Sorry, there will be no links because I'm on my IPod. I haven't been blogging lately because I have a major ADHD attack, so I've tried to concentrate on my work as much as possible. Today, however, I took the day off to read as much as possible about the SCOTUS ruling. Some thoughts:
- I am very happy. It needs to be said, because I've read so-called liberals saying it should have been better if the law had been repealed. In this argument, we would then have the opportunity to pass universal health care. Yeah, right...that would have happened. Please...Deeply flawed as it is, just the no lifetime limits on coverage makes it worth it. And I am happy for my 24 year-old student with lupus that will have coverage for at least 2 more years.
-Did any political pundit guessed the outcome correctly? I am as stunned as everybody by Chief Justice Roberts position, but I can only thank him for acting like a human being. And today I also realized he was on the majority in the ruling a few days ago that basically repealed Arizona's SB 1070. Talking about the ruling, if you have time, read the dissenting opinion authored by Scalia. Isn't it scary? It really sounds like he doesn't care about keeping the forms any longer.
-Mitt Romney never misses an opportunity to show what a pathetic excuse for a politician he is. And Senator Rand Paul (KY): if the SCOTUS ruled that the law was constitutional, isn't it constitutional by definition?
-Daily Kos has the best collection of tweets regarding the decission.
- To the two Republican Facebook acquaintances that today posted that the ruling has turned the US into a socialist country, and therefore you want to move to Canada. Do you know they have universal health care AND gay marriage there?
-Reading conservatives pundits go crazy over Roberts has made my afternoon really funny.
- On a last note, I don't pretend that upholding the law means that health care will radically change in this country. I do think, though, that the opposite ruling would have been a disaster and nobody would have dare approach the issue for at least a decade. Now, maybe the law can be improved. I said maybe, which is better than not in the next decade or so.
I'm so happy. :)
ReplyDeleteI was totally going to avoid the news all day to day because I was sure it was going to be depressing. But one of my coauthors emailed me with the good news! I'm still a bit shocked because it was so unexpected.
I found it through Facebook. I am incredibly happy. Yesterday my husband asked me what my guess was, and I gave it a 50-50 chance, but with Kennedy being the deciding factor. Who would have thought?
ReplyDeleteI think Rand Paul's argument almost makes sense when you consider that he, like his father, despises the very notion of government. Curiously, they both work for the government.
ReplyDeleteLibertarians despise even the Justice System? What do they propose, instead?
ReplyDeleteI don't know if you know about Ayn Rand. If not, it might helpt to know that her type of "raze the government, let the people who are wealthy (their wealth is earned and sacrosanct and never did they ever have any assistance from anybody, let alone evil government) run everything because their wealth indicates they know best, also anybody who dares suggest that a tax could ever be justified is out to destroy you utterly" philosophy is a major undercurrent of contemporary American Libertarian thought.
ReplyDeleteOr to put it more succinctly, I'll quote Ronald Reagan: "Government is not the solution to the problem; government is the problem."
Many Republicans seem quite opposed to government. They most strongly voice this opinion when seeking employment by the same. A curious thing.
Yep, I've heard of Ayn Rand, though I've avoided reading her on purpose. I'm just a logical person at core, so I would think that even libertarians want some kind of judiciary system. But nobody says they are logical people.
ReplyDeleteWe were all very thrilled. I wrote about it today but killed the comments on it JUST in case.
ReplyDeleteI loved the description of the reaction in your office.
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