With Chief Justice John Roberts’ unthinkable decision to uphold Obamacare yesterday, all focus now shifts to repeal for conservatives. In order to repeal Obamacare, two things must happen: Republicans must retake the White House, and they must retake the Senate.
Throughout the GOP primary season, Mitt Romney made the argument that Romneycare was different from Obamacare because what Romney could do at the state level with Romneycare when he was governor of Massachusetts, Obama could not do at the national
Apparently tiring of US soil as a source of campaign dollars, the Obama campaign is headed overseas — with its celebrity friends in tow. The European Obama campaign starts next week in Paris on July 4 with a reception organized
Remember in 2008, when journalists claimed that Sarah Palin was using her children as props–that is, when they weren’t claiming they weren’t her children to begin with? Now, Obama campaign adviser David Axelrod is exploiting his own daughter’s epilepsy in
First the Democrats and the media told us the American people would fall in love with the never-popular ObamaCare after it was passed. Yesterday, we were told that with the imprimatur of the Supreme Court, ObamaCare would become popular. Well,
MRCTV- After the Supreme Court releases the ruling on Obamacare, MRCTV encountered a variety of reactions
In a major feature piece at BuzzFeed Politics co-authored by Chief BenSmither, Ben Smith, and BenSmither-In-Training, Zeke Miller, the message has gone out to the media that “it’s time to move on” past the health care debate. This is #BenSmithing
The TEA (Taxed Enough Already) Party movement formed in response to the federal government’s bipartisan spending problem. The movement was jolted and turned into the force it now is because of President Barack Obama’s overreach on Obamacare and his proposals
As news broke that the Supreme Court had upheld Obamacare, reactions were mixed. Democrat House Members rejoiced and Obama did a victory dance, while rank and file conservatives took a step back and shook their heads in disbelief. Then as
When the Supreme Court upheld the individual mandate and Obamacare by labeling the individual mandate a tax, the U.S. Senate became that much more important and a battleground for conservatives who want to repeal Obamacare. In the runoff for the
When news that the Supreme Court–or more pointedly, Chief Justice John Roberts–deemed ObamaScare “constitutional”, two words came to mind: Tea Party. Tea Partiers coalesced from a diverse spectrum of people: black, white, Hispanic, Asian, middle class, upper middle class, disillusioned
Conservatives who are trying to salvage a little “hope and change” from Chief Justice John Roberts’s disastrous ruling in the Obamacare case yesterday argue that the limits the Court placed on the Commerce Clause and the power of the federal
We all saw how the media reacted yesterday. Overnight, Chief Justice John Roberts went from a pariah to, literally in the eyes of the media, one of the great justices in the history of the Court. We also saw how
#1: The charge that the Roberts Court is a right-of-center court has been proven wrong in dramatic fashion. It’s not just the ObamaCare decision that can be characterized as liberal. In this term alone, the Court invalidated most of the
I was sitting in KO’s restaurant today, watching news about the Supreme Court’s Obamacare decision scroll across the TV screen when an Obama re-election commercial came on. The commercial, which had clearly been crafted without any thought to the Obamacare
“Still a BFD …” is what President Barack Obama’s twitter handle tweeted out last night. Seriously. Obama’s campaign proverbially spiked the football in light of Obamacare being held up by the Supreme Court, marketing a t-shirt that says “Still a
The majority of the American people want nothing to do with Obamacare. And yet the White House, the Congress, the Senate, and now the Supreme Court have all lined up against the American people – to either force Obamacare down
First there was the “death tax;” now with the Supreme Court’s rationale for Obamacare, the United States has a “birth tax.” Under the law, simply by being born, American citizens are saddled with a tax burden if they are not
Breitbart News, monitoring ABC’s World News with Diane Sawyer, has found the network’s flagship news program gave less coverage to Congress’s vote to hold a sitting Attorney General in contempt than the death of a “My Three Sons” actor and
The argument over the constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act may have been settled by the Supreme Court, but today’s fundraising boom for Mitt Romney’s presidential campaign suggests the issue is far from settled with the American people. At 1:46
For a few puzzling moments Thursday, US President Barack Obama believed inaccurate media reports that his proudest political achievement — health care reform — had been shot down. Obama was standing in the outer Oval Office watching a split screen
Liberal website Firedoglake.com sent supporters an email hours after the Supreme Court decision on health reform telling their readers that the ruling sets the stage for a complete takeover of the medical system via single-payer health care. The letter from Brian
Associated Press reporter Jessica Gresko reports the Supreme Court’s audience appeared to sigh with relief after Chief Justice John Roberts read the court’s opinion to uphold President Barack Obama’s historic health care overhaul. (June 28)
JP Morgan Chase’s loss of an estimated $2 billion on bad credit derivatives bets may actually go as high as $9 billion, according to a data dump timed to get swallowed by coverage of the Supreme Court’s decision to uphold
