2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: The Roberts’ Court's Shelby County Power Play Could Backfire [View all]Rstrstx
(1,393 posts)but he and he alone saved Obamacare from total defeat - our new "hero" Kennedy certainly wasn't going to do it - and if he had voted the way he probably wanted to vote the opportunity would have been lost for another generation. Forget Texas, it would have been gone for the whole country. For me affordable health insurance was the single most important issue in Obama's first term, and the party paid dearly for it in 2010 (and may again in 2014 if its implementation is poorly managed), but it was the right thing to do and I'm extremely grateful for everyone that kept it alive against improbable odds, even you-know-who. Poorer Texans will either eventually get affordable health care through Medicaid or federal exchanges, that issue will resolve itself despite dufus' grandstanding. Certainly better than having to wait another 20 years for the chance to come up again.