Maybe it's me but something is really fishy about Roberts supporting ACA [View all]

[LynneSin]

Think about it - they had it. The right-wing & tea party got were in grasp of what they wanted which was to shoot down Obama's Affordable Care Act (ACA). This has been 2+ years in the making with the formation of the Tea Party and that big election in Nov 2010 when the republicans took back the house.

Sure I thought there was a chance that ACA would survive the Supreme Court vote but I always suspected it would be Kennedy that would side with the progressives. Kennedy has been a swing vote in the past for other issues so he very well could have switched now.

But instead it was John Roberts, George W. Bush's handpicked 50 year old selection to not just be a Supreme Court Justice but to be the leader of SCOTUS for at least 20-30 years. These are lifetime appointments so picking Roberts to run the Supreme Court made sense since it's not uncommon to see Justices serving well into their 80s.

And let's face it, I haven't seen anything with Robert's voting record that would make me think he could be a wild card. When the issue at hand was a Progressive vs. Conservatives Roberts always sided with the Conservatives. So why would HE get a sudden case of Constitutional Guilt and vote to uphold ACA?

Now mind you, I really don't think the average GOP voter and especially those that adhere to the Tea Party mantra are all that bright. They remind me of the Sheep in George Orwell's Animal Farm. Animals none to bright but easy enough to train a new mantra when needed. Faux News, Rush Limbaugh, Glen Beck and others are nothing more than the Pigs teaching those sheep what to chant. Crazy thing is this ACA benefits those people too but they would rather shoot themselves in the foot and suffer for lack of decent healthcare than to support anything a Democratic President enacted.

Don't get me wrong, I am glad that ACA was upheld but I just think we need to keep an eye open for what tricks may be up the sleeves of the GOP powers to be.

See to me, 'Obamacare' as the tea party crazies call it is their boogieman. That scary thing that liberals do that should frighten the masses. Not sure why it's scary but they say it is, '4 feet bad, 2 feet good' I guess. Romney has a tough campaign ahead of him and polls so far have not been very promising. So what happens if SCOTUS took away not just one of the GOP's favorite go-to boogieman scares (ACA or 'Obamacare') but take away another - that the Supreme Court is made up of activist judges. Suddenly Romney has nothing to campaign on these 2 scary issues because the issues no longer exist. And let's face it, there ain't many positive things that Romney can campaign ESPECIALLY since ACA was modeled on the healthcare plan that Romney brought to Massachusetts back when he was Governor.

I believe without a doubt in my mind that Roberts took the hit for this one. GOP didn't want to take away their 2 of their biggest scare tactics especially 5 months before the elections. PLUS how do you think voters would react when suddenly young people are no longer covered and seniors are paying higher prices for their prescriptions. Trust me, those voters won't remember that the GOP saved them from that scary Obamacare boogieman but that the GOP caused their healthcare costs to skyrocket again (or cease to exist).

So now Romney will spend the next 5 months campaigning about how not only he will save the country from scary Obamacare but that he will be the one that will get the court back into their favor since 4 of the members of the Supreme Court are over the age of 70 (2 on either side - Scalia, Kennedy, Ginsberg, Breyer).

Will it work? Probably not, Romney is just a wretched candidate meant to give some fight to Obama this fall. But still - let's appreciate what we got and hope there aren't any hidden timebombs in it.