As I predicted. Which is kind of like eating six mega-jumbo burritos with extra pinto beans and then predicting acute gastronomic distress. But it's still a "W".
The novelty, if any, is that O sent the woman who looks like the result of John Kerry undergoing the "Cailyn Jenner" treatment to "break" the bad "news":
Barack Obama would not sign a Republican plan to extend subsidies for buying insurance under Obamacare if the Supreme Court rules against such assistance in the pending King v. Burwell case, U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Sylvia Burwell said on Wednesday.
The proposal, offered by Republican Senator Ron Johnson and has thirty Republican co-sponsors, would extend the insurance subsidies until August 2017. But Burwell said the measure would also take away the subsidies over time and repeal important components of Obamacare such as guaranteeing insurance for Americans with pre-existing health conditions.
Which is precisely why I counseled all of you, my Tea Party friends, to chill out during your collective freakout over congressional Republicans' "selling out" on O-Care subsidies. Senator Johnson is using the leverage of a possible federal subsidies cutoff (that will never happen, meaning he doesn't have any real leverage, but technically it's still up in the air) to get what we on the right want: an effective ObamaCare repeal. It's a deal that I would sign onto in a heartbeat if I were in the Senate, but there was no way his infernal majesty was ever going to acquiesce to the gutting of his "baby". Commissar Burwell is just making it official.
And reminding our guys and gals who really has the leverage in this latest showdown (should it materialize):
Burwell said Wednesday Congress and the States would have to fix the [Una]ffordable Care Act if the Supreme Court disallows the subsidies for purchasing insurance. "If the court makes that decision, we're going to do everything we can," Burwell told the House Ways and Means Committee. But, she added, "The critical decisions ... will sit with the Congress, and States and governors to determine if those subsidies are available."
Which some States are already moving toward doing. In essence, the one thing the Democrats never got out of their ObamaCare cram-down is Republican fingerprints on it by which to off-load all the blame for its destruction of the private health insurance market onto them. Via Sylvia Burwell, the Regime is giving the GOP an ultimatum: "Become my partners in socialized medicine and be politically destroyed....or don't restore the federal subsidies if the SCOTUS nixes them, take the blame for it, and be politically destroyed".
And we all know which option congressional Republicans will choose.
THEN it will be time to freak out.
Though not for those of us who predicted it all along.
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