Originally published at: Trump Admin Ends Up In Odd Position Of Defending ACA Against Attempt To Slash Free Services
In a surreal pairing to anyone who’s been politically cognizant for the past decade, the Trump administration defended the Affordable Care Act at the Supreme Court Monday against a religious company seeking to end its free preventative care requirements. It was an odd bedfellows pairing, given that President Trump has long despised former President Obama’s…
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Did Donnie grant a tariff exemption for imports of Aqua-Net?? America wants to know!!
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“We don’t go around just creating independent agencies — more often, we destroy independent agencies,” she quipped, prompting laughter in the courtroom.“
Because they all knew that it was true, and that saying so out loud was just not done. Perhaps laughing would get some folks to not take it seriously
See also:
USAID, FTC, Inter-American Foundation, African Development Foundation, and NLRB.
By the way, MSN just picked up this article.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/trump-admin-ends-up-in-odd-position-of-defending-aca-against-attempt-to-slash-free-services/ar-AA1DkLiw
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Mark Joseph Stern from Slate
screenings, PrEP, etc.) Could even be 6–3, maybe 7–2
at the helm, it could be an issue.
hope that RFK Jr. doesn’t screw with the task force.
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“It was an odd bedfellows pairing, given that President Trump has long despised former President Obama’s signature legislative achievement,…”
You can drop ‘signature legislative achievement’, we all know why birther boy Trump despises Obama!
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So this Christian-owned company, I’m assuming that we’re not talking about a health insurance company, but company whose founder(s) are Christian, don’t want to be forced into providing preventive care because it’s unGodly to prevent diseases for those people.
Well the obvious answer is for a Christian owned company should be allowed to only hire those employees that follow their religious doctrine. Easy peasy problem solved. 
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Christain owned? I guess that sounds better than Anti woman (as in no abortions for you).
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Well that goes without saying, but in this case what’s got their dander up are those awful gay folks, with their AIDS.
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Because it also puts in the official record of the proceedings.
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"and the President, in turn, is fully accountable to the People.”
Man, so close!
The President is accountable to Congress and to the Supreme Court.
America: No kings allowed.
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Needed because it’s more likely one person will know the truth, than will a bunch of experts make the best overall decision for health.
No wonder the United States is falling behind the world. We’re empowering individuals who are wronger than Newt Gingrich.
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Trump couldn’t wait to put the stupidest, most craven and cruelest people he knew in charge of the lives of millions of people in this country. This is an absolute formula for unfixable disaster.
Witness the stock market - just a tiny harbinger of what is to come.
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Unfortunately, Hobby Lobby created the precedent that allows the employer to impose its sincerely held religious beliefs on all its employees without regard to the employees’ right to freely exercise their religious beliefs. It’s a balancing test and the interests of the job creators clearly outweigh those of the peasants who depend on their beneficence. A doctrine the Roberts Court created out of whole cloth and one that it will religiously follow to its illogical conclusion.
The market is jittery because of the uncertainty over Trump’s comments about Fed Chairman Powell. It will surge when he says he’ll name Larry Kudlow to replace Powell.
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And just how zealously can we realistically expect Trump’s DOJ to defend a position the one who appointed them opposes so vehemently?
I got one don’t see Trump’s DOJ really oppose anything Dear Leader doesn’t anoint with Trump brand Holy Water (straight from tge East River, with just the lightest whiff of decomposing mobsters.
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What’s with Felon47 wanting to dump Kegsbreath. I had Rubio on my bingo card, in memory of his referring to little hands = little dick in 2016. Revenge is best served cold.
ETA. When he does hit the streets who in the Rethug welfare crew will have to give him a job? I’m pretty sure Fox is glad to be rid of him.
RFK will screw with it. More precisely, Trump will screw with it.
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No. It will crash harder.
Well look back at these days when we were only losing 3% a day as the good times.
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