re: #42 moderatelyradicalliberal

There are two questions; Is it all or nothing? And if it’s not all, what can they strike down?

I hope they go with all or nothing. If it all stands great. If is all goes, I wonder how people with preexisting conditions and the 2.5 million people who are currently on their parent’s insurance will fee? I wonder how they will vote?

The impression given today is that it’s going to be all or nothing, because the Court has no desire to knock down the mandate and then entangle itself in deciding what stays and what goes, nor do they trust a filibuster-prone Congress to do so in a timely fashion.

I gotta find the article over at TPM I read earlier, but it’s conclusion that all the cheering and dancing by conservatives who seem convinced that today’s hearing “proves” that the law will be struck down very well could be misdirection. That the conservative justices who upheld this law likewise grilled the administration mercilessly about the law before coming back and ruling in its favor.