I Hate To Say I Told You So … Updated pretty much continually
But, Dude and Dudettes, I did.
Now we know for sure why Antonin Scalia was hog wallowin’, snake bitin’, goose honkin’ mad about the Court striking down Arizona’s immigration laws. He knew, yes he did, that even though he had been bought and paid for on the health care law, he was going to lose again.
Okay, I know I’m playing amateur psychologist but it seems to me that the reason John Roberts broke away from the snarling ultraconservative pack is that he knew the reputation of the Supreme Court was on the line. He knew that everybody – and I mean everybody! – would know for a fact that Scalia and Thomas had sold out for thirty pieces of silver. Roberts is young and needs to be thinking about the reputation of the court.
Now it is time to get Scalia off the court before he bites someone or runs around the room nakkid yelling, “I wanna hoochy koochy with Michelle Bachmann!”
And the absolute best part of all this is watching Michelle Bachmann’s hair on fire and Louie Gohmert start drooling.
Here’s Bachmann prior to the ruling, showing off her ticket to watch the court call her a damn fool.
And Gohmert wants to impeach Elena Kagan. Not Scalia or Thomas for selling their vote, of course, but Elena Kagan.
GOHMERT: We still have the issue of Justice Kagan. Either she was totally derelict and negligent in her duties as Solicitor General and had absolutely nothing to do with the most important bill to the president, her boss, or she did have something to do with it, she has violated federal law, and as such she needs to be removed from the Supreme Court. […] I think it’s important to look at Justice Kagan for potential impeachment. […]
KEYES: Considering she was the deciding vote in the case, does that leave the ruling illegitimate if she broke federal law?
GOHMERT: Yes it would. It would mean this decision would be illegitimate if she lied in order to get onto the Court.
Oh y’all, I am totally thrilled with The Affordable Health Care Act, aka Obama Cares, being upheld today but I am downright giddy over getting to watch the rightwing blow a gasket.
Okay, so I got very brave and switched over to watch FOX. Hopefully, you did, too, because they had on former disgraced Attorney General Alberto Gonzales commenting how this is what America gets for voting for a Democrat for President. Seriously. Alberto Gonzales. The damn crook.
Another picture!
And Sandy just sent me another great shot taken right after the Supreme’s decision was announced.
Obama care passes !yea!!!!!!
1The Chief Justice voted with the moderates on the Court, who would have thought that could occur. My hope was that Kennedy would be the swing vote. But the CJ is so much younger, and will remain on the Court longer. Knowing that he did not have the CJ’s vote may explain the over the top craziness that Scalia has exhibited of late. Maybe he will be pissed enough to retire. Or maybe his head will explode.
2I’ll bet they (the Rethugs) are going to regret calling the Affordable Health Care Act , that.
3Hallelujah! Hallelujah! Maybe Roberts has remembered what he is meant to be! We can hope, at least!!
4Roberts’ vote was doubly interesting. He voted with the liberals, but not for the same reason. They wanted the mandate covered under the commerce clause, which gives the feds the right to regulate interstate commerce. Roberts went with a different reason: he labelled the mandate as a tax–the government has the right to tax people. So the law stands, but I wonder if the reasoning will have any effect on future laws.
5Watching the bile and venom spewing out of Scalia’s mouth the last week I figured he knew he was on the losing side.
6Well, it’s possible that Roberts finally realized that the present court will be known as “The Roberts Court” in history, and that it includes some of the weakest legal minds and insane partisans in court history (there have been some others that might have been as bad), so if he hopes to salvage even a smidgen of his legal reputation, he’s better off with an occasional sop to the “liberal” side. I put liberal in quotes to emphasize that the word means center-right in America.
After all, the ACA really doesn’t hurt his corporate masters on little bit. Opposition to it is only a game to the Rethugs, as we all know (and anyone who knew a Young Republican in college–and I went to college a long time ago–does know).
7Obama: citizen.
Obamacare: Constitutional.
Romney: toast.
If I were team Obama, I would run an ad calling this a victory for America, the President and, yes, even Mitt Romney, who said his health care plan was the model for the country.
The President and the Chief Justice agree, Governor. Thanks for the idea.
Now, who wants to talk about climate change?
8It’s now time for Democrats everywhere to start pointing to the positives in this law.
One that I was particularly gratified by was that people with pre-existing conditions cannot be denied health insurance. Our family has a child with Type I diabetes. We also have folks who have had heart attacks, and would never have found anybody to insure them…… without the ACA. Every family has people with pre-existing conditions of some kind or other…. and they need to know that they will be able to get health insurance, and have health care….. under this law.
Republicans are already calling this a “tax” on folks… because that’s the way the Court framed it.
Democrats need to start speaking up…. about the good points….. like kids can still be insured under their parent’s coverage for a while after they reach 18…. (I’m not sure of the age requirement) but it means that a kid who graduates school, doesn’t have to go totally un-insured…. until he finds a job.
Roberts…….. who would have thought????
9OMG, now I have a mental picture of nakid Scalia in my head….I thought we were friends. sigh. Michelle might be willing, her gay husband probably doesn’t make her happy much.
10They are going to take Holder down with a vengeance so they will have something to crow about.
Or else that can have crazy Jan Brewer figure out how the republicans won on health care.
Of course the stupid sarah palin saying POTUS Obama lied because he said it was not a tax, but the SC said it was.
She is stupid enough not to realize the Court changed the language, not POTUS Obama.
11Imbecile!!!!
Carol, I agree. When the Repubs tried to damage the Affordable Health Care Act by calling it “ObamaCare” I thought it would come back to bite them.
I’m thinking how untouchable Social Security is–what if our right-wing of the ’30s had thought to dub it “Roosevelt-Pension?”
“ObamaCare” will become more and more popular and then the Repubs will start calling it the AHC Act.
12Should have added, “JUANITA!! You called it!!”
13I can’t help but feel that Ted Kennedy would feel so proud today. His work on health care over many years made it possible to get this far, and like with Social Security and Medicare, future Congresses will pass improvements. Sounds like a win,win situation.
14I took the Scalia tantrum as a hint that he wouldn’t get his way on healthcare, but I didn’t really exhale until this morning.
15People Unclear on the Concept
Rand Paul: “Just because a couple people on the Supreme Court declare something to be ‘constitutional’ does not make it so.”
I guess the road apple doesn’t fall far from the horse’s patoot.
16I just saw some interesting speculation on another blog about how the Medicaid limitation allowed under today’s decision could be a big surprise gift for Dems this November.
According to this diarist, the decision will allow states to opt out of the expanded Medicaid provision. That’s the provision that would have helped people who are a step above poor, but not safely in the middle class–maybe people who lost jobs, or recent grads, plenty of people betwixt and between.
Red states are the ones most likely to squash that expansion. And who’s going to get hurt? Those same people…who may very well take it out on the GOP at the polls come November.
What a nice day.
17There seems to be an epidemic of the STOOOPID breaking out among the Rethugs. Tee and then a Hee!
18to those unclear on the concept (wingnuts, et al), KMBBB.
19Gohmert is apparently unclear on the function of the Solicitor General, which is to determine the government’s approach to litigation. Until a statute is enacted, there ain’t any litigation to take an approach to.
Only one Supreme Court Justice has ever been impeached, and that was Samuel Chase in 1804 for letting his political leanings affect his decisions. (The impeachment, incidentally, was unsuccessful.) Sounds to me like Scalia comes a lot closer to impeachable than Kagan does.
Got anything else, Louie?
20I’m watching Fox News today.
Never seen a head explode on live TV before . . .
21Wyatt—I wish I could afford a new TV. If so, I would watch Fox until my temper got the best of me and I threw something through it. Will just have to wait for Morning Joe tomorrow am to see if any repub guests’ heads explode.
22I am cynical enough to believe that the Dread Chief Justice Roberts voted to uphold because the Insurance Cos. told him they did not want to lose all those new customers. It fits into his M.O. It also explains the court position on Medicaid. Keep the competition to a minimum. Whatever his reason, it is a good stepforward and I hope the Demcrats keepworking to improve it.
23Guess this will go down as a good week for the Kenyan socialist Muslim.
And boy, the last time I saw someone run that fast from anything (Romney), my little girl was being chased by bees.
24I’ve not really seen anybody’s head explode…… but truth be told….. all the Bwah…..bhahhh …… hahhh…. isn’t bothering me at all.
Sniff, sniff.
25I know it’s selfish of me, but can we please wait to get Scalia off the court until after he bites someone or runs around the room nakkid yelling, “I wanna hoochy koochy with Michelle Bachmann!” I would pay good money to see that.
26Montag, I was not happy with the mandate when Affordable Health Care was enacted, but then read some policy wonks suggesting the mandate might be a poison pill that would protect the Act from the Right-Wing. Looks like maybe they were correct.
PS Of course, I wanted the public option, which was unlikely to happen since it would have put big health ins companies out of business.
27This on top of the recent news about insurance companies having to pony up rebates for not spending enough money actual care as opposed to “administrative” costs is as good as a double dipped cone from the Dairy Queen.
Oh mercy say the insurance companies, how are we going to rip these folks off if we’re going to have to actually pay for real health care–for gasp! dare we say it??!! Sick people!!!!
This just got real. We have to re-elect Obama and every Dem we can.. or the GOP will repeal ACA the first day they’re on job.
28To paraphrase a well-known movie line…”I love the sight of wingnuts’ heads exploding in the morning.”
29Boehner looks like he doesn’t know whether he’s going to fart or cry.
30Mitchy-Mitch and Rmoney are both saying that the only thing to do is to completely repeal this law. Of course, in 2007 Governor Rmoney said something rather different. He called it an example of “Ultimate Conservatism”. What a pair of pathetic patootie pumping liars.
31I am so proud of this Country and the Democrats who chose to lose some seats in Congress so that real Americans can live productive healthy lives.
Ask any older person and they will tell you if they have their health, they have everything.
My son did not graduate from grad school on time this year because he became ill, to ill to function or go to school.
He has severe onset allergies both food and environmental, he has been sick for months. They are not sure what to do as he cannot live on steroids and anti allergy meds forever.
He has the school thing squared away and has great insurance through the school.
I was so afraid (since this started) that he would never have insurance because he now has a pre existing condition.
I am sending POTUS a letter of thanks for this health care act. The republicans wanted to cripple this kid with health care costs on top of college loans before he even gets a job.
They only care about themselves and what they can get out of it.
Mitt Romney got more of a tax break on his horse then the average family makes in the US.
How the hell can he even begin to understand what the average American goes through?
32Will someone wittier than I please caption that picture of Nancy Pelosi and John Boehner?
33OMG … Boehner is about to bust out in tears and sobs and Nancy looks like she is about to start dancing a highland jig or something … her smile goes from ear to ear … like someone wrote above … looks like poor John is about to fart or cry … I think he may be doing a bit of both!
That picture is priceless!! And, oh, the Republicans are sooooo pissed and they are going to take it out on Holder … unbelieveable!!
34He’s gonna start crying again, isn’t he?
35Looks like Nancy gave Boehner something to really cry about! “You wanna fresh one, John? You wanna try for two?”
36“John, honey, maybe you simply don’t have the gonads for this sport. Why don’t you go back to the boardroom and let us big girls handle this?”
37Go gidget!!
38Scalia and Clarence Thomas scare me, also the republicans scare me, they are now apoplectic about the health care bill(after all, they took hundreds of millions to kill it) now Romney scares me a lot, there is an article on Alternet about a mormon president. Apparently mormons think if one of them
39can get elected president he will be ‘king of the world’.
We have to exp0ect anything from a man who follows –
Joseph Smith, who had 33 wives!
@Cairocat, caption for Nancy and John:
40The thrill of victory!
The agony of defeat!
Maybe she gave him a wedgie.
41That picture of John-Boyner and Nancy.. Priceless!!
42@Joan, you say Scalia and Thomas as if they are actually two distinct minds.
They are not.
They are one sad crazy mind meld.
I don’t follow these things much anymore but after Thomas had been on the court for something like ten years he had only asked one question. And that might have been “would you please speak up?”
He has often prided himself in talking at those over-priced events with $100,000 speaking fees that he didn’t need to ask questions at oral arguments because he always knew how he was going to vote. As did we; whatever way Scalia told him to vote.
43Amazing. I can’t wait for the full effects to kick in. It’s not fair that I have to pay almost $60,000 a year on my family of three for health insurance premium, deductibles, co-pays, etc. That is $5,000 a month. That is more than the average pay for a family.
44Check out Mean Jean Schmindt of Ohio when she gets the news!
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/06/28/1104153/-Wanna-laugh-at-Mean-Jean-Schmidt
45I hadn’t realized how many of my Facebook friends actually moonlight as Constitutional lawyers until now!
46I wonder how long it took them to clean up the chamber after Miz Bachmann’s head exploded. At least we know there wasn’t much grey matter to stick to the ceiling…
47LynnN: “I know it’s selfish of me, but can we please wait to get Scalia off the court until after he bites someone or runs around the room nakkid yelling, “I wanna hoochy koochy with Michelle Bachmann!” I would pay good money to see that.”
I would dearly love to get Scalia off the court ASAP, but I would pay good money NOT to see him nekkid. Please.
LOVE LOVE LOVE the photo. There is nothing uglier than a smug Publican, and few things more satisfying than the expression on one who’s just been kicked in the nadgers.
48Hi All You Wonderful Texans! After finding this web site and finally understood what “Don’t Mess With Texas” means!
This morning one of your congressman or senaters was on MSNBC…sorry I didn’t get his name. He is leading to way on all worts of law suits against Obama and the ACA. According to him it all amounts to arrmagedden. The host reminded him that Texas hold last place in number of people who have health insurance. He was asked how Texas would help these people if the repubs repeal the ACA. The Texan changed the subject. He was asked again..he said that Texas will do it by creating jobs and people get insurance through their jobs. The host asked if he thought that the jobs being created would be enough to cover the high number who will still be uncovered especially if they repeal the ACA. About then the Texan sort of lost it and said IT”S NOT ABOUT HEALTH CARE, IT NEVER HAS BEEN! IT’s ABOUT OBAMA TELLING PEOPLE THEY SHOULD HAVE HEALTH CARE!
49You all might want to look into who this guy was and have a talk with him about his next reelection?
If you havn’t already seen it, go to last night’s “TONIGHT SHOW-Obama dancing. It’s crazy funny!
I know I’m late to the party, but I stumbled across a description for Boehner’s face in that last photo that I thought fit so well I just had to share it: “like a bulldog licking vinegar off a thistle.”
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