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Post Info TOPIC: When it comes to Obamacare, you just can't lose


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Date: Apr 4, 2012
RE: When it comes to Obamacare, you just can't lose
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Your thinking has occurred to DW and myself. 

The R's, as it now is constituted, have fairly boxed themselves. Any forthcoming good ideas will come across as a bad second best. 

IMO, ObamaCare, is a beginning towards health reform. Too bad the R's have not seen a another path-but wait most of OCare were proposals from various R leaders. Unfortunately, they just wouldn't and now can't claim ownership to good proposals. 

Now all we need is a start on SS reform. W was rebuffed  by his own party on his 2nd term mandate. I was in favor of W's reform in 2004 because it had a "market" component. Thank goodness the R's thought that equity and bond markets are too risky for the Nation.  



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http://althouse.blogspot.com/2012/03/when-it-comes-to-obamacare-case-you.html

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March 28, 2012

When it comes to the Obamacare case, you just can't lose.

 
Let me state the obvious and not belabor it: Whoever loses will easily and powerfully leverage that loss in the political arena.

If Obama loses, look what he will be able to say to the American voters as they contemplate his reelection:
1. I brought you a wonderful solution to a terrible problem. (What he won't say: It would have been a disaster, and fortunately, you will now not need to experience it and see that it was not wonderful, but terrible.)

2. My opponent has been arguing for months and months that you need to elect him to get Obamacare repealed. The Supreme Court already did that work, so that major issue is gone. Move on!

3. There are 5 activist conservatives on the Supreme Court, and if you elect a Republican, by the end of his term, there might be 7. The Court will skew far right, destabilizing the law as we know it. There is a great danger here that you must guard against by keeping me in the position to nominate the next Supreme Court Justices and thereby to rebalance the Court.
If Obama wins, the GOP candidate — presumably Mitt Romney — will be able to say:
1. Obamacare is a terrible disaster looming and bearing down on us. You may have thought the Supreme Court would save us from this dire consequence, but it did not. Alarm! Alarm!

2. The Supreme Court left this matter to the political processes, and it is therefore imperative that the political process work — by electing me — to make a repeal possible.

3. There are 5 activist liberals on the Supreme Court, including the 2 liberal Justices chosen by Obama to rubberstamp his liberal agenda. If you reelect Obama, by the end of his second term, there might be 7. The Court will skew far left, destabilizing the law as we know it. Do you want Kagan II and Sotomayor II joining the Court? You must elect me to restore balance.
ADDED: I think that a loss for Obama would be so politically advantageous for him that he might prefer it. Here's where I play with the idea that he's secretly trying to lose, and that's why the SG's argument yesterday was so bad.
 


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