Are you kidding me? Peoplemust be asking themselves.
What just happened? The Supreme Court of the UnitedStates let stand “The Affordable Healthcare Act”, a/k/a ObamaCare. The rulingshocked everybody, on both sides of the issue.
However, being taken bysurprise is an understatement. CNN and FOX News both reported that the Courtstruck down the ObamaCare mandates. In their haste to be the first to pronounce doom,they did a SNAFU by broadcasting a Breaking News false report. In the split second, betweenfalse news and its retraction, the world went bananas.
Some news analysts were already touting thatthis was a blow to President Barack Obama. Then, suddenly, they choked on their words, andbegged their viewing audience to be cautious.
Are you kidding me? The FOXNew anchorman tells me to be cautious after he realizes that he was wrong in hisinitial report on the demise of ObamaCare mandates. Be cautious against whom, I would ask?
SECOND: The Chief Justice prefaced the ruling by rejecting the mandates on thebasis of the Interstate Commerce Act. BUT SAY NO MORE. The bean-head Twitters are offtweeting: Mandate Struck Down.
Was Justice John Roberts a wilyfox? Here was a landmark decision that could etch the Roberts Court intoimmortal history, and he held the decisive swing 5-4 vote.
He coyly implies that thelegislation may not be good policy, but its legality can stand because of theauthority given it through the legislative process. Therefore, he was NOTjudging the policy of healthcare mandates, he was justifying the law as a TAX.
SURPRISE, surprise. As onewriter puts it, a Lucy-and-the-footballsurprise.
WTF? The Twitter world wentcrazy with acronyms. Even worse, the Republicans immediately declared war torepeal the Healthcare Act. And, it did not seem to matter to them that they kill the whole thing inone swoop.
Mitt Romney told reportersshortly before noon that he would repeal the law his first day in office ifelected. “ObamaCare was bad policy yesterday, it's bad policy today,” he said.
“Today's ruling underscoresthe urgency of repealing this harmful law in its entirety,” House Speaker JohnBoehner said in a statement.
Phrases like “first day inoffice” and “the urgency” indicates that the battle lines are drawn against the full PatientProtection and Affordable Healthcare Act.
Had the Court issued apartial ruling, as many watchers had originally expected, then both partieswould have gone back to its respective Congressional corners and immerse itself in more gridlock. There would be more anti-Obamacare sideshows and ralliesand inflamed townhall meetings.
With the ruling, there was now nothing to nitpick, not even athread. The Act is ruled law, and therefore constitutional. What other GOP option was there, short of concession? The impulse is to strike back. But they can only doso by stirring up more public anger. In order to do that, the public again must bemisinformed and incited.
After all, nobody has read the dang thing. A 1,000-page law is 999more pages than a simpleton can handle. A false report about it is as good asthe truth when hardhearted minds are set in stone.
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