The right-leaning SCOTUS declares the mandate is constitutional, and
the Republicans are screaming and whining that the court made the wrong
decision. So we have a Congress now that is further right than the
Supreme Court? I am sure the irony is not lost on Democrats. How can
you keep from falling out in the floor with laughter? President Obama
and the majority of Democrats didn’t even want the mandate the
Republicans are now screaming is unconstitutional. A lot of the people
that oppose the ACA oppose it because they think it does not go far
enough to the left. They wanted a single-payer system. The mandate is
something the Republicans had been pushing for 2 decades as an answer to
the single-payer system that the Democrats favored. Obama only put it
in the ACA because he was trying to get some kind of bipartisan support
for the bill.
Now fast forward to 2010, and you’d think these Republicans would
have taken credit at that point for shaping the ACA to fit their mold
and their Republican created mandate formula. But no. It did not fit
in with their more important plan of making Obama a 1-term president by
opposing anything and everything he proposed (even if it was bipartisan
and something they actually supported themselves), just so that they
could then proclaim that Obama had accomplished zero and should be
replaced by their “candiate to be named later.”
Now fast forward to today, and their “candidate to be named later,”
Mitt Romney (yet another severe conservative who championed the mandate
and was touting it as a model for the country) and all the other
far-right wing nuts look like a bunch of hypocrits running around and
whining like sniveling idiots. “There will be no spiking of the ball.”
I guess the orange prognosticator was actually correct this time.
There will be no spiking of the ball because the right-leaning SCOTUS
has let all the hot air out of it.
It’s not what Obama wanted exactly, the mandate, and it was a
compromise that gave kind of a victory to the Republicans–a victory,
however, that they just were too short sighted to claim. The
Republicans in Congress weren’t smart enough to capitalize on it because
they lost sight of doing what was right for the people of America.
They were too focused on doing what they thought was best for their own
political ambitions, which to them was to oppose anything the President
supported, even if it was something that was actually championed by
Republicans to begin with and even if their names were on bills
supporting the exact same thing he proposed.
Going forward, I can assure you that these lying Republicans won’t be
out there telling you the mandate was their original invention and that
the President didn’t really want it. They won’t tell you the actual
truth because they want you to just pull the lever blindly and vote for
their candidate. Mitt Romney will certainly not be out there telling
you that he was a champion of the mandate either–and not just the
Massachusetts mandate, the mandate he was glad to see survived in the
both the House and the Senate versions of the ACA. The videos don’t lie
Romney; I wish I could say the same for you.
I’m sure the President will set the record straight. The kind of
obstructionist politics the Republicans are playing with American’s
health care has just come back to bite them in the aspirin. I guess
laughter really is the best medicine. I’m laughing so hard it is hurting
my sides, and I just can’t wipe the smile off my face