Big win for #theresistance. Insurance co’s already won a case on the prior CSR withholding due to Rubio’s poison pill. They’ll win this one too, and we won’t have to rely on Ryan’s House GOP to handle the suit (which they would not do). First, the ACA imposed this burden on and made the promise to insurers, and states relied on those same promises to set insurance rates and deliver affordable insurance to their residents. Second, this clearly seems like a case where the Executive Branch is failing to faithfully uphold and execute the laws of the US. There is ample, documented evidence and intent of this. This isn’t about a restrictive interpretation of the law. This is about undermining the law itself.
How’s that whole wanna-be-a-dictator thing going for you, Con-man?
The Incredible Shrinking Presidency
The incredible thing PP’s behavior continues to reveal is how little he knows about government. He honestly believed the presidency is a dictatorship in which presidents can just do whatever they want and everybody has to bow their heads and go along with it. He was convinced that the problems the country faced was all because past presidents just weren’t tough, or whatever, enough. He still doesn’t understand that every president has been constrained by the Constitution, by the rule of law. He doesn’t know what it means to build consensus, that you can’t afford to alienate your caucus.
Obama took a lot of (stupid) shit from the left for not personally going after members of his own caucus when they wouldn’t bend to his will. What we’re seeing now, the fracturing of the Republican caucus, is precisely why that was such a stupid idea. And I believe that his relentless pursuit of bipartisanship, as much as he was criticized for it, makes PP look even smaller.
Hmm I wonder where in the world he could have got that false narrative-Fox News perhaps?
It’s the people he hangs out with.
Besides, voters on the right aren’t the only ones who think government is there to fix their special grievance. With the polarity we have now, every vote counts. Not so much to get what you want, but to make sure the other guy doesn’t get what he wants.
The Lame Duck President
It’s not shrinking quickly enough for me.
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The Incredible Shrinking Presidency
The black guy was able to do this job. Why can’t I?
Blame-duck - An occupant of the White House who has caused chaos and consternation with his incompetency and abuse of authority. He is known for arrogantly “ducking” blame for the serious consequences of his corruption and dishonesty. Responsibility is shed much like water-flowing off a duck’s back.
What this means I take it, is that instead of the Federal Gov’t defending the subsidies, the states can now have standing, since tRump’s federal government won’t defend the subsidies as Obama had done. They still haven’t won over the court on the merits of keeping the subsidies going, just that they have standing to argue the case now. Its something at least. I do hope they win too. A welcomed development.
I posted this yesterday on another thread but it ties in nicely with what you said about President Obama:
Obama’s Legacy Is Finally Coming Into Focus, Thanks to Trump
A taste:
"Even though it yielded a broad array of historic policy reforms, during the eight years Barack Obama occupied the White House, his administration looked and felt to most of his supporters like a bitter slog of gridlock punctuated by half-measures. And it looked to his enemies like a period of untrammeled radicalism that would soon be reversed. Six months later, his record appears very different, viewed from both the left and the right. Any president would benefit from the contrast with Donald Trump, of course. But for many reasons, not merely the flamboyant shortcomings of the current administration, the Trump era provides a vantage point from which to understand the scale and durability of the 44th president’s accomplishments. Trump, quite by mistake, is revealing the true scale of his predecessor’s achievements.
One obvious source of newfound clarity is the renewed realization that governing is hard, especially in a polarized era with a form of government laden with legislative choke points. Obama’s critics complained endlessly about the slow pace of legislation and the endless compromises wrung by interest groups and recalcitrant moderates. Liberals spent his presidency pining for imagined alternatives who could overpower the opposition. High-minded centrists endlessly blamed the president for his failure to dissuade Republicans from their strategy of total opposition, and in so doing helped reinforce the success of that opposition. Throughout his time in office, Obama labored against the contrast of hazy memories of presidents of yore who could supposedly reason with or overpower their foes and impose their legislative will…"
Bush’s brain was full of Turd Blossoms. Trump’s brain is full of golf balls.
Eventually I hope they get around to acknowledging the complete absence of scandal for 8 entire years, Benghazi notwithstanding, and the incredible dignity the Obamas brought to the White House.
Amen.
DC Court of Appeals.
Bad people.
Some bad hombres
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Merrick Brian Garland (born November 13, 1952) is the Chief United States Circuit Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. He has served on that court and in that capacity since 1997.
I feel sorry for the White House staff.
No doubt they are acting professionally and doing the job. I bet they often think back lovingly on the former inhabitants, when the House was alive and had a soul.
The contrast has to be all but unbearable. And the current occupant of the House thinks it’s a dump so I’m sure that did loads for their morale too.
This applies to pretty much everything HHS is doing re the ACA, even to transforming the website from the expected source of information about how to enroll, etc., into an anti-ACA propaganda outlet. Setting aside how ethically reprehensible it is to actively sabotage people’s attempts to get health insurance when you’re in a job that was literally created to serve people’s health-care needs, this stuff sure looks like politicking on the taxpayer’s dime. It’d be bad enough to, say, empty the website of useful info; but agency-made videos of ACA “victims” testifying to the evils of Obamacare? Surely someone’s suing over that sort of thing, right?