This week will “make or break” Mr Obama and his so-called legacy.
SCOTUS will rule on ObakaKare.
How do you think they will rule, and why?
Please weigh in.
BZ
The most important week for Mr Obama, EVER:
Bloviating Zeppelin
Right thinking from a Left brain.
He will blame it on Bush.
I am hoping it is TOTALLY overturned!
WSF, you think SCOTUS will strike it down?
MrC: myself as well, but all or in part?
BZ
I think they will strike the mandate part down. I hope they will I think they will allow other parts of it to stand.
The spin will start almost immediately that the SCOTUS ruling on the mandate is a win for the Democrats like Wisconsin was…
There is a problem with your statement that it’s the most important week for Obama. It doesn’t matter anymore. His minions are all in. The Hispanics have spoken with their amnesty and the blacks vote with their race on a 90% level. The only hope we have is if EVERY LEGAL REGISTERED R and Indy come out and vote. Not likely. My prediction for Nov is a lot worse… sad to say.
I’m fairly sure that the SCOTUS will declare the individual mandate unconstitutional. I say this based on the arguments that were made during the official SCOTUS hearings on ObamaCare. It seemed at the time that the SCOTUS justices — enough of them, anyway — saw the slippery slope involved about mandating American citizens to buy a private product.
I do wonder if Obama will issue an executive order as he recently did about immigration laws: “It’s the right thing to do.” As I understand executive orders, they are untouchable by the SCOTUS. However, I may be wrong on that one.
I’m not sure that the SCOTUS will totally overturn ObamaCare.
Now, here is something that I’m sure will happen if the SCOTUS rules against ObamaCare: the single payer system will become the next push. There is Constitutionally nothing to prevent the federal government from contracting with private companies as is done in Canada. Honestly, I’ve heard both good and bad about the Canadian system. As single payer hasn’t been on the horizon here in the United States, I haven’t done enough research on the topic.
BTW, recently this household was put through the wringer when Mr. AOW was to have cataract surgery. I inquired as to why all the red tape. Response: “New federal regulations that went into effect in January of this year.” Those regs are part of ObamaCare as some of ObamaCare just kicked in.
I must blog about what happened to us last week. I thought that I was going to have a meltdown!
Possibly of interest.
It’ll end up like most votes that address constitutionality.
It will be a split vote with the swing vote making the ruling. Which way will it go? Anybody’s guess!
Robert, I think the “spin” portion is correct, because they HAVE to spin it. Otherwise, it’s an act created by a so-called “Constitutional Scholar” — Mr Obama — and will prove he’s not much so if his Legacy Bill fails in SCOTUS. And his immediate election in November? I’m not quite so convinced. The “moderates” will have a great deal to do with this, and I suspect the economy will be the linch-pin. Obama is doing EVERYTHING he can to NOT mention the economy and to distract national attention elsewhere.
AOW: if he’s “too old” under ObakaKare, the question will be: why waste the money for cataract surgery on someone that age. Yes, that’s how ignorant the panels will be. Hello! YOUNG PEOPLE don’t GET cataracts! I’ll check the link!
Scotty: yes, it will likely go 5-to-4 and Kennedy will be the critical vote.
BZ
Mandate out, perhaps 6-3, 7-2.
Chucking in the whole thing I believe will rest on Kennedy.
Scalia, Alito, Thomas, & Roberts will chuck the whole thing. The libs will foolishly want to salvage something.
Kennedy may be sufficiently disgusted to chuck the whole thing.
But, given the volume of the bill, I doubt he has the stones.
And yet some liberal idiot had the stupidity to post the following!
Found on Liberal Blog!
“Everything about Mitt Romney is fake….the more I see of him the sicker I become. There’s not an ounce of patriotism in Mitt Romney, he’s a fraud. He is a coward, a liar, a fake and a fraud….Go ahead wingnuts, vote for this pitiful excuse for an American. But PLEASE tell us, in plain English, WHY you are voting for him, , WHAT will he do different, HOW will he grow the middle class, WHEN will those tax breaks to his cronies FINALLY kick in, and WHEN will the hiring begin?? You believe as soon as the black man is out of the White House all goodness and prosperity will spring forth? Millions of jobs will suddenly appear?
The rich will get richer and the poor will get poorer? OH Yea, that’s it!! If the rich are doing so well why do they need governments help? Hmmm, that’s something I can’t quite figure out…Conservatives want the poor and helpless to get off their lazy asses and find work, stop being moochers, yet they never say that to the rich who have their hands out accepting government subsidies….
How dare the haters talk dirt on Barack Obama who has worked his whole adult life helping those less fortunate, how un-Christian of him! But show them a fake patriot, a draft dodger who encouraged others to enlist while he made excuses, a man who found joy in making millions while watching thousands lose their jobs…. oh you better believe he found joy in that!
What a first class scum bag, Republicans poster boy…Willard Mittens Romney”