At some point, denial and what ifs aren't a strategy anymore. The Governor might actually have to comply with the law.
First it was waiting for the court to rule, now it's waiting for November. When that doesn't work, what then?Gov. Scott Walker on Thursday reaffirmed his refusal to implement the federal health care law, despite the Supreme Court's ruling to mostly uphold it.
Advocates in the state praised the court's decision, a business group opposed it, and health care providers questioned some of its implications.
Walker said he hopes that after November a new president and Congress will end the law, saying it "would require the majority of people in Wisconsin to pay more money for less health care."
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I suppose it's possible it could be repealed through legislation, but in the meantime it's just hilarious watching conservatives crap their pants over this, which I admit surprised me as much as it did them.
Oh, my god it's another Souter, Kennedy, John Paul Stevens, Sandra O Connor supreme court justice that isn't a checked box for every single conservative wet dream. I loved how Congressman Pence called the decision 9/11, which I guess is a disaster that was completely predictable and talked about beforehand. The big winner is all the 2016 Republican Presidential candidates because Romney is the guy that did it first, likes the idea when he was Governor and has no fresh ideas in its place.
I hope, hope, hope that at sometime during the debates, Romney rails against it and Obama just looks at him and says, "It was your idea."
Haha. I was hoping for the 80's-era PSA reference, "I learned it by watching you."
Even if he waits till november and gets a Romney win, AND the GOP takes the Senate, they have no chance of getting to 60 seats in the Senate so any wholesale repeal is probably dead (assuming the Dems take a play out of the GOP playbook and use the filibuster on everything - you know, complain about the other guy then do it yourself). So then what does he wait for? A 90-degree June with no rain? Oh wait. (Remember when a "normal" Wisconsin summer meant never hitting 90 degrees?)
Since the mandate is a tax, the Senate can repeal it with 51 votes through reconciliation (the same process by which the bill was passed in the Senate). The rest is all policy, so the worst they can probably do is refuse to provide funding to implement the changes, and that's an awfully shady approach to governance.
On the flip side, if Walker doesn't want to it, the feds will do it for him. It's really a question of who can provide the services better. Rick Snyder in Michigan disagrees with Walker. He's said he'll move forward with the exchanges because he'd rather have the state control them than the feds. One would think that would be a saner approach for a GOP governor to take than this continued wearing of the pouty pants.
I haven't seen anyone get this bad of a slow burn since Cliff Barnes use to get screwed at the end of every season on Dallas. Watching Fox News and Republicans act like bozos by calling out all kinds of weird things against Roberts and the end of humanity as we know it only makes it appear that the tin foil hats are the silent majority.
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