An early morning palate cleanser to sustain you for the epochal third day of O-Care oral arguments ahead (from American Crossroads):
Any port in a storm, as the saying goes. Which to this day perplexes me in light of this asshole's continuingly mere mediocre personal approval numbers when they ought to be catastrophically sub-Trumanian. He lies constantly, condescends incessantly, sneers hatefully on a regular basis, and his comprehensive failures pile up far into the dismally slate-gray sky, and yet far too large a portion of the American public appear willing to give him mulligans on most or all of it. And he has none of Bill Clinton's likeability or rougish charm. The only explanation left is that B.O. is being cut a break no other president would ever have received because....he's black. Think he's gonna complain when public "racism" works in his own favor?
He very well might if his misbegotten "signature achievement" goes down in flames - but perhaps only in the short term:
The reasoning is actually pretty straightforward: More than any other outrage perpetrated by this POTUS, ObamaCare has inflamed the Right to try and bring him and his party to ruin at any cost. The Tea Party movement probably wouldn't exist without the clarion call of repealing ObamaCare. But if the SCOTUS knocks it down, what happens to conservative energy this fall? It's biggest goal will already have been achieved. Sure, there's still the Greek-level debt disaster and EPA nazism and rampant authoritarian power grabs and the overseas bowing and "flexibility" bending and ally-screwing, but no more O-Care couldn't help but take some of the edge off of our enthusiasm. And, even better for a lot of tighty-righties, they won't have to thank the GOP "establishment" for it. Whereas Red Barry would have a top-drawer, gold-plated rallying cry: "The Supreme Court took away your health care - by a single vote. Re-elect me and I guarantee you such an 'injustice' will never, EVER happen again."
Sure, he'll never have a Donk SuperCongress again, either, but there'd be nothing stopping him from simply resurrecting O-Care via executive decree in a second term. Heck, wouldn't surprise me if he had Roberts, Scalia, Thomas, and Alito dragged away in chains after the election to inaugurate his long-anticipated Alaska Gulag.
Short term humiliation; long-term gain. Time will tell.
Of course, if Justice Kennedy swings the wrong way and O-Care is upheld, that'll make repeal a lot more difficult since it'll have the SCOTUS' official legal blessing and any repeal wouldn't be possible until next year at the earliest, much closer to the point of no return.
Did I call this post a palate-cleanser? Okay, how about we close with Justice Scalia refusing to suffer yet another lib fool:
Solicitor General Donald Verrilli, Jr., who made the Obama administration's case for the constitutionality of the individual mandate in the healthcare law Tuesday, was upbraided by Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia after he flubbed an exchange with Justice Elena Kagan.
Scalin interrupted Verrilli, tersely telling him, "we're not stupid."
At the time, Kagan, a former solicitor general appointed by President Obama to the high court, was agreeing that young people should be required by the federal government to purchase health insurance because eventually, others will subsidize their health care in the future.
But Scalia shot back, arguing that young people will make the decision to buy health insurance eventually and do not need to be forced by the federal government to engage in commerce....
The federal government is not supposed to be a government that has all powers; it's supposed to be a government of limited powers. And that's what all this questioning has been about. What is left? If the government can do this, what else can it not do?
That's a fair question, Justice Scalia, a fair question indeed.
UPDATE: I was going to throw in this terrifying postscript, but Steven Den Beste beat me to it.
[cross-posted @ Hard Starboard]
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