats will wake up this summer....hear that the healthcare package has been tossed out, and sit there trying to listen to MSNBC or ABC or CBS....trying to grasp how this came to be. The explanation won’t make any sense to them....and I suspect those news sources will lose a quarter of their audience on a long-term basis.
And its series, too.
From 2009, accurate then, accurate now.
All they care about is sticking it to conservatives.
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Bingo. It is beyond their comprehension that conservativism works favorably towards their lives. I was a liberal back in high school and always hated Republicans. The day came when my Filipino neighbor told me he read the Dumocrat constitution and it read like a Communist Manifesto so I read it. Liberals have always been weak slaves and control freaks.
I didn't think she put anybody above herself.
I didn't think she put anybody above herself.
LLS
That’s “serial”, according to Manbearpig
He said he talked with -A- judge (by email). I certainly did not hear him say he was close with a SCOTUS judge.
Justice Thomas officiated at his 2nd wedding....and they remain friends.....
Here’s my $.03, YMMV.
I think Obama has to know by now he is a one termer. If he doesn’t, then he is in more denial then Der Shickelgruber was in April 1945 as the Red Army send all kinds of explosive candygrams at the door.
Liberals know this law sucked, I mean, Nancy Pelosi pretty much guaranteed she’ll never gavel the House to order again after her infamous “We have to pass the bill to know what’s in it.”
Right now, all of Obama’s supporters are looking for the exits. Obama right now is grasping at straws for a legacy, but I think the court shot him down and he knows it. Couple that with the well, overwhelming rejection of his budget, and he knows his lame-duck may as well begin now.
“Obama right now is grasping at straws for a legacy, . . .”
Well, when his grandkids ask him, “Grandpa, what did you do as president,” he can always point to the trillion and a half dollar a year deficit, Soylanda and the Chevy Volt. He can tell them about how he drove a proud nation into bankruptcy and got even with all those white folks clinging to their guns and religion.
He has a remarkable legacy.
LLS
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