ObamaCare On The Ropes?

by JASmius

The toe-sucker seems to believe so:

Here, Dick Morris explains why the new case going before the U.S. Supreme Court is our best hope yet to finally deal the final blow to ObamaCare. "This case offers the best opportunity to end ObamaCare."

First of all, wouldn't ObamaCare have to suffer a blow of any kind before this case regarding the illegal subsidies for policies procured through healthcare.gov versus the actually authorized State cartels could constitute a final one?   Sure, the rollout a year ago was an unmitigated disaster, but that wasn't a blow to ObamaCare, but the intended result of it.  The other illegal "tweaks" and delays of its various and sundry mandates have merely been attempts to soften or defer the cataclysmic political impact of the unconstitutional fascization of the U.S. medical industry on the party that was its collective architect.  Which, as we saw a week ago, were totally ineffective.

Secondly, if the SCOTUS strikes down the federal policy subsidies, wouldn't that create precisely the sort of exploitable crisis that Barack Obama has been looking for?  What "fix" could the GOP Congress come up with that wouldn't effectively restore those very same subsidies under a different guise?  Because that's the only "fix" O would accept, and yet that would trigger a full-scale uprising on the Right.  And any other "fix" that amounted to a major dismantling of the UCLA he would veto and successfully frame as the "Republican Supreme Court" and its congressional accomplices "taking away Americans' health care."

And thirdly, what makes Mr. Morris believe that this Republican alternative would even be acceptable to the GOP grassroots?  They don't want tweaks, they want full repeal, and will accept nothing less.  Not that I do not and cannot sympathize - I emphatically do - but the Tea Party is not known for its patience or acceptance of incrementalism.  Removing the overtly coercive aspects of O-Care is a fine thing, but allowing government subsidies and bureaucratic dictates (e.g. no pre-existing conditions restriction) and otherwise leaving Medicare and Medicaid in place, unreformed, will be considered as intolerable from the Right as it will be to Barack Obama and the Democrats from the Left.  And thus, there will be Speaker Boehner and Majority Leader McConnell, trapped in the middle once again.

The flaw in Morris's logic is the same as with so many other center-right pundits: they assume that Barack Obama is a conventional American president, rather than the "fundamentally transformative" Marxist-Alinskyist despot he actually is.  The latter is why Halbig v. Burwell simply will not turn out as sunnily as Mr. Morris envisions it.