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Obama's Pyrrhic Supreme Court Victory
Tweet Share on Facebook June 29, 2012 CommentNow that the Supreme Court's decision on Obamacare has sunk in, it is time to put its political impact in perspective. The average voter is not going to become Alan Dershowitz overnight and analyze the Supreme Court's decision in depth—the bottom line is the law was upheld. Kentucky GOP Sen. Rand Paul is actually wrong—the Supreme Court is the branch of our government which decides on whether a law is or is not constitutional. The question is what does that do to President Barack Obama's re-election chances and the realities show it could easily be a net negative.
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5 Reasons the Supreme Court’s Obamacare Ruling Helps the GOP
Tweet Share on Facebook June 29, 2012 CommentThe news is full of reports about President Obama's "victory" yesterday, a "yes-we-can moment" that was a "nearly complete validation" of his administration's signature piece of legislation. Politico is reporting that top White House advisers "seemed almost giddy at the prospect of congressional Republicans, incensed by the high court’s ruling, pursuing repeal efforts or other attacks on the law over the next weeks and months." But here are five reasons why the GOP should not hesitate to focus on the issue of healthcare reform going into the election.
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How Mitt Romney Can Run on the Supreme Court's Obamacare Ruling
Tweet Share on Facebook June 29, 2012 CommentFor partisans, election years are a time to experience the highs and lows of manic depression. Your candidate and his followers can be lifted on the wings of angels to the mountaintop, only to be plunged straight into the valley of despair, and vice versa, several times over before the contest mercifully ends.
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Obamacare Remains a Constitutional Minefield
Tweet Share on Facebook June 29, 2012 CommentMajority Leader Eric Cantor said Thursday that the U.S. House of Representatives would once again vote on a measure completely repealing Obamacare on July 11.
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The Healthcare Lion Who Didn't Roar
Tweet Share on Facebook June 29, 2012 CommentThere was a lion who didn't roar on the Senate floor yesterday as healthcare reform was upheld by the Supreme Court.
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Nora Ephron Would Celebrate Supreme Court Healthcare Ruling
Tweet Share on Facebook June 28, 2012 CommentNora Ephron, the urbane writer of cultural essays and romantic comedies, including a sweet revenge, has died and left us dispirited, coast to coast. Her New York Upper West Side sensibility shone on every page, including on lists of what she would and wouldn't miss when she was gone.
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Healthcare Will Be Obama's D-Day, Not His Waterloo
Tweet Share on Facebook June 28, 2012 CommentThe Supreme Court's decision will not bring the debate on healthcare to a close in the short term, prior to November. But it may do so in the middle and long term, sooner than most think. And, more importantly, it may see the kind of real change in American society that Obama campaigned on in 2008.
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Supreme Court Doesn’t Have the Final Word on Obamacare
Tweet Share on Facebook June 28, 2012 CommentTo the surprise of just about everyone, John Roberts, the chief justice of the United States, voted with the four most liberal members of the Supreme Court to uphold the individual mandate that is the cornerstone of the law known as "Obamacare."
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Supreme Court Gives Obama a Policy Win, But Maybe a Political Loss
Tweet Share on Facebook June 28, 2012 CommentIn a 50/50 nation, there are no clear wins or losses. With the Supreme Court's decision, President Barack Obama wins a big policy victory which may have a political downside.
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Tennessee's Idiotic Campaign Against 'Gateway Sex'
Tweet Share on Facebook June 28, 2012 CommentFirst, there were "gateway drugs." Now, the danger, apparently, is gateway sex.
