If ACA Loses In SCOTUS The GOP Will Do NOTHING. Period. And Will Still Win In Red States.

[TheMastersNemesis]

The voter in the red states are that stupid. The GOP believes that the will still win if their constituents in those states lose health care subsidies. Those voters do not support "red" socialist insurance even if they die for it.

[C_U_L8R]

1. Thank you sir may I have another

You've gotta be some kind of masochistic idiot to vote Republican.

[CincyDem]

2. People get the government they deserve.

Possibly said by de Tocqueville a couple hundred years ago.

The GOP will win because their supporters vote and their detractors don't. When people vote, republicans lose. Until then, Republicans win and keep tilting the board to prevent people from voting.

Sorry to be a broken record on this but in Iraq, under the threat of death from various terrorists groups, 90+% of the population voted. Here...we get caught up in "they're all the same" and "it's chilly outside" so we let the other guy do the voting. Unfortunately, the other guy is a died in the wool right wing nut job.

And so it goes.

GOTV.

[unblock]

3. they don't support "socialist" insurance even if it's a plan proposed by a right-wing think tank.

the evidence of hyper-partisanship is all around us, but nowhere is it more nakedly apparent than in the republican opposition to the aca.

this is fundamentally a plan advanced by the right-wing think tank the heritage foundation as a market-based alternative to single-payer and other solutions that actually are a bit more socialist in nature. and of course, first rolled out in massachusetts under then-governor rmoney.

had the mccain won in 2008 and advanced the aca, identical letter-for-letter, republicans would have been shouting their support from the rooftops, crying freedom and capitalism all the way.

republicans have no good policy reason to oppose it, it's *all* about partisanship.

[WhiteTara]

5. I think it may be a surprise

because the rural folk love their healthcare.

[unblock]

6. i think it the aca will not be knocked down over this for many reasons

for one thing, roberts would look like a manipulable fool if he caves this time. republicans don't would cheer him for a while, but they never forget, and he would end up having aliened everyone over the aca.

moreover, this is the flimsiest of excuses to derail the law. it's really not a legal case at all, it's just a right-wing propaganda exercise that they're wasting actual court time with.

[BlueStreak]

7. There is a simple solution that is also a political winner

See http://www.democraticunderground.com/10026310258