GOP Takes Big Hit On ObamaCare

With the ruling by The Supreme Court that the Affordable Care Act is constitutional, The Presidency

of Barack Obama avoided the type of iceberg that The Titanic was unable to. The President was looking at the prospect of having the most significant piece of legislation passed during his first term done away with because of the hatred that tea party yahoos and powerdrunk GOP Congressman have for him.

A constitutional lawyer not realizing that a bill he basically authored was not constitutional would have been one of Mitt Romney's main talking points all the way until the November election. Also given the fact that ever legal pundit in the country had the bill on death row after the oral arguments in March, things didn't look good for the President. Then all of sudden to the rescue of the healthcare bill comes.....John Roberts?

Look I am in no way going to crown Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts as a new champion of left-wing causes, hell I still don't forgive him for allowing Citizens United to become law, but there is no way around it, Roberts, knowing that he would face a mountain of criticism from GOP nutjobs led by scumbags like Rush Limbaugh and Matt Drudge did his job and he did it impartially.

The question now is what does The Obama Administration and elected Democrats do? Do they walk away from the Affordable Care Act like they did when they passed the bill back in 2010 or do they spend the time needed to explain to The American People why this law is a good thing.

Young people under the age of 26 are allowed to stay on their Parent's insurance, adults and children will not be discriminated against for having pre-existing conditions, and the biggest one which is one that the White House should buy billboards all across the country for, you will not go to jail, you will not have a lein taken out on your property and you will not have money deducted from your paycheck if you don't buy health insurance.

Also they can ask Mitt Romney and his right-wing cronies that if these things are so horrible what is their plan for a broken healthcare system? We are talking about a group of individuals who have been saying since they came into power that they would “Repeal and Replace” Obamacare, now since the Court's announcement they've dropped the replace portion of that phrase and are just talking about repeal.

For Romney himself there really is no good answer, he is the mastermind of Obamacare and the Obama Administration, when constructing the law, bought in the same advisers who consulted Romney when he put the plan in place in Massachusettes. Romney is the deadbeat dad who is now ashamed of his child and what he or she has become. The last thing the 2012 version of would do is praise the President over healthcare, The 2004 version would give him a high five. What Romney fails to realize or refuses to admit is that his pledge to repeal the ACA on the first day of his Presidency runs the gambit of being laughable to flat out delusional. There is that whole 60 vote thing in the Senate that he would need but would never in a million years get.

As the Obama Presidency was avoiding that aforementioned iceberg, the court was right behind it swerving at just the right time, with Justice Roberts doing the steering. Never has the court been seen as being more polarizing, the latest example being Justice Alito's ridiculous dissenting opinion to the court's decision on the Arizona “papers please” law earlier this week. With this decision Roberts at least for know, avoids charges of the court being made up of right-wing majority activists who are brought with dirty money from GOP sugar daddies like the Koch Brothers.

At the end of the day I am and will always be a proponent of a single payer healthcare system, it cuts out most of the red tape and does not enrich blood sucking insurance companies who capitialize on the tragedies of everyday Americans, this bill right now in this day and time however is a good start and the possibility of really good provisions being added to it just as provisions were added to the original Civil Rights Act is enough for me to feel good about what the President and Congressional Democrats have done.

Hopefully the days of every American not having health insurance will soon be a thing of the past.

By the way I hope this puts to bed this notion that Anthony Kennedy is the swing vote on the Court, voting for Citizens United and against ACA disqualifies him from having that title.