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CNN: Today was a 'train wreck' for Obamacare
The Examiner /CNN ^ | March 27, 2012 1:03pm | Charlie Spiering

Posted on 03/27/2012 1:02:34 PM PDT by Semper911

CNN Legal Analyst Jeffrey Toobin said that it was a rough day for the Obama administration, as lawyers worked to defend the Obamacare's individual mandate.

"This was a train wreck for the Obama administration," Tobin said. "This law looks like it's going to be struck down. I'm telling you, all of the predictions including mine that the justices would not have a problem with this law were wrong."

Tobin said that U.S. Solicitor General David Verrilli was woefully unprepared in his defense.

"I don't know why he had a bad day, he is a good lawyer, he was a perfectly fine lawyer in the really sort of tangential argument yesterday. He was not ready for the answers for the conservative justices," he said.

"If I had to bet today I would bet that this court is going to strike down the individual mandate." he said.

Tobin was not alone in his analysis. NBC's Justice corespondent Pete Williams was also skeptical.

"It would seem at this point in the process that I think it's very doubtful that the court is going to find the health care law constitutional," he said, "I don't see five votes to find the law constitutional."

(Excerpt) Read more at campaign2012.washingtonexaminer.com ...


TOPICS: Breaking News; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: obamacare; scotusobamacare; scotusocareday2
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I just love coming home to good news...

Also, I heard that Intrade has the odds of Obamacare being overturned at 80% -- up from 30% this morning!

Train wreck, indeed!

1 posted on 03/27/2012 1:02:40 PM PDT by Semper911
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To: Semper911

Toobin just threw the Solicitor General under the bus for Obama, because we all know this unconstitutional power grab couldn’t possibly be the problem...


2 posted on 03/27/2012 1:05:44 PM PDT by Freddd (NoPA ngineers.)
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To: Freddd

I am reading the transcript now, and the SG should crawl under the bus himself. (Or maybe he know it’s not worth fighting for?)


3 posted on 03/27/2012 1:08:59 PM PDT by Semper911 (When you want to rob Peter to pay Paul, you'll always have the support of Paul.)
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To: Semper911

Watch. If it is overturned, the Administration will claim that its a narrow interpretation and proceed as planned.


4 posted on 03/27/2012 1:09:21 PM PDT by rbg81
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To: Semper911
Obamacare is indefenisible because they must either defend the mandate as a penalty or a tax, they can't do both.

You can't use a 'tax' as a penalty.

5 posted on 03/27/2012 1:11:33 PM PDT by fortheDeclaration (How strangely will the Tools of a Tyrant pervert the plain Meaning of Words!-Sam Adams)
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To: Semper911
Tobin said that U.S. Solicitor General David Verrilli was woefully unprepared in his defense.

Maybe they should find the solicitor general who prepared the original defense. Where is she hiding? Oh, wait, she is sitting in judgment of this law without properly recusing herself from the case.

6 posted on 03/27/2012 1:11:49 PM PDT by KarlInOhio (You only have three billion heartbeats in a lifetime.How many does the government claim as its own?)
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To: Semper911

There was an exchange early in the proceedings between Alito and Verrilli, regarding hypothetical “burial insurance” which included the term “cost shifting.”

That in 2 words is all this is about. The government started the cost shifting and now it’s being used as a justification for socialized medicine.

Cost shifting was the little socialism. Obamacare is the great socialism.


7 posted on 03/27/2012 1:11:59 PM PDT by Lady Lucky
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To: Semper911
The only thing better than getting Obamacare declared unconstitutional... the knowledge that the Democrats threw away their majority... for nothing ! ROFl
8 posted on 03/27/2012 1:12:27 PM PDT by TexasFreeper2009 (Go Newt!)
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To: Semper911

More like a train wreck waiting to happen for America..and the useless waste of time and expense. We would have been in better shape had we done nothing. Stupid progs always know best.Trillions in Debt...Cash for Clunkers..shouvel ready jobs..Fast and Furious...Solandra..high gas prices..strangling regulations...continued unemployment...continued bad economy...GREAT JOB OBAMA!


9 posted on 03/27/2012 1:12:47 PM PDT by Leep (Dueling tag lines=don't worry,you'll be a vegetable guy soon<>It's gonna be a Newt day!)
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To: rbg81

But with no money. Maybe obozo can proceed alone.


10 posted on 03/27/2012 1:13:01 PM PDT by Pit1 (Obozo need to go back from where he came from and that's not Chicago.)
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To: Semper911
Bookmark
11 posted on 03/27/2012 1:15:20 PM PDT by ExSoldier (Stand up and be counted... OR LINE UP AND BE NUMBERED...)
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To: Semper911

Scouts blog has a different take on today’s arguments. Kennedy explored both sides of the issue and seemed to find merit in some of the governments arguments.


12 posted on 03/27/2012 1:16:00 PM PDT by saganite (What happens to taglines? Is there a termination date?)
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To: Freddd

Hard for Verrilli to defend a fraud..


13 posted on 03/27/2012 1:16:00 PM PDT by stephenjohnbanker (God, family, country, mom, apple pie, the girl next door and a Ford F250 to pull my boat.)
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To: Semper911

Much sadness in the MSM I detect. Yes.

14 posted on 03/27/2012 1:16:04 PM PDT by McGruff (Sarah...Sarah...Sarah!)
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To: Semper911

Forgive me, but after three years of this lying, despicable cabal, I find myself waiting for the other shoe to drop. I can’t believe they’re throwing in the towel this easily.


15 posted on 03/27/2012 1:17:38 PM PDT by Mangia E Statti Zitto
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To: Lady Lucky
an exchange early in the proceedings between Alito and Verrilli, regarding hypothetical “burial insurance” which included the term “cost shifting.”

I read that just now. Alito made mincemeat of him.

16 posted on 03/27/2012 1:18:11 PM PDT by Semper911 (When you want to rob Peter to pay Paul, you'll always have the support of Paul.)
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To: Semper911

ObamaCommicare IS a train wreck


17 posted on 03/27/2012 1:18:24 PM PDT by clamper1797 (Hoping to have some change left)
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To: McGruff

+1


18 posted on 03/27/2012 1:18:41 PM PDT by Drill Thrawl (Brass, copper, lead. The new precious metals.)
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To: Semper911

What did the un-ethical one who refused to recuse herself have to say?


19 posted on 03/27/2012 1:19:57 PM PDT by Drill Thrawl (Brass, copper, lead. The new precious metals.)
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To: Semper911

I’m cautiously optimistic, but it’s way too early to be doing victory laps, IMHO. Sometimes you can’t tell how SCOTUS will rule from their questions.


20 posted on 03/27/2012 1:20:26 PM PDT by Purrcival (Herman Cain 2012 (*sigh*))
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