What’s the best part of this? The idea of a prominent Democrat interrupting his party’s Mediscare demagoguery to scold the right on increasing health-care costs for seniors? The fact that he thinks ObamaCare, which isn’t even defended as a cost-saving measure anymore, will effectively “bend the curve” on that? Or his palpable annoyance at the notion that enumerated powers might throw up a constitutional roadblock to something progressives really, really, really want to do?
But never mind that. Is he right? He’s unquestionably right on how the left will spin the aftermath of the mandate being dumped: They tried, now it’s the right’s turn. Hope the GOP’s ready. Let me rephrase his question slightly, though, and ask whether an adverse ruling would also be the best thing to happen to Obama, specifically. I’ve thought about that and go back and forth on it. On the one hand, it would be an enormous humiliation to have his signature domestic “achievement” repudiated as an unconstitutional power grab. That’s one of the reasons that righties are so excited to see the mandate tossed. Once O-Care is gone, what’s left of Hopenchange except high unemployment and mind-boggling debt? Killing Bin Laden is awesome but if that’s all he has to point to in November, he’s done.
Would that humiliation cost him any votes, though? Or would it actually gain him votes by sending the left into a frenzy of utopian outrage? Obama could tell them, quite correctly, that the difference between universal health care and the status quo turned out to be one Supreme Court appointment. If they want to make sure this doesn’t happen again, it’s imperative that he be reelected.
Carville is the snake of all snakes!! He’ll say anything to protect and support the Demoncrats. Clearly he is reaching on this one.
I completely disagree that will help the snake in the White House. I believe, if anything, the ruling will only remind the voters what the Democrats attempted to foist on the public against their will. The one person who WILL benefit however, is Romney. He will no longer have to defend Romneycare/Obamacare and he can move on to the issues that matter beyond that. I believe that Americans are a LOT SMARTER than the Obama administration thinks they are. Also, the hot mic comment by our Dictator in Chief WILL NOT HELP either. We DO NOT have dictators here in America, at least not yet.