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Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.), a former state attorney general who sits on the Judiciary Committee, said that the individual mandate might very well fall

Even RATS know they crossed the line.

1 posted on 11/15/2011 9:39:40 AM PST by freespirited
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They better and if they don't then the GOP better be ready to defund every aspect of it.
2 posted on 11/15/2011 9:41:54 AM PST by tobyhill (Obama, The Biggest Thief In American History)
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“Of course I’m concerned,” said Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio). The justices “decide for insurance companies, they decide for oil companies, they decide for the wealthy too often.”

This moron has absolutely no understanding of the Constitution. It is amazing how an idiot like this can get elected! Yea, I know, by all the other idiots.

3 posted on 11/15/2011 9:44:01 AM PST by mosaicwolf (Strength and Honor)
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Maybe Obummer will regret that he made a fool of himself and an enemy of the Court by lying about the Supreme Court's Citizens United decision right in front of them at the State of the Union address. What an idiot he is.
4 posted on 11/15/2011 9:44:20 AM PST by hsalaw
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Democrats on Capitol Hill are worried that the Supreme Court will rule against President Obama’s healthcare reform law.

AS DAMN WELL THEY SHOULD BE!...


6 posted on 11/15/2011 9:47:20 AM PST by AngelesCrestHighway
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I swear, this a-holes don’t even bother to hide the Marxism any more, just like the maggot infested OWS hippies.


7 posted on 11/15/2011 9:49:26 AM PST by Marathoner (Occupy Wall Street = Useful Idiots on Parade)
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FAKE STORY. The Rats fully expect, as do I that the flunkies they have on the Supreme Court will rubber stamp the whole thing. After all, the judgie-wudgies wouldn’t want to lose their own cushy gubmint benefits!!!


8 posted on 11/15/2011 9:50:50 AM PST by browniexyz
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I remain unconvinced our Supreme Court will see this matter clearly.


9 posted on 11/15/2011 9:53:23 AM PST by DoughtyOne (Obyema 2012 - he has addition deficit disorder... (not my line, but a great one to repeat))
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May their fears become a gleaming reality.

What this says, actually, is that they don’t really care to know if it’s constitutional or not, as long as they get their way. Who cares about the constitutional rights of individual patients and health care providers.


10 posted on 11/15/2011 9:54:14 AM PST by pieceofthepuzzle
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Sen. Ben Nelson (D-Neb.), who is up for reelection, said trying to delay the high court’s review “just would have been political, and I think what they’re trying to do is get this decided on its merits. And I think that’s appropriate. “I really don’t have an opinion on how the court will treat this case,” Nelson said. “It’ll be whatever it is.”

And yet you voted for it, Senator? Despite apparently being utterly, totally ambivalent about it? You need to be run out of office on a rail!
11 posted on 11/15/2011 9:55:19 AM PST by Buckeye McFrog
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We all know [the justices] are going to put their ideologies aside and do the right thing. Right?”

Yeah, Barry...just you put your ideology aside when you shoved this up the butt of the American people.

I pray to GOD the Supreme Court strikes this travesty DOWN as firmly and completely as it deserves.

Question: So what if Kagan refuses to recuse herself? Can she be forced to do so?


12 posted on 11/15/2011 9:55:32 AM PST by Adder (Say NO to the O in 2 oh 12)
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I think the RATS want it overruled. Gets them off the hook and one less issue for 2012.


15 posted on 11/15/2011 10:03:22 AM PST by stubernx98 (cranky, but reasonable)
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17 posted on 11/15/2011 10:04:32 AM PST by DJ MacWoW (America! The wolves are here! What will you do?)
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This is why Obummer is pushing to get it decided before 2012.
He knows it will fail but wants to use it as an excuse to fire up the base to come out and vote and throw out the the GOP house and save his behind.


18 posted on 11/15/2011 10:07:00 AM PST by Zathras
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the Supreme Court, which The New York Times editorial page recently labeled the most conservative high court since the 1950s.

As Einstein proved, a New York Times editorial page that is hurtling leftward at indeterminate speed cannot tell whether anything else is moving to the right. From the moving platform of the Times, everything appears to be moving to the right.


19 posted on 11/15/2011 10:10:33 AM PST by Nick Danger (Pin the fail on the donkey)
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Dems fear Supreme Court will rule against Obama on healthcare reform

They should be crapping in their pants. Obamacare is unconstitutional.

The fat lady hasn't sung, however. The fat lady here is, Jusitce Anthony Kennedy. That should strike fear in every conservative.

20 posted on 11/15/2011 10:13:11 AM PST by Reagan Man ("In this present crisis, government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem.")
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"“So the mandate falls? Big deal,” Whitehouse said. “I think a family able to keep their sick kids on insurance even though they have pre-existing conditions, kids out of college able to stay on their parents’ policies while they look for that first job with healthcare — things like that are what will stick. Irrespective of what the Supreme Court says, that’s the things people really care about and are counting on.”

Perhaps Sen. Whitehouse didn't notice that in their haste to slam ACA through they forgot to include a severability clause? Or that the court has agreed to hear arguments on severability?

If there is no severability, if one provision is found unconstitutional the whole bill is unconstitutional.

22 posted on 11/15/2011 10:14:53 AM PST by In Maryland ("If stupidity got us into this mess, why can't it get us out?" - Mark Twain)
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6-3 in favor of mandated “health care”. Scalia is a sucker for the Commerce clause and his influence might sway Kennedy into “activism”.

Scalia’s work during his stint at the Office of Legal Counsel created havoc on his outlook of the clause.

I hope I am wrong, but history of his decisions involving Federal “encroachments” is very broad to say the least.

23 posted on 11/15/2011 10:17:12 AM PST by rollo tomasi (Working hard to pay for deadbeats and corrupt politicians)
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So basically nee this is overturned as I think it will be then that means that Obama wasted 2 years watching the economy meltdown by spending so much time on this and then the failed stimulus that did nothing to create jobs....the RNC should flash photos with things said in the background about all of these failed things and ask at the end when he was going to think about the economy with a long line of people around the building waiting at the unemployment office.


26 posted on 11/15/2011 10:26:42 AM PST by chris_bdba
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Insurance is such a mess today. Thanks to political mucking around with it, and then the companies’ trying to get around the mucking. The end result is a company that fights the customer tooth and nail for valid claims through a myriad of a maze of paperwork.

THe dem solution is socialist. Force everyone to buy it.

We need to overhaul it completely. And I think customers need to be more informed about the companies and if you think they are being irresponsible by giving out mega bonuses to their top people while nickling and diming policy holders with valid claims, they should know that’s how that company operates and avoid them.

Or join some of the Christian healthcare groups that assist in covering medical problems. They’re considered valid plans to join even under Obamacare.


28 posted on 11/15/2011 10:27:47 AM PST by Secret Agent Man (I'd like to tell you, but then I'd have to kill you.)
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Based on they way some of these lower courts have ruled including the most recent with a staunch conservative judge (HA!) appointed by Reagan I would not be so sure.

The way I see it, it will be by pure luck that this monstrosity is removed.


29 posted on 11/15/2011 10:29:25 AM PST by CSI007
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