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King v Burwell; 6 to 3!
By Richard Day on Thu, 06/25/2015 - 10:25am |Obamacare survives.
Kennedy & Roberts join in Majority decision!
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/06/25/obamacare-supreme-court-decision_n_7346048.html
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NPR (Nice Polite Republicans) just had a report saying the decision was a big plus for the Republican Party. Hurrah! GOP butts saved from their own recklessness!
You see, the GOP had no plan on what to do if their side won.
The GOP, of course, has not had' a plan to do anything good for the country for over 40 years. The only plans they have are campaign plans.
That is the unacknowledged elephant in the MSM newsroom.
by NCD on Thu, 06/25/2015 - 10:59am
I was just watching McConnell on the Senate Floor just ranting about this.
They just will never give up until only the 1% have health coverage!
by Richard Day on Thu, 06/25/2015 - 11:11am
They also upheld the Fair Housing Act tool for allowing review of disparate impact.
The initial MSNBC headline was wrong, stating that impact was banned, but the story was correct that it was upheld. The blurb from CNN got it right.
http://www.cnn.com/2015/06/23/politics/fair-housing-act-texas-supreme-co...
by rmrd0000 on Thu, 06/25/2015 - 11:05am
You got that right.
The Fair Housing case has great symbolic effect and provides plaintiffs with a better chance of attacking discriminatory practices.
by Richard Day on Thu, 06/25/2015 - 11:08am
Scalia threw a hissy-fit over the Obamacare decision.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/06/25/scalia-dissent_n_7662702.html
by rmrd0000 on Thu, 06/25/2015 - 11:08am
Well, the Chief Justice wrote the opinion and the result was a 6 to 3 victory.
This is one big deal anyway you look at it.
by Richard Day on Thu, 06/25/2015 - 11:12am
Coming after the gutting of the Voting Rights Act, this is a great day.
by rmrd0000 on Thu, 06/25/2015 - 11:15am
Oh I wish to clarify something, some issue in all of this.
Citizens United is one of the worst decisions I have ever witnessed despite the mess in the decision that made Bush President.
When you are arguing a decision, an issue involved in that decision by the Supremes or the State Supreme Court or even an appellate court....mentioning the vote tally might get you something.
One has to watch his hubris....but a 6 to 3 decision written by a Chief Justice means something.
It will mean something ten years from now.
No kidding.
There is no rhyme or reason.
It is just the truth.
by Richard Day on Thu, 06/25/2015 - 3:54pm
Exactly. And just one of the reasons I'm hoping for a large majority in favor of marriage equality.
by barefooted on Thu, 06/25/2015 - 4:33pm
It's surely too much to hope for, but I've always thought this decision needs to be unanimous, not unlike Brown.
by kyle flynn on Thu, 06/25/2015 - 5:28pm
Just from my mind's eye.
No.
6 to 3 is a big fucking deal. No kidding.
A lot more than five to four.
Brown was singularly weird.
And wonderful even though, in my humble opinion, the case failed,
It just failed in the sense that Whites and Blacks would learn together despite state property tax laws.
I mean look at the situation now.
There are so few schools where we can find desegregation de facto.
But Brown, changed the world.
It really did.
Like Lincoln with his Proclamation.
We hesitated.
And .....
I don't know.
I am ranting.
Sorry.
by Richard Day on Thu, 06/25/2015 - 5:45pm
Or what you said!
I'm gonna go drink Jameson now. Maybe I'm celebrating. Maybe it's a wake. I hardly ever know. I'll knock back an ounce-and-a-half for you. Cheers.
by kyle flynn on Thu, 06/25/2015 - 6:30pm
Yeah Kyle.
We need more good Irish in this bunch.
My forefathers would love to pay the tab; all around!
by Richard Day on Thu, 06/25/2015 - 7:36pm
There it is DD. 5-4 in favor of marriage equality. It's nice to wake up this morning to such common sense.
by kyle flynn on Fri, 06/26/2015 - 10:48am
Kyle, I never would have predicted this outcome.
Really.
I am in awe!
Have a good day.
by Richard Day on Fri, 06/26/2015 - 11:40am
If they rule in favor of marriage equality there's a couple who have vowed to get a divorce, and in Texas, a pastor who has vowed to set himself on fire---which would have been quite a spectacle but the county issued a burn ban.
by Oxy Mora on Thu, 06/25/2015 - 6:35pm
You know Oxy...
I awaken from my nap and there it is.
I hereby render unto Oxy the Dayly Comment of the Day Award for this here Dagblog Site, given to all of her from all of me. hahahahahah
by Richard Day on Thu, 06/25/2015 - 7:23pm
Phew
by Michael Wolraich on Thu, 06/25/2015 - 11:21am
What's interesting is any republican with even a slight ability to think is saying the same thing. It's the best decision they could hope for. It allows them to attack the ACA and the Supreme Court and to feed red meat to the crazies without having to solve any problems or face the reality of their positions.
by ocean-kat on Thu, 06/25/2015 - 2:47pm
Yeah Ocean you do not have such a strange perspective on this.
But consider this.
President Obama shines.
whether one loves it or not Barry has the ACA which saved young adults so very much, which saved ten or sixteen million Americans from lack of any health coverage at all (that had meaningful coverage of course); Barry saved the auto industry in this country (like Trump's bankruptcies ever had anything to do with paying creditors back!). We got all of those monies back with some interest.
Like Clinton, our President had to face a recalcitrant repub congress but, he still kept on keepin on.
And all of this occurred under a conservative Supreme Court.
i AM RANTING. sorry
by Richard Day on Thu, 06/25/2015 - 2:59pm
Yes, I'm not saying I wish they had gutted the ACA. It was the only sensible decision and I wouldn't wish all that suffering on so many people to create a political problem for republicans
by ocean-kat on Thu, 06/25/2015 - 3:18pm
Oh Ocean, I never would have proffered that you had bad intentions.
Of course you did not wish to gut this legislation.
As a matter of fact there were conservative blogs that would either hope for the worst or hope that my President looked bad.
Geeeez. I am sorry if you felt I was attacking your intentions! damn
You are one of my favorite bloggers.
Have a goooooooooood day.
And DON'T LET THE BASTARDS GET YOU DOWN!
by Richard Day on Thu, 06/25/2015 - 3:34pm
This 'comment' keeps hitting me in the head.
My lower parts of course feel less and less relevant as the time goes by. hhhaah
But, to me anyway, I hereby render unto Mike W the Dayly Line of the Day Award for this here Dagblog Site, given to all of him from all of me.
PHEW!
Yeah, I know.
That is how I felt and how I feel right now!
by Richard Day on Thu, 06/25/2015 - 8:17pm
:)
by Michael Wolraich on Fri, 06/26/2015 - 11:02am
The moment the President heard the ruling on the ACA.
https://medium.com/@WhiteHouse/behind-the-lens-when-the-president-heard-the-news-of-the-supreme-court-decision-on-the-affordable-fcf648c3f84f
by trkingmomoe on Fri, 06/26/2015 - 7:11pm