Chris Matthews: I’m pretty surprised to learn that the mandate might be unconstitutional

The Lefties must be utter morons if they cannot grasp this very simple concept:

There MUST be limits on federal power, both vs. the states and the people, or else we live in a dictatorship.

Really, what is so difficult to understand about that - unlimited power is, by definition, dictatorship. THAT is what conservatives are upset about, and THAT is the reason why this law has been challenged (hopefully successfully, otherwise our Republic is officially over).

Liberals: Evidence that “Stupid is as stupid does” is a metaphysical truth.

I still do not understand why Obama accelerated this to the SC before the election rather than stall until after the election. A decision striking down Obamacare will only hurt his reelection efforts as well as those of Congressional Dems. I do not care how the Dems try to spin it as inconsequential, It will be a major blow. I guess Obama’s arrogance that he would prevail is in line with Chris Matthews

I think Obama's position on this is to make it a win win and get the issue resolved once and for all before the election. It narrows the campaign focus.

If it gets thrown out Obama doesn't' have to worry about it and can run against A "GOP that wants to take away your access to healthcare." If it gets shot down, the GOP won't be running a campaign to repeal or against it. It would actually help the deficit problem so Obama gets to run on how he is now reducing the deficit.

If it's upheld (gawd help us), he gets to run against the GOP who is campaigning to have it legislatively dismissed. "The GOP wants to take away your access to healthcare."

If it were not heard before the election, the speculation and the damage that it is and will do will support the GOP campaign message against it. It is hard to defend statistics and facts with gesture and postulation when there is uncertainty ESPECIALLY when popular opinion is against you the merit of the speculation has no rational argument.

Obama has to run on emotion. His best hope is that some other national crisis happens between now and election time to change the focus from the economy. He needs to get past the hottest issues to narrow the focus of his emotional influence based campaign.

He doesn't want to have to run against the economy and Obamacare.

My biggest fear is that he will propose something like the "Fair Tax" and get it passed before the election. While it would be good for the country, it might be enough to get him re-elected and start picking off the "Libertarians" and small business moderates.

"The war will be lost." Probably requires a separate thread, but I have also been thinking about what to do or what I'll do if they uphold the mandate. My guess is many of us will become more inwardly directed so that TV and the net will be only for sports and education (as in looking up, for example, the duration of the dark ages).

What would be the point of voting? Fortify your home, solidify your relationships with friends and loved ones, consider shorting the market, hunker down and pray for miracles, although they will be unlikely, based on history, to show up in our life time.

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